Well, said. How can people believe? Well, some grow up in it, and are brainwashed - literally told the same mantras over and over again - since childhood.
Some (like me are converts). Nominal Christians who don’t know their Bible very well and have never had a relationship with Jesus Christ and are looking for a nice conservative (RELIGION).
Mormonism has several ‘draws’ to the worldly. It claims to be the only ‘true’ church (One stop shopping), claims to have the answers for every question (claiming that other churches don’t ask or answer them which isn’t true), tugs at the heart strings (eternal marriage, families are forever).
For me, part of the draw was the ‘families are forever’. My parents divorced when I was four and I spent most of my time with my grandparents while my mother was out fighting communism in Eastern Europe. The idea that a family could stay together always was appealing.
Thirdly, the LDS missionaries (and often members) use deceptive methods in order to gain converts. They only tell potential converts PART of the story (like they leave out the BoM being translated with Smith’s face in a hat) under the guise of ‘milk before meat’. Once you are in, you start to get the ‘meat’ doctrines, then more once you go to the Temple for their secret initiatory rituals.
Finally, the LDS are masters at getting you to rely on your feelings rather than your mind for ‘truth’ and ‘knowledge’. The mormon ‘testimony’ is all about how they ‘know’ (through warm fuzzy feelings they claim are messages from God) that ‘the Church’ is ‘true’, that Smith was a prophet, etc.
The focus on feelings over thought as a measure of truth leaves many LDS flat out ignoring basic facts and the Bible.
“You to can become a god!”
Very powerful stuff that.
Of course the best you'll get is bupkis and a trip to a warmer climate...
Which does explain why some are targeted in the first place. Mormons especially target the unsuspecting and those who know little of the scriptures. Just enough to say they are Christians....... which then the Mormon recruiter knows he can leave his book of Mormon with them...and use various Christian verbiage to entice them into their fold. They do this because it works on those who are not grounded in the scripture truths to begin with...and or have stunted growth in the things of the Lord.
Just as the educational system has been targeted by Liberals and Homosexuals to deceive and teach our youth to accept their agenda....so too Mormons go after those who are only just beginning to take in "the milk" of Gods word or are outside the Christian community.
"Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee"