I believe you knew it and are adept in the practice.
Google the term "lying for the Lord" and is it a huge coincidence that almost ever hit is Mormon related?
Keep up DU, Resty's already fighting World War ELEVEN! :-)
Interesting choice of familiar words. These were also once spoken by a Christian man who stepped into the New Age Spiritual Movement...which your testimonies resemble. This man quickly invited any and all to "come on in, the waters are sublime"....in a matter of months he lost every precious thing he had...wife, child, home, work and is now soon to be scrubbing the floors in a families home much the way the prodigal son found himself.
My point is if one Is a Christian and seeks involvement in that which God forbids....it doesn't take the Lord long to pull the rug from under him....step by step... in order to get him to wake up to the error of his way. And at these various steps are always Gods people planted in his path to steer him back to the fold. He will always have a choice to heed or not.
In this mans case he too could not see that those who were opposing his path were there on Gods behalf....'the thrill' of his experiences, in the perceived Spiritual world, trumped the truth and the arm of God extended to him. The question arose...did this man really know the Lord? Well he believes Jesus is very much a part of these experiences.... How do you tell, or is he simply deceived? Does it matter at this point?.....
Rather one looks at the threads of twine wrapped now around his mind, heart and soul which he cannot find a way to free himself of...his mind now in a 'fog' and his life of despair and sorrow... yet he still holds on to those experiences as "real" and will not let go of them. They are his point of reality.. though they are clearly manufactured in his mind and understood by any observer.
Thus the threads of falsehood and lies ensnares 'a Christian' until they can no longer discern rightly...and the enemy of men's souls does not let go easily, nor without a fight, when he has a Christian trapped in his clutches.
Am not saying this is where you are....but you are where you are quite willingly regardless of Gods hand extended to you to bring you out.
but once Jesus has testified to you of truth, how can you help but declare that truth from the rooftops?
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I wouldnt know...
Last Febuary I fonally called the bluff of another mormon who boasted as you do now...
I challeged the mormon to get a ladder climb up and “declare that truth from the rooftops”
One year later and the mormon continued to crow for months but no action...
Lets try something...
Here you have the opportunity to redeem the bad press that other mormon gave you...
the score is mormons 0
Its only January so I’ll give you another chance..take you up on that
Get your ladder and get up on the rooftops and do what you just boasted...
The rooftop of St Patricks Cathedral or the rooftop of the SLC mormon temple...
You choose...
Waiting...