That is a very common response. Like the Who song “Won’t get fooled again”.
What ever the two sentences mean, i believe if some one was really trying to save( as an example) my soul, they would not be ridiculing me, :not that you are doing that: but would be preaching the Gospel of Jesus because that is the only gospel there is.
But that is not what happens, So much of the ridicule that the Mormons get on these threads have nothing to do with the gospel.
Many people claim the Mormons are not Christians, and they are just doing their duty in trying to convert them to Christianity, my question is are they christian enough to do it?
A bishop of the Mormon Church came to my brothers house (my brothers wife was Mormon) after visiting a few minutes the bishop smiled and said i came down to make a better man of you:
My brother looked him square in the eye and said ok, go ahead if you think you are man enough for the job, he was,nt.
But it works both ways, i don,t want some pompous know it all telling me how to worship and i don,t want them telling me how to vote.
If some one just wants to discuss these matters that is different.
Also if some one gives me a scriptures from the Bible, i want to see the scripture not just their made up meaning of it.
After having said that i will have to admit i kind of enjoy a good old ruckus, it reminds me of the good ole days, but it does worry me because i am afraid i am already in enough trouble with God.
Witnessing to the LDS is different than witnessing to any one else. You have to break their Mormon wall and that usually involves making them mad enough to try to prove you and your sources wrong. That is how I got out, that is how most of us get out. After they see Mormonism is wrong, THEN you love them to the Lord.
Using the Bible is great, and we do that a lot, but they do not believe the Bible to be reliable and claim it is corrupt and not trustworthy, so if you give them a verse and it doesn’t agree with Mormon doctrine, they will just dismiss it as being corrupt or ‘not translated correctly’ (to quote their articles of faith).
Also, Mormons use Christian vocabulary but a very different dictionary. You can give them the gospel and they will say they agree (like Salvation by grace) but they mean something VERY VERY different.
This method does actually work. I know of at least 4 LDS who have left Mormonism because of threads like this here on FR.
When Mormons put the emphasis on converting dead people, they stress Mormon spirit missionaries on the other side of death & Mormon proxies on this side of death as the ones doing it...referencing such Mormons as "saviors on Mt. Zion"...
When Mormons put the emphasis on converting alive people, the emphasis is on missionaries + grassroots Mormons. Still, the emphasis is the same: Mormons.
When those in Christ look @ the conversion process, guess what? The emphasis is on the Holy Spirit (not us):
"NO ONE can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit." (1 Cor. 12:3)