(August 8, 2018 at 1:47 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: How are you defining what a Christian is? Are Mormons Christians? What is the litmus test, and more importantly, why is that the litmus test?
A litmus test would imply a clear line designating a difference of kind. Personally, the issue is this. Out of all the doctrinal differences which churches share the most doctrines and which reject most of the commonly held ones. Mormons and JW are Christians but in my opinion share far fewer doctrines with other Christians than say RC, Orthodox, and Protestant churches. Quakers also seem to be further out on the bell curve, but clearly not as far out as Mormons. Nearly all the gnostics, such as the Cathars, were branded heretics but IMO they still fall within the Christian community. I guess what I am saying is that one can be a Christian even if other denominations consider your type of Christianity heretical. But those are just my opinions. Jack Chick clearly disagrees.
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