Thank you: reaganaut, Godzilla, Tennessee Nana, Elsie, SkyPilot, MHGinTN, caww, and Religion Moderator. 1200 posts! You guys have created an amazing source of truth with this thread. Brilliant, dedicated, funny… I thank God for what you have done here.
DelphiUser and Paragon Defender never had worthy answers to your challenges, and didn’t even try to refute their own religion’s positions. Satan has a great hold on their “church”. No other religion has tried to re-write the truth of Jesus Christ. That is why Mormons are an offense to Christians.
TaraP is correct when saying no one is saved except the Holy Spirit calls them. The problem with Mormons is they are the only religion in the world attempting to re-write what the Holy Spirit has done and said.
TaraP said in post 1,241: “…the Mormons I have heard speak on this thread say they believe and adhere to JOHN 14:6-Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Yet when Mormons say this to TaraP, the “Jesus” and the “Father” they speak of are not the true God we believe in… Mormons believe their “Jesus” and “Father” are former human beings who lived on a planet, died, and then became god. Our God may try to correct this false belief in Mormons, but if Mormons refuse the truth and urging of the Holy Spirit, these Mormons will go to Hell.
Again, true, TaraP says God has already won the battle against untruth; he does not need our help. However, Jesus has called us to speak truth to the world. Only God’s grace and love allows Mormons more time to listen to the truth.
Very well said and thank you.
Far too often I see on threads people who think that people will just leave Mormonism without any debate and that saddens me.
There are some who come to the truth on their own, but more often than not there is a two step process - first is extraction (showing the LDS that there are problems and getting them to deal with them and see that the Mormon Church is not ‘true’.
The second step is even more vital but often overlooked - getting them to see what is RIGHT about Christ and bring them to the foot of the Cross, to a saving faith in Him alone.
On here, we deal mostly with LDS armchair apologists and sympathizers. Therefore we are most often in extraction mode. Confrontational and demanding with the truth.
However, as some like SZ will testify, once the extraction begins, our tone softens as we witness the Love of Christ to them.
Sadly, being loving doesn’t work in the extraction part and the salvation part won’t come until they let go of the idea that only Mormonism is the true religion.
But WAIT!
There's MORE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBJwBki8TUo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j-ir5rHmQg&feature=related
Thank you. Obfuscation by mormon apologists here just serve to make our point all the more strongly. The light shines and the darkness scurrys away.