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A lot of Christians groups don't consider Mormons to be Christian. They don't believe in the Holy Trinity, which is a fairly core belief of most Christians.
Like in a sense, Christians are just Jews with an extra book. Mormons are Christians with an extra book. Are Mormons Jews?
Mormons have officilly an extra 3 books.
The first book is the Bible fan fiction they hand out (the book of Mormon). It's supposedly about two groups that came to the Americas. One during the dispersal at the tower of babel. The second a group of Jews around 600bce. It's a meandering story plot with terrible grammar and no real theology other than prosperity doctrine (righteous get rich, sinners are poor)
The second is the "prophesies" that the founder and a few of his followers came up with (doctrine and covenants). " It's got the normal stuff you'd expect from a con-artist. God commands such an such to give the founder money etc.. It also has a infamous commandment allowing him to cheat on his wife sleeping around and raping teenagers by "marrying them".
The last book is a real doozy, the Pearl of Great Price. The founder purchased some Egyptian papyrus from a traveling peddler and then proceeded to "translate" it. Amazingly it's the actually writings of Abraham. It basically re-tells Genesis with some weird quirks. He even copied in some of the hieroglyphs he "translated".