People say that, but I simply don’t believe it. I received an answer to my sincere prayer concerning the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. The answer was the opposite of what I expected. I did not want the Book of Mormon to be true. I did not believe the story at all, thinking it was a fanciful fable. And yet I followed Christ’s admonition that if we ask the Father in his name we will receive.
When I prayed in all sincerity concerning the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon, I received the shock of my life when I got an actual response in the affirmative. I had no doubt God answered my prayer. I then resolved to act upon the revelation and joined the church despite overwhelming opposition by my family and the consequences of my conversion (kicked out of the house and my senior year in my Catholic high school).
From that moment on, I knew three things, God is real, Jesus really is the Son of God, and the Book of Mormon was genuine Scripture. Nothing has been able to shake me from these convictions because I knew God answered my prayer.
For ANYONE to tell me they prayed to God and received an opposite answer automatically tells me that they are LYING. Why? Because if that was the case, God is then subjective and gives different answers to different people.
I’m sorry, I simply do not believe anyone who says God told him otherwise. Would you believe someone who tells you they prayed to God and received an answer telling them Jesus is NOT the Son of God? I know he is because of my answered prayer - the same God told that truth to me. Should I then disbelieve God?
No, I’m immovable on this issue - I know what happened to me. I know God is real, I know Jesus is his Son, and I know the Book of Mormon is genuine Scripture. The same revelation told me these things simultaneously.
If God allowed me to be deceived by Satan, as many anti-Mormons alleged, why then would he tell me God is real and Jesus is his Son? If I somehow tricked myself into believing a falsity, why am I so certain that I am not fearful when standing before God and accusing him of lying to me when I came to him in sincere prayer? I’ll gladly go to hell than serve such a deceitful God.
It’s now been more than 22 years since that summer day and my spiritual testimony has been reinforced by Scriptures and logic, giving me an unbreakable faith of both spiritual and intellectual witnesses of the authenticity of Mormonism. Where can I find something better? Nowhere!
And what of the Christians that have been touched by the Holy Spirit and led to Christ and the Church? You deny Satan or self-delusion can touch you but believe the Christian church to be in apostasy and false. You know that cults exist and that people give their testimony for cults all the time, yet you deny the possability for yourself.
Anyway, do Mormons believe there is no first creator, that existence is eternal, are they athiestic in that sense and no God created existence itself, but existence itself created a being superior to us that you call God through some sort of unexplained accident like a darwinism for Gods? Or are they agnostic and say they don’t know what created existence? Basically, is it atheism or agnosticism on the matter of creation itself?
Sigh....the fall back position. "You CAN'T argue with my statements because I prayed and I received an answer from God-Jesus-the Holy Ghost-Moroni-whatever....and SO YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT WHAT I SAY IS TRUE AND WHAT YOU SAY IS UNTRUE!
Of course, all of us whose prayers have received an answer that the mormon church is NOT true are expected to just say, "Yessir, sir, you mormons are right, the leaders have spoken and the thinking has been done." What arrogance!
Query: What makes the mormon's prayers and answers superior to ours? Why do you expect us to accept your sources of information, when you demonize our message and the source (and ridicule and insult the messengers with personal attacks)?
Your personal testimonies do not convince us. We have our OWN! (And we do not sell them.)
How about because he, Satan is a deceiver? Who mixes truth with falsehoods.....
What better way to deceive? Satan knows the bible better than most humans...God knows..His ex-head praise and worship angel knows who His Son is. Lying & deception is his mark.
Sincere prayer or not....the one that roars like a lion, is a liar. And you wouldn't be the first one to be fooled.
Just because you prayed, and think you got an answer doesn't mean it was from God. I've known too many folks that have been tripped up like that.
The exact opposite of what you have said could be said of many who've left Mormonism...They grew up in the LDS way...and had revelations/questions/prayers answered that "proved to them" that Mormonism was absolutely false. How is that?