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==Is Romney's Faith Christian?==

==Is Romney's Faith Christian?==

While Romney is trying to make points on that "Jesus is my Saviour" and he doesn't speak for his church, or his church for him, the fact is that his beliefs are not Christian. Mormons believe that the Book of Mormon is a better revelation than the Bible (which has many mistakes), that God has a body of fless and blood, and he is married to the Queen of Heavens; that the leaders of the church receive direct revelations from God; that you have to be baptized for your deceased ancestors.

Of course Mitt Romney is a Christian, as are all Mormons.  This is a loaded question, however, and it depends primarily on how "Christian" is defined.

 

In the broadest sense, Mormons are obviously Christian because they believe the New Testament to be the Word of God. They believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, that he was the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament, that he atoned for the sins of mankind and was resurrected.  Anyone who believes these things--as Romney does--can accurately be called a Christian.  (By way of contrast, Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists do not believe these things.)

 

However, there are many--especially within Evangelical Christianity--who seek to define Christianity in a much narrower sense that conforms to particular points of doctrine.  By this narrow definition, wide swaths of Christian believers, including Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventists, Pentecostals, and Mormons would not be considered "Christian."  In fact, many Evangelicals do not consider the Church of Christ to be "Christian" because of its particular salvation doctrines.

 

In this narrow sense, it may be accurate to say that Romney's faith is not Christian, but it would be much more accurate to say that Mormonism is not a Protestant denomination, or that it is not considered part of Evangelical Christianity.  Otherwise the statement only makes sense to those few who define "Christianity" as "Evangelical Christianity" or in a similarly narrow sense.

 

By way of example, the statement "Mitt Romney's faith is not Christian" conveys as much information as the statement "Muqtada al-Sadr's faith is not Islam."  It is obvious to any outside observer that the person making such a statement has a vested interest in some rival sect of the religion in question.  The differences between Mormons and, say, Baptists are as insignificant to most outside observers as the differences between Sunnis and Shiites to most non-Muslims.  However, within their respective religious communities, the differences are so important that each sect is considered by its rival to be heretical, i.e. non-Muslim or non-Christian.

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