Sorry, But I Need To Say This About Nick Shirley…

I have to address something about Nick Shirley.

I’ve been ignoring this for a while, but I feel like I finally need to address it.

First, I want to say by all accounts Nick Shirley seems to be an incredible person.

He’s doing great work, and I support him and his work 100%.

But what I want to address are all the people constantly talking about how his “Christian Faith” propels him to do this work.

Like this:

🚨 BREAKING: Incredible moment as Nick Shirley reveals his Christian faith ensures he does the right thing

"Even when I went on my mission trip, I was still making videos interviewing people about Jesus in Spanish."

"I had returned back from a two-year mission for my church… pic.twitter.com/cQPtA15fEI

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 21, 2026

🚨 BREAKING: Incredible moment as Nick Shirley reveals his Christian faith ensures he does the right thing

“Even when I went on my mission trip, I was still making videos interviewing people about Jesus in Spanish.”

“I had returned back from a two-year mission for my church and I had zero dollars. So I when I came home back from that trip, I worked for an entire month I power washed houses and my goal was to make ten thousand dollars in cash.”

“Then I then took that ten thousand dollars in cash and use that to funnel my YouTube channel for the first three months until I could actually make a profit.”

“More so than anything [my faith] kept me on the straight and narrow and it’s kept me on a good path.”
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I’m sorry folks, but I have to call it out when I see this repeatedly mentioned….

Nick Shirley is a Mormon.

And he’s absolutely entitled to be whatever faith he wants, and the Mormons have a lot of good qualities.  They promote clean living.  They are extremely hard workers.

But….they are not Christians.

I know the Mormons themselves love to blur that line and commonly make you think they are the same as Christians, just a different branch of Christianity.

But they’re not.

I’m sorry, but they’re just not.

In fact, I know this will make a lot of people angry, but their faith is extremely strange and heretical when you really look into it.  Really strange stuff.

More on that in just a moment….

First, let’s turn to Grok who points out some key differences beteween LDS Mormons and Christians:

Key Difference from Traditional Christianity

Latter-day Saints do not accept the Nicene Creed or the traditional doctrine of the Trinity. They believe God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are three separate, distinct beings who are one in purpose, love, and will—not one substance. Jesus has a glorified, physical body of flesh and bone, as does the Father (see Doctrine and Covenants 130:22). This view comes from the Bible’s plain reading and modern revelation.

They also emphasize Jesus’ role in a pre-mortal life (where He was chosen as Savior), the reality of ongoing revelation through living prophets, and that His Church has been restored in its fullness today.

In short, Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ as their divine Savior, Redeemer, and living Head of the Church. Everything in their religion points to Him. As the Church’s Newsroom states: “Jesus Christ is central to the lives of Church members” and “salvation comes only through Him.”

And now let’s go even deeper into what Mormons actually believe….

Starting here:

BYU Students Asked Their “Favorite Scripture” and the Results Are NOT Good!

And then a wonderfully simple but elegant summary from John MacArthur:

Mormon Religion In A Nutshell – John MacArthur

Every once in a while, I like to bring you something out of the ordinary.

At least out of the ordinary for what we normally cover.

This is one of those articles.

I came across this a while back and it's been on my list of things to cover when I had time.

Today is the day, and since it's Sunday it seemed like the right time.

WARNING: this may trigger some people.

Sorry about that, but I have to post the truth and exposing the Mormon religion is something that needs to be posted.

By "exposing" all I mean is publishing what they truly believe.

And that's with John MacArthur does in this video.

So if you're triggered, that's ok -- I'm still going to post it.

Watch here, it's short:

TRANSCRIPT:

Audience Member:
For Dr. MacArthur, yesterday you spoke a little bit about Mormonism, and today about how Jesus is the only way. At my school and places, I encountered these people, and yeah, we disagree, but they say we basically believe, we believe in Jesus too, and we believe he died on the cross. I was wondering how I can talk to them and how I would approach them without, like, I don't want to call them demon worshipers or anything like that.

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John MacArthur:
You may get to that of necessity. Just to talk about Mormonism for a moment, because we all confront this. I've had a couple of personal private meetings with the theological brain trust of BYU, who came down and spent hours and hours with me.

Robert Millett, I don't know if you know that name, who writes most of their stuff on theology. And we have talked through all of these issues. Here's the problem. They are polytheists. They have millions of gods, just millions of them, and more all the time. Every time Mormons have a baby, they potentiate another god.

So this is anything but Christian in its view of God. They have a Christ who is another Jesus. And another Jesus is a way to preach another Jesus and you get cursed. I have nothing to do with them or become a partaker of their evil deeds.

But what they said to me was, “We love Jesus.” In fact, they said, “We love Jesus so much, and we want our young people at BYU to love Jesus, and so we've had our students in some of the classes read The Gospel According to Jesus that you wrote, to help them to love Jesus more.”

I went into panic. What did I leave out? That was not a good experience for me. But they said to me, “We also believe in grace.” And they do.

They have this sort of massive grace concept that most people, even though they don't become Mormons, they won’t get. There are three heavens in Mormonism, and only one of them is where you want to be. The other two are where you're stuck with being single forever.

There’s a lot of weird sexuality in Mormonism, as you know, that is part of it. But there's this first heaven, which is where grace operates. And this is a kind of near-universalism, where just because God is gracious, He’ll let you into that place, and it's better than hell. Most people will get to that place, but you're stuck being single and you're stuck in a deprived situation.

But if you have any desire to get to the second or the third, then you better crank up the works. So in the end: wrong God, wrong Christ, wrong way of salvation. They also say the Bible is corrupt. You see that in all their literature.

The Bible has been corrupted. It is not trustworthy. It is not always right. It is not correct. And you have to turn to them for the correct interpretation of it and all of that. So I think you can start with the authority of Scripture.

You can start with the person of God. You can start with the person of Christ, or you can start with salvation by grace. They even said to me, “We believe in salvation by grace.” And I said, “Well, explain the full extent of that.” Well, God didn’t have to give us a way to earn our way into heaven, so it’s a gracious thing that He allows us to do that.

But I think you can pick any one of those you want, or try one and then try another, but you need to first distance them from Christianity. This is the thing they’re trying… they’re trying to close the gap. This is their formidable effort.

You need to make sure they understand that this is more like Hinduism and paganism and false religion than it is anything to do with Christianity. And so they need to understand that. They are anything but Christian. They are seriously, fatally, and terminally non-Christian.

Another Speaker:
John, don’t you think that there’s a schizophrenia in Mormonism in the sense that in this kind of a context, they desperately want to be considered as Christians, but the whole rhetoric of Mormonism has been, “Christianity has been corrupted, and we alone have corrected it. We only understand it. But we want to be considered one of you too.” At the same time, both of those sides are played.

John MacArthur:
That's right, and the best that can be said of us who are non-Mormons is that we may get into grace heaven, the lowest heaven, and be stuck being single forever, and with all the deprivations that also go along with that situation.

Backup here if needed:

And since I never like to leave you with just a negative, I give you this.

Please enjoy this great Gospel message from our friend Pastor Robb:

SUNDAY MESSAGE: How To Have The Mind of Christ

What’s your view?