Unfortunately many times we hear people who says that Mormons are not Christians. Some people say this because of “honest” ignorance, they simply repeat what someone told them. Others do this on purpose to misrepresent the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (that is the real name of what people call the Mormon Church). In fact, how strange that the Mormons are not Christians since they are one of the very few churches in the face of the earth that uses the full name of the Savior. Other churches use names that mention principles or ordinances or some other thing, but curiously they don’t use the name of the Savior Jesus Christ. For example, we have the Baptist Church, the Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, the Pentecostal Church, and so on.
In any case, I thought that this short excerpt from President Hinckley, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should once again show how how much Mormons are Christians:
“We honor His birth. But without His death that birth would have been but one more birth. It was the redemption which He worked out in the Garden of Gethsemane and upon the cross of Calvary which made His gift immortal, universal, and everlasting. His was a great Atonement for the sins of all mankind. He was the resurrection and the life, ‘the firstfruits of them that slept’ (1 Cor. 15:20). Because of Him all men will be raised from the grave.
“But beyond this He taught us the way, the truth, and the life. He gave the keys through which we may go on to immortality and eternal life.
“We love Him. We honor Him. We thank Him. We worship Him. He has done for each of us and for all mankind that which none other could have done. God be thanked for the gift of His Beloved Son, our Savior, the Redeemer of the world, the Lamb without blemish who was offered as a sacrifice for all mankind.”
(Gordon B. Hinckley, “A Season for Gratitude,” Ensign, Dec. 1997, 4 )
