I feel the same way. It’s getting kind of old. It used to be interesting when the LDS apologists could at least stick up for themselves & produce cogent counter arguments to what was being posted. Now that most of the good ones have been kicked off, & the remaining ones not posting for fear of meeting a same fate, it looks more like a union campaign.
And they think this is the way of convincing people that their form of Christianity is “the way”. Really? If I were a non Christian looking for the truth, & saw these folks as the standard bearers, I’d be running the other way. Is this the way to love your enemy?
I suppose your next "workshop" will be questioning Jesus giving the legalist-Pharisees the "seven woes" in Matthew 23...or calling them "whitewashed sepulcres" (tombstones)...or "vipers"...etc. as a lack of evidence that He loved His enemies, eh?
The Mormons aren't our enemies. Ephesians 6:12 makes it clear that our battle isn't against flesh & blood. Mormons are our fellow recipients of God's grace and mercy.
The issue is one where we're all spiritually unhealthy and depraved [depraved doesn't mean being as bad as we can be; it's just no part of our being is untouched by sin] -- and legalists tend to treat sin as if that's somebody else's issue.
Jesus levels the playing field before the cross by undercutting any spiritual pride that presumes we don't need Him as our great physician ("It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick...For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."--Mt 9:12)
Jesus is for the person who understands the cancerous diagnosis of sin. Jesus is for the person who will openly confess their sin, their faults, their flaws openly -- instead of trying to suppress others who highlight their leaders' religious duplicity.
The bottom line here again, though, is that the cross is for sinners...and sinners are simply...
...never worthy of Christ's blood...
....never worthy of Jesus' righteousness extended on our behalf...
...never worthy of God's mercy or grace or lovingkindness.
We're sinners; not lds "gods-in-embryo" (how Lds "prophets" describe Mormons). We're in need of the Great Physician; and for those who think they're a "god-in-embryo" or a future "god," I'd say they're in a different category than either me, the thief on the cross, or Zaccheus the tax collector, wouldn't you? (No wonder they emphasize worthiness...they've got gods to create in their gods factory)
Hence, until Mormons see their sin and repent of trying to earn their way into a presence with Heavenly Father by trying to become gods, I'll continue to afflict the comfortable (legalists) just like Jesus our standard-bearer.
For those who already see their need for grace and mercy, I'll continue to comfort the afflicted...just like Jesus our standard-bearer!
CONFAB; you learned (or at least READ) on another thread that the lds dudes were not KICKED off, they commited enough violations of FR protocol to get themselves ZOTTED off!
WHINING is what is 'getting old'!
Since you are implying that you followed the debate closely, you must also know that they all got zotted for uncivil behavior. It's not like they were innocent victims who were run off by a tyrannical religion moderator. I can recall only one situation where someone got zotted on a Mormon forum without a public warning and the violation was so blatant that a warning was not needed.
And they think this is the way of convincing people that their form of Christianity is “the way”. Really? If I were a non Christian looking for the truth, & saw these folks as the standard bearers, I’d be running the other way. Is this the way to love your enemy?
So we would be more loving if we let Mormons continue to believe a soul-destroying heresy? Our enemy is not the Mormon people but the institution of Mormonism. Mormons are simply the victims of the delusions and false teachings of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.