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I think it reflects real integrity to place side by side the early teachings of the apostles, the ancient holy fathers who headed the Church of Rome, the early church fathers, all the way up to the Nicene Creed and the reason the part on the nature of the Holy Trinity was articulated…may be even how the early Christians practiced, worshipped with their spirituality…and then

Place Mormonism next to the early Church and do a comparison. It will really clear up alot and help us understand Who’s Who in America.
 
A few years ago, right before I started to look into my catholic faith that I was never raised in, but was baptized, some mormon missionaries came to my door. I welcomed them. I had a best friend growing up who was mormon. I never talked to her about her faith. At the time we were friends I wasn’t interested and she never brought it up. So, my chat with the missionaries was pleasant from what I could remember. I was curious to learn more about it, mostly because I had wanted to learn more about all religions in general for a while, but never got very far. I figured if they came to my door then I might as well seize the opportunity. They gave me a book of mormon. I tried opening it and reading it, but every time I did that the bones in my body would ache. It was like something was stopping me from reading the contents. I think I managed to read some of the pages, but not without some physical pain. After 3 times in attempting to read this book out of genuine curiosity, I realized that because this pain would come on sudden as soon as I would attempt to read that book, then it must be evil. I hadn’t heard anything negative about mormons as far as I could remember, but I did think Joseph Smith finding golden plates with religious doctrine or whatever the story is was hilarious. It sounded so ludacris I had a hard time believing how someone could take that seriously and believe it. Not that I’m trying to knock anybody’s beliefs, but it is hard for me to understand where they are coming from from what I’ve read.
 
Also, when I questioned them about the “golden plates,” they did not admit they were gold. They have me a bunch of quotes from Mormon prophets basically saying they had the “appearance of gold,” not that they were actually gold… I think this is because Smith said they were so big they could have weighed 300 lbs.!
 
pgnat1 said:
Also, when I questioned them about the “golden plates,” they did not admit they were gold. They have me a bunch of quotes from Mormon prophets basically saying they had the “appearance of gold,” not that they were actually gold… I think this is because Smith said they were so big they could have weighed 300 lbs.!
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And yet he ran through the woods carrying them while fighting off his aggressors. :rolleyes:
 
Porknpie said:
Running with a limp too…and small hands holding 300lbs of gold tablets. :rolleyes:

lds.org/new-era/2005/12/what-did-joseph-smith-really-look-like?lang=eng
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it would be hard to run on a flat pavement for 3 miles carting only 50 pounds running from people at night. Have you ever run thru the country? I have. There are bushes, trees, rocks, ditches, rises, holes, etc etc. And he did this on a bad leg running from people on 2 good legs carrying MORE than 50 pounds

Absolutely no way
 
TexanKnight said:
it would be hard to run on a flat pavement for 3 miles carting only 50 pounds running from people at night. Have you ever run thru the country? I have. There are bushes, trees, rocks, ditches, rises, holes, etc etc. And he did this on a bad leg running from people on 2 good legs carrying MORE than 50 pounds

Absolutely no way
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And in Texas there are snakes…bad ones…

Have relatives in Strawn, TX…they hang the skins on lines between trees…I assume u understand Tex

strawntexas.net/
 
TexanKnight said:
it would be hard to run on a flat pavement for 3 miles carting only 50 pounds running from people at night. Have you ever run thru the country? I have. There are bushes, trees, rocks, ditches, rises, holes, etc etc. And he did this on a bad leg running from people on 2 good legs carrying MORE than 50 pounds

Absolutely no way
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If my kid told me a story like this I would send him to his room and have him think about it for awhile. I guess if you’re going to tell a whopper might as well make it a good one.
 
I still really like Mormon people.

But when I visited this Mormon bookstore and pulled out some of their books, and read parts of the D & C of Smith and Pratt’s materials…I was so very shaken. It was very shocking to me and made up sounding…but very powerful…cult like and experienced an intense spiritual power.

I left the place feeling sick. I later visited the ex Mormon site and read about things they grew up with.

In the meantime, here on CAF, other Mormons with different upbringing’s come on to give us a different perspective, but likewise they do not or seem not aware of all these teachings and practices and the impact they had on people who were with this affiliation…very isolated…and read how in past they were to avoid making friends with the Gentiles.
 
NessFrancis said:
. . . .They gave me a book of mormon. I tried opening it and reading it, but every time I did that the bones in my body would ache. It was like something was stopping me from reading the contents. I think I managed to read some of the pages, but not without some physical pain. After 3 times in attempting to read this book out of genuine curiosity, I realized that because this pain would come on sudden as soon as I would attempt to read that book, then it must be evil. . . . .
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NessFrancis,
In 2010, I wrote about a similar experience. Click here.

