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Slimebeast on 20 June 2012
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The Fury said:
Slimebeast said:
The Fury said:
They believe Christ is God (or part of) that makes them Christian and a religion. Whether or not the religion was founded on true principles doesn't change the fact that Mormons follow the teachings of Christ and God, in the Old and New testament, and are within their right to do so. They don't do any harm to anyone (I don't see them standing outside military funerals protesting saying it is God's work that they died), they just have an extra book.

Cults are something else entirely. LDS isn't a cult.

No, Mormons believe that Jesus Christ is a separate god, a distinct individual separate from God the father.

Traditional Christianity (Catholics, Lutherans and Eastern Orthodox) believes in the Trinity, namely that Jesus, God the father and the Holy Spirit are three persons but one being. Traditional Christianity believes there is only one god. Mormons believe in several gods.

And traditional Christianity treats those who don't acknowledge the Trinity as heretics and cults.

Several? After God, Jesus and Holy Spirit there aren't any others. So their understanding is instead of 3 entities but one being, it's 3 beings? They still follow the teachings of Christ more so than other 'christian' faiths even if they have an extra book.

As far as I knew, most faiths treat other faiths as heretics or cults (well as wrong anyway), this is even down to different forms of Christianity.

 

There is still a chism between Catholics and Protestants but in general they still accept each others as Christians (there are exceptions, some Evangelicals believe that Catholics are too far away from the right path to be regarded as righteous, and vice versa. So to be safe they recommend the other denomination to convert to the right path).

Catholics see Protestants as "wandering around in the desert" so to speak, but they acknowledge them as Christians and believe they have a good chance to be saved and accepted by God. And vice versa, Protestants are critical of the Catholic Church but they see them as Christians with a good chance to be saved.

But, neither Catholics or Protestants acknowledge Mormons (or Jehovas Witnesses for that matter. These are the two big cults in the eyes of Catholics and Protestants) as Christians, and they definitely don't acknowledge them as righteous and saved by God.