“What is my position? What are the positions of the major donominations? Be as specific as you like.
Or provide ANY proof at all to back up your claims for a change.”
“Is Mormonism a cult?
by Matt Slick
Yes, Mormonism is a cult. Mormonism, also called The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), is not considered to be Christian by Christians. In fact, Mormonism teaches the following non Christian, non biblical doctrines. (Note that all the documentation is taken from Mormon writers and Mormon scriptures.)
God used to be a man on another planet, (Mormon Doctrine, p. 321; Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons, vol. 5, p. 613-614; Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p. 345; Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p. 333).
God resides near a star called Kolob, (Pearl of Great Price, p. 34-35; Mormon Doctrine, p. 428).
“The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s...” (Doctrines and Covenants 130:22).
God is in the form of a man, (Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p. 3).
“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!!! . . . We have imagined that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea and take away the veil, so that you may see,” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 345).
After you become a good Mormon, you have the potential of becoming a god, (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 345-347, 354.)
There is a mother god, (Articles of Faith, by James Talmage, p. 443).
God is married to his goddess wife and has spirit children, (Mormon Doctrine, p. 516).
The trinity is three separate Gods: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. “That these three are separate individuals, physically distinct from each other, is demonstrated by the accepted records of divine dealings with man,” (Articles of Faith, by James Talmage, p. 35.).
In contrast to these teachings, Christianity the Bible teaches that God has always been God and was never a man (Psalm 90:2). The Bible no where says he lives near another star or that the Father has a body of flesh and bones — which Christ contradicted in John 4:24 and Luke 24:39. We do not have the potential of becoming gods because there are no gods formed (Isaiah 43:10; 44:6,8; 45:5). The Trinity is one God (Deut. 6:4), not three.
There are numerous books written about Mormonism from a biblical perspective, exposing its false teachings.
Of course, we do not hate the Mormons and we pray for their repentance from believing in false gods. But, Mormonism is not Christian.”
http://carm.org/is-mormonism-cult
And for those of you who are Catholic:
“Question from Mai Lee on 3/12/2001:
What does the Catholic Church say about the practices and beliefs of Mormonism?
Answer by Catholic Answers on 3/13/2001:
While individual Mormons may be persons of good conscience, Mormonism itself is a belief system that is blasphemous in two major respects:
1) It is a polytheistic religion (a religion that believes in more than one god) that would reduce the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit from being the three Persons of the one, true, and infinite God, the Creator of all, to being just three limited, finite deities among an uncounted multitude of deities, none of whom were the Creator of all but who instead merely reshaped small parts of a preexisting cosmos.
2) It teaches that human beings may, by practicing the tenets of its faith, transmogrify to become gods and goddesses themselves, with their own planets full of people worshipping them.
While the Catholic Church would reject nothing that is true or good in Mormonism, like other world religions, Catholic theology would have to note that there is a tremendous amount in Mormonism that is neither true nor good, the two above points being the primary examples.
Further, because Mormonism presents itself as a form of Christianity, yet is utterly incompatible with the historic Christian faith, sound pastoral practice would need to *warn* the Christian faithful that Mormon theology is blasphemous, polytheistic, and cannot be considered as on a par with the theology of other Christian groups.”
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