Mormons are Christians

Thank you for the response. I would have to strongly disagree that the debate has been satisfactorily answered. I would almost say that you have avoided the point being made, when I referenced Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. So I will go back to that. Jesus says "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve". As you have agreed upon and as I said previously, Mormons believe that Jesus is god, and the Father is god. Why is Jesus saying to worship and serve only one, and allowing "both" to be worshiped and served? Jesus made it clear, that we are to worship and serve the "Lord thy God" only (I don't mean to insult your intelligence but the definition of only is, no one or nothing more besides; solely or exclusively.), but allows Himself to be worshiped. Its worth the time to go back and look into this, and allow ourselves to be on the same page. Jesus taught this, and in order to be a "Christian by definition", following this teaching is important. It would appear to be a contradiction. In a different universe, you were to trust me, Brandon, with your life and follow my teachings, and I told you to never give anyone named Brandon money, but allowed you to give me, Brandon, money, how would that not fall in on itself? Jesus says to worship your one true God only, but allows people to worship him? He must be the ONE true God? I don't doubt that Mormons believe in Jesus Christ, I don't believe however, that they follow His teachings. John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." The Greek word, for "Word" in this verse is Logos, meaning a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea. Jesus was the embodied Word of God as John says. What was written in the Bible is the Word of God as you and I both will agree, and since it was written that Jesus was the Word, it is not inappropriate to say that the Bible is the teaching of Jesus. Old Testament and New, Jesus is there as you made clear. The Bible was not written based on the ideas of man, but off the inspiration of God himself. I'm trying to be as clear as I can be because if we are both on the same page that the Word, is Jesus, and the Word of God is found in the Bible, we can agree that me using the Bible is using the teaching of Jesus. Lets move forward to what you have stated with this thinking now in mind. You said that the Father and Jesus "have bodies of flesh and bones". In what way am I suppose to believe this, if in John 4:10 it says "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." God is a spirit, says the Word of God, and as we can now both agree, says the teaching of Jesus. There are many contradictions, as I said previously, to the Mormon and Christian faith. One of the many issues, is the way to salvation. "There is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith as a prophet of God" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, p. 188) Mormon apostle Bruce McConkie states: "There is no salvation outside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Mormon Doctrine, p.670). Jesus' teaching would say otherwise, when it is written in Acts 4:11,12 "This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Its by Jesus Christ we are saved. I understand that there is teaching of Joseph Smith that is the "word of god" but I have reason to believe that there are, by biblical definition, false prophets in the Book of Mormon and I cant take that book as the true word of God. If you wish to get into the BoM and the Prophets listed, we absolutely can but I am simply stating that the Bible teaches it's through Jesus alone, we can find salvation where as the LDS church teach differently.