Dear Mr. LDS President,
I am personally, deeply wrestling with am important
question. Please provide me with the official
LDS position.
I’m participating online at a conservative
website called FreeRepublic. I’ve tried to stand
up for my faith by posting links to our official
sites, but as you know, they are pretty vague.
I’ve tried to tell the anti-mormons there that
our links address any possible question they
can raise about our true faith. They rightly
point out that every question is addressed,
but never answered! I hate it when they are
right!
Anyway, here is my personal question...
If God is ALL-POWERFUL, meaning that He is
more powerful than any other thing that
exists, how can there be more than one God?
Please do not tell me to look at the
official links.
I’ve tried looking at the official links
that I post on FreeRepublic all the time,
but I can’t find any answer that is logical.
Please help me. They even make fun of my
lack of answers. I will keep up my non-defense
of our true faith, but I just need an answer
for myself. How can this be?
Your faithful and worthy member,
Paragonia Non-Defender
Dear Mr. LDS President,
I have a personal question that I need
an official answer for please, sir.
I, of course, believe that the exalted
Joseph Smith was a prophet and now a
mormon god, guarding the very gates of
heaven.
I believe this because I have had the
burning bosoms. At times, they really
burned and I am SURE it was a message
from God that Joseph Smith told the truth.
Unfortunately, I participate online at
the FreeRepublic. There is a group of
anti-mormons there and some of them -
in fact many - are former mormons who
have fallen away from Joseph Smith.
They point out that other than my feelings
alone, there are no facts, evidence or even
a logical argument that supports my faith.
In fact, they even pointed out that I don’t
know if my feelings are from God or a demon.
Deep down, I know they are right. I don’t have
any way to know.
Can you tell me if there are any facts, evidence
or even give me a logical argument I can use
to try to prop up my belief in the Prophet Smith
or anything else we believe?
I am running on feelings alone and they are
mean to point it out.
Your worthy member,
Norma Andy
Dear PND,
In response to your letter, hey, stop pestering church headquarters for clarification of church doctrine.
If you’re asking with sincerity and real intent, and if you’re a member that has real doctrinal concerns, please seek the counsel of your bishop or stake president.
Signed
LDS, Inc.
From: The office of the President of the mormon corporation in Salt Lake City:
Dear Brother Paragonia Non-Defender:
The official answer to your question is: Read the Book of Mormon and then pray about it. You will then have a burning in the bosom which will indicate that it is either a true message from Our God, or that you have GERD.
Google search: GERD About 17,100,000 results (0.09 seconds
Google search: Book of Mormon is True 510,000 results (0.11 seconds)
Google IS an official source, as is The Writings of C. S. Lewis
Feel free to query your local ward custodian if you have any further questions.....oh wait....EVERY member is now a ward custodian.
Oh well...
Sincerely,
Secretary to the President of the mormon corporation.
I got a response back!
It told me to use Paragon Defenders List o' Links for the answer to my question.
ALL truth will be found there.
--MormonDude(I looked, and sure enough, there was enough material to last a lifetime!)