You say, "Just read it and ask GOD to show you the TRUTH in it. Just SEE if it is as 'hard to understand' as that nagging, little voice tells you it is! ;^)
But when different people do as you suggest, it often leads them to different religions...on these religion threads on FR, there was a poster, who related their own personal experience...I do not remember in which religion they were raised, and supported through much of their adulthood...but something led them to study another religion...they studied, and prayed, and read the Bible for guidance, and studied and prayer and read some more...and after much thought, and with what they believed was guidance from God, they put off their old faith, and joined a new faith...as I said, I cannot remember what their old religion was, but the new religion they embraced, was Mormonism....
They did as you suggest we all should do...this is repeated all the time...people often question the religion they were raised in, go on to study other religions, study their Bible, pray, seek Gods guidance, and yet they all come to different conclusions about which religion is a truest Christian religion....
So why do so many people after much study, much prayer, much considerable thought, find the TRUTH, to be so different from what other people find to be the TRUTH?
1 John 4
1. Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
3. but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
The cartoon of the small angel on one shoulder and a small devil on the other is quite accurate.
We HAVE to be able to discern which is talking to us or even if it's our own idea.
By turning to the LDS organization, one has to throw out solid biblical teachings and go on to things proposed by man; things that directly go against the bible.
You have to accept a man's word that 'the bible is "accurate", as long as it's translated properly'. He then goes on and TRIES to redo the NT in places and does even use any old Greek transcripts!
I am not wooried about a person getting into a 'cult' as much as I do about them getting into nothing (which is really themselves.)
God has said that if we seek Him with all our hearths, we WILL find him.