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Baptist’s BYU visit marks thaw in Mormon-evangelical cold war
roonte.com ^ | 10/30/2013 | Adelle M. Banks

Posted on 10/30/2013 8:29:22 PM PDT by Ripliancum

Last month, after being sure to get his caffeine fix at Starbucks, Southern Baptist leader Richard Land went where few evangelicals had dared to go before: the Provo campus of Brigham Young University, the intellectual heart of Mormonism.

After lecturing on "family, faith, freedom and America," Land attended a BYU football game with LDS leaders and joined them to hear James Taylor sing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Days later, George O. Wood, the general superintendent of the Assemblies of God, also visited BYU, followed by the Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptists’ flagship seminary.

Is there a new détente — perhaps more practical than theological — between evangelicals and Mormons?

For more than a decade, Mormon and evangelical scholars have discussed their differences and similarities, and even written books together. But leaders of the two faiths appear to have reached a new juncture, with some on both sides seeing benefits in more public engagement.

"At the very least, the two communities, evangelicals and Mormons, have been … each other’s worst enemies," said Richard Mouw, the former president of Fuller Theological Seminary and a longtime proponent of evangelical-Mormon dialogue. "There’s a significant part of the evangelical movement that is now having healthy and friendly conversations, and it’s gone from a group of two dozen scholars talking to each other to church leaders meeting each other, going to see each other."

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TOPICS: Ministry/Outreach; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: baptist; byu; evangelical; evangelicals; highereducation; lds; ldschurch; mormon
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To: BillyBoy
Since when did Catholics, Orthodox, and mainline protestants ever claim Mormons are Christians?

Good question; but the WRONG one:

Since when did TCOJCOLDS ever decide to claim Mormons are Christians?

21 posted on 10/31/2013 8:50:42 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Oratam
You can’t contain yourself, can you?


"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned;

and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given,

and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.

Brigham Young - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)

22 posted on 10/31/2013 8:52:56 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mr Rogers
“It’s not just the fact that evangelicals are being more curious about Mormons and being more willing to listen to them and learn from them....”

I daresay the MORMONs on FR learn MORE about their chosen religion here than they do in their 'churches'!

23 posted on 10/31/2013 8:54:54 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dragonblustar

Has he got money left?


24 posted on 10/31/2013 8:55:39 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

What does “TCOJCOLDS” stand for?


25 posted on 10/31/2013 8:58:42 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Liz Cheney's family supports gay marriage. Do you?)
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To: Elsie

26 posted on 10/31/2013 9:03:32 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: BillyBoy

27 posted on 10/31/2013 9:05:00 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

I was going to post

“In before the multi color, multi font, heavily bolded, heavily linked massive copy and paste posts”

but alas, I was too late.


28 posted on 10/31/2013 9:06:14 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: Pan_Yan

So posting mormonism’s word is offensive?


29 posted on 10/31/2013 10:15:37 AM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains' obama's Americaas ord)
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To: svcw
So posting mormonism’s word is offensive?

No, but incessant spamming, no matter how well intentioned, is annoying.

30 posted on 10/31/2013 10:19:46 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: Pan_Yan

Don’t read it then.
There are new people on these threads all the time, so the info needs to be repeated. It’s that simple


31 posted on 10/31/2013 10:23:57 AM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains' obama's Americaas ord)
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To: Elsie
Has he got money left?

The Rinos will come up with that.

32 posted on 10/31/2013 10:55:08 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Psalm 37:7)
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To: Ripliancum

I disagree...Mormonism is a cult wrapped in lies and misleads many into it’s stronghold of which it’s tenticles drive deep into the soul of person and does not let go easily.

The world is gearing up for the “great deception” God has promised......cozying up with ‘counterfeit’ cults and religions only “rots the apple barrel”.

God designed distinctions for a reason. Christianity is distinct from all others and is centered on the man Jesus Christ......Mormonism centers on works and attaches Christian lingo to their false creeds and beliefs to sell it to the uninformed.

So NO...it’s not good.....Mormonism and Christianity are not compatible.


33 posted on 10/31/2013 10:59:06 AM PDT by caww
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To: lurk
There is no compatibility between them....


34 posted on 10/31/2013 11:03:04 AM PDT by caww
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To: wmfights

<....”This is a terrible mistake, unless they are asking the mormons to convert and become Christians.”....>

Agree....and I doubt very much this is about converting Mormons to Christianity. Rather,.....just evidencing the world is being set to believe the great deception that is to come.....Mormons will believe that as will many others wearing a counterfeit cloak of Christianity.


35 posted on 10/31/2013 11:07:27 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Interesting chart ... and compiled from what the religions each claim. Of course, Christianity is based upon what JESUS claimed and reinforced with His resurrection. Mo hamhead is still dead, and Joe Smith remains in his grave ...


36 posted on 10/31/2013 11:08:35 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: svcw
Don’t read it then.

1. I'm pretty sure you don't have any say in what I read.

2. I didn't post to you.

3. If you and your crowd think you're going to save souls by cornering people on a web site and bludgeoning them with spam go right ahead. I have every right to think it clutters up Free Republic with junk no one reads and turns people off.

37 posted on 10/31/2013 11:25:24 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: MHGinTN
I thought it simplified the differences......which in reality are vast when you look at them all....but this chart shows a few of the basic differences......of which shows they are incompatible with one another.

Indeed...we serve a Risen Savior...and the only one! :)


38 posted on 10/31/2013 11:29:24 AM PDT by caww
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To: Pan_Yan

I don’t care what you read.
I stated my position that there are new people all the time and the information is necessary, you are the one complaining about it.


39 posted on 10/31/2013 12:59:28 PM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains' obama's Americaas ord)
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To: Pan_Yan

As a side note people do not save souls.


40 posted on 10/31/2013 1:00:04 PM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains' obama's Americaas ord)
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