Joseph Smith himself said that your faith is not true. Think about that. Everything you are supposed to love and be thankful to God about, is "not true."
"I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true." - Joseph Smith
If your God is not worth defending Charles, what is? Is He pleased by your efforts?
Second, I do not believe that I am to denounce unprompted the errors of every religion constantly.
Jesus Christ, whom your PCA church loves, was not afraid to rebuke false errors.
Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. "Teacher," they said, "Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and have children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. At the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?" Jesus replied, "Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account of the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!"
Mark 12: 18-27
Another of the disciples said to Him, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father." But Jesus said to him, " Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead."
Matthew 8:21-22
I am arguing that, from the perspective of a political discussion group, and the conservative movement, we should not be using our forum to attack other people’s beliefs.
What is more important to you Charles? Politics, or people's souls?
My summary though is: Free Republic is a political conservative forum, not the place to save Mormons.
BS. Any forum to reach the lost or wayward is soil for Christ to plant His seed of truth and save those going to Hell.
There are Religion and News forums on FR and ideas are exchanged here on Islam, Christianity, and numerous religions. Politics and Religion are inherently bound together in this world.
Don't you know this?
You are not the arbiter of what can, and what cannot be discussed on FR - stop trying.
If you really are a soldier of Christ, you need to look inward and ask if you really are fighting for Him.
SO far as I can tell, the purpose of this site is to advance conservative political principles.
If we all spend our time trying to convert each other to our religion, it will detract from the common goal of advancing conservative values.
You should not take advantage of other’s work to subvert it for your purpose, no matter how noble that purpose may be.
I have to believe you and others here belong to civic and other organizations not tied to your church. I also have to believe that you don’t go to those meetings and interrupt the proceedings to give the gospel message.
Maybe I am wrong. Maybe that is what you do.
As I explained elsewhere, we have denominations which disagree with each other, sometimes on major points of theology (like predestination vs free will, and the place of works in salvation).
So I fail to see why some people here are acting so shocked that the person who founded a brand new religion would have said that other denominations were “not true”. Why do you think he founded a new religion? I doubt he thought any of the existing denominations were correct.
And guess what — I don’t think the LDS church is correct either, and I’ve told my Mormon friends so to their face. Somehow, we all still get along, and we don’t spend every moment together attacking each other’s religions.
My belief is that we all can get along by being civil, regardless of our personal beliefs.
It appears to me that some here only can get along with people if they think their religious beliefs are “close enough” in principle.