{"id":32534,"date":"2012-05-16T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T15:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/richard_mouw_evangelical_leader_says_engaging_mormonism_is_a_christian_mand\/"},"modified":"2012-05-16T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T15:35:11","slug":"richard_mouw_evangelical_leader_says_engaging_mormonism_is_a_christian_mand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32534","title":{"rendered":"Richard Mouw, evangelical leader, says engaging Mormonism is a Christian Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too often, &#8230;.[says Mouw in his new book], Evangelicals pick up little-taught LDS beliefs \u201d\u201d such as humans becoming gods or having their own planets \u201d\u201d and put them at the center of Mormon theology, rather than at the periphery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If in our attempts to defeat them we play fast and loose with the truth by attributing to them things they don\u2019t in fact teach,&#8221; Mouw writes, &#8220;then we have become false teachers: teachers of untruths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mouw spells out the doctrinal differences between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and historical Christian faiths: the nature of God and Jesus, the nature of the Trinity, nonbiblical Mormon scriptures and the rejection of the creeds. He rejects these positions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/lifestyle\/54091441-80\/evangelicals-mouw-mormons-says.html.csp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too often, &#8230;.[says Mouw in his new book], Evangelicals pick up little-taught LDS beliefs \u201d\u201d such as humans becoming gods or having their own planets \u201d\u201d and put them at the center of Mormon theology, rather than at the periphery.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32534\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,92,419,161,428,154,155,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-books","category-evangelicals","category-inter-faith-relations","category-mormons","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}