21 facts everyone should know about Mormon teaching [Mormonism/Anti-Christian]

Christian Faith ^ | Anonymous

[demkicker]

Yep - that’s yet another good reason!

[BealNoortz]

Who cares? They are good people with excellent family values. If not for them, we would have homosexual marriage in California right now. Most Christians I know could not stand up to the scrutiny these people do. I might not vote for Romney, but you people denigrating people with the strong family values are way off base.

[Paragon Defender]

Seekers of truth,

If you peruse the Free Republic religion forums you will notice a pattern. There's an anti-Mormon group of people here that spends a great deal of their time attacking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They post regurgitated propaganda on an almost daily basis.

They have a misguided obsession. You can witness many different tactics employed that you might find quite interesting. The straw man argument is a big favorite and is frequently preceded by cherry-picking quotes or other material. After the "quotation" the attacker will misrepresent what has been said or what was meant and then attack their own interpretation.Later they will have the audacity to claim they were "only" quoting our own material.  

They will of course insist ad nauseum that they are merely using our sources and are therefore innocent of any deceptive practice. LDS persons have no issue whatsoever having our scriptures or leaders quoted as long as it is presented fairly and accurately. This is rarely (if ever) done.

Another favorite is posting scripture or statements which on their own really present no dilemma. They make something out of nothing while never bringing up a single objection that hasn't been addressed a hundred times before.

You might note a couple of other tactics used to try to antagonize is the use of disrespectful or insulting terms or language and/or pictures. That's a Christlike thing to do right? Yeah I don't think so either. It does speak volumes about them though.

Some of them claim being some sort of special witness to you as being supposedly former Mormons. So someone who is an ex-member of any organization would never have an axe to grind or have reason to try to justify their actions by any means? Perhaps not but perhaps so. The LDS Church gains members from other denominations as well as others faiths all the time. This doesn't make them an expert on anything and you certainly won't hear them attacking their former Church.

Frequently they cruise the headlines of the day seeking any story that might be twisted into making the Church look bad. Anything will do, just watch the progression of posts following it and see what I mean.

After reading their posts, I invite you to seek the truth about whatever "issue" they seem to be "revealing" or "exposing". I promise that if you do so with honest intent, the "ahah" moments you will have will be many and frequent. You will start to recognize the tactics employed to cleverly twist and attack and will likely chuckle the more you see. In actuality, there's nothing new here. It's all been addressed many times before.

The latest twist in the anti-Mormon propaganda machine is to actually go to the links provided, but then they cherry pick what they want, quote and straw man attack that. Almost without fail you will see examples of this following this post.

Clever. It almost appears that they are helping you out by doing some footwork for you. Not so much. Don't be insulted, look for yourself. It's not the haystack they want you to think. So again, seek the truth. They aren't providing it. Use your God-given brain and discernment.

Here's a few links to get your started from a different viewpoint. I have found that the vast majority of the "issues" brought up can be found and addressed at http://www.fairlds.org/ but here's more:

http://scriptures.lds.org/
http://www.lds.org
http://www.fairlds.org/
http://www.mormonapologetics.org/
http://www.mormonwiki.com/Main_Page
http://www.lightplanet.com/response/index.html
http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDS_Intro.shtml
http://www.answeringantimormons.com/index.htm
http://promormon.blogspot.com/

Now you will likely notice the "you never address or answer our points" posts pop up as usual. All after providing the answers just as you have here.

Sometimes it is claimed that these sites present a needle in a haystack. Far from it. But if you give up before you try you won't know will you? They often state that these sites provide no answer. They just don't want you looking. It is as simple as that.

Will you wear blinders too? Seek truth. Find out for yourself. Want to chat with someone on any topic? A few of these sites provide just that. So do your homework sincere seeker of truth. Listen and read from both "sides". Make up your own mind.

I witness to you of these truths and wish you the best, in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

 

[LiteKeeper]

Are God and Jesus two different Persons?

[Paragon Defender]

Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are separate beings, yet one in mind, power, wisdom, and purpose.

[Java4Jay]

The #1 reason Romney will never get my vote… he is a Mormon.

[LiteKeeper]

That is not orthodox Christian teaching.

[Prokopton]

Don’t you have something better to do with your time instead of commenting on a thread that doesn’t interest you?

What interests me is the garbage that has been showing up on FR lately. I am concerned that the there seems to be more and more religious bigotry and sniping on FR. If you don't like Romney, fine campaign against him, but this narrow minded crap only makes it more difficult to get other people to come to our site without them believing that what people like BOR say about us is accurate.

[Gil4]

Mormons teach that they can become gods and goddesses///This alone disqualifies Willard from the presidency.

Romney's theology is troublesome, but no more so than McCain's self-worship or that of many other politicians. The thing that disqualifies him is Romneycare.

[ViLaLuz]

I like reading the religion threads.

[Jack Hydrazine]

A lot of Mormonism comes from Freemasonry which have secret handshakes because Joseph Smith was a Freemason.

[BlueMoose]

Are BRAEBURN, DELICIOUS, and APPLES the same ?

[Prokopton]

I like reading the religion threads.

Yea, real uplifting. An "Anonymous" thread posted for the sole purpose of ridiculing a religion the poster doesn't agree with for political purposes. How very spiritual.

[delacoert]

I like reading the religion threads.

I wonder if Prokopton even knows that this is the Religion forum and that no one has to browse the Religion forum if they don't want to.

[ejonesie22]

You assume this is for political purposes. It is in the religion forum.

No mind reading allowed my friend.

[ejonesie22]

Funny, HE doesn’t seem to know that...

[stockpirate]

Heck I was reading this thread because I thought I had to.

I won’t vote for Myth Romney for only one reason, he is a socialist and not a conservative.

God will judge Mormonism for what it is and what it isn’t. Most religions, Christian or otherwise have a lot of short comings and mislead people.

I’ll walk the path I believe
God has chosen for me and each person can do the same. It’s when nuts start saying their sect is the only true sect when the trouble starts.

With that said didn’t Smith have a revelation that came out of his hat? Reminds me of Bullwinkle the moose, “nothing up my sleeve.” “Opps wrong hat”

[BlueMoose]

Can you explain God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.

[delacoert]

Can you explain God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.

Hey, yea... and maybe you could hold court on the Mormon doctrine of BRAEBURN, DELICIOUS, and APPLES

[Paragon Defender]

That is not orthodox Christian teaching.

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It may not be what most Christian denominations have settled on but it is certainly Christian. Christ’s true Church has been restored in these latter-days.