I opined a bit more frankly on Mormons here:
To: Catsrus
It’s simple
Their Christianity is plain different
They can believe as they want or born into
I would never say otherwise but when I read Smiths musings it gives me pause
And I like Mormons as a rule
It’s such an unusual happenstance just popping up in New York and the Midwest based on the dreams of one man and predicated on sexual mores that folks had to find troubling
Great way to very quickly expand a brand new religion though
And once established then do away with what made the church what it was so fast....literally 2-4 generations
Does your average run of the mill parishioner believe the Moroni book and that Smiths dreams were real and divine as say the burning bush
I don’t know
I would not make a good Mormon given I’m non conformist and rebellious and anti authority by nature
120 posted on March 23, 2016 at 2:43:54 AM CDT by wardaddy (Cruz path to nomination is a box canyon)
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Yeah I remember seeing that post too. In fact I think it was that post with “Their Christianity is plain different” that prompted me to write. I like Mormons as people but the Mormon religion isn’t a form of Christianity. It’s borrows bits and pieces of the bible but teaches something entirely at variance with Christian theology. Gnosticism did something similar in the first century.
https://carm.org/comparison-between-christian-doctrine-and-mormon-doctrine