Let's talk about Mormonism

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I am not interested in creating a new religion. God has said enough already he needs not create any more religions. He does want us to become one as followers of Christ I can only start with myself.
 
There’s a reason that former LDS are brought into the church via RCIA, we all need(ed) to be Christianized. It is a process, and takes time, prayer and patience. I think it is perfectly fine to have patience and gentleness towards oneself. But! RCIA changes people, turns us. This is a turning towards God, who takes us as who we are, and where we are, and turns us towards Jesus. This is what the RCIA team is discerning. It isn’t a discerning of whether or not someone is “worthy” to be baptized, it is discerning the changes in people, recognizing the graces of God working in them, and wow, is it a powerful thing to witness.

Patience and gentleness towards our catechumens, please. 🙂 God is guiding them, a door in their hearts has been cracked open, and the Holy Spirit is calling them.
 
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No he was definitely a con man. I know that God can use even a con man. Just as he used a christian killer like Paul.
 
Is someone saying I need to be turned to God because I am not. You don’t know the One True God I worship.
 
That is fine. I know what I can be and what God wants me to be.
 
This is because of your current adult spiritual development you still have yet to under go. Holding opposing ideas is as simple as holding a coin in your hand.
 
😊 When I was in RCIA we were having a discussion about personal revelation. For Christians, God’s Final and Perfect Word is found in Jesus Christ. Discernment also means, testing our spiritual experiences against Christian doctrine, as Christine doctrine contains the fullness of God’s Word, expressed as authoritative teachings. We are to test the Spirits and certainly we are never, as individuals, the authoritative source of doctrine.

It’s a Mormon thing, I’m sorry to say, to fire up new churches based on personal belief. St. Paul, the first teacher of Christian converts, taught that we must die to ourselves. It’s a process, for a lifetime, and not a program.

God bless you on your journey.
 
Do you believe that God has told us everything we need and that He no longer wants to speak or offer a new or different perspective of the same old truths?
 
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This is because of your current adult spiritual development you still have yet to under go. Holding opposing ideas is as simple as holding a coin in your hand.
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Ah, there is a guy with similar views. He may chime in if he’s reading this thread.

But these are personal views. Sort of a self delusion, since Catholic teaching is clear, that syncretism is a heresy, so one with these views is a Catholic heretic. No doubt, baptism is the goal, and not a desire for submitting to truth. Seen it before, and seems to be a thing with some Mormons, So yes, you are correct, for some, the false teachings of Mormonism are entrenched. For myself, I place a large measure of blame for this on Joseph Smith, who I think will have much to answer for at his judgement.
 
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Do you believe that God has told us everything we need and that He no longer wants to speak or offer a new or different perspective of the same old truths?
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Indeed, I believe the Word of God is found completely and perfectly in Jesus Christ. I ask you, what I have asked many Mormons…what do you think God left out? Where does the Revelation of Jesus Chris fall short?
 
I believe God has said everything he needs to say. However we are still not managing to live as one in unity so maybe there are different perspectives that can help us do what he keeps telling us over and over to do.
 
I believe the Catholic Church contains the fullness of Truth, as given to the Apostles, and handed on, once, for all. I believe Jesus Christ is God, and that the Catholic Church’s mission is to bring people to HIM. We seek to hear the Word of God, not some guy, or gal, who gets it into their head to speak for God.

Do you believe you speak for God?
 
Nope I only speak for myself having had a powerful encounter with the One True God.
 
If I may put a disclaimer, you know it’s not that Catholics don’t believe in Prophecy, it’s that we believe that the age of public Revelation ended at the end of the apostolic era. We are not required to believe things like Marian apparitions, for instance. Although, you can tell by my t-shirt in my photograph I clearly do.
 
I don’t think anyone needs to believe anything more than the Catholic Church teaches we just need to truly live it.
 
But I also don’t think we should kill people with different perspectives
 
Or even call their hard earned faith into account even if we can not see through their perspective.
 
Interesting, we had a few months ago a discussion on unity in our RCIA. Unity is rightly understood as a divine property of Jesus’ Church. That is, it is there already, what we fail in as humans, is living the reality that is there.

Unity is not something that is brought about by committee or by forgoing Christian principles. It isn’t about being “nice”. It’s about living a reality. No doubt, I agree with you that none of us, except the Saints, live the reality of Jesus Christ. I like how St. Paul put it, that we should walk in the light.

Christian unity also requires, that one is Christian. Mormonism is not a Christian religion. Ecumenical relationships are not sought with the Mormon Church. However, that does not mean that we forsake working with people of good will, of all religions or no religion, towards Christian charity.
 
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