Just one site vs. the many posted by PD. This one site should provide some very valid and good counter-arguments for those of you interested in finding “the truth” vs. the numerous needed to “address the vast majority of issues”. Yet, “the vast majority” is not all is it? I wonder why all of “the issues” aren’t addressed by the many sites provided?
http://www.irr.org/mit/default.html
Any mormon is free to present their side of the “issues” PD, yet few do. Why is that? Is it because they won’t “put forth some effort”?
No one here is forcing anyone to accept what any of us post.
Disclosure: I’m an ex-mormon who has “converted” to Christianity. I have been married to a mormon for over 20 years and she is a very devout and practicing member of the religion. I am now considered a “mormon basher” because I post my knowledge of and experiences of mormonism on these boards. However, this is a tame reference compared to some of the others I and others have been called by mormons and their defenders.
I found that the “revelation” found in Doctrine and Convenants Sect. 132 is not Biblical in nature and this was but one point of contention with mormon doctrine that prompted me to leave mormonism. In D&C 132, Mormons teach that men can become gods. If you aspire to godhood, then mormonism is the religion for you. If you aspire to reside and dwell in and with Christ, then it’s not.
What mormons won’t tell you is that once you’re “exalted”, you graduate to your own heaven and your own planet to rule over as god. You then get to populate your planet through the eternal process of procreating with your wives in your heaven. You leave the presence of God to become one.
But, as PD has said, don’t just take my word for it. If you’re interested in the pitch, by all means research it. But be forewarned, many of the words used by mormons are Christian and Biblical words. However, their meanings and uses are quite different in many instances.
I would recommend that if you are interested in your eternal salvation and are investigating mormonism to sit down with your pastor, priest, preacher, etc. Someone who is knowledgeable in Biblical scripture and discuss what you’re learning and what you’ve been told about mormonism.
Test what you’re hearing, be like the Bereans of the Bible. It pays to be cynical/skeptical.
God did not give you a brain for you to then use your heart instead when making decisions of this magnitude.
FRegards,
SZ
” Yet, “the vast majority” is not all is it? I wonder why all of “the issues” aren’t addressed by the many sites provided?”
Your reading comprehension is either off or I didn’t spell it out clearly enough. The one site in particular addresses the vast majority of “the issues”. Actually it may address them all, I don’t bother to look up every single silly thing that the anti-Mormon squad on this board brings up to see exactly where it is addressed.
I think it fairly safe to say that if some “issue” is not found at the one site it can be found on one of the others.
You see, none of these “issues” are anything new. It’s all old and tired and already addressed.
The bottom line for anyone and everyone is,”Is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints the true and restored church?”
Yes. It is.
If you really want to find out. You can know it too.