Almost all these things are found in the Bible, yet they are misunderstood and even completely ignored by sectarian Christianity, which long ago lost the gift of Revelation needed to fully understand the things of the Spirit.
I agree, only what the Mormon church attempted to tell me was in the Bible, I didn't see it, nor could they point it out for me. Whenever they couldn't point something out that they claimed was in the bible, that is when they would give me the line about how the bible was written by man, how we can only trust the bible as far as it has been correctly preserved, etc.
Perhaps you could show me some of the following:
-The Trinity is a false concept
-God has a body of flesh and bones
-There are many gods in the sense that "god" is a title indicating inheritance of "all that the Father hath,"
-Jesus, Satan, and all of us are spirit brothers and sisters procreated in a pre-existent spirit life
-and one I had almost forgotten, which is Baptism for the dead.
Each time I consulted with other Mormons on this, they wanted to refer back to the "Book of Mormon" or the "Pearl of Great Price". I would like to see it in the Bible itself
Again, I realize that we will probably agree to disagree on this, but you yourself state that many of these things are in the Bible itself. I would be interested in seeing where.
I know what you mean about the idea of people argueing about what they call "un-biblical" falling under what they actually see as being different from what their "sect" teaches. I myself fall into the denomination of "Independent Baptist". We recently just finished up on a series the pastor called "Why we are what we are". He showed us how, using scripture, how denominiations differ from one another, including how liberalism has crept into some of the other local "Independent Baptist" churches. Some still stick to the Word, while others have allow the ideas of liberal though to color the way they do things. I'm sure that liberalism has crept into some of the Mormon churches also. I'm sure that upsets you, just as it would if I saw another Independent Baptist church fall to liberalism.
Becky