If Mormon doctrines agreed with Christianity their religion would be considered Christian. They wouldn't come here with angry at***udes. However, their doctrines don't agree. They get offended if we say they aren't Christians. Over the years Mormons have said that all denominations can't be Christian because there are so many. Now many of them say there ARE Christians outside the Mormon church. Really?
They teach that the Mormon church is the kingdom of God on earth.
Only if you are Mormon, they say, is your baptism valid.
Only Mormons have been given the Gift of the Holy Ghost.
They mock the Triune God, yet claim that God was once a finite being.
They teach that you must be married for time and eternity in one of their temples to spend eternity with the Father of Jesus.
They teach that you must be a worthy Mormon to attend one of their temples.
If a person's marriage ceremony is in the temple, non-member or non-worthy Mormon parents and friends are not allowed to attend the wedding.
What have they taught about non-Mormon churches?
Let's start with Joseph Smith.
18 My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.
19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”
20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother, “I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.”
Joseph Smith History - 1
What did Joseph Smith say about the Triune God?
“Many men say there is one God; the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are only one God. I say that is a strange God anyhow—three in one, and one in three! It is a curious organization anyhow. All are to be crammed into one God, according to sectarianism. It would make the biggest God in all the world. He would be a wonderfully big God—he would be a giant or a monster.”
(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 372; History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 476)
This view of God as an incorporeal, immaterial, bodiless, partless, p***ionless being is now and has been from the days of the great apostasy from God and Christ, in the second and third centuries, the doctrine of Deity generally accepted by apostate Christendom.
(History of the Church, 1:LXXXVI).
What did the Apostle Bruce R. MCConkie say about the church of the devil?
What is the church of the devil in our day, and where is the seat of her power? ...It is all of the systems, both Christian and non-Christian, that perverted the pure and perfect gospel ...It is communism; it is Islam; it is Buddhism; it is modern Christianity in all its parts"
Bruce R. McConkie, The Millennial Messiah, p.54-55
And what is said about non-LDS (non-Mormons)?
"'Now, all the world today, I am sorry to say, with the exception of a handful of people who have obeyed the new and everlasting covenant, are suffering this spiritual death. They are cast out from the presence of God. They are without God, without Gospel truth, and without the power of redemption; for they know not God nor His Gospel. In order that they may be redeemed and saved from the spiritual death which has spread over the world like a pall, they must repent of their sins, and be baptized by one having [LDS] authority, for the remission of sins, that they may be born of God. That is why we want these young men to go out into the world to preach the Gospel. While they themselves understand but little perhaps, the germ of life is in them'"
(President Joseph F. Smith, Conference Report, Oct. 1899, p. 72)
Book of Mormon Student Manual, Copyright 1989, p. 111; copyright 1996, Chapter 38
People who accept and live doctrines of men do not know the living God.
Bernard P. Brockbank, a general authority of the Mormon church from 1962 to his death, “Entrance into the Kingdom of God,” Ensign, January 1973, p. 44
We, as Christians, haven't changed our doctrines. So when some of the Mormons claim there are Christians outside their church, you have to wonder how sincere they are being.