They got a great choir and are typically very nice people and make for wonderful neighbors. Not one has ever told me that orthodox Christianity is an abomination or whoredom. That may be written in the discourses, but your everyday Mormon does not spread such venom, and I doubt they even know about it.
What are the fruits that Mormons bear? Good fruit or bad? That is the real question. At least for me anyway. Its great to be aware of erroneous teaching, and to make others aware, but if a bunch of mormons moved into my neighborhood I would thank them profusely for improving my home value.
but your everyday Mormon does not spread such venom, and I doubt they even know about it.”
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If you think that then you are way wrong. They know it, they tell each other about it, they brag about it in ‘the church’ and then they lie to the faces of ‘gentiles’ (all non Mormons - even Jews) in order to be accepted.
How do I know? Because I used to be one. Then God saved me.
Their loss...
2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
It does NOT just say 'study'; but do so to make yourself APPROVED unto GOD.
But you ain't GOD.
What does HE require?
"What does it profit a man..."
Nice Oprah Americanism there...to whittle down "fruits" by defining it only economically!
Did it ever dawn on you that the real estate of heaven just might prove to be a tad more important than the value of your neighborhood real estate?
Not one has ever told me that orthodox Christianity is an abomination or whoredom. That may be written in the discourses, but your everyday Mormon does not spread such venom, and I doubt they even know about it.
Yeah, we know
-- The typical Lds philosophy we hear:
"Speak softly and carry a big Pearl of Great Price stick"...
...And for your info, both the Pearl of Great Price and the Book of Mormon -- specifically 1 Nephi -- both which indeed points to Christians as part of that "whoredom" of which you speak...
...Is hardly tucked away in some "Journal of Discourses" somewhere.
Those are Mormon "scriptures" which they are replicating by the millions in hundreds of languages as you sleep. And what? Do you think these things print themselves? Or could it be that the Mormon wallet of your neighbors pay for these things?
Oh, & definition of a 'big Pearl of Great Price stick':
"You Christian sects are 100% wrong;
100% apostates;
100% creedally putrid;
100% corrupt as believers...
...Signed: Cordially, your "nice" Mormon neighbor
P.S. "Of course, we'll be polite & use Lds missionary doorstep language like 'universal apostasy' instead of pointing our fingers right @ you..."
"...and we'll fund the outer darkness out of hundreds of different Pearl of Great Price translations which mention ALL of the above...so our 'big stick' will seem once-removed..."
"...But make no mistake about it, we've sent out literally over 1 million Lds missionaries who've carried this 'Big Stick' around the world!!!"
...I doubt they even know about it.
Hey, be careful in your open export of such ignorance.
The statements I made above re: the Mormon references to ALL Christians as "corrupt..." ...ALL creeds as an "abomination..." etc. comes from the very foundation of the Mormon faith -- the so-called "First Vision" of Joseph Smith, which every Mormon of a certain age knows. Google it yourself: "Joseph Smith History" + "Pearl of Great Price"...read verses 18-20.
That is PRESICELY the issue!
The foundation of Momonism's relationship to Christianity rests on a claim that Christians find unacceptable and abhorrent.
Every sweet-faced little Mormon sunday school child is taught this and knows this through and through. It is drummed into the hearts and minds of those who work so very hard to become temple worthy, and the attitude is crystallized by ceremony in Mormon temples world-wide.
It doesn't matter how sweetly stated the disdain for Christianity is, the attitude is undeniable. Fundamental Mormon doctrine calls Christianity both abomination and whoredom.
Nice isn't it.