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#5 The Facts On The Mormon Church
5. Is Mormonism a Christian religion?
Many people accept the Mormon faith as genuinely Christian.
But when Christians view Mormons as believers, they have failed to understand
Mormonism correctly. They have accepted Mormon claims without determining
whether those claims are true.
Virtually all knowledgeable Christian Authorities recognize that not only is
Mormonism not Christian, it is really anti-Christian. The late Dr. Anthony
Hoekema declared in his book The Four Major Cults: We must at this point
assert, in the strongest possible terms, that Mormonism does not deserve to be
called a Christian religion. It is basically anti-Christian and anti-biblical."
Gorden Fraser, the author of four books on Mormonism, explained, "We object to
Mormon missionaries posing as Christians, and our objections are based on the
differences between what they are taught by their {Mormon} General Authorities
and what the Bible teaches." One of the leading modern authorities on the cults,
the late Dr. Walter Martin, correctly asserted, "In no uncertain terms, the
Bible condemns the teachings of the Mormon Church." Former Mormons and leading
experts on Mormonism, Jerald and Sandra Tanner, also correctly affirm, "The
Mormon Church is certainly not built on teachings of the Bible."
If the teachings of Mormonism are biblical, then they deserve to be
called Christian. But if Mormon teachings deny and oppose biblical teaching,
then it is wrong for anyone to consider Mormonism a Christian religion. In our
next question, we will briefly illustrate how Mormon teachings oppose biblical
teachings. We will do this by showing that when the Mormon Church uses a
Christian term, it typically rejects the biblical definition of that term and
substitutes a false, non-Christian definition in its place.
Taken from The Facts On The Mormon Church, by
John Ankerberg and John Weldon, published by Harvest House Publishers.
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