The basic problem is......Failure to define your terms.




Thats what drives these types of endless debates.

People think a word means something all the time to everyone, but clearly that is not the case here.


An example:..." polytheism"
To the Christian,m the term " polytheism" means to believe that there are many gods.
To the Mormon it seems to mean to believe in many gods.


See the slight difference?



Its a small difference in how the Christian understands the term compared to how the Mormon understands the term.





The Christian looks at the teachings of Mormonism , and how they clearly teach that there are many gods, and that a person can become a god, and so this means that the Mormon clearly is teaching polytheism.
its so clear to the Christian , that its Case-Closed...
There just is no way to escape it....Mormons teach polytheism, and polytheism is evil, and so Mormons are evil.


But to the Mormons, they look at it differently.
The Mormon thinks they do not teach polytheism because while they do believe that there are other gods, they yet claim to only worship one god.

Thus they claim to be worshiping only one god....



This is why the debate needs to do as Walter Martin taught, and hold off arguing over things until you define your terms first...