Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: hwt@bwdlh490.bnr.ca (Henry Troup) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: The Mormon Religion Message-ID: Date: 8 Aug 90 07:20:51 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ltd. Lines: 27 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article cms@dragon.uucp writes: >Mormons, he maintains, are decent, clean living folk, who are largely unaware >of the inconsistencies and outrageous blasphemies of their religion. I think >Mormons want to be Christians, and believe they are Christians, but the >theology of the Latter-day Saints is simply not Christianity. Perhaps, over I'm still on a devil's advocate kick here... let's substitute some words and see if the result is familiar: Christians, he maintains, are decent, clean living folk, who are largely unaware of the inconsistencies and outrageous blasphemies of their religion. I think Christians want to be Jews, and believe they are Jews, but the theology of the Latter-day Saints [I think he means Christians here --clh] is simply not Judaism. Or, I could have offended you less by substituting Moslem and Bahai. I think you have proved one point - the LDS are not a Christian church by the common definitions of other christian churches. Please note, however, that you have not proved the invalidity of the LDS as a religion. Neither you not I nor the Bishop of Rome nor any human may say what constitutes salvation and what does not. -- Henry Troup - BNR owns but does not share my opinions | 21 years in Canada... uunet!bnrgate!hwt%bwdlh490 HWT@BNR.CA 613-765-2337 |