“Take it up with the CDF. I just quoted from them.
To be candid, I neither know nor care what LDS believe.”
You need to get educated. Even though you’re a Catholic and I’d rather you stay ignorant of all things, it is your duty to study the Holy Scripture and to be ready to “give an answer” to all evil-doers who preach Gospels contrary to the one handed down to us.
Don’t be apathetic. Get to work. Fight the good fight.
1 Pet 3:15 (RSV) "...Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence;"
I don't see where we are called to see the ins and outs of every little pagan religion out there...only that we need to be able to provide a defense (an apologia...a rational argument...a defense) for our faith in Christ.
I am not a Pelagian nor even a Semipelagian. I recognize that even the ability to have Faith is a grace of God (cf Matt 16:17, Gal 1:15, Eph 1:4). Without that grace, no matter how much ranting or raving we do about the evils of their pagan religion will cause them to leave it (frankly, with a religion that believes as they do about everybody else being apostate, it will just confirm them in their apocalyptic beliefs).
it is your duty to study the Holy Scripture and to be ready to “give an answer” to all evil-doers who preach Gospels contrary to the one handed down to us.
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I hear this repeated a lot yet one is council to study scriptures and pray so as to have the ability to know when to give an answer or to be still!
Even the Lord did not always given an answer!
BTW the only verse I found said nothing about giving an answer to “evil doers” but ready to give an answer to every man of REASON seeking hope.
1 Peter 3:15
15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Since evil doers are about snares and entrapment it would be best to be still and wait upon the Lord for guidance