“The god of Mormonism was once a man who was born to human parents on another planet, grew to manhood, lived out his life being obedient to the laws and ordinances of the gospel presented by the god of that world.

“Upon his death and resurrection, he was judged (by his god) as being worthy for godhood” per “Mormonism: Christian or Cult” by Ed Decker.

“The Mormon god was raised to his godhood and sent with many goddess wives to a planet near the great star, Kolob, somewhere in our present galaxy. There, this god and his wives began ‘ëprocreating' or physically begetting ‘spirit’ children.

“We here on this planet are each the offspring of this god and one of his goddesses in this pre-existent Mormon world.”

Evangelicals who are into researching biblical theology versus cultic dogma are on to Mitt Romney’s Mormonism like no other religious grouping.

Evangelicals study Scripture and also delve into those groups which do not measure up to biblical data. Mormons are regarded as in the latter slot. Mormons not only have doctrines counter to biblical detail but also add another book as divine revelation—the Book of Mormon.

This is anathema to evangelicals who hold that the Bible is the only divinely inspired writ. Evangelicals conclude that the Book of Mormon is not only bogus but dangerous to the formulation of biblical theology.

Therefore, evangelicals are warming up far more to evangelical Mike Huckabee while sidelining Romney. Huckabee is considered a fellow believer—biblically sound on such ethics are family, marriage, sex, pro-life as well as championing America’s Judeo-Christian heritage.

Per The New York Times’ Michael Luo: “The religious divide over Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith that his supporters had long feared would occur is emerging in Iowa as he is being challenged in state polls by Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist pastor who has played up his faith in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

“Mr. Huckabee’s rise in Iowa — some recent polls now put him in a dead heat with Mr. Romney, who had led surveys for months — has been fueled by evangelical Christians, who believe Mormonism runs counter to Christian orthodoxy.”

Even with fundamentalist Greenville, South Carolina’s Bob Jones University endorsing Romney, evangelicals and other fundamentalists have not followed suit. In fact, the vast majority of evangelicals were stunned at Bob Jones University’s endorsement of a Mormon.

“The Southern Baptist Convention, the denomination Huckabee is a part of, does not consider Mormons to be part of historic Christianity.” In fact, many evangelicals consider Mormonism, along with Jehovah’s Witnesses and Christian Science, a cult. The label “cult” absents a group from traditional, biblically sound Christianity.

“Barbara Heki, 51, from Johnston, Iowa, who began volunteering for Mr. Huckabee over the summer, compared Mr. Romney to Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who was dogged by accusations of flip-flopping when he ran for president in 2004. Nevertheless, Ms. Heki admitted that her evangelical faith also figured prominently in her choice.

“’Mormons spend two years of their lives as missionaries, preaching an anti-Christian doctrine,’ she said. ‘I don’t want someone out there, if I can help it, who’s going to be acting on an anti-Christian faith as the basis of their decision-making.’

“The survey found over all that Mr. Romney was in a tight race with Mr. Huckabee, 27 percent to 21 percent. Among evangelicals, 36 percent favored Mr. Huckabee and 22 percent Mr. Romney, even though they said in almost equal numbers that Mr. Romney and Mr. Huckabee each shared the values of most Iowans.

“Danny Carroll, a former speaker pro tem in the Iowa House and Mr. Huckabee’s Iowa campaign co-chairman, said: ‘I think it just causes some uneasiness as to how somebody is going to respond when heavy responsibility is placed on them. I think the Christian would like to know that the person has a strong anchor and prays to the God of the Bible.’

“At a recent Huckabee event in Iowa, Glenda Gherkey, an evangelical from Evansdale, posed a question to the candidate.

“’I’m concerned a lot of Christians are thinking about the values issues and forgetting about the creator behind the values issues,’ Ms. Gherkey said. ‘I guess I feel like this country and this world needs a president who would be able to pray to the God of the Bible and he would be able to hear his prayers.’

“She wondered, Would Mr. Romney’s prayers ‘even get through’?”

Evangelicals who conclude Mormonism a cult do conclude that Mormons’ prayers to God do not “get through” because they are not actually petitioning the God of the Bible but a deity of a cultic base.

Read more: “Saints Alive in Jesus” at http://www.saintsalive.com/mormonism/christianorcult.htm