Look, I believe that it is our civic duty as citizens to vote.  And I also believe that Christians should vote for the candidate who best reflects their beliefs and values.  But let’s be clear on one point – if Obama is a Muslim and Romney is a Mormon, then they are both headed for the same hell.  Neither is our Christian brother.  And both are in need of salvation.

          I am sorry, but it is a bit much to question another Christian’s salvation if they vote for the wrong guy this November.  If Christianity is your gauge, then – guess what? – both Obama and Romney are the “wrong guy.” 

          There will only be one time when a person’s eternal salvation will be at stake for picking the wrong political candidate.  And that will be when people have to choose between the Mark of the Beast or death – a choice which will entail the deliberate rejection of God Himself and the deliberate worship of the Beast as God.  "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath.  He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.  And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever."  Revelation 14:9-11.  Regardless of whether you think Obama is the Antichrist, this November’s American presidential election is not that time.

          Please do not get complacent about religions that use similar verbiage to Christianity.  Not everyone who says, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom.  We need to pray for and witness to the lost.

          Mormons are not Christians.  They are polytheistic.  They hope to rule as gods on their own planets.  And isn’t that the very lie that the Serpent told Eve?  “‘You will not surely die,’ the serpent said to the woman.  ‘For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’”  Genesis 3:4-5.

          Mormons worship “another Jesus” – not the Jesus of the Trinity, but a Jesus who is just a god among many, many gods.  A Jesus who is the brother of Lucifer.  “But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.  For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.”  2 Corinthians 11:3-4.

          Mormons believe in newly revealed scripture – scripture that tells them that Jesus visited America and spoke to the Indians.  Scripture that Joseph Smith translated from golden plates that he allegedly dug out of the ground in upstate New York.  Plates that Smith chose not to show anyone else for verification.

          According to the book Fast Facts on False Teachings, by Ron Carlson and Ed Decker, and quoting Joseph Smith from his own book, The Pearl of Great Price, Smith had a visitation from two beings of light.  When he asked them which Christian church he should join, he was told: "I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all of their creeds were an abomination in his sight, and that all their teachers were corrupt."  (Page 177 of Fast Facts.)  Hmm, bad advice from a being of light … wonder who that could be?  "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!  As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!"  Galatians 1:8-9.

          Please do your research before calling a Mormon a Christian.  Your posts may cause another Christian not to witness to a Mormon who comes knocking, or to a Mormon family member or acquaintance. 

          Let’s not be naïve.  Politicians will say whatever they need to say in order to get our vote.  Do we really need to be arguing amongst ourselves over who a “real” Christian will vote for this November? 

          Our primary duty on earth is a spiritual duty.  “Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.  And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’”  Matthew 28:18-20.

          So vote, and by all means vote in accordance with your conscious.  But remember that our main focus should be the fulfilling of the Great Commission.  We will each be held accountable for our own actions and (thank goodness) not for the actions of the politicians that we vote for.

          God bless.

                – Lisa Taylor