I’ve read and re-read your account about how you turned away from the Mormon church and the process that you went through. I’m left with the feeling that you would have kept searching until you found the truth, reaganaut. Upon reflection I get the idea that it was a spiritual search, but also that you were using your reasoning mind. You were looking for Truth.
My husband and I watched “The Truth Project” this year. And it was really a long-involved set of DVD’s to watch and a lot of thought-provoking discussion followed because God’s Truth is so large and yet, so simple.
As Christians, we rely on Truth. And Christianity is a logical faith. The truth that God has shown to the world logically is threaded throughout the Bible. The revelation through prophecy of the coming of the Messiah speaks to this.
But also, our very need for a connection to Him speaks to this Truth. He occupies our rational minds and makes sense to us.
He doesn’t leave us hanging with lots of quirky and irrational things hanging out there in the darkness that we just have to accept blindly.
We have proof that Jesus was born to a virgin.
We have proof that He lived.
We have proof that He died on the cross.
We have proof that He was resurrected. And the entire purpose of His life... and ours become clear once we accept the resurrection.
We have a rational, logical and loving God who treats us with respect and wants us to know Him. He doesn’t hide from us. He came here so we would know Him on a more intimate level. And believers have the Holy Spirit so that we would never be separated from our loving God.
It’s truly like Mormonism has rejected the power of Holy Spirit and said that only they and their priesthood can save mankind. How blasphemous that seems!
What you left behind was confusion, mistrust and falsehood.
What you found was truth and freedom.
And I’m thankful, to call you a sister in Christ.
Thank you, Sister.
I put my Christian faith to the same tests I put my Mormon religion to and Christianity held up when Mormonism didn’t. You are right, God gives us logical/reasonable proofs for Christianity, and there just aren’t those proofs in Mormonism. God doesn’t expect us to follow blindly, but Mormonism does.