[Colofornian]

From the column: Just because I was now finding out details about church history that had not been taught to me in Sunday School or in some of the official histories did not mean that the things I had been taught were not true. In short, why should I let my own previous ignorance make me doubt things about the gospel that I had ample reason to be certain of? I learned to approach church history, right up to the present, with this attitude: This happened … and the church is true. Mistakes, misjudgments, speculations about doctrine and some indefensible actions were done by members of the church.

Well, if “the Mormon church is true,” then that would mean Lds Doctrines & Covenants 1:30 is also true (it proclaims that the Lds church is ”the only true and living church on the face of the earth”)…Hmm…what then does that make the Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox churches per Mormonism?

If “the Mormon church is true,” then that would mean what it labels about all Christians –that we’re “apostate” and “corrupt” and embrace 100% creeds deemed “abominable” to the Mormon god – that also then becomes the “true” assessment of Mormonism about worldwide Christianity.

If you accept the foundational premises of the Mormon church, beginning with its opening vision, then you must likewise also accept their evaluations of Christianity, Christians, Christian denominations, etc.

[Elsie]