Mormon/LDS are Christian

I am not sure whether I should debunk your previous claim or post my reasoning for disagreeing with your general statement. So I will first post my opening statement and then proceed to debunk your claims. Before I begin, I would like to note that I will only be listing 3 reasons why Mormonism is not Christianity. There are many many many reasons beyond these, but I will be listing 3 to begin. If more are requested, more will be provided. So, without further ado... 3 Reasons (of the many) Why Mormons Are Not Christians. 1) Mormons are not Christians firstly in the fundamental area of theism: Mormons are polytheists, while Christians are monotheists. -Both the Christian Old and New Testament, along with 2,000 years of Church testimony bear witness to this fact, as is demonstrated in Isaiah 43:10-11, 1 Timothy 2:5, and the First Council of Constantinople to name but one of each of the above mentioned testimonies. -Mormonism on the other hand teaches that God was once a man, and that men can become gods. Joseph Smith, in his infamous King Follett discourse, said "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! " It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know that we may converse with him as one man converses with another, and that he was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did." Lorenzo Snow (5th President of the LDS Church) summarized the King Follett discourse in this way, "As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be." So thus I believe that it is clear that Mormons and Christians differ greatly on the most basic level of religion: the breed of theism. 2) Joseph Smith believed all churches other than his own were evil. Some quotes of his to back this up: "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 " and which I should join. 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 . . ." "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world," John Taylor, 3rd President of the LDS Church, had this to say: "We talk about Christianity, but it is a perfect pack of nonsense . . . Myself and hundreds of the Elders around me have seen its pomp, parade, and glory; and what is it? It is a sounding brass and a tinkling symbol; it is as corrupt as hell; and the Devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century," Again, as is painfully evident, Mormonism is not exactly friendly towards Christianity. 3) Mormon salvation is different from Christian salvation. -Christian salvation is this: that man was created by God for His glory, but rebelled against God and disobeyed, thus man is sinful and is deserving of eternal damnation because of God's justice and wrath against sin; that God is also loving and merciful, and wants to redeem His creatures; that no man can pay the price of his own salvation, for it is too great for a mere man to pay. To pay the 'bail' of his sentence on his own is impossible for a man, it requires the payment from a sinless being. This is why animals were used for justification in the Old Testament; that Christ is the Son in the Godhead and God himself, and because He is God He is sinless. Thus He can pay the price of not just one man's sins, but of all men. But it required Him PAYING the price. He did this by dying on the cross. He took the judgement that each and every man deserved; that if any man believes in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and confesses with his mouth that Jesus is Lord, he will be saved. (If you would like I can, in Round 2, provide Old and New Testament support for each statement made). -Mormon salvation is this: that men are the children of God and his Heavenly Wife (or Heavenly Mother if you look at things from our point of view); that men are judged based on their works; that Christ died for their atonement, but that you can only receive Christ's sacrifice after all you have done. Thus Mormonism is, at it's roots (regarding salvation), a works-based salvation program, while Christianity is a grace-based salvation program. Now, to briefly refute your opening remarks: -As has been shown above, the god of Mormonism and the God of Christianity are distinctly different: the god of Mormonism is one among many, and was created, while the God of Christianity is the One and Only, and is from eternal past. The Jesus of Mormonism is different from the Jesus of Christianity: the Jesus of Mormonism was too created, is the spirit brother of Satan, and is the literal offspring of god the father, while the Jesus of Christianity is uncreated, existing from eternity past, and is the Son simply in relation to his place in the Godhead. Whilst on the subject of the Godhead, Mormonism rejects the fundamental Christian doctrine of the Trinity as well. -Mormons use the Bible interpreted in light of the Book of Mormon. The BoM contradicts the historical Old and New Testament (as has been shown briefly above). So, in closing, Mormonism has, at it's roots, very distinct differences between itself and Christianity, and actually was born out of supposed 'revelations' regarding the alleged 'wickedness' of all other Christian churches.