Go to
mormonthink.com
Read just a little. It comprehensively rebuts all of Mormonism’s unique claims and false history, using Mormon sources and the amazing inconsistency of them, and incompatibility with both logic and science. Read it yourself and present it, or ask him to read it through, or at least several sections of it: if Mormonism is true, he has nothing to fear and his faith will carry him through, but if Mormonism is false, it will keep him from making a mistake.
Also, if that site doesn’t deal with it, get something about the canon of scripture and its closed nature, if debunking the obvious, absurd ahistorical ridiculousness of the Book of Mormon doesn’t do it, and prove that it’s not inspired against itself. Like the Lost 117 Pages, the Kinderhook Plates, and the Book of Abraham, amongst
many others.
I am only twenty-one years old, and I can understand the attractiveness of the promise of being made a god of your own universe - until you realize that’s the same attractiveness that got Adam and Eve killed and ruined the human race. The religion is still ridiculous, and I can’t imagine even the most power-hungry could bring themselves to believe in it because it’s so obviously false - even for the promise of godhood. However, people are indoctrinated, as they are with everything else, and Mormonism is attractive because the community is so tight, so close, everyone’s so nice, etc. -
this is called love bombing, and is used as a recruitment tactic in most cults. The Mormon missionaries I met offered to buy me a suit of clothes and help pay my rent the first time I saw them (I’m relatively poor and my clothes are in very bad condition: two pair of trousers that are sliced in to strings six or eight inches up, three t-shirts with barely- or non-mended holes, one blouse and one oversized, threadbare jacket, a coat with a tear in the shell, and shoes that at the time had the sole half fallen off of one - since then I’ve got a new pair of shoes, but not otherwise). When we live in an age that values relation over truth (the age of Facebook), Mormonism, no matter how patently false, remains appealing because of the relational/community value.
Not to mention that if your son is lonely, either for friendship or romance, the Mormons will have him married within less than a month or two after converting and going to a special “singles ward” designed to marry off people quickly - celibacy is viewed as a great sin in Mormonism.
It deals with Mormonism from a historical and scientific view most of the time. If that’s not enough, point him in my direction, and I can lay out an argument
Contra Mormon - I have experience dealing with the missionaries - on metaphysical principles and first philosophy.
I will pray for you and him. Mormonism, and its founder and original leaders, is of the Devil.
Ave Maria,
Gratia plena
Dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
Et benedictus fructus ventris tui,
Iesus.
Sancta Maria,
Mater Dei,
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae.
Hail Mary, conceived without sin: pray for us who have recourse to thee.
Hail Mary, conceived without sin: pray for us who have recourse to thee
Hail Mary, conceived without sin: pray for us who have recourse to thee.
Credo in unum Deum,
Patrem omnipotentem,
Factorem caeli et terra,
Visibílium omnium et invisibilium.
Et in unum Dominum Iesum Christum,
Filium Dei Unigenitum,
Et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula.
Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero,
Genitum, non factum, consubstantialem Patri:
Per quem omnia facta sunt.
Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem
Descendit de caelis.
Et incarnatus est de Spíritu Sancto
Ex Maraa Virgine, et homo factus est.
Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato;
Passus, et sepultus est,
Et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas,
Et ascendit in caelum, sedet ad dexteram Patris.
Et iterum venturus est cum gloria,
Iudicare vivos et mortuos,
Cuius regni non erit finis.
Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem:
Qui ex Patre Filioque procedit.
Qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur:
Qui locutus est per prophetas.
Et unam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam.
Confíteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum.
Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum,
Et vitam ventúri saeculi.
We believe in one God, the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
The Only Begotten Son of God,
Begotten of the Father before all ages,
God from God, Light from Light
True God from True God,
Begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father:
Through him all things were made.
For us me and our salvation he came down from heaven,
And
by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary
And became man.
For our sake, he was crucified under Pontius Pilate
He suffered death and was buried,
And rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended in to Heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father
He will come again in glory to judge the quick and the dead
And his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the give of life,
Who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
Who with the Father and the son is worshiped (adored) and glorified,
Who has spoken through the prophets.
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We believe in One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
We confess one baptism for the remission of sins,**
We look forward to the resurrection of the dead,
And the life of the world to come.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it ever was, as it now is, unto the ages of ages.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: One God.
Amen.
