I don’t think anything I say will reach any of them.
Don’t be too sure, Sentinel was reached here on FR.
And you are also correct that we post to the lurkers and those who do not know what the LDS really teaches.
And don't forget, that God gave us leaders & evangelists to "equip the saints for the work of ministry" (Ephesians 4:11-12). There's thousands of FREEPERS and thousands of lurkers who have firsthand contact with LDS -- people who love the Mormons in their lives.
Perhaps it's time for them to step out of their "comfort zones" and witness to the Mormons they love.
I mean how many times have we seen well-meaning FREEPER comments about how "nice" the Mormons are that they know -- not realizing that the Bible says absolutely nothing about "niceness" being the passageway into heaven -- and the means of steering clear of outer darkness.
Does Jesus seek out 'Nice' people to take to 'Nice' Heaven?
In a word, "no." I'd suggest that FREEPERS who pull out their "nice-meters" to measure how "nice" people are need to realize that Jesus didn't come to earth to fish for "nice" fish:
Jesus answered them, "It is NOT the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have NOT come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Luke 5:31-32)
So guess what? I "qualify" for Jesus' target audience. If any of us think our self-based righteousness can stand the glare of a perfect, all-holy, all-righteous, all-just God, then they substituted a different god for the One of the Bible.
Furthermore, I'd say that nice religious folks, whether they have a...
...Christian,
...Mormon
...or other background
-- if they substitute themselves as "the way" in place of Christ as the "Way" (John 14:6) -- face a big surprise awaiting them.
A concrete Mormon example of this: Mitt Romney's father's cousin, Marion G. Romney, who was a member of the upper-etchelon LDS "First Presidency":
"This Church is the ensign on the mountain spoken of by the Old Testament prophets. It is the way, the truth, and the life" (Conference Report, April, 1961, pg. 119).
No, Marion, no Mr. Mormon. There's absolutely NO substitute for Christ! Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6)
Mormon substitutes its church for Jesus. 1000 Silverlings said in post #1513:
I perceive that there is no Mormon doctrine to teach. None of them have the gift of the HS, not believing as they do on the Plan of Salvation and the Risen Christ, who completed His work of salvation (and thus no other saviors needed, nor can any man now "save" himself or "attain" anything anywhere) and took up His rightful place on the right hand of God.
Yet, what did Brigham Young do? Whereas John 10:7-9 cearly shows Jesus as the Gate & Door, Young "butchered" it by inserting Joseph Smith as the "entrance" to heaven for people: I can tell our beloved brother Christians who have slain the Prophets and butchered and otherwise caused the death of thousands of Latter-day Saints...something that no doubt will mortify them—something that, to say the least, is a matter of deep regret to them—namely, that NO man or woman in this dispensation will EVER enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith. (Brigham Young, tabernacle remarks, Oct. 9, 1859, Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p. 289)
Is Smith our door & gate into heaven?
Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. (John 10:7-9)