Has anyone had this experience with Mormons?

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Majick275 - I certainly hope that I do not come across as one who comes to glorify my own church, or to attack another. My desire in coming here is to understand, and to be understood. I don’t come to change anyone’s beliefs, to proselyte or anything like that. I merely come to try and help people understand why, as a Mormon, I believe what I believe.

I am saddened that you see Joseph Smith as selfish, rather than a seeker of truth, I am glad for you, in that you have embraced a religion to brings you closer to God. I believe that all are entitled to finding a religion for themselves.

I once met a man who was converted from Judaism to Christianity and he often stated that even though he’d gone from one religion to another, not once in his life had he ever been a Gentile. I suppose he would have said exactly the same thing had he been converted to Catholicism.

I don’t think it matters so much which religion you belong to, so long as your heart is good. In the end, if your heart is in the right place, you belong the only Church that matters: God’s Church, and he is the ultimate judge of all that matters.
 
no this can not be right. it matters greatly which church we belong to. You are either on christ side and you are teaching the truth or you are not. is that not why we are on this forum. you to witness that yours is true and us to do the same.
 
Paul,
I assume you are taking the BoM position that there are only two churches, that of Jesus and that of Satan.
Is that correct?
 
This basically means that there are two types of people: those who are making a serious attempt to find and follow God, and those who are not. I am not condemning anyone here, and I think that the purpose of this forum is not to condemn or attack other religions, but to understand what they are about, and to embrace those of other faiths, despite any differences of opinion. As Mahatma Gandhi stated, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”

The scripture majick275 speaks of was in reference to the people of the early Americas, where there were only two beliefs: you either believed in Christ, or you did not. Today, Christianity is split into multiple faiths. Even those outside Christianity, such as many Jews, Muslims, and Hindu, believe that Christ was a prophet.

It is the same as trying to catch a baseball when the sun is aligned directly with the ball. There are three choices: try to catch the ball, give up entirely, or switch teams. Trying to catch the ball would be equivalent to anybody seeking truth. Giving up would be just that, to give up and believe nothing at all. Switching teams would be actively going against God’s word when you knew the truth. Those who give up or switch teams have joined the Church of the devil, and our duty is to try and save their souls, and to also help the entire team in catching a ball that is being seen from a different angle by every person on the team.

God be with us,

Isaac Madsen
 
Looking back that first paragraph was a little confusing. For those who might have taken it the wrong way, Mahatma Gandhi wasn’t talking about the Book of Mormon. I should have started a new paragraph there and pointed you back to this statement:
Originally written by majick275
Paul,
I assume you are taking the BoM position that there are only two churches, that of Jesus and that of Satan.
Is that correct?
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Hmmm… I have a coworker who is Catholic and she keeps talking about her bust job and flaunting them around the office. :rolleyes:
 
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majick275:
Paul,
I assume you are taking the BoM position that there are only two churches, that of Jesus and that of Satan.
Is that correct?
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Well that is not only a Book of Mormon Treaching.

eg.
Wheat → Tares
Babylon → New Jerusalem
 
I’ve never seen that to that extent in LDS women. I have, however seen it in a few Catholic women. I don’t think it really reflects much on the religion. Didn’t Elder Faust give a good talk against vanity in the last General Conference? Obviously it is invading the Church, and is a problem, but I wouldn’t consider plastic surgery to be common among the LDS.

My dad is Mormon too, and has mental dilemmas. He has some problems that I won’t go into. It’s actually kind of interesting. I’m pretty sure he’d be much worse off if he didn’t have the Church. Remember that Christ came for the sick, not the healthy. I’ve known quite a few members with complexities of one kind or another, but I’m pretty dang sure that it has nothing to do with the Church itself. It may, however, give some of these people, like the mentioned coworker, an unhealthy social outlet for their problem; so, they’re not there to get healed but rather to feed off others, which is a bad thing.

I certainly don’t doubt it. People have a way of pretending religiousness while doing exactly the opposite of what they profess. It exists everywhere.
 
I’m pretty much in agreement with you on this. I think you will find problems with individuals in all churches. I don’t think that should be seen as representing problems with the churches doctrine/practices necessarily. (granted there are some exceptions with some churches)

I also agree that Christ came for the “sick”. We should all want our churches inundated with sinners in the hope that the church can help them to find God and be “healed”.
 
I agree too. There is no population in which we will not find challenged or challenging personalities. Like all difficulties, these people serve as a call to us for kindness, patience and prayer. Their presence is in no way a reflection on the teachings of that Church. The only thing that reflects on the Church community is the way we respond to them.
 
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