Christian business owners . . .

[Sava]

Ben is correct. Mormons are not Christian.

[giblets]

Are they too nice to be Christians?

[Sava]

Some perhaps. But most are too believey in a different religion

[Ben Kenobi]

For the last two hundred years or so anyone calling a Christian who is not a member of the clergy of their denomination a heretic is indeed crazy.

Plenty I disagree with but I consider protestants to be Christians.

[Kidlicious]

Plenty I disagree with but I consider protestants to be Christians.

What's the difference? It's not your church. They have their own doctrines.

[ZEE]

Hey you guise it's me again (My name is AAHZ lol.)

I just wanted to Put a Poast in this thrade to say how invinciBle Kidicious' arguments are. His logicK is unBeataBle and his intelligence level is through the roof. I just don't know what I would do without Kidicious' Poasts.

Thank you and Please cKontinue with this thrade.

[Aeson]

Mormons are Christian by the dictionary definition of the term. They believe in Jesus as Christ, son of God, born of Mary, suffered and died for the sins of all humanity, resurrected, and will come again. They are baptised in his name, take the sacrament.

But it is very Christian of course to look down on other believers because their faith isn't as good as your own. That's what Jesus taught, wasn't it? The Pharisees were the good guys

[Ben Kenobi]

Mormons are Christian by the dictionary definition of the term. They believe in Jesus as Christ, son of God, born of Mary, suffered and died for the sins of all humanity, resurrected, and will come again. They are baptised in his name, take the sacrament.

They believe that YHWH is Adam, a created being. This is contrary to Trinitarian doctrines that all Christians, (excepting Kidicious), believe.

Christians believe that YHWH is eternal, and that Christ, the son of God is also eternal. This hits at the Witnesses as well.

[Aeson]

They believe that YHWH is Adam, a created being. This is contrary to Trinitarian doctrines that all Christians, (excepting Kidicious), believe.

They don't believe Adam is YHWH.

Christians believe that YHWH is eternal, and that Christ, the son of God is also eternal. This hits at the Witnesses as well.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Christian

adjective
1. of, relating to, or derived from Jesus Christ or His teachings:
a Christian faith.

2. of, pertaining to, believing in, or belonging to the religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ :
Spain is a Christian country.

3. of or relating to Christians:
many Christian deaths in the Crusades.

4. exhibiting a spirit proper to a follower of Jesus Christ; Christlike:
She displayed true Christian charity.

5. decent; respectable:
They gave him a good Christian burial.

6. human; not brutal; humane:
Such behavior isn't Christian.

noun
7. a person who believes in Jesus Christ; adherent of Christianity.

8. a person who exemplifies in his or her life the teachings of Christ :
He died like a true Christian.

9. a member of any of certain Protestant churches, as the Disciples of Christ and the Plymouth Brethren.

10. the hero of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

11. a male given name.

You're just using words incorrectly BK, so as to castigate believers in Jesus Christ, who are baptized in his name and try to follow his teachings. Why you feel the need to persecute Christians is beyond me, but it's a common theme with you to reject everything Christ taught and basically do the opposite.

[Ben Kenobi]

You're just using words incorrectly BK, so as to castigate believers in Jesus Christ, who are baptized in his name and try to follow his teachings. Why you feel the need to persecute Christians is beyond me, but it's a common theme with you to reject everything Christ taught and basically do the opposite.

According to Young, he was taught by Joseph Smith that Adam is "our Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do".

"Young, Brigham (April 9, 1852), "Self-Government—Mysteries—Recreation and Amusements, not in Themselves Sinful—Tithing—Adam, Our Father and Our God", in Watt, G.D., Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others "

LDS Church President Lorenzo Snow succinctly summarized a portion of the doctrine explained in this discourse using a couplet, which is often repeated within the church:

"As man now is, God once was:
As God now is, man may be."

Again, this is broadly known that the Mormons teach that God was a man before he was God, and that man may become God.

Two, what Christians believe is that God is eternal. Any definition of eternal I've seen is that God is uncreated. I can cite the Athanasian Creed, written in the 4th century, some 1400 years before Joseph Smith in my defense.

All Christians, protestant or no, hold the Athanasian Creed to be true.

https://www.ccel.org/creeds/athanasian.creed.html

"The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated."

"The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal."

Both of the teachings of Joseph Smith fall afoul of both of these, in teaching that God was a created being and the God isn't eternal.

I'm sorry, Aeson, Mormonism isn't Christianity. It's never been and has serious theological problems when measured against actual longstanding Christian teachings. Teachings held by both Catholics and Protestants.

[Aeson]

According to Young, he was taught by Joseph Smith that Adam is "our Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do".

"Young, Brigham (April 9, 1852), "Self-Government—Mysteries—Recreation and Amusements, not in Themselves Sinful—Tithing—Adam, Our Father and Our God", in Watt, G.D., Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others "

LDS Church President Lorenzo Snow succinctly summarized a portion of the doctrine explained in this discourse using a couplet, which is often repeated within the church:

"As man now is, God once was:
As God now is, man may be."

Again, this is broadly known that the Mormons teach that God was a man before he was God, and that man may become God.

Two, what Christians believe is that God is eternal. Any definition of eternal I've seen is that God is uncreated. I can cite the Athanasian Creed, written in the 4th century, some 1400 years before Joseph Smith in my defense.

All Christians, protestant or no, hold the Athanasian Creed to be true.

https://www.ccel.org/creeds/athanasian.creed.html

"The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated."

"The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal."

Both of the teachings of Joseph Smith fall afoul of both of these, in teaching that God was a created being and the God isn't eternal.

I'm sorry, Aeson, Mormonism isn't Christianity. It's never been and has serious theological problems when measured against actual longstanding Christian teachings. Teachings held by both Catholics and Protestants.

None of that has to do with applicability of the term Christian as defined by dictionaries. You're simply using the word incorrectly to try to persecute followers of Christ.

(Adam-God was never official LDS Doctrine, even when Brigham Young was head of the Church it was disputed by others in the LDS Church and Brigham Young himself said it wasn't an important matter in regards to personal beliefs/salvation. And certainly it isn't modern LDS Doctrine.)

[Sava]

Mormons are Christian by the dictionary definition of the term. They believe in Jesus as Christ, son of God, born of Mary, suffered and died for the sins of all humanity, resurrected, and will come again. They are baptised in his name, take the sacrament.

But it is very Christian of course to look down on other believers because their faith isn't as good as your own. That's what Jesus taught, wasn't it? The Pharisees were the good guys

Oh you think being a self identified Christian involves following Jesus. That's cute.

[Aeson]

You and BK have fun arguing against dictionaries...

[Kidlicious]

They believe that YHWH is Adam, a created being. This is contrary to Trinitarian doctrines that all Christians, (excepting Kidicious), believe.

Christians believe that YHWH is eternal, and that Christ, the son of God is also eternal. This hits at the Witnesses as well.

Christians are honest people. You're a liar. Therefore I'm the Christian, and you aren't.

[Kidlicious]

Where in the Bible does it say that Christians believe in the Trinity?