If one is to ask a Latter Day Saints follower which is of the Mormon religion if they are Christian their answer will be yes. Their stance on this is that they do worship Christ and they have an obligation to follow him. That they are baptized in his name and that they do take part of holy communion and that they are bound to remember the sacrifice of his life. They do pray to the Father in his name and they do make every effort to obey the teachings of Christ. They will tell you that they believe he is the living Christ, the son of God and that it is the way it is said in the old and New Testament and as well as their own book which is the book of Mormon also referred to as another Testament of Jesus Christ.
How can you be a Christian - Don't you believe you are saved by works. Don't you deny the basic truth of the trinity?
There is always been a speculation that the Mormons believed that they are basically saved by good works and this is one of the contentions with Christianity. However some of the Mormons will tell you that know they actually believe that they are saved through grace. It is quite often a play on words when it comes to trying to understand Mormonism. For example Christianity believes that the Father, the son and the Holy Ghost are one.
The Mormons will tell you they believe this as well but they will put it in the pretext that they believe they are one in purpose. Another speculation of what Christianity is comes down to where things start to get a little confused. Some believe that if an individual looks to Christ for salvation and seeks to follow him then that's enough to qualify as a Christian no matter what else that person believes. The Mormons will tell you that is the reason they are judged as being non-Christian because one they believe in keeping the commandments and secondly because they do not accept standard doctrine of the Trinity.
When it comes to keeping the commandments they will often refer to excerpts from the Holy Bible as their stance on this. They will tell you that they are not saved by works but that they must follow Christ in order to be saved. Then they will go on to talk about spiritual death as well the physical death which is what they purport the resurrection of Christ as. When one looks at all of the explanations that the Mormon will stand on they are very close to being what the Bible says with the change of a word here and there. Unfortunately it is the change of the word that changes the entire context of what the Holy Bible as saying in comparison to the Mormon faith.
When it comes to the Trinity which is one of the biggest contentions or differences in Christianity and Mormonism the argument here by the Mormons is that this concept was what man has taught not what Christ and the apostles taught. They will present the many different creeds as their argument as the various creeds all depict the Trinity as something different.
To support their view of the Trinity they will pick out several verses from different parts of the Holy Bible but it must be remembered that the Mormons rely heavily on their own book which is the book of Mormon. Many of the experienced Mormons will agree that some of their doctrines do go against what most of the other churches teach about .They further believe the cause of the attacks from other Christians is because they take the Bible to literally.
The Mormons really put a lot of emphasis on Luke 24 in the Bible regarding the resurrection of Christ and the fact that he is in a flesh and bone state so therefore they believe that because he was resurrected as such that he was resurrected as a flesh and blood. This is also used in their support of the Trinity not being one entity. The Mormons will go on to tell you a great deal about Joseph Smith and his visions. They believe this because the instructions in the New Testament indicate that there are individual circumstances that apply for every individual including Christ.
If one wanted to get an understanding what the Mormons are referring to when it comes to the Trinity he would have to look at each Scripture that they are referring to from the Holy Bible and then do a combination all of these scriptures together to get a true picture.
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