An Excellent Response on Some Important Issues

Former MA Republican Gov. Mitt Romney is a presidential aspirant who has reversed some of his previous stances and appears to sincerely oppose both abortion and gay marriages, as well as take a favorable stance concerning other pro-family issues.

Romney is a member of the Mormon faith, a cultic false religion that is officially called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In an interview on CBS’s "Sixty Minutes" on May 13, 2007, Romney rightly disavowed polygamy and his ancestor’s early polygamist background. When questioned about multi-marriages, Romney replied, "I can’t imagine anything more awful than polygamy." This statement is certainly in line with Gen. 2:24, Matt. 19:5-6 and Eph. 5:22-33.

An Expected but Troubling Answer Concerning His Mormon Beliefs

When queried about his Mormon faith, Romney unflinchingly stated: "I’m standing by my faith. I have nothing to be embarrassed about." Romney stated that "at the heart of my faith is a belief that there’s a creator, that we’re all children of the same God and that fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal."

In recent years, the Mormon Church has publicly sought to promote itself as just another Protestant denomination, a religious fraud that many naïve uninformed Mormons sincerely believe, when in fact Mormonism’s doctrines differ sharply from genuine Biblical Christianity.

The Strange Aberrant Doctrines of Mormonism

Mormonism actually teaches that there are many gods, that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three separate gods; that God the Father was once a child just like human beings who possessed the capacity of eternal increase and that He has a body of flesh and bones just as tangible as humanity. In Mormon doctrine, Jesus Christ, as the "first born spirit child" of "Elohim," is greater than other human beings only in the degree of his divinity, having attained a "god" rank above all other of Elohim’s children.

The goal of humanity should be to become a god in eternity. Salvation is supposedly attained by belief in and obedience to the laws and commandments of the "restored" original gospel of Christ, which was lost for centuries until Joseph Smith re-discovered it in the "golden plates," the book of Mormon. The list of strange unbiblical Mormon doctrines could take several pages, many of which teachings the uninitiated Mormons have no clue. How many of these strange foreign doctrines Romney believes is presently an unknown factor, except that Romney states that he stands "by my [Mormon] faith."

An Incorrect Equation

Similar to many liberal Protestants, Romney has errantly equated the creatures of God (Acts 17:29), a category true of all humanity, with the children of God. Romney said: "We’re all children of the same God." Children of God, however is a designation reserved only for those who have placed genuine faith in the second eternal person of the triune God, the Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:12, Gal. 3:26).

An Errant View Concerning Marriage

Romney was also wrong about the Biblical teaching of marriage. In addition to the above citation, speaking about marriage, Romney stated: "This isn’t just some temporary convenience here on Earth, but we’re people that are designed to live together as male and female and we’re gonna have families."

Romney’s remarks were in line with official Mormon doctrine that marriage is an eternal celestial union; that in heaven married people will continue to produce "spirit children" (angels?) via a work of procreation. In the Scriptures, however, Christ taught exactly the opposite, that marriage was strictly an earthly bond (Matt. 22:22-30)!

A Question Fundamentalists Need to Honestly Face

The question of whether a person can be a good Mormon and a patriotic American is really a moot question. Although the divorce rate among Mormons apparently differs little from the tragic rate among other American citizens, when it comes to patriotism, Mormons appear to have a much greater patriotic spirit and vigorous defense of America’s freedoms than most liberal Protestants and undiscerning Roman Catholics.

The query of how much impact a U. S. president’s Mormon faith would have upon his presidential policies is a matter with which each individual believer must carefully ponder and then decide. The F.D. editor has not printed the above article with any partisan purposes in view, but only so that God’s saints can better ponder from a Biblical theological perspective the beliefs and behavior of various candidates.

Resources Utilized: (a) boston.com, 5-14-2007 & 5-16-2007; (b) wten.com, 5-14-2007; (c) wbir.com, 4-14-2007; (d) edgeboston.com, 5-12-2007; (e) newest.net, 5-14-2007; (f) Mormonism: A Personal Testimony, Einar Anderson, Moody Press; (g) Mormonism and the Bible: Does It Measure Up?, Utah Christian Tract Society; (h) The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error, Keith L. Brooks, Moody Press.

Ed: Yours truly will ponder any reader’s responses to this article, but due to extensive office labors and preaching itinerary schedule, he regrets he cannot reply. Thanks for your understanding!

June-July 2007 The Fundamentalist Digest; Permission granted for reprint, so long as proper credit is given. The above item is a sample of the numerous timely articles that are contained in the bi-monthly issues of The Fundamentalist Digest