Mormonism and Christianity/Did early LDS leaders denounce Christianity

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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

Among the references critics use to support these assertions are the following:

• Joseph Smith, EJ", vol. 1, no. 4, p. 60
• 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.

Conclusion

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Endnotes

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Further reading

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