Welcome to Life and Books and Everything.

I'm Kevin DeYoung.

Today I want to read an article, a new article, on Clearly Reform.

If you've not been there, you should check out clearlyreform.org. Lots of resources

there, including unique articles and hopefully more of them to come in the future. This one is

entitled Seven Reasons and Christianity are not the same. What prompted posting this article

was a comment I saw a few days ago, and it may have just been circulated.

It may have happened a month or maybe even last year, but that a prominent Christian had made

this statement that he was willing to die on the hill that Christianity and Mormonism were the same,

or that they worship the same Jesus, something to that effect, which made me want to say a little bit more about that

in a way that hopefully is helpful, not for that particular statement so much, because those come and go,

but that would help Christians understand what Mormonism teaches and why Christianity and Mormonism are not the same, hence

this article. The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of Mormon history and theology. My purpose is not to

debunk Mormonism or to prove Christianity, but I hope this quick survey will demonstrate that the

two are not the same. A quick note on secondary sources, Christian materials do not always treat

Mormonism fairly, or go the extra mile to present Mormon ideas as a Mormon would

recognize them. One book that does do this well is Andrew Jackson's Mormonism explained

what Latter-day Saints teach and practice. I also recommend a different Jesus, the Christ of the

Latter-day Saints by BYUY.U. Professor Robert Millett.

Richard Mao concedes too much in his foreword and afterward from a Christian perspective,

a self-proclaimed evangelical perspective, but the book is still very helpful to get Mormon

Christology from a Mormon himself.

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