Are the Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) really Christians?
If you were to ask any ‘Mormon’ (Latter-Day Saint), they would reply most emphatically that they are. If you had asked me at any time between 1966 and 1987, I would have done so too. You see, they do believe that they are, and not just that, but they are ‘better’ Christians than ‘regular’ Christians for two reasons important to them. The first is that they believe they have greater knowledge than Christians do, because they have had a prophet appointed by God to lead them since 1824 when a 14 year-old boy, Joseph Smith, reported that he had heard God’s call to him in New York State in the U.S.A.. They claim to have a continuing line of prophets and apostles since that time. Please go and visit a website specially constructed to explain quietly and patiently, without any table-thumping, why I and many others have come to the conclusion that Latter-Day Saints are NOT Christians. Please take this link to a site associated with an internet chat channel set up for this purpose. The link wil
