Court Rules Mormon Church Outside Protestant Faith

Yes! The Mormon Church is outside the Christian (article uses "Protestant") faith! This is a very significant victory for an appellate court to declare this. :thumbs:



Excerpt___In a remarkable decision an appellate court ruled that the Mormon Church is outside of the Protestant Faith.__
Source
http://wfiprestoncondra.blogspot.com/

 

I was having trouble copying part of the text to my post. I finally had to type out the first sentence. Maybe you were looking at it when nothing was showing up?

Here's the article link. What I had above was something posted on a blog.
ttp://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/239705/
Joel Rownak testified that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints wasn’t a Protestant faith, and the court also considered evidence to that effect from the church’s Web site.
Lisa Rownak had objected to her ex-husband’s promoting Mormonism to their children.

 

The news here is that a secular court recognized it. It's a significant victory, I would say - one that can be claimed in other courts because it's a precedent, and also can be used when speaking to those being recruited by Mormons, who are being led to believe otherwise.

 

Gold Dragon, the Mormons are good at double-speak. They are inconsistent all the time (like many cults). While this may be one of their official lines, the Mormon missionaries tell people they are trying to recruit that they are Christians and that Jesus Christ is their Savior. I know ex-Mormons who said they joined, thinking it was a Christian church.

A number of years ago, they changed the lettering of their name (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) so that the lettering "Jesus Christ" was bigger. They also changed other things in the Salt Lake City temple to appear more Christian. I heard about this from Christians who reach out to Mormons but it's on Wikipedia as well:

In 1995, the church announced a new logo design that emphasized the words "JESUS CHRIST" in large capital letters, and de-emphasized the words "The Church of" and "of Latter-day Saints". According to Bruce L. Olsen, director of public affairs for the church, "The logo re-emphasizes the official name of the church and the central position of the Savior in its theology. It stresses our allegiance to the Lord, Jesus Christ." __end quote

 

Well, I have to disagree because when Baptists say they are Christians, they are telling the truth. I see your point about being Christian but not being Protestant, however.

I know the Mormons say Jesus is their Savior but he is not the same Savior of the Bible or of Christianity. The Mormon Jesus is not part of a Trinity, he cannot save totally since works must be involved, he is a "child" of heavenly Father and heavenly Mother (as is Lucifer), and he is a spirit brother to us on earth, who are all (originally) spirit children begat in heaven by Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother.

The Mormon faith is more akin to Hinduism or mythology than to Christianity.

 

But the Mormon church often purposefully hides what they truly believe - and they have denied things they later admit. They are not straightforward at all. They also hide some of their past history - such as their teachings on blacks descending from the "evil" line of Ham. They used to not allow blacks certain positions and then changed so they could go into Africa, but they are not open about this past at all.

I do not use this as an apologetic; I only said this to answer you or explain other remarks made here. We are not talking about witnessing to Mormons but rather what the Mormon Church teaches and does.

I've dialogued and witnessed to several dozen Mormons who came to my apt. at my previous address. But that is not the topic here.