How Christian is the Mormon doctrine?
All in all, then, how Christian are Mormons if judged on the basis of their entire doctrine? Can Mormons be considered Christians? Former President Jimmy Carter, an evangelical Christian, was reported to accept Mormons as Christians. Arizona Daily Star wrote November 16, 1997: “Former President Jimmy Carter, in comments at odds with the leaders of his Southern Baptist faith, says Mormons should be considered part of the Christian community. The Deseret News reported yesterday that in a teleconference with religion writers this week, the Democratic 39th president said that leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention were wrong to imply that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a non-Christian cult.” However, Wayne Grudem, a well-known evangelical theologian and author of a 1290-page Systematic Theology, does not see Mormons as Christians. Although professor Grudem supports Mitt Romney for President, because Romney is a conservative and in Grudem’s view best-qualified of all
