The creedal argument that Mormonism "isn't Christian" — answered, point by point.
The essay compares 4th-century Greek philosophy to Mormonism — and calls the philosophy "Christianity."
The real question isn't whether the Saints left the New Testament. It's whether the creeds did.
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The charge"Christianity is one God in one undivided essence — homoousios, 'one substance.'"
RebuttalThat word is found nowhere in the Bible. It was decreed at the Council of Nicaea — AD 325, three centuries after Christ, under a Roman emperor not yet even baptized, who called the dispute "trivial."
Bart Ehrman: "the apostles did not teach the Nicene Creed, or anything like it."
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The charge"'I and the Father are one' (Jn 10:30) means one being, one essence."
RebuttalJesus defines that oneness Himself: "that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me… that they may be one, even as we are one." The same unity He asks for His disciples — oneness of purpose, not substance.
John 17:21–22
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The charge"God has no body, parts, or passions, and is never seen."
RebuttalMoses spoke with God "face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend" (Ex 33:11). The risen Christ — still God — has "flesh and bones" (Lk 24:39). Stephen saw two distinct beings (Acts 7:55–56).
David Paulsen, Harvard Theological Review (1990): the earliest Christians believed in an embodied God.
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The charge"No creature can become God. Theosis is mere 'participation.'"
RebuttalAthanasius: "God became man, that man might become God." Jesus defended His own divinity by quoting "ye are gods" (Jn 10:34 / Ps 82). Deification was mainstream early Christianity — and the essay's own proof text (2 Pet 1:4) says it.
Norman Russell, The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition (Oxford, 2004).
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The charge"Creation from nothing is the necessary Christian doctrine."
RebuttalCreatio ex nihilo is a 2nd-century development — Genesis shows God organizing the formless deep, not summoning matter from nothing. "Creation proves it" simply assumes the point in dispute.
Gerhard May, Creatio ex Nihilo: Creation out of Nothing in Early Christian Thought (1994).
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The charge"God is immutable and impassible — He cannot change, develop, or feel loss."
RebuttalThat is Plato's God. Scripture's God relents (Ex 32:14; Jonah 3:10), grieves, loves, and becomes flesh. The bodiless, unmoved One is a philosophical graft — what Harnack named the Hellenization of Christianity.
Adolf von Harnack, History of Dogma — the Greek recasting of the gospel.
Strip away the homoousios, the divine simplicity, the creation-from-nothing, and the unmoved Mover —
and what remains is the embodied, personal, plural Godhead the earliest Christians actually worshipped.
Even Eastern Orthodoxy keeps theosis and rejects the Western additions.
The charge isn't that the Saints departed from the apostles. It's that the creeds did.
Where the disagreement is genuinely philosophical — necessity vs. contingency, the "first cause" — it rests on classical-theist premises Scripture never states. That is a live debate among philosophers, not a settled proof.