Being nice doesn’t get you to heaven, Jesus does. And the LDS church believe in a FALSE Christ. That is not ‘petty’ at all. It isn’t ‘how they live’ that is the issue, it is WHAT THE BELIEVE. My GOD, defend your faith woman!
I call the LDS church a ‘cult’ not based upon tithing (which by the way i DON”T do - because I do not limit it to only 10% - I give as I am led which is often more) - nor because of their evangelism. I call them a ‘cult’ because they fit ALL THREE DEFINITIONS of a “cult”.
They are a cult anthropologically - a religion
They are a cult sociologically - a high demand group that exerts unnecessary and abusive control.
And they are a cult theologically - their theology is opposed to both the Bible and Orthodox Christianity.
The LDS have called Christians far worse than a ‘cult’.
If you are a Christian as you claim, then you would not adopt a ‘live and let live attitude” rather you would (and should) be aggressive in teaching them the message of Salvation by Grace thru faith ALONE, something the LDS church does not teach in the least.
It is not loving to let someone go to Hell!!!
Was it a ‘fundamentalist Baptist church’? Because they are rather rigid, but both the Southern and American Baptist Churches I worked at DID accept Lutheran baptism/confirmation.
And frankly I am sick and tired of people who defend the LDS church and don’t witness to them while the LDS TRASH, STEAL AND INSULT MY SAVIOR, TRASH THE BIBLE, LIE ABOUT CHRIST AND MAKE A MOCKERY OF HIS SACRIFICE.
CHRIST TOLD THE TRUTH AND DREW LINES IN THE SAND, HE MADE IT CLEAR AND THE LDS TWIST IT. AND I WILL NOT LET THEM INSULT MY LORD AND MY GOD.
If you do, then YOUR faith is also suspect, because you are not following the commandments of God either.
Preach it sister! I stand in agreement.
We must be ready to give a defense. In order to defend Christ, we first must acknowledge that an attacker threatens. The battlefield upon which we make our defense is not a fanciful gaming board or a plastic-soldier playground. Our feet have been planted in the bloodiest trench the world has ever known. The devil, our adversary, walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). He sinks his teeth into the world through atheism, evolution, egotism, materialism, selfishness, and a host of other vicious vices. Once his teeth are embedded firmly, he rips and tears human souls away from their Creator, leaving fang-holes that fester and infect everything around them. He is real, he is malicious, and he is determined. Yet, fortunately, we are not ignorant of his devices. We have been placed on the defensive by the supreme menace of mankind. As we defend what is right and good, we offend all that is wrong and evil. Until we recognized that Satan and his cohorts have initiated a battle that jeopardizes the souls of all mankind, we never will be ready, nor able, to defend the Lord’s cause.
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/1623
Praise God, you have the right attitude! All we have came from God.