Do LDS baptize converts immediately?

[RebeccaJ]

I am not surprised. I have lurked, but not posted in a week or so. I don’t think that the folk here really understand that we are so much more alike than we are different. I may not believe anything that the Mormon church teaches that is outside mainstream Christianity, and I may (do) believe it to be outside Christianity, but I don’t hate them. I don’t attack them, in person or here. And of course most of you have already stopped reading.

It seems so contentious here. There is so little trust. Honestly, Mormons aren’t inherently bad people. They are just wrong. They ARE speaking a different language. Mormon speak is a thing. But to the every day Mormon, it isn’t spoken to deceive or to confuse or manipulate, it is spoken because that is how they (we) speak to each other! It is the only way they know how to speak!

I don’t blame a true-believing Mormon for leaving here. I didn’t post for so long because there just seems to be so many hard feelings towards Mormons.

what I see are LDS who can’t answer the questions posed to them, cite persecution and leave. Along with a healthy dose of needing to be in control of what is said, and how it is said, and leaving because control of the conversation doesn’t happen. It’s ok, no one is forced to read or post here.

Some LDS tend to think they have a right to moderate posts about Mormon topics, and spend time and energy trying to moderate. They don’t have this right. Push back against being moderated by non-moderators is going to occur.

 

[LivingWaters7]

Some LDS tend to think they have a right to moderate posts about Mormon topics, and spend time and energy trying to moderate. They don’t have this right. Push back against being moderated by non-moderators is going to occur.

I completely agree. Far too often the threads devolve into certain LDS posters going on and on trying to moderate, and the actual topic is lost. If someone doesn’t want to participate, they don’t have to (and all can report posts to the actual moderators if there are problems). I find this board to be no more contentious than MDDB (and I’ve participated on both as an active LDS and as an active Catholic).

 

[eightydeuce82]

I completely agree. Far too often the threads devolve into certain LDS posters going on and on trying to moderate, and the actual topic is lost. If someone doesn’t want to participate, they don’t have to (and all can report posts to the actual moderators if there are problems). I find this board to be no more contentious than MDDB (and I’ve participated on both as an active LDS and as an active Catholic).

Well after all they are going to be Gods so they need to get their moderator practice in!

That is of course only if they are polygamists.

 

[Z_Ninja]

In discussing my situation recently with a priest, the formula may be trinitarian but that’s not the main issue. The priest told me that LDS beliefs about the nature of God that are fundamentally different from Catholicism are what causes their baptism to be invalid and not recognized. So while the words being said may sound trinitarian in form, the underlying beliefs are not the same.

I apologize. I mistook you for someone else who I read had left the church but had never married. I sincerely apologize, and thank you for your empathy. Pray for me and my family.

I don’t know why your baptism was accepted, but it was not supposed to be.

catholic.com/quickquestions/why-doesnt-the-catholic-church-accept-mormon-baptism

Everything that I have read has stated that Catholics do not believe Mormon baptisms to be valid because they are not trinitarians. It will be interesting one day explaining to a priest that when I baptised my children, I had a correct understanding of the Trinity. =) I don’t even know how that will go…

 

[Z_Ninja]

Now as far as the title of this thread, in my experience, the missionaries have tried to get a commitment from me to be baptized by the second or third lesson, this has been over the course of 13 years and however many different set of missionaries came to visit. My wife is Mormon and her father has been pretty high up in their ward.