The Voice Of One Crying Out In Suburbia

The continuing debate....

The debate continues on Beliefnet regarding whether or not mormonism is Christianity. As I expected, Dr. Mohler is continuing to focus on the facts and Mr. Card continues to appeal to emotions and defensiveness. This was an excellent statement by Dr. Mohler...

Mormonism uses the language of Christian theology and makes many references to Christ. Mr. Card wants to define Christianity in a most minimal way, theologically speaking. If I were arguing the other side of this question, I would attempt the same. But Christianity has never been defined in terms of merely thinking well of Jesus. Mormonism claims to affirm the New Testament teachings about Jesus, but actually presents a very different Jesus from the onset. A reading of Mormonism’s authoritative documents makes this clear.

All these things point back to the reason the question is so important in our contemporary context. Mormons want their religion to be seen as another form of Christianity. In other words, they want to identify with what from their inception they sought to deny. There are advantages to Mormonism on this score, but this surely places them in an awkward position.

Quite true. We realy could not ask for a better representative to expose the differences between mormonism and Christianity. Dr. Mohler is gracious, a brilliant writer, well informed, gentle and absolutely unyielding.