Parker,
Problem is, as Lax clarified, is that the Mormon religion is depending on one person, not Christ. One person, a mortal, is not the foundation of Church within Christianity.
When you reject Christianity as true, and then turn to a man who lived completely far out and away from the event, almost 2,000 years later, maligning Christianity as apostate with a complete severance from the Christian people, rationalizing there were few Christians in the early times after the death of the apostles, when countless Christians were dying for Christ â as if their deaths meant nothing inferring because they were Eucharistic Christians
âŚand then going backwards re-writing our understanding and perspective of Sacred Scriptures, and creating new storiesâŚcopying the Catholic Church in communication form, using the word canon, priesthood, sacraments â from Latin âsacramentumââŚsacred oath tied to ritual, etc. to anti-Catholic, Masonic like curse rituals, this is the kind of stuff that makes Mormonism perceived as a cult.
The Church is a social, relational foundation comprising of 12 apostles, not one controversial man. The apostles were men of ordinary life, earning a living in precarious times, having families to support.
You base your faith on one man whose credibility and integrity was always being rightfully questioned in his community, you are on shakey ground, you are putting too much weight into Joseph Smithâs ideas and experiences without any challenge.
The Apostles suffered rebukes, admonishments, directions when coming to know the Lord, and then most of them suffered martyrdom.
Joseph Smith was never rebuked by Christ or admonished by Him, nor was he ever clarified by the Lord to help him understand what was being taught to him.
Christ is Himself the Light of the worldâŚ
Joseph Smith put on glasses to understand scrolls. He didnât follow the exhortations by the apostles and St. Paul âto put on Christâ, to follow his elders for his revelation. Instead he told this story how he was told to put on glasses to read the Egyptian scrolls/plates, that were later decodedâŚinstructions to bury the dead.
Egypt has been the symbol of exile, slavery, and apostasy. It used to be a heavily populated country, and most Christians apostasized to Islam rather than face death. The Copts are public witness to the world in what they endure. 85% of the Egyptian Muslims believe that if a Muslim wants to leave Islam, they deserve to die. Egyptian hieroglyphics contained countless images of serpents. The Masonic temples are full of Egyptian symbolism; they use the Turkish crescent moon, and the Turks destroyed Constantinople and overtook their main church turning into an Islam site.
Why would you even want to believe in anything from Christ found in ancient Egypt???
These âinstructionsâ to bury the dead, I see, are a symbolic and spiritual warning not to follow Joseph Smith, because his ideas are fraudulent, and lead to a spiritual death.
The Eucharist comes from the Vine, the Bread of Life.
Do you want to believe in a single, controversial man who was never challenged, who said he had to put on glasses to see the light of ChristâŚto become a spiritual mummyâŚ?..
Or would you prefer to be in the company of â ordinary people, approach ordinary bread and wine,âthat is transformed by priests of Christ in the order of Melchizedek, to become Manna from Heaven, the Bread of Life?
He who attempts to grow in perfection and spirituality by himself with no challenge will never achieve it. That is because such a man is following his own perceptions, his flesh and self -willâŚand these are what lead us to sin, to death.
A man who follows his own desires that are not challenged, will never achieve perfection.
Instead, in the Christian faith, we must die to ourselves daily, and put on Christ, live in His light and follow the Holy Spirit in humility.
What do you chose, The Bread of Life, the Eucharist â the fulfillment of Judeo Christianity âŚ
or finding a new religion in Egyptian scrolls outside Judeo Christian salvation, Egypt being the symbol of exile and slavery?..where you canât challenge or question to seek the truth?..
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