Interesting. Nevertheless, that does not explain how “free thinkers” are often excommunicated. I know the LDS believe they have free thought and are not controlled (I did when I was LDS), but from the outside looking in, they are very controlled.
The LDS have their people in chains, chains under the guise of “service” and salvation by works.
I am sorry that you feel the LDS has freed you, for instead it enslaves.
I testify that ONLY CHRIST of the Bible can free you, and He is nowhere to be found in the LDS. Until you surrender to Him, and HIM ALONE (NOT A CHURCH - I REPEAT - SALVATION IS NOT IN ANY DENOMINATION, IT IS IN CHRIST), you cannot not know freedom.
In the name of MY LORD, MY SAVIOR and MY GOD, JESUS CHRIST, AMEN!
You are still insisting in putting words in my mouth I said the Lord Jesus Christ Church not Joseph Smith, Mormon or Paul, or Peter, But Jesus Christ who is ahead of His Church.
I stand firm with my Lord and others will try to make it something else but that their problem NOT mine!:)
What do you mean by “free thinkers” those say like want to be called Catholic but disagree over “gay right to marry” and those who believe in “pro choice” but still want to be thought of as Catholics?
A true Catholic made covenants just the true LDS Makes covenants.
Those who strive to honor their covenants are true to the faith or Lord.
When one always keep and use prayer and the scriptures as their benchmark can be all the free thinker they want.
Those who try to get the Lord’s ways to conform with the worlds ways are really not of the Lord!
Eph. 4: 5
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
John 17: 21 (21-23).
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
1 Cor. 1: 10.
10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
D&C 38
27 Behold, this I have given unto you as a parable, and it is even as I am. I say unto you, be one; and if ye are not one ye are not mine