Regarding your big cover story in Sunday’s paper on Mormonism, I believe you left out a significant part of the story; namely, the reason that Christians and Mormons don’t see eye to eye, and I do not want the public to be left uninformed.

Mormons are fine, upstanding, law-abiding citizens and I voted for a Mormon for president, but they are deceived when it comes to who God and Jesus Christ are. Mormonism teaches its adherents that they may one day become gods themselves and rule their own planets. “…the Church [LDS] proclaims the eternal truth: ‘As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become.’” (Articles of Faith, Chapter 24.) “It is the first principle of the Gospel [of Mormonism] to know for a certainty the character of God…and that he was once a man like us.” (Joseph Smith, “Journal of Discourses,” Volume 6, Page 3) Again, “God the Father is a perfected, glorified, holy Man, an immortal Personage. And Christ was born…in the same personal, real, and literal sense that any mortal son is born to a mortal father…” (Bruce McConkie, “Mormon Doctrine,” page 742)

Thus, it is mainly for these reasons, but also many others too numerous for the editorial page, that Mormonism is anathema to orthodox Christianity. While I admire the fine qualities of Mormon people, and I would have no difficulty working side-by-side with them on humanitarian projects, I would not want someone I loved to marry one.

SHARON KING

Post Falls