Prayer “works.”
What bothers me about Romney’s faith is that there is so little common ground between his theology and Christian theology. Now, because the Mormon leaders periodically have “revelations,” It might be that they are moving closer to normative Christianity. Or it might not, that they are like Obama and are dissembling, which makes their actions unpredictable.
It might be that they are moving closer to normative Christianity.
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I don’t think so. First of all there hasn’t been a official ‘revelation’ since 1978, second in order to move close to normative Christianity, they would need to renounce the entire foundation of their faith (apostasy and restoration, the Book of Mormon, and Joseph Smith) as well as all of their core theology. It would be a turnaround that would make the changes in the Worldwide Church of God (Armstrong) look like nothing.
I don’t see it happening.
Prayer does work. Many years after I left Mormonism, I discovered that some friends had known the bookstore owner who challenged me in Provo and were praying for me and all the other LDS he would come in contact with. They didn’t even know me then, yet they were praying that I would be reached and I was.