DeeAnn Noland

@TeeplesCY The Bible and the dictionary define Christian as a disciple or follower of Christ. The debate is about if LDS are Christian. So yes based on definition alone. You don’t have to agree with their theology.

We’ve known for a while. Learned the hard way.

@jerrydorris The Bible and the dictionary define Christian as a disciple or follower of Christ. The debate is about if LDS are Christian. So yes based on definition alone. You don’t have to agree with their theology.

One can have Mormon friends and love Mormons and still recognize their faith is not saving faith. Mormons are not Christians. “Be ye perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect” is a call to flee to the real Christ Jesus for imputed righteousness.

@StepsToMercy The Bible and the dictionary define Christian as a disciple or follower of Christ. The debate is about if LDS are Christian. So yes based on definition alone. You don’t have to agree with their theology.

This “Mormons aren’t Christian” thing is a uniquely American issue. The rest of the world told you Mormons weren’t Christians years ago. The fact Americans accepted they were is actually a great indication of poorly catechised Christians.

@honorablesaint The Bible and the dictionary define Christian as a disciple or follower of Christ. The debate is about if LDS are Christian. So yes based on definition alone. You don’t have to agree with their theology.

So we have taken an X-wide consensus from actual Christians. We've concluded you guys still are not Christian.

@smashbaals The Bible and the dictionary define Christian as a disciple or follower of Christ. The debate is about if LDS are Christian. So yes based on definition alone. You don’t have to agree with their theology.

Mormonism teaches: -Jesus was a created being like us -We too can become gods -Good Mormon men get a planet full of virgins -Jesus and Lucifer are brothers -Jesus came back to America -Native Americans are the true Israelites Mormons aren’t Christians.

@HarrisonGarlic1 What do LDS teach that is contrary to the Bible?

The Bible literally says don’t do this.⬇️

@faithfulbvnny21 I am sorry you feel this way but the document clearly insinuates that the LDS church is not a Christian religion which ads more fuel to the confusion that LDS are not. Both the Bible and the dictionary define Christian as a disciple or follower of Christ.

I thought I felt welcomed in the LDS community here on X... but now I'm facing those doubts again. I've recently noticed at least 90% of my mutuals and other LDS people I follow are slamming the government for the recent military letter... without even knowing the reality of what it is meant to do. it is simplifying categorical classifications of each practiced religion by active service members, streamlining a list that has already existed for years it's not a list of theological guidelines or a declaration of what faiths can be practiced or not. it is written so that Chaplains can be recruited with adequate skills to provide necessary resources to faith-practicing service members I haven't seen anyone else relent and come to this realization... it's hurting my head and my heart, and the urge to leave is getting increasingly difficult to dismiss... what am I supposed to do here...?

@smashbaals The Bible and the dictionary define Christian as a disciple or follower of Christ. The debate is about if LDS are Christian. So yes based on definition alone. You don’t have to agree with their theology. LDS do not insist on your conversion. They fight for your right to choose.

If Mormons are “Christians” why do they always insist that you need to also be Mormon and not “just” a Christian?

@LostMyHats @SenMikeLee The Bible and the dictionary define Christian as a disciple or follower of Christ. The debate is about if LDS are Christian. So yes based on definition alone. You don’t have to agree with their theology.