Anna
 
Anna_Scott said:
NessFrancis,
In 2010, I wrote about a similar experience. Click here.

Anna
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As you may remember, Anna, I had the very same experience, with a lot of nausia. It felt like my soul was hurting and I had the distinct feeling that I was doing something I should not be doing. Very creepy!
 
Hi Anna…

I remember that post…

I wrote a prayer for the Mormons and everyone so that we will be united and one in the Holy Trinity on my public page…
 
SteveVH said:
As you may remember, Anna, I had the very same experience, with a lot of nausia. It felt like my soul was hurting and I had the distinct feeling that I was doing something I should not be doing. Very creepy!
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Really? I’d like to read more about that experience.
 
Issa87 said:
Anna, I’d like to know your story of how you ended up in the CoJCoLDS and what made you decide to leave and convert to the anglican church.
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Issa87 said:
Really? I’d like to read more about that experience.
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I think they should start a new thread and tell us about their experiences.

Anna or Steve, please let us know if you do.
 
maltmom said:
I think they should start a new thread and tell us about their experiences.

Anna or Steve, please let us know if you do.
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There’s really not a lot to tell. When I was in college I was visited by some Mormon missionaries and basically because I felt sorry for them I agreed to accept a copy of the Book of Mormon. Some friends had told me about some of the errors (Jesus being born in Jerusalem, for instance) it contained and so I decided, out of pure curiosity, to peruse it.

When I opened it I had this creepy, skin crawling feeling and started feeling nauseous. I only got through a couple of pages and the bad feelings turned from physical to spiritual. My inner voice told me to put it down and put it down now. It was a definite darkness. You might say I had the opposite experience of what LDS call the “burning in the bosom”.

Joseph Smith may very well have been visited by spiritual beings, but they were not from above. 🙂
 
SteveVH said:
There’s really not a lot to tell. When I was in college I was visited by some Mormon missionaries and basically because I felt sorry for them I agreed to accept a copy of the Book of Mormon. Some friends had told me about some of the errors (Jesus being born in Jerusalem, for instance) it contained and so I decided, out of pure curiosity, to peruse it.

When I opened it I had this creepy, skin crawling feeling and started feeling nauseous. I only got through a couple of pages and the bad feelings turned from physical to spiritual. My inner voice told me to put it down and put it down now. It was a definite darkness. You might say I had the opposite experience of what LDS call the “burning in the bosom”.

Joseph Smith may very well have been visited by spiritual beings, but they were not from above. 🙂
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Thank you for sharing. I tried to read it 40 yrs ago. I was 13 at the time. I didn’t get very far into it. I didn’t feel right reading it. All I remember is this feeling that God didn’t want me reading it.
 
SteveVH said:
As you may remember, Anna, I had the very same experience, with a lot of nausia. It felt like my soul was hurting and I had the distinct feeling that I was doing something I should not be doing. Very creepy!
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Steve,
I remember. I quoted your post in the one I linked. It is truly amazing to me how the Holy Spirit can intervene in such a powerful way to help us discern what is evil and not of God.

Sometimes, we hear God in that “still small voice.” Other times, as in reading the Book of Mormon, we hear and feel it in both spirit and body. I praise God. He is always faithful to us.

Anna
 
KathleenGee said:
I just came out from Ex-Mormon.org.

I just read a link dated from 2012 that the LDS Church says that it never taught Mormon men and women could become gods.

I think back on Tom’s posts here and how he was drawing on all the EFC’s…but by passing many of their statements of faith, ‘ONE GOD’.

Now another interesting point came up as well.

They no longer do baptisms of the dead, but merely as…consider the term now and where you have heard it in your own ecclesial life…baptisms of the dead are now done more as ‘free will offerings’.

Oh boy…incredible.

I think the whole LDS should just fold up. The internet is exposing them. Ex Mormons came own showing statements of their teachings of last year and before about becoming gods.

And after reading Orson Pratt’s ramblings from the 1840’s and '50’s about the Great Roman Church and her (& Protestant daughters, he did not just die, he was shot in the back by the husband of Pratt’s 9th polygamous wife.

How the Mormons have changed their lingo, their beliefs in the past few years…

I pray again for the Mormon people…‘May the truth set you free’!..may you not lose faith in the One True God. Seek and you shall find.’
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wow. If there was ever a need for more proof it is a false church, you just gave it

“as man is, God once was…as God is, man may become” LDS PROPHET
 
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