Many Mormons recite D&C 1:30 in the testimonies they bear, believing the Mormon church to be the "only true church on the face of the earth." The church becomes a substitute for Christ; evidenced by First Presidency rep Marion G. Romney, who stated in the 1960s that the Mormon church was "the way, the truth, and the life"-- a description that the Bible reserves for Jesus Christ -- not any church. And the fact that Lds sing hymns to Joseph Smith, like the one, Praise to the Man, shows how Smith is often substituted for Jesus.
Other Lds prophets have said there's no getting into heaven minus Smith's consent. Lds apostle Bruce McConkie's, whose infamous book, Mormon Doctrine, has made the news this week by the annoucement it won't be reprinted...said in that book that there's no salvation without Joseph Smith.
From the article: "I have people tell me, 'I am a sinner too.' No one is above me. I always felt people were above me in the Mormon church. I don't feel that here. I look forward to Easter. ...I worried so much about where I am going to go when I die. Now, learning the doctrine of the Catholic Church, I don't worry about that. I finally feel peace."
Jesus said, in his Prayer to Heavenly Father, that eternal life was knowing Him and knowing the Father. (John 17:3). Knowing Him is a relationship. A NOW relationship. Eternal life is described by Jesus as something possessed NOW (see John 3:36; 5:24) -- not something that happens ONLY upon death.
When you get engaged to someone, you related to them NOW. The marriage may occur LATER, but the relational engagement is NOW. Thus, so it is with relating to the Christ.
From the article: While her LDS baptism was "voided," the Catholic Church would not have recognized her baptism in the Mormon church as valid anyway. The Vatican has declared Mormon baptisms invalid because they don't have the traditional understanding of the Trinity. The LDS church considers Jesus and the Holy Spirit as children of the Father and the Heavenly Mother.
It’s interesting that she was attracted to the person of Christ and worked “backward” from that point to the Trinity, etc.
HA ha!
The MORMONs lost one of their own BICs to the Catholics, instead of the reverse!
Isn’t GOD wonderful!
Perhaps you and/or any LDS folks reading your thread may be interested in this one
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=1
with a lot of quotes on our era from an LDS website.
Very interesting and thought provoking article. I hope the Catholic church helps her find some peace and stability for herself and her son.
The only reason she attended the Mormon church was because her mother insisted. Yet her mother was not involved in church. She doesn’t mention a father anywhere. She simply did not have a strong loving father to guide her and now she does.
They can void your baptism?
That’s a new one to me!
And there we have it a summary of lds teachings. Bless this woman and her family.
In 2001 she got pregnant out of wedlock, but the baby was stillborn. Even though she had a rocky relationship with the local Mormon church, she approached them about seeking a funeral for her child.
“The deacons and the bishop refused me a service in the sanctuary because I was unwed,” she said. “I was unclean because I was not married.”
She was then told she would not get to heaven.
“That was a crushing blow,” she said. “At that point, I spiraled into a deep depression. They pretty much damned me to hell.”
Then she was even more saddened when the church leaders brought her before a church court, with a judge and jury, and “dis-membered” her.
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Wow wonder what Ward she was in, in my Ward the mother and daughters who are converts for about a few years both daughters have had children out of wedlock and both babies were given a blessings and the one daughter have given talks.
Interesting story.