With Mormonism being the scuttlebutt of the hour, thanks to @SenMikeLee demanding the Pentagon undo 2k-year-old historic Christian doctrines to allow their inclusion, you might find my I2I piece on Mormonism and Freemasonry interesting, from a while back: Joseph Smith became a Master Mason in Nauvoo in March of 1842, advancing through the degrees with astonishing speed, and soon surrounded himself with a leadership class heavily populated by fellow Masons, including his brother Hyrum Smith and future successor Brigham Young. The Nauvoo Lodge exploded into one of the largest Masonic bodies in Illinois almost overnight as hundreds of Mormon men entered its ranks, effectively intertwining the lodge and the church. Smith himself occupied a unique concentration of power: prophet, revelator, mayor of Nauvoo, lieutenant general of the Nauvoo Legion, presidential candidate, and Masonic initiate, all at the same time. He presided over a movement that functioned as church, government, military force, and fraternal order simultaneously. Then, within weeks of becoming a Master Mason, he unveiled the Mormon temple endowment, complete with ritual handshakes, sacred signs, ceremonial garments, secret passwords, veiled progression rites, and penalties for revealing the mysteries. He baptized those rituals, declared them divine revelation, and presented them to his followers as sacred ordinances revealed directly from heaven. Millions of people today regard these ceremonies as the pinnacle of God's restored truth, unaware that they originated in a nineteenth-century fraternal order. The parallels are not vague similarities that only cult specialists can detect. They are so obvious that even Mormon historians are forced to acknowledge them. The secret handshakes. The ritual grips. The sacred clothing. The penalties for revealing temple secrets. The progression through degrees of hidden knowledge. The symbols carved into temples. The veils separating one realm from another. Strip away the pseudo-Christian terminology, and what remains is a structure that looks remarkably less like the New Testament church and remarkably more like a Masonic lodge. The Book of Mormon supplied the mythology. Freemasonry supplied the architecture. Joseph Smith fused the two together and called the result "restoration." That reality creates an uncomfortable question for Mike Lee or anyone else insisting Mormonism is merely another Christian denomination. If the defining rituals of the faith were imported from a secret fraternity, if its temple ceremonies were constructed from borrowed Masonic forms, and if its doctrines of exaltation and progressive ascent mirror Masonic concepts of advancing toward greater light, then what exactly was restored? The deeper one digs into Mormon origins, the less it resembles Christianity rediscovered and the more it resembles a frontier-era religious entrepreneur who wraps borrowed rituals in biblical language and persuades thousands that the costume itself is revelation. Once that possibility enters your mind, Mormonism stops looking like an ancient faith restored and starts looking like the most successful act of religious rebranding in American history. Read at Insight to Incite. Link in the next comment.

@tracewoodgrains Think of it kind of like a family. All individuals, father mother, child but all part of the same family. Actually the LDS view is a little bit easier to understand then the trinity. No one understands that and it is literally impossible to explain.

one of my most Mormon opinions is that it's Cool Actually that Mormons reject the Trinity, because the Trinity is some of the most incoherent doctrine any religion has ever assembled don't worry, they're all different and also all the same; it's ineffable

@dr_owenanderson The Bible and the dictionary both define a Christian as a disciple or follower of Christ. So based on that definition, LDS are clearly Christian’s. I am surprised that you did not know that since you have studied the Bible.

Suddenly the Protestants, the Pope, and the Patriarch of Constantinople are all united on X: Mormonism isn’t Biblical.

@FiredUpCoug The Bible and the dictionary both define a Christian as a disciple or follower of Christ. So based on that definition, LDS are clearly Christian’s. I am surprised that you did not know that since you have studied the Bible.

“Let me teach you Mormons what the Bible says.” “Oh, the Bible we study every week at church, read at home, spent years studying daily as teenagers, and taught from for two years as missionaries? That Bible?”

@Fair_and_Biased @justin_hart and was resurrected, the Jesus that is in the Bible, then we must believe in the one and only Jesus. If not please tell me who this other Jesus is, because I have never heard of him

@justin_hart Who is the Son? Is He one with the Father: co-equal & co-eternal, sharing the same divine essence and substance? Or is He a separate & subordinate divine being with a physical body, united in will but not essence? We don’t believe in the same Christ.

Bc Mormons view Christ as a spiritual brother of Satan. They believe He achieved progressive exaltation, distinct from and subordinate to the Father. It is not a Trinitarian religion. Mormonism teaches that Jesus was conceived by a Heavenly Father AND a Heavenly Mother (the Father’s divine wife). It teaches that we can become gods like Christ and rule worlds. Mormons are some of the nicest people around, but they are outside of biblical Christian teaching.

