Dark Virtue said:
Isn't it true that there are many Christians that believe that Catholics are NOT Christian?
How do you, as a pastor, address attitudes like this?
First off I would
not say that a lot of evangelical Christians feel that way, but there are some, yes. Secondly, that's a very big subject that I would rather not get into in this thread frankly. I have a very mixed bag of feelings on Catholic doctrine, and often Catholics and official RCC doctrine are issues that need to be separated. Suffice it to say I would not exclude them from a list of Christians though.
May I ask what your definition of Christian is?
What pushes the Mormons over the big dividing lines you are willing to accept?
One who has realized that he/she is a sinner, utterly separated from God, and that the only way to a right-relationship with Him is through the precious blood of Christ shed upon Calvary on our behalf, and then who places their full trust and hope in Jesus for salvation.
However, Mormons completely change many things including:
-who Christ was (no belief in His divinity or in the trinity)
-who God is (they are essentially polytheistic believing in many gods, in fact we ourselves can all become gods)
Just as Judaism before us (in which Christianity is rooted and founded) we teach that (Deut 6) Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is One God. Mormons teach a polytheistic, new age doctrine.