Posted on 08/24/2013 11:24:16 PM PDT by reaganaut
As that began to make a lot of sense to me, having a number of Mormon family, I have begun to use the scriptures whenever the opportunity presents itself to lovingly point the way to the true Christ of the Bible, rather than the false Christ of the Mormon church and rely on the Holy Spirit to do the rest.
As I am commanded to share my faith in the true Christ of the Bible, I am never responsible for the salvation of another.
I can point to the way and pray for the person's heart to soften and be open to the truth, then let the Holy Spirit do the convicting.
As that began to make a lot of sense to me, having a number of Mormon family, I have begun to use the scriptures whenever the opportunity presents itself to lovingly point the way to the true Christ of the Bible, rather than the false Christ of the Mormon church and rely on the Holy Spirit to do the rest.
As I am commanded to share my faith in the true Christ of the Bible, I am never responsible for the salvation of another.
I can point to the way and pray for the person's heart to soften and be open to the truth, then let the Holy Spirit do the convicting.
I’m with you. Generally conservative patriots.
Their religion doesn’t bother me in the least.
“How can SO many Smart, Nice people believe that kind of teaching??”
Teaching religion to a child is a lot like how elephants are trained in the circus. As babies the elephants leg are tied to a stake in the ground. No matter how hard the baby pulls he can’t pull the stake out. When the baby becomes an adult they can still tie him to the stake because the elephant does not think he can pull it out. Never mind that if the elephant wanted to he could pull down the large circus tent.
**In addition to teaching, she and her husband run a ministry dedicated to “helping Mormons understand a bigger God, trust the Bible, and give a different Jesus a chance.”**
They should have a lot of success if the people will come.
Beck needs to come back to the Catholic Church where he started.
Read “The Christmas Sweater” for proof of how he went to Mass with his grandfather.
Beck has the tinfoil wrapped so tightly around his head he wouldn't begin to understand it.
Beck is an alcoholic and since Mormons don’t drink and Catholics DO....and I think his wife must be a Mormon.
Are you sure?
Harry Reid, Mitt Romney - please name one conservative mormon national politician.
Abortion, homosexuality.....not conservative.
What mormonISM appears to be is not what it actually is.
The draw of being a god of your own planet is pretty strong.
“God is bigger than the transcendent man worshipped by the “Latter day Saints” (LDS).”
AMEN!
Also, the fact that it is such a close-knit group plays to its advantage later in life. If you leave the group, you lose all your friends.
Shun the unbeliever!
“Wilder testified that a buyer showed up at her house the day after she and her husband had decided to withdraw from the Mormon Church, and a college dean offered her a job for which she had never applied. “Christianity is wonderful because of God,” she said. “He’s created for all of us a new family, a new life, and the most amazing trust in Him because of what we watched Him do.” “
I know some folks will disagree, but she’s still crazy-like-a-Mormon - God helped her sell her house (but who got the 6% commission?) and getting offered a job out-of-the-blue are not the type of things one would attribute to God.
It sounds more like “prosperity Christianity” which is just as far from Christianity as Mormonism is.
I suppose it comes down to the need to justify a conversion experience combined with the lack of a foundational knowledge of truth in Christianity with which to recognize falsehood....
So i guess they had no reason to question the teaching until some how they became believers.
I had a former Mormon member of the “high priesthood” tell me that one “can argue a Mormon out of Mormonism but never into Christianity.”
It sounds more like “prosperity Christianity” which is just as far from Christianity as Mormonism is.
Interesting note about that comment. Smith stated that about a month before he died and was actually lying - there were many of the upper leaders, including William Law, who were leaving the church at the time because of polygamy - which he also lied about to the members.
The destruction of William Law’s printing press is what led to Smith’s arrest and lynching.
You have to understand that Mormons base their view of truth on feelings, not facts. Facts can stare them straight in the face but if it makes them feel bad or uncomfortable they consider it untrue. They do not look at spiritual things with an objective mind but rather base their spiritual knowledge, or epistemology, on how it makes them feel.
The biggest hurdle in getting people out of Mormonism, is making them look at facts and think for themselves rather than just feel.
see my post right above this
They believe both Ham and Cain. One of their books of scripture says this...
“And . . . they were a mixture of all the seed of Adam save it was the seed of Cain, for the seed of Cain were black, and had not place among them (Moses 7:22).”
For more info see
http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/curseofcain_part1.htm
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