@Fair_and_Biased @justin_hart So you believe that there are 2 Jesus Christ. Because if not I think you are confusing a different understanding or interpretation of what the Bible says, because unless you do not believe in the Jesus that was Born of the Virgin Mary the one that died on the cross for our sins

@realBalloonDog Both the Bible and the dictionary define a Christian and a disciple or follower of Jesus Christ so based on that definition it is clear that LDS would be Christian. For those that claim to go only by what the Bible says you need to go back and read your Bible

All this back and forth about whether Mormons are Christians is missing an important component - a clear definition of what a Christian is. Oneness Pentecostals and many Seventh Day Adventists have a definition of what a Christian is that excludes me. I don’t care. Wouldn’t even waste time arguing about it. Joseph Smith’s God told him that those who hold to the traditional confessions and creeds of the Christian faith are “an abomination.” That’s me. I’m an abomination to the god of the LDS. We have different definitions of what a Christian is. We have a different definition of who God is and what he is like. We have many variations in doctrines that are wholly incompatible. I get that Mormons think they are the true, restored church but it’s disingenuous to say that they want to be included in a list of traditional Christian churches when they have said that their church is the only one that should bear that title. If they were honest they would demand that all the other churches listed as Christian on the Pentagon list be stripped of that title. Indeed, they should be pleased and proud to not be lumped in among the “abominations.” As I said, I don’t care what anyone thinks about my faith and about whether they think I’m a Christian or not. Whatever. But I do find it quite interesting that Mormons care so much about traditional Christians accepting them into our fold.

@RepMikeKennedy Both the Bible and the dictionary define a Christian and a disciple or follower of Jesus Christ so based on that definition it is clear that LDS would be Christian. For those that claim to go only by what the Bible says you need to go back and read your Bible

The Pentagon’s decision to list The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apart from other Christian faiths is wrong and needs to be corrected. No one needs to wonder where members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stand. We stand with Christ. We are Christians. On that ground, and on the much larger ground of shared faith, values, and purpose, Latter-day Saints stand alongside many Christians of every tradition in following the teachings of Christ. We only ask to be accurately portrayed. I strongly urge the Department to correct the record.

@MrsCMFrancis Both the Bible and the dictionary define a Christian and a disciple or follower of Jesus Christ so based on that definition it is clear that LDS would be Christian. For those that claim to go only by what the Bible says you need to go back and read your Bible

Hello dear ones! Jesus is God incarnate, not God’s “spirit child”. That among other things is a main reason Mormons are not considered Christians. No offense, truly, you can believe whatever you want. But you cannot disagree with fundamental doctrine and still demand inclusion as a Christian denomination.

@Salt_n_Smoke Both the Bible and the dictionary define a Christian and a disciple or follower of Jesus Christ so based on that definition it is clear that LDS would be Christian. For those that claim to go only by what the Bible says you need to go back and read your Bible

LDS have been trying to hijack Christianity since its birth. They are a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They send missionaries to go baptize other Christian faiths… They have an entirely different God. A different Jesus. A different narrative. A different reality. It’s night and day. The more I talk with Mormons and learn what they truly believe it’s amazing how entirely different it is than actual biblical Christianity. One example is their scriptures tell them God the Father was teaching Adam and Eve about Jesus Christ, the atonement, and had them get baptized..It’s an entire different belief/narrative.

@Manhattva Both the Bible and the dictionary define a Christian and a disciple or follower of Jesus Christ so based on that definition it is clear that LDS would be Christian. For those that claim to go only by what the Bible says you need to go back and read your Bible

We are the fourth largest organized religion in the United States of America America We are literally the most American religion in the world. Cope.

@_kruptos Both the Bible and the dictionary define a Christian and a disciple or follower of Jesus Christ so based on that definition it is clear that LDS would be Christian. For those that claim to go only by what the Bible says you need to go back and read your Bible

Not scripture. It speaks lies and deceptions to confuse people and lead them astray from Christ as he is born witness to in the teachings of the Apostles. This is why the Apostolic witness is so important.