I recommend that Lds do what this Mormon columnist did: go visit a Christian bookstore & thumb through (& perhaps purchase) a book or two on what Christian authors have to say about Mormonism.
“Yes, there will always be some “Mormonism Unmasked” tracts for sale, but the feeling now is more “Come, let us reason together.””
You cannot “reason” with someone in a cult. Particularly one
who rests their spiritual belief on a feeling or experience.
That is not a rationale foundation, so reasoning is not
effective.
Just take a look around FR and you will see that mormons are
immune to reason.
I am speaking in a spiritual sense. As fellow conservatives,
they are very open to reason.
What a condescending little twerp.
The author still seeing everything through the lens of Smithian lies.
I love both of these books: “Speaking the Truth, in Love, to Mormons,” “Reasoning from the Scriptures with Mormons,”
Some of the newer ones, however, are TOO much ‘let us reason together’ and too focused on the similarities rather than telling the LDS the truth about how their faith conflicts with the Bible.
Also, BORN AGAIN MORMON is a great book for those in the LDS who are looking for ‘more’.
I saw a presentation by an expert on Mormonism from a California Christian University about one year ago. He believes that over time Mormons have gradually turned away from some of their more ridiculous beliefs. Basically their method is to have the Mormon President declare a new revelation and then quietly place the “old” belief up on the back of the bookshelf, never to be looked at again, sort of like, out of sight out of mind. He stated that over time Mormons may shift their theology to a closer allignment with Christianity, and then maybe to a mainstream approach eventually.
this ambitious, upstart religion that’s out to perform a baptism for every soul who has ever set foot on earth.
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What was that again about the mormons wanting to be considered “christian”
Mormons are obsessed with the dead of the ages that will NEVER be identified...
and to dead dunk them in a pagan ritual that was never endorsed in the Bible as a necessary part of Christian salvation nor a way to gain entrance to the bottom level of the mormon after life...as a slave of the mormon “worthies”
While mormons cling to their heathen practice of “atonement” after death...and try in vain through subtefuge and threats to be accepted as a main stream “christian denomination”
Christians continue to believe that only during this lifetime before death is it possible to hear the Gospel of saving Grace through the shedding of the Blood of the Holy sacrificial Lamb, Jesus upon the cross and the resulting death of jesus upon the Cross and the Resurrection, and to choose to believe that same Gospel to be saved and go to Heaven to be with God...
While the doctrines of mormonism have continually evolved over less than 200 years since its invention to avoid legal action and disapproval by a shocked and virtuous Western Hemispheric population, the message of Chrsitianity has remained the same for the 2,000 years since Jesus first founded His Church..
Foer those 20 centuries Chrsitian men and women have preached that Jesus shed His blood on the Cross of Calvary which was outside the gates of Jerusalem in the dung heap, and died there on the Cross in our place to pay the penalty for our sins, and redeemed us from the curse and won for us life everlasting with God...
What a wonderful message and nobody has ever improved on it and nobody ever will...
this ambitious, upstart religion that’s out to perform a baptism for every soul who has ever set foot on earth.
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Plus Jesus Himself said “Forget about the dead. Let the dead bury the dead. Leave them and go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:60
Now right there is a commandment from Jesus not to dead dunk those who are dead...
Leave them its TOO LATE for them...
dont fool around worrying about the dead and spending millions of tithe money making fool lists of pretend names and dates of fictious people and real people who have happily died as Jews or Christians for brownie points towards temple recommends....but tend to the living...
What do they do to dead dunk the dead ??? The mormon idea of a pagan ritual of water baptism for dead people.
What does water baptism in the Bible represent ??? REPRESENT I said ...its only a symbol...water baptism doesnt save anyone...
Water baptism represents you dying to your own self, your old man dying and being resurrected to new life...
we are baptised into His death and Resurrection...
The death of Jesus on the Cross and His Resurrection three days later...
Paul said “don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” Romans 6:3, 4
and you have to be ALIVE to do that for YOURSELF...there are no grandchildren in the Kingdom of God..YOU have to make the decision to be born again...and AFTER that you get water baptised...the mormons have it backwards...twisted logic...
Good preaching Nana...
Carry on ...
From the title I thought that there were MORMON produced books that showed CHANGE in their practices and/or beliefs.