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Contents
Criticism
- Latter-day Saints have "admitted" that they are not Christian, since LDS leaders spent decades denouncing mainstream Christianity. It is only recently that LDS leaders have attempted to identify themselves as Christian.
- The "ongoing condemnation of Christianity" is "built into the very core of Mormonism as a central tenet."
Source(s) of the criticism
- Richard Abanes, Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism (Harvest House Publishers: 2005). 255, 434 n. 15; 257. ( Index of claims )
Response
Sources
Among the references critics use to support these assertions are the following:
- Joseph Smith, History of the Church 5:218.
- Orson Pratt, "Baptism for the Remission of Sins," The Seer, p. 255.
- Wilford Woodruff, Journal of Discourses, 2:196.
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 5:73.
- Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 5:89-90.
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 5:229.
- John Taylor, Journal of Discourses 2:25.
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 8:171.
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 8:199.
- John Taylor, Journal of Discourses 13:225.
- Andrew Jenson, Collected Discourses 2:150.
- B.H. Roberts, The Mormon Doctrine of Diety, p. 116.
- Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pp. 132, 246, 269, 314-315.
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
- The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness. (Journal of Discourses 5:73)
Notice that Brigham didn't say that there were no Christians, but instead stated that they had lost their direction.
- We may very properly say that the sectarian world do not know anything correctly, so far as pertains to salvation. Ask them where heaven is?—where they are going to when they die? —where Paradise is?—and there is not a priest in the world that can answer your questions. Ask them what kind of a being our Heavenly Father is, and they cannot tell you so much as Balaam's ass told him. They are more ignorant than children. (Journal of Discourses 5:229)
John Taylor
Conclusion
Endnotes
None
Further reading
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