Mormons are Christians

Thank you for your response. "Mormons do believe in Jesus Christ and Hence: Christians" based on this thinking we can draw the conclusion that Jehovah witnesses are Christians, Muslims are Christians, most atheists are Christians. This sounds inaccurate right? It sounds inaccurate because it obviously takes more then believing in someone to be something. Believing in Jesus is the easy part, believing He is God and the one true God and following His teachings is something entirely different. How many times do we see it in the Bible, that God is not interested in the outward appearance of man but what is happening in the heart. I met up with a mormon recently who said something along with what you are saying and explained "Some people believe in sprinkling water baptisms, others believe in full immersion". Does such a thing matter if the heart is the same? We see that God isn't interested in appearance but rather the heart as it is. There are plenty of different doctrinal beliefs in the Christian community but my friend notice the irony in your comment because Mormons would have to be one of the thirty thousand. You make an interesting point but I can't seem to be satisfied with that answer. Jesus makes himself clear on who we are to worship and it would seem that Mormons would word smith it to work for their best interest. Again I simply ask, why would Jesus say to worship the one true god only? Had he stated you are to worship God only you may have something, but he said the ONE TRUE God and him alone. That's where I will get tripped up on your resonance. I'm sorry I must have not made it clear. I know Jesus has a body of flesh and bone but I'm addressing the issue of the Father having flesh and bone. The Word says that Jesus is the image of the invisible God. The verse says God IS spirit. He doesn't say God has a spirit so we will worship in spirit, to worship in the same spirit he has, and truth. He says, God is Spirit. Now let's address the Genesis 1:26 issue. The word used in the Hebrew (the original language the book was written in) for God is Elohim and that word is plural. The name Elohim is unique to Hebraic thinking: it occurs only in Hebrew and in no other ancient Semitic language. The masculine plural ending does not mean "gods" when referring to the true God of Israel, since the name is mainly used with singular verb forms and with adjectives and pronouns in the singular. What does this mean? This is the first mention of the trinity. Let Us make man in Our image: The use of the plural (Let Us " in Our image, according to Our likeness) is consistent with the idea that there is One God in three Persons, what we know as the Trinity. Leupold does a good job showing that the plurality of let Us make cannot be merely the plurality of royalty, nor can it be God speaking with and to the angels. It is an indicator of the Trinity, though not clearly spelled out. In Our image: An understanding of who man is begins with knowing we are made in the image of God. Man is different from every other order of created being because He has a created consistency with God. This means there is an unbridgeable gap between human life and animal life. Though we are biologically similar to certain animals, we are distinct in our moral, intellectual, and spiritual capabilities. This means there is also an unbridgeable gap between human life and angelic life. Nowhere are we told the angels are made in the image of God. Angels cannot have the same kind of relationship of love and fellowship with God we can have. This means the incarnation was truly possible. God (in the Second Person of the Trinity) could really become man, because although deity and humanity are not the same, they are compatible. This means human life has intrinsic value, quite apart from the "quality of life" experienced by any individual, because human life is made in the image of God. This means so many things but it does not mean that God the Father is in human form. Do we see any other biblical evidence to shoe God having human form? Could this be an idea from the mormon doctrine to back up the theology of God being man and being made as man is made, so that we too can become a God? If the Father is of human form and made as we are made, there is nothing to set us apart from him in that form. My time is quickly escaping so I will have to address this next issue with some haste. Does the president of the Church not carry the weight and responsibility of a prophet? It was my understanding that if Doctrine was to be brought in, it would be through the president. So how then does what he said not doctrine? "Even those who reject the gospel of Christ, liars, deceivers, and many bad people will receive these glories" how can you back this up with Biblical context? How often did Jesus speak of hell? After His death He went down to hell even! Where does this idea come from. For the rest of your comment it would almost appear that you would have to live a certain way to receive anything from God. Why would Jesus come and what does the cross mean if it's not by his blood we are made righteous before God? Doesn't the bible teach that? It's by His Blood we are saved, not on acts of works. A person who has committed murder their whole life, and then on their death bed feels the weight of conviction resting on their chest, after accepting Jesus as Lord, isn't thinking, "I'm so glad I was able to kill all those people and now I can go and hang out with God. If this is what was said they have not encountered God. They feel the weight of what they have done. They feel the pain of the crimes they committed but I thank God that we are made new and it is through Jesus we are counted as righteous before God. Not based on works but through Jesus and Him alone. I'm just preaching the Bible here man, the Word of a God and the teaching of Jesus. I wish I could go into more depth but sadly my time is running out and I am at work! I hope this was enough to work with and I plan on picking peices of this during our discussion!