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Latter-day Saints have a strong religio-cultural identity that makes them resistant to the gospel. Yet increasing numbers of Mormons are leaving the LDS Church, and many are open to the historic biblical gospel.
Mormonism is a religion. Its organisation is cultic and it is not a denomination of the Christian Church. It misleadingly calls itself ‘The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’. Its teachings and practices conflict with and are antagonistic to the Christian Church.
In this paper I attempt to explain exactly what a cult is and whether such a definition also applies to the LDS faith. In addition, I attempt to determine how much of the definition applies to Christianity as a whole. Before I begin, I must point out that members of the LDS Church esteem Jesus Christ to be their leader, not Joseph Smith.
Since the 1920s, the word ‘cult’ has most commonly been used to designate a minority religious group whose beliefs and practices an outside observer deems dangerous or strange. Historically, ‘cult’ was first recorded in English as reverence or homage to a deity or saint, e.g. the ‘cult of Mary’ in the Roman Catholic Church.
1 Νοε 2014 · This paper examines the theoretical and historical development of the term "cult," from its inception in the work of Troeltsch to more modern delineations of the term in the work of researchers...
What is a Cult? Mormons object to the application of “cult” to Mormonism, but it fits many of the basic elements. There are two ways to look at the word cult, in the social/ psychology sense or in the Christian/religious sense.
How Do We Reach Mormons? •Approaching Mormonism as a culture •Missiology: the study of how to intelligently articulate the gospel and its life-changing power in a culturally appropriate manner, drawing on the disciplines of theology, anthropology, and history (among others).
