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Below is a ~1000-word summary (target ~980–1030 words) explaining why Mormonism is 0% Christian, built directly from the doctrinal graph I outlined earlier. It is tight, direct, copy-paste safe, no filler, no rhetorical padding, and everything is content-dense.
✅ ~1000 WORD SUMMARY
“Why Mormonism is 0% Christian”
The core reason Mormonism is considered 0% Christian is that every foundational doctrine which defines historic, biblical Christianity is replaced by a foreign worldview. Christianity is not defined by the word “Jesus,” nor by moral conservatism, nor by family structure, nor by self-identification. Christianity is defined by the nature of God, the nature of Christ, and the nature of the Gospel. When those are changed, the result is a different religion, even if external vocabulary overlaps. Mormonism uses Christian words but fills them with non-Christian definitions, meaning it is a separate theology wearing Christian branding. The disagreement is not small or peripheral; it is absolute and structural at the level of God’s identity.
1. Nature of God
Biblical Christianity teaches that God is the eternal, uncreated Being who has always and forever been God. There was never a time before Him, never a moment when He “became” divine. He is absolute, self-existent, eternally perfect, the sole Sovereign Creator of all reality. In contrast, Mormonism teaches that God the Father was once a mortal man from another world who progressed through exaltation into godhood. This alone places LDS belief outside Christianity. A God who became divine is not the Christian God. This is logically incompatible, because the moment a religion teaches that “God was not always God,” it is no longer monotheistic Christianity but a form of deified humanity. Christianity worships the eternal God; Mormonism worships a once-man who achieved divine status. That alone is a 100% doctrinal severance from Christian theology.
2. Trinity vs. Polytheism
Biblical Christianity is explicitly monotheistic: one God in three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—co-equal, co-eternal, of one substance. Mormon doctrine explicitly denies this, teaching that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three distinct gods with separate bodies and wills, united only in purpose but not being. The LDS church also teaches the existence of “an infinite number of gods” above them. This is open polytheism and completely incompatible with Christianity. Christianity is not defined by belief in “a Jesus,” but by belief in the Jesus of Scripture, who is ontologically God. A religion teaching three separate gods and many more beyond them is not Christianity by definition.
3. Identity of Jesus
Christianity teaches that Jesus is the eternal Word made flesh: the second Person of the Trinity, uncreated, sharing the very substance of God, eternally divine before His incarnation. Mormonism teaches Jesus is the literal spirit-offspring of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother, created as a spirit child, and is the spirit-brother of Lucifer. Christianity teaches Lucifer is a fallen created angel; Mormonism teaches Lucifer and Jesus share a common heavenly parentage. If Jesus is a created being, He is not God by nature, and therefore He is not the Christ of Scripture. The LDS Jesus is ontologically non-Christian. Same name, different being.
4. The Gospel
Biblical Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, not of works, so no man may boast. Justification is the completed work of Christ alone. Mormonism teaches salvation is partially earned through temple ordinances, covenants, rituals, obedience to LDS authority, celestial marriage, and eternal progression. This is not the Gospel of Scripture but an earned exaltation system. The Protestant Reformation rejected works-based salvation as “a different gospel.” Mormon soteriology is not partially different but structurally incompatible.
5. Scripture and Revelation
Christianity teaches that the Bible is the complete revelation of God’s redemptive plan. Mormonism teaches that the Bible is corrupted and insufficient and must be supplemented by The Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price. Once a religion adds new scripture that contradicts earlier revelation, it becomes a separate religion. Mormon prophets functionally override Biblical doctrine, which means Biblical authority is subordinate to LDS hierarchy.
6. Afterlife and deification
Biblical Christianity teaches resurrection, eternal life with God, and glorification through Christ, but humans do not become gods. They remain redeemed creatures. Mormonism teaches men who obey LDS law can become gods of their own worlds, with spirit offspring, just as Heavenly Father once did. Christianity denies human apotheosis. Any religion teaching humans become gods is not Christianity.
7. Monotheism vs exaltation
Christian orthodoxy stands or falls on monotheism. If there is more than one god, or the possibility of becoming god, Christianity collapses. Mormon doctrine is built on exaltation theology, meaning it structurally negates monotheism. Mormonism is therefore a rejection of the Christian worldview at the root.
8. Why Theological Labels Matter
A different God = a different religion.
A different Jesus = a different religion.
A different gospel = a different religion.
When the foundation is replaced, similarity in morals, language, or social conservatism is irrelevant.
9. Christianity is defined by ontology, not branding
The LDS church strategically brands itself as “Christian” post-1990s for public legitimacy, but historically its own founders taught Christianity was apostate. Mormonism did not join Christianity; it replaced it. LDS leaders teach that true Christians were lost after the apostles and restored only through Joseph Smith. Christianity teaches Christ never lost His Church. Mormonism must declare Christianity invalid in order to claim restoration, which proves they are not the same faith.
10. Why the number is not 80%, 50%, or 10%, but 0%
The gap is not cumulative; it is ontological. The question is not “how similar are LDS teachings,” but “is the identity of God the same.” If the identity of God is different, the religion is different at 100%. Christianity is not defined by ethics or lifestyle; it is defined by the nature of the divine. Since the LDS God is a once-mortal being in a universe of many gods, it cannot be the Christian God. Therefore the overlap is not partial but nonexistent.
Conclusion
Mormonism is 0% Christian because it replaces the Christian God with an exalted man, replaces biblical monotheism with cosmic polytheism, replaces the eternal Christ with a created spirit-being, replaces salvation by grace with ritual exaltation, and replaces biblical revelation with the prophetic authority of Joseph Smith. Vocabulary overlap does not equal doctrinal continuity. A religion that changes the nature of God is not a variant of Christianity but a separate theological system entirely. On this basis, the classification is not opinion but definition: Mormonism is not a branch of Christianity but a competing cosmology using Christian terminology. Under every historic Christian confession, the LDS church is theologically outside Christianity at 0%, not partially or mostly, but fundamentally and absolutely.
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