Are Mormons Christian? RFM: 426

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

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The question of whether Mormons should be called “Christian” is all the rage. But it was also a much-debated question back in the 1980s when RFM was at the height of his Mormon Apologetic career. Radio Free Mormon brings his years of experience and perspective to this question and gives the final and authoritative answer… Read More »Are Mormons Christian? RFM: 426

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0:00.0	Good evening, everybody. This is Radio Free Mormon, broadcasting behind enemy lines.
0:05.8	Tonight's episode is Our Mormon's Christian. It's episode 426 here on RFM.
0:13.2	Now, this question has been around a long time, probably almost 200 years since that's about as long as the Mormon church has been around, but it was certainly
0:21.7	a big deal back when I was in my apologetic phase back in the 1980s in Austin, Texas. But it was
0:28.6	certainly a big deal back then. It seems to be a big deal once more, this question, are Mormons
0:35.0	Christian? So let's dig into why this is a big deal all of a sudden. And then we're going to answer the question. And I'm going to answer this question with finality. I'm going to give you the one true universal answer to this question. I don't care if you're a Mormon. I don't care if you're a non-Mormant. I don't care if you're Christian. I don't care who you are. My answer is going to be the final answer on this. And I don't want to hear anybody
0:58.2	talking about this question anymore after this episode, because I'm sick and tired of this
1:02.6	question and having to deal with it for over 40 years now. Okay, so are Mormons Christian?
1:09.1	This is why this question is a big deal right now. It is my
1:13.2	understanding that it's because of this horrible, horrible act that occurred in September 28, 2025.
1:21.2	Just a month ago, I'm recording this on October 31st, 2025. And this was a horrible act that happened at a Mormon church in Grand
1:29.5	Blanc, or Grand Blanc, depending upon how you pronounce it, Michigan, were an individual
1:34.9	who really didn't like Mormons, rammed his pickup truck into the chapel from the outside,
1:40.2	and then started shooting people, burned the entire building to the ground.
1:45.6	And after this, some Christians, by the way, for purposes of this podcast, I'm going to call
1:51.4	those who don't think Mormons are Christian. Christian, I'm going to call Mormons Mormon.
1:55.6	I'm not doing that in order to try and make a point that Mormons aren't Christian.
1:59.3	I'm just trying to do this in order to try and make it so I can communicate this clearly and in a straightforward manner. So some Christians
2:07.7	thought this was a bad thing that happened and they reached out to their Mormon brothers and
2:12.2	sisters with an olive leaf saying, wow, this was terrible that it happened to you. I'm so sorry that
2:17.3	it happened to you even though'm so sorry that it happened to
2:17.9	you, even though you're not Christian. It was something like that. Anyway, the Mormons, instead of
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