“HAVE FAITH IN GOD, NOT MAN.”
Most of us do, but too many evangelicals follow the man and not God by idolizing their preacher who tells them what to believe. Many of the mega-church preachers are getting rich off of having O in office. Beware of false prophets. A lot are starting to act like black preachers, if the preacher if wealthy then it will come back to the members.
The Bible is filled with examples of unbelievers and very flawed individuals doing God’s work. He could have used Mitt Romney that way...and I’m just disgusted that my evangelical brothers and sisters apparently didn’t see that.
You know what? Mormonism is wrong in my opinion, but Mitt Romney is a friendly, good-spirited guy who genuinely loves America. You can’t say the same about Obamao. That alone would have made a significant difference, divine ordinance or not.
But it would be a mistake to place the blame squarely on evangelicals. It was a combination of factors:
-Evangelicals (apparently)
-Chris Christie
-Hurricane Sandy
-The media
-Romney himself for playing it safe on Benghazi, etc.
-Schools and colleges, for churning out an entire generation of leftist ideologues
-Every one of us for falling for the line that the polls were all rigged just like we did in 2008
And those are only a few off the top of my head.
A agree that that is a problem in the Body of Christ. I am very cautious about that and about believing something just because a ‘pastor’ tells me, that is what got me INTO Mormonism (with their missionaries and high priests), and what got me OUT of Mormonism was checking things against the Word of God and researching.
I don’t trust anything a pastor tells me, I compare it to the Bible (and having a degree in Biblical studies and being fluent in Greek and Hebrew helps) and I am EXTREMELY cautious of false prophets because I used to follow them (the Mormon ones).
My main calling in ministry to the Mormons is actually to those who have left or are leaving because they have come to a personal saving faith in the Christ of the Bible. I disciple them and help them learn how to test what their pastor says, how to learn to read the Bible (that is a challenge for Mormons who are taught not to trust the Bible), and to discern the issues you mention. That is what God has called me to do and I believe in part why He ALLOWED me (permissive not expressive will) to take my journey into and out of Mormonism, another reason is Mormonism, with all its rules and control, was easy but not spiritually fulfilling (do all the things on this list - an there is an actual list - and you will become a god yourself) and Mormonism broke my spirit and my pride, something that I HAD to experience in order to finally accept Christ alone and His blood shed on the cross to save me.
One more thing, many here seem to think that this was MY decision, my ‘antimormonism’, or about me. I studied this and I took it to God. I spent MANY MANY hours in prayer on this decision about voting, and even told God that if it were His will I would vote for Mitt. And time and time and time again, it came back that it was NOT his will that I vote for either of them - either through prayer, or bible verses or counsel of other believers.
This was never about me, it was about doing what God called me to and my conscience is clear before God.