10-22-2011, 07:09 PM
The difference is bigger than "We've arbitrarily decided they are not like us."
To name a few significant differences, Mormons hold that:
* The God of his world was a man from another planet who achieved God-hood.
* Jesus is only the "son" of God, a distinct entity; not God directly incarnated in flesh, i.e., part of a Trinity.
* Joseph Smith received direct written revelation from God via the angel Moroni to add to the Bible.
Lutherans, Catholics, Southern Baptists et. al. certainly have their inter-denominational differences, but they collectively have big problems with these tenets of Mormonism.
A Christian apologetics site will explain all these differences in great detail. e.g., http://carm.org/is-mormonism-christian
To the non-religious, this is of course all semantics, and you are free to dismiss the differences as meaningless, but the differences are important to people of faith.
To name a few significant differences, Mormons hold that:
* The God of his world was a man from another planet who achieved God-hood.
* Jesus is only the "son" of God, a distinct entity; not God directly incarnated in flesh, i.e., part of a Trinity.
* Joseph Smith received direct written revelation from God via the angel Moroni to add to the Bible.
Lutherans, Catholics, Southern Baptists et. al. certainly have their inter-denominational differences, but they collectively have big problems with these tenets of Mormonism.
A Christian apologetics site will explain all these differences in great detail. e.g., http://carm.org/is-mormonism-christian
To the non-religious, this is of course all semantics, and you are free to dismiss the differences as meaningless, but the differences are important to people of faith.