Are Mormons Christian

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Criticism

Many of the Church's critics like to claim that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not Christian. This criticism, or exclusion, takes many forms. These include:

• Mormons worship a different Christ than the Christ of the Bible

Source(s) of the Criticism

• Hank Hanegraaff, CRI, MORMONS — CAN THEY BE CONSIDERED CHRISTIANS?*

...Jesus Christ, no doubt, plays a central role in Mormon theology. ...the reality is that Mormons believe in a Jesus vastly different than the Jesus of the Bible.

Response

While acknowledging that Jesus Christ plays a central role in LDS theology, this is downplayed by the insistence that "our" Jesus is not the same as the Jesus found in the Bible.

Conclusion

A summary of the argument against the criticism.

Further reading

FAIR wiki articles

• Christian Research Institute or CRI

FAIR web site

• Cooper Johnson, Mormons--Can They Be Considered Christians?, FAIR Article.

Printed material

• Stephen E. Robinson, Are Mormons Christian? (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 1993). *