I’m LDS as well, and it’s illogical - and really counter to what the church itself stands for - to suggest that calling yourself a Christian if you’re LDS is “abhorrent.” Our entire faith is built on Jesus Christ. His divinity, His atonement, His resurrection, and His role as Savior and Redeemer. How could it possibly be “abhorrent” to follow Christ?
My age isn’t relevant to the point I’m making; pushing this line of argument just makes it sound like you're deflecting for points. That's not a rational point to this discussion.
The question here is whether it’s “abhorrent” for Latter-day Saints to identify as Christians. Whatever era someone grew up in, the church has always officially been The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and its teachings have always been centered on Christ as Savior and Redeemer. That hasn’t changed before or after 1968.
Nope. I spent hours and hours listening to talks at church and evening sacrament service by bishops and stake presidents and general authorities and in Sunday school classes and in mutual classes and not one of these leaders ever refered to us or themselves as Christian. Christian referred to protestant denominations
I have no idea what "deflecting for points" even means, and your age has everything to do with this conversation because the dogma has changed since I left. When I was in, dark skin was how God cursed you. Blacks could not hold the priesthood and Catholic was the church of the devil.
When I grew up in the mormon church we never identified as Christian. Never. Doing so was as abhorrent as the cross.
I’m LDS as well, and it’s illogical - and really counter to what the church itself stands for - to suggest that calling yourself a Christian if you’re LDS is “abhorrent.” Our entire faith is built on Jesus Christ. His divinity, His atonement, His resurrection, and His role as Savior and Redeemer. How could it possibly be “abhorrent” to follow Christ?
How old are you? I know what I was taught, pre 1968.
My age isn’t relevant to the point I’m making; pushing this line of argument just makes it sound like you're deflecting for points. That's not a rational point to this discussion.
The question here is whether it’s “abhorrent” for Latter-day Saints to identify as Christians. Whatever era someone grew up in, the church has always officially been The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and its teachings have always been centered on Christ as Savior and Redeemer. That hasn’t changed before or after 1968.
Nope. I spent hours and hours listening to talks at church and evening sacrament service by bishops and stake presidents and general authorities and in Sunday school classes and in mutual classes and not one of these leaders ever refered to us or themselves as Christian. Christian referred to protestant denominations
I have no idea what "deflecting for points" even means, and your age has everything to do with this conversation because the dogma has changed since I left. When I was in, dark skin was how God cursed you. Blacks could not hold the priesthood and Catholic was the church of the devil.