There have been mormons led to Jesus right here on these threads, and who knows how many who read the information posted do not post?
The mormon church has spent 180 years in hiding its true belief and does so today, so the shining of light on those beliefs is not "arguing", or in many cases even "debating".
Thus, there is always the effort to censor the FReepers who post mormon practices and doctrines, usually directly from LDS official sources.
“there is always the effort to censor the FReepers who post mormon practices and doctrines, usually directly from LDS official sources.”
See, now that I do not agree with. If you belong to a church, you should be proud of the things that church espouses, not try to censor others from posting such things. I myself do not have a big problem with mormons, it just bugs me that they think they deserve to be called “Christian” on the one hand and yet on the other, they say “Christians are pagans.”
They should make up their minds.
Soon pagan beliefs dominated the thinking of those called Christians. The Roman emperor adopted this false Christianity as the state religion. This church was very different from the church Jesus organized. It taught that God was a being without form or substance.
Make no mistake, the manual is not doing ALL of what Mormons complain that the wide range of countercultists do, but it is hypocritically doing a great deal of it. The manual digs its criticism in by calling these people with pagan beliefs those “called Christians”. It in effect is calling them so-called Christians. So the manual isn’t merely criticizing the religious systems (which teach God is spirit and not a material substance) as false Christianity; it is also suggest its adherents are merely “called” Christians.
How often have we seen this same tactic in posts here on the mormon threads by the mormon apologists?
Daily! And usually in a snide supercilious fashion with an undertone of superiority.
"Mainstream" Christians" Ding! "Progressive Christians" Ding!