Joel Osteen: Mitt Romney Is a 'Believer in Christ Like Me'
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“What I see about Gov. Romney is that he says ‘I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He’s raised from the dead and he’s my savior.’ I see him as being a believer in Christ like me.”
Backing Mormon candidate as bad as saying Mormonism is Christianity?
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“When you have someone like Franklin Graham going on CNN and saying he has no problem voting for a Mormon like Mitt Romney and Osteen saying Mormons are Christian, it is clear that politics are being put before the eternal soul of man.” Televangelist Launches Fierce Attack on Joel Osteen, Says Mormonism Isn’t Christianity
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Ken Starr: Can I vote for a Mormon?
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Mitt Romney Snags John Thune’s Evangelical Endorsement
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“Mitt Romney received a big endorsement in the form of South Dakota Sen. John Thune” on Wednesday.
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Bill Maher: "By any standard, Mormonism is more ridiculous than any other religion" ... [the] "ultimate shape-shifters"
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Anne Frank, a Mormon? Richard Bushman, a Mormon who is a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University, said that after “the Jewish dust-up,” Mormons “backed away” from “going to extravagant lengths to collect the names of every last person who ever lived and baptize them — even George Washington.”
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Is Mormonism a "Cult"?
A media “firestorm” (mostly a “manufactured” controversy, I have little doubt) arose recently when Robert Jeffress, pastor of historic First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, and a strong supporter of Texas Governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry, declared that Mormonism, the religion of rival candidate Mitt Romney, was a cult. Some in and out of the media expressed concern, disdain, even outrage at this insensitive, even, some said, bigoted remark. Regardless of the response to Pastor Jeffress’ words, the real question is—did he speak the truth? Is Mormonism in fact a non-Christian cult?
The first issue in settling such a question is the matter of definitions. What is a “cult”? I have seen various definitions, but have settled on my own, which is more of a characterization than strictly a definition.
What is a cult?
First, cults claim to be “real” or “restored” Christianity, which had somehow been “lost” somewhere between the first century and the time of the founding of the cult.
Second, cults are almost uniformly non-Trinitarian (most are Unitarian, but some are polytheistic).
Third, cults teach de facto or de jure the inadequacy and incompleteness of the revelation in Scripture, and hence the need for two things:
- a new inspired prophet or prophets (usually beginning with if not limited to the founder of the cult);
- further divine revelations, which are communicated through that prophet.
Fourth, cults, as with all false religions, teach salvation by means of human religious works.
Fifth, there is no salvation outside the cult.
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"Mitt Romney calls on Rick Perry to disavow pastor who called Mormonism a cult, Perry declines"
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“Perry, through a spokesman, refused to disavow the pastor, Robert Jeffress, who heads a 10,000-strong Baptist congregation in Dallas.”
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