If Mormons were to call themselves "a new religious movement," that would be one thing, said R. Philip Roberts, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, which hosted the June 1-2 meeting. "But I have a very difficult time with the perspective [the Mormon church holds] that, 'We are the true expression of Christianity and all other forms of it are wrong and false and apostasy and heresy,'" Roberts said, paraphrasing the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Roberts, who led a breakout session titled "Mitt Romney: Should Evangelicals Vote for a Mormon President?" during the meeting, is one of Southern Baptists' leading experts on Mormonism and author of a book on the church, Mormonism Unmasked...
...In addition to citing the Mormon claim to be the only true Christian church, Roberts said the view Mormons hold of God, Jesus, salvation and the end times are as far from historic Christianity as possible.
"They have an epistemological subjectivism that is way outside the realm of modern thinking and Christian reason," Roberts said. "Subjectivity rules within the Mormon church. Subjectivism trumps reality; it trumps rational thought; it trumps objective investigation."...
...Concerning evangelicals who might publicly embrace Romney's candidacy, Roberts said, "When we endorse a candidate, that [endorsement] carries with it enormous implications, and if Mitt Romney is elected as president of the United States, there's a great [spiritual] responsibility on the part of those who have advocated his candidacy."
One of those implications, Roberts said, is that a Mormon president would, in essence, "give every LDS missionary the calling card of legitimacy anywhere in the world."...
These excerpts come from this story, published last week by Florida Baptist Witness.
