Hope this video will help you understand why Mormons and Christians are so distant.
Genuine question
James Torres
Chase Cox
We're not falling for your bait, Satan. Out.
Josiah Clark
Your pic is related for a start: you added to scripture
And St John's exhortation at the end of Revelations is pretty explicit.
God's own condemnation of prophets who were adding words into His mouth is pretty explicit.
Joseph Smith added to what God had done. How can we, the believers in Christ, EVER consider others who embrace such heresies to be brothers? It just cannot be done. Sorry.
And I haven't even taken issue with the theological errancies taught by Mormonism, which are multitudinous and seriously grave. Pic seriously related. I can disagree with Cathbros or Orthbros and we can debate ferociously and disagree bitterly, but I still for all their issues – and I say they too are fairly … a lot-ish … yet I can still say that I have no trouble believing there are vast numbers of God's own children amongst them, my brothers, my sisters. Mormonism has just too many theological whoopsies, and they are fundamental issues too. Like the divinity of Christ. Like the Holiness or uniqueness of God. (Pic related)
What have black and white in common? It's not like we hate you, any more than we could hate a homosexual or a Hindu. But, you are certainly not one of us.
Jeremiah Garcia
Nope.
Sorry.
Anthony Taylor
OP, I invite you to watch the 12-minute YouTube video . I think that is all we can do. God bless.
Sebastian Garcia
I want to smash your winnie the pooh temples with a sledge hammer. Mormons deserve to be persecuted tbh
Carter Jones
Because you're not.
Sebastian Gray
Because you believe someone gave birth to God the Father, you aren't just not Christian you aren't even monotheists. Muslims are better than Mormons
Brody Martin
Can someone please explain why according to Mormon doctrine Jesus had to be crucified and rise from the dead? Because the way I understand it, one becomes a Mormon god through obedience to Mormon teachings, so what was the point of the crucifixion? Does every planet have its own version of a mormon Jesus
OP, you say all those things you believe in that we supposedly also believe in, but you are missing an important point: when Mormons say they believe in X they say the same thing, but they mean something completely different.
Mormons believe every man is the son of God. Not in the sense that we are children of God because He created us as Christians believe, but that we are literally the offspring of the Mormon god and one of his goddess wives. This is a major difference, not just minor semantics.
The only thing that makes Mormon Jesus special is that he is the oldest son of the Mormon god, not his only-begotten Son. This makes the Mormon belief no closer the Christianity than the Muslim belief that Jesus was just a prophet.
It is a massive difference whether there is some sort of tribunal of three gods, or only one God. This is not some autistic question like whether a church procession should go clockwise or counter-clockwise. If you are not Unitarian, you are not Christian.
No, they don't. Mormons have altered holy Scripture to add their space aliens and other heresies.
Not to mention the fact that your "prophet" is a fraud, just look up the supposed "book of Abraham". The TL;DR is that some Egyptologist brought a scroll to Smith in the hope that he could translate it (this was before the Stone of Rosetta had been discovered). He made up a story of how the scroll was supposedly a long-lost book written by Abraham, and then the original got conveniently lost. Years later, after the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the scroll was found and translated properly. Turns out it was just an instructional manual for preparing mummies. Joseph Smith is nothing but a dirty liar.
Again, you use all the right terms, but you mean completely different things. It's not about what you say, it's about what you do.
Again, this is a massive difference. Christians believe that there is only one God, not that there are countless gods but only one of them is our designated god.
Owen Butler
I would technically classify Mormons as Christians, but it's pretty obvious why most Christians don't. Adding an entire testament to scripture is a big deal. It would be like Christians asking Jews why they don't consider Christians to be Jews.