I’ve never been mormon, but when I was 19, God warned me against mormonism...
The only mormon i have ever worked with was overbearing and gave the impression to everyone that she had the most knowledge about Christianity...and anything else...
She destroyed my belongings, illtreated me for weeks, sulked and was constantly angry at any imagined slight, and demanded that our boss fire me...
Why ??? Because a friend of mine invited the mormon woman to the Church we attended...apparantly that was an affront...
At 19, I had never experenced such hate or abuse before, and all I sould do was cry to God and determine that I would not say anything (how could I explain the shunning and the abuse? I didnt understand it myself.)
I read 1 Corinthians constantly and applied the verses to the situation...and was miserable...and felt alone...and I prayed ...and trusted God...and God delivered me...
The mormon woman also proslytised to our Methodist boss and when that didnt work she left in a huff...plus because our boss refused to fire me or obey her outrageous demands..
my boss called me into her office and asked me what had been going on ...
She showed me all the mormon literatura and pamplets she had been harassed with and we discussed mormonism...
My boss was a Godly fearing Christian woman and she explained that ,mormonism was a cult...
In the 40+ years since I have met several mormpons...and been accosted on the street and at my door monthly for years at one time...
Mormon children eggged on by mocking adults have terrorised my little children as we went into our church by yelling at them that they were going to Hell because they were not mormon and laughed when my children cried
Mormons have come to my door and told me I was not a good loving Christian because I refused to get dead dunked for my many non-mormon ancestors...
(This was in the early 1980s...the idea being that if I could identify my gg grandfather then the mormon god required me to do “the worrks” for him)
Mormon missionaries have run after me in the street and accosted me saying I was going to Hell because I said Joey Smith was a liar and false prophet and the book of mormon was not “twoo”
(The street is not like a persons door. the mishies just follow you down the street)
From the onset, I knew more than the average mormon about mormonism, but it was years before I knew that I knew it...
Where Christians have in their hands all there is to know about Chjristianity in the shape of the Bible, mormonism is so convoluded and “progressive” that new and improved information was added as the years went by since 1830 and the first book of mormon...
With the additions of the book of abraham, the pearl of grat price, the word of wisdom and all the subsequent writings of the mormon leaders, mormonism is a far cry from the original ideas of Joey Smith...
Mpormons cannot pinpoint where mormonism bergins nor it seems where it is suppose to end...
While Christianity has its basis on the Cross of Jesus and Hisd death and resurreftion, mormonism can be any number of astounding things, including the belief in the need for polygamy to advance to godhood and thus onto ones own planet...
I often wondered what i would do with all the info I had gathered about mormon beliefs and doctrines...then I started to see religious wars in the internet...Christians defending their faith against the mormons and mormons denouncing the posting of mormon doctrines...
If this was my calling so be it...
For the last few years I have had the privilege of being numbered amongst the Flying Inmans ...and I feel like i have sneaked in the back door...
I pray for the salvation of the mormons in these threads and elsewhere, and I also pray for the exposure of the evil cult of mormonism and how it is not related to Christianity...
As you can see, the mormons themselves are their greatest enemy when it comes to uncovering what they really believe...
The people that are trapped in mormonism have a right to be free from their shackles...
and have a right to be saved and washed clean of their sins by the Blood that Jesus shed on the Cross ...
Nana, you have had a hundred times more (and worse) exposure to Mormons than I! I have not had any of the encounters you have had although I have read stories similar to yours. My experience with the few Mormons I have met and known have been pleasant and nonchalant. This is why I do not have strong views toward Mormons/Mormonism as do you and colorcountry. However, if I’d had the same experience you had at 19, I think I would not take too kindly to being harassed.