As a former tenured professor at Brigham Young University, Dr. Wilder (Ed.D.) examines whether doctrine taught as official positions of the LDS Church fall within the purview of biblical Christendom. Many kind LDS people are sincere in their faith and moral in their behavior and as such may hope to be fully accepted by the body of Christ as Christian, too. But faith in Jesus Christ–the real Jesus–as “the one mediator between God and man” (1 Timothy 2:5) and the Bible alone as his reliable Word, are non-negotiables of Christian belief, without which a church is not a Christian church. Ultimately, there is a long list of serious doctrinal conflicts between what the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches and what the Bible teaches. In conversation with another former Latter-day Saint, Dr. Corey Miller, Dr. Wilder uses her considerable experience once in LDS Church leadership positions, as an LDS temple worker, and as a former Brigham Young University professor working for the LDS church, to illuminate these beliefs. We will discuss pertinent Scripture what the Bible says about those trying to operate within the body.
