Christians have long maintained that Latter-day Saints are not Christians. This in the face of abundant evidence that Latter-day Saints worship and revere Christ as our Savior and Redeemer in every meeting we hold and publication we create. In facing this accusation, Latter-day Saints might be comforted by the words of Dr. Stephen Webb. Webb was a Catholic and a professor at Wabash College in theology and philosophy of religion. Webb wrote:

In affirming the divinity of Jesus, Mormons are Christians who do not know where to stop. They answer the question of whether it is possible to say too much about Jesus with a resounding “No!” Indeed, never has a religious movement combined so effortlessly the most extravagant assertions with the most level-headed and commonsensical tone. Mormon rhetoric is guided by the conviction that the only way to say enough about Christ is to say too much. As a result, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints puts Jesus Christ front and center in ways that would make many members of mainline Protestant denominations blush.¹²⁰

Indeed, with over 1,000 pages of new scripture added by Joseph Smith and other Latter-day Saint prophets about the plan and mission of our Savior Jesus Christ, it is hard to say anything other than Latter-day Saints have a lot to say about Christ. 

Joseph Smith famously wrote that “[t]he fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it.” ¹²¹The prophet Nephi in the Book of Mormon captured modern Latter-day Saint sentiments when, of his people, he wrote that “we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins” (2 Nephi 25:26). Latter-day Saints likewise keep in mind the counsel of Helaman to his sons to “remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall” (Helaman 5:12).

With the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles who wrote The Living Christ in 2000, we can say “God be thanked for the matchless gift of His divine Son”!¹²²