Is Mormonism...

[Zioneer]

Thanks for pre-emptively saying "no calling the LDS Church a cult", it actually really helps to stop that before its said.

Anyway, I would say we're a new form of Christianity. We're not similar to most forms of Protestant, though we were sorta close at the very beginning. We have an extra three books of scripture, we have prophets and apostles, we have a rather "top-down" structure, and we don't have very many lasting connections to the Protestant Churches.

However, we're still Christian. We literally call ourselves the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints", we included Jesus as the main figure of our new books of scripture, we talk about him all the time and specifically aspire to be like him (in a more literal sense than most churches). I mean, Jesus has all that the Father hath, and he wants us to have all that the Father hath as well, right? So we really, really want to be like Jesus.

What we aren't is Trinitarian Christian. We don't believe in the Trinity (we have a sorta compromise theological concept called the Godhead, where God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are united and "one" in purpose, but three distinct beings), we believe we can become like God the Father (though it isn't guaranteed like some people portray it), and of course we have Lucifer and his followers being spiritual siblings with us.

We call ourselves Christian, we stick Christ in more places than the Middle East, and we literally have his name in our church's name, so yes, I would call us Christian but not Protestant or Catholic. We're something else, a primitivist or millenarian Christian church.

[Zioneer]

We call ourselves Christian, we stick Christ in more places than the Middle East, and we literally have his name in our church's name, so yes, I would call us Christian but not Protestant or Catholic. We're something else, a primitivist or millenarian Christian church.

The usual term is Restorationist, tho the various Restorationist churches have little in common beyond a belief that they embody the restoration of the true church which was facilitated by their early leaders being gifted with abilities the mainline churches felt had been dormant since the apostolic age and that other churches are in error, even other Restorationist churches founded by other leaders.

Ah, then that's the right term. Thanks!

The interesting thing is that there are Mormon splinter churches who believe they restored the authority of the LDS Church. So a restoration of a restoration.