Thanks for the clarification.
I just hate to see people who should be one another's allies
Did you read my post 558 in this thread? Your above sentence continued with:
that is people who believe in the God of the Old Testament
I'll get back to that in a second... later in your post you said:
it doesn't make much sense to argue the finer points,
Yet that's the issue when we get to the finer points. Christians believe the God of the Old Testament to be the same God of the New Testament. Not some god who himself has a heavenly father - that's a totally different God.
When the finer points are hashed out we see the major differences. Unfortunately getting to the finer points is difficult through all the misdirection and misrepresentation.
"Yet that's the issue when we get to the finer points. Christians believe the God of the Old Testament to be the same God of the New Testament. Not some god who himself has a heavenly father - that's a totally different God."
__________________
I'm a Mormon (duh) and I'd be happy to answer any question you have as directly as I can, but like most practicers of a faith I am not an "authority." There are things I take on faith.
But let me ask you this. If I say the Mormons believe this, and you say but MY bible says that, then where does that get us? That was my point about prayer. In the end each of us must be prepared to live according to our faith and pray to know what is right. We can each believe that the other isn't praying "the right way," but in the end we have to move on and accept the real possibility that the difference of opinion can't be resolved. The question is, do we then make our minds to HATE the other person? I hope neither of our religions teaches that.