Are Mormons Christians?

[LeSellers]

Actually, no. Mormons are baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

By the way, baptism into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints is in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost.

It DOESN'T have to be in the exact words "Father Son and Holy Ghost" because, obviously, people who are baptized in languages other than English don't use the English words. Heck, Moroni didn't use the English words.

We are required to use a particular phrase today, to ensure completion and correctness of the ordinance, but if Joseph Smith had translated the Nephite phrase as "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit", which would have had precisely the same meaning, we would have been baptizing in those words.

Not wanting (no, I mean it, really) to pick nits here, we are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

It may seem trivial, but the difference has significance.

Lehi

[mfbukowski]

It may seem trivial, but the difference has significance.

Agreed!

I was just explaining that we are not baptized "in the name of Jesus", as had been asserted.

It's not a big deal. What it boils down to is if a Mormon converts to Catholicism, he or she must be baptized again in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. If a Catholic converts to the CoJCoLDS, he or she gets baptized again too, in "Jesus name" if I'm not mistaken, much like Oneness Pentecostals. The rest of it is a power trip by self-appointed gatekeepers who alone reserve the right to assign the name "Christian" to people.

I did indeed, and I am currently blogging every single chapter of it. Not having a Temple Recommend myself, I made a guess that you did like it says in Mormon 7:8 (and also 4 Nephi 1) "Therefore repent, and be baptized in the name of Jesus. " Then again, other people in 3 Nephi 11:25 said, "Having authority given me of Jesus Christ, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. "

I guess she had to look it up. Less than a good knowledge of Mormonism I would say and yet here to criticize us?

Oh well! She is not the first nor the last.

And by the way I don't recall appointing myself to be a "gatekeeper". It seems to me that I was "called of God as was Aaron", but that's just me!

[hagoth7]

Well that's pretty much why I'm here, aside from the fact that I like to get chewed out by rude people ;-)

If that's your preference...

Have a super week!

[cdowis]

Heck, Moroni didn't use the English words.

Yeah, the Nephites spoke in French.

(pardon the insider joke).

[Binah]

Yeah, the Nephites spoke in French.

(pardon the insider joke).

Adieu!

[Ahab]

I think it's more common than not for a person to embrace more and more truth as his (or her) life develops, so in time I think the people who the author of that article was trying to educate will come to find out that the Mormon religion is and promotes the ideas among others involving what it means to be truly Christian.

That doesn't mean there won't be another person at the same time who will still hold to the same theory that Mormonism isn't Christian, however, because for each person who has progressed beyond that point there's is always another person who hasn't made it to that point yet.

Thus, there will always be someone to say that Mormons aren't Christians among the others who already know better than to believe that.

[mfbukowski]

Adieu!

Dang.

You stole my line.

Oh, and welcome!