Christian business owners . . .

[C0ckney]

Then how do you understand the Bible?

what are you talking about?

[Sava]

I mean, as much as I like the liberal hippy commie new age christians, they just aren't fully legit despite following Jesus in spirit

[giblets]

BK is obviously not one. I'd say Imran is in spirit. He could be more of a full fledged Christian if he went to an Orthodox church (if he doesn't already).

Joining a bigot church would make him a worse christian

[Kidlicious]

what are you talking about?

Are you saying that the Holy Spirit in necessary to understand God's Word?

[giblets]

I mean, as much as I like the liberal hippy commie new age christians, they just aren't fully legit despite following Jesus in spirit

bigots like ben don't follow christ in spirit but claim to be more legit

[Sava]

worse? maybe

but if you are referring to Orthodoxy, it would still mean he is actually christian

i'm not using "christian" as a synonym for "good"

[Sava]

I'm arguing that Mormons are Christian by the dictionary definition of the term.

Sounds like you need a better dictionary.

a : one who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ

either one follows Jesus or Joseph Smith and company

it is mutually exclusive

You've certainly simplified your wrongness.

[giblets]

worse? maybe

but if you are referring to Orthodoxy, it would still mean he is actually christian

i'm not using "christian" as a synonym for "good"

How is he not christian now?

[Aeson]

Is that what you think this discussion is about?

"From the sound of these quotes, I don't think the founders of LDS would agree with you, Aeson."

You simply don't know what you are talking about.

[C0ckney]

Are you saying that the Holy Spirit in necessary to understand God's Word?

10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

[Sava]

How is he not christian now?

who are we talking about?

[giblets]

who are we talking about?

the guy with the muslim name

[Kidlicious]

Then answer my question please. How do YOU know these things?

[Sava]

You simply don't know what you are talking about.

The dictionary definition says "one who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ"

I searched for Mormon quotes on Christianity and came across a ton by the founders of LDS... professing how much they don't believe in the teachings of Christ.

For all this evidence we have saying Mormons aren't Christian, I don't actually see any evidence supporting the notion that they are... your "you don't know what you are talking about" doesn't count

[Sava]

the guy with the muslim name

Dikhed bin Kenobi?