1. I detest mormonISM..born into it, lived it and left it. 2. Lived with mormons for years...they are no better or worse than any other group of people. I personally know this.
Why do you defend the sect? How much, exactly do you KNOW about the doctrines and practices?
“The mormons I know are the nicest people you will ever meet, such a strange comment, if you are in fact serious.”
If you worship a false god, a false jesus and a false prophet, being “nice” won’t cut it at the White Throne of Judgement.
Yeah. The Mormons I know are largely...how did you put it? Oh, yeah, "nice"...The FREEPER Mormons not so much, with the exception of several noteables...
But so what?
The "funny" thing is ... I don't find the word "nice" in the Bible. IOW it's not a very high "ethical standard" exposed for the world to follow.
The origin of the word "nice" was the concept "simple" -- as in "not aware of the bad things of the world." Nice, IOW, had a tone of naivety, which isn't always bad (vs. say a prostitute whose "overexperienced" in the world's "knowledge").
So when people point to others' "niceness," I think of people who don't want to acknowledge the lostness of the world; the real evil of the world & universe; the hell of the universe to come.
If none of the above were realities, Jesus as the Son of God would have remained comfortably up yonder.
And too often on these threads we see posters who keep trying to "outnice" Jesus.
Sorry. But a "nice" Jesus didn't treat legalistic Pharisees as "nice" fellow people. (There was a good reason why he actually referenced them as children of the devil in John 8).
Now if you think Jesus was mistaken, by all means, critique Him.
But I don't think you will.
You sound like you're just too "nice."
I lived it too. Mormonism isn’t MOrmons and some are nice and some are jackasses. Most are only nice to gentiles (non-Mormons) to make the LDS church look good and gain potential converts (lived that one too).
However nice a certain Mormon may or may not be, it doesn’t make their religion Christian in any way, nor will it get them to Heaven. Their teachings preclude that.
Most of us love Mormons enough to tell them the truth and to help them escape that cult and come to the Christ of the Bible and before you say our approach doesn’t work, it works quite well, at least 3 faithful Mormons on here and one almost convert that we know about. Also that approach worked with most if not all the ex-mormon freepers on here, including me.