I think the post about being “wined and dined” and then the suggestion that this young man’s Mormon friend is out to “hit on him”…not worthy of Christians…just my opinion…why try to “demonize” this young man’s Mormon friend…or Mornoms in general…the reasoning is quite beyong me.This kid seems too young to be hit on by Mormons, at least I HOPE he’s too young. I can see teenagers getting baited - but 12 year olds? What is the rule about this, Mormons? This whole thing sounds a little off.
Tell him not to fear The Book, that it teaches no new doctrine, and is the only book that supports the Bible and confirms the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.This seems like good advice. Thanks.
Sorry to have stirred things up. It wasn’t my intent.
Thank you to the posters who asserted that this is a CCD class. I was about to make the same point.
I understand that you have no concept of absolute truth and that all religions are one big squishy happy fuzzy huggy amoeba to you; but many of us do believe in a sacred truth, and the Mormon understanding of that truth and the Catholic one are fundamentally at odds with one another. Mormons do indeed “recruit” young kids, and it can sow the seeds of doubt in a child’s mind, and eventually can lead to conflict and alienation among family members. I know; I have seen it in action myself. That they do this doesn’t make them “demons” but it does no one any favors to try to sugarcoat the fact that it goes on.I think the post about being “wined and dined” and then the suggestion that this young man’s Mormon friend is out to “hit on him”…not worthy of Christians…just my opinion…why try to “demonize” this young man’s Mormon friend…or Mornoms in general…the reasoning is quite beyong me.
Whatever segments you refer to are not part of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church does not deny the holocaust as recent news proves. Please do not mislead people by referring to “segments of the Catholic Church”And of course, if I had a student, I may tell him not to look into the catholic church because certain segments of the catholic church deny the holocaust. Would you agree?
I think the OP posted a very charitable attempt to find information about the Mormon church that she could present to this child that would be respectful, while not lending credibility to doctrine the Church considers false teaching.Wow. You people are that afraid of the Book of Mormon!
My guess is that the 6th grader got a Book of Mormon from a Mormon 6th grade classmate or neighbor.
6th grade is not too young to start reading the Book of Mormon although it will likely be years before real understanding is gained. Preteen boys typically love the battle scenes. It’s a start.
A Mormon 12 year old male, if worthy, will be ordained as a holder of the Aaronic Priesthood, will participate in the administration of the sacrament, will begin learning his greater ecclesiastical responsibilities, will meet and speak in the Sunday Priesthood session with men of his ward and with his own Priesthood quorum. He will also begin his role as an emissary of God.
Personally, I am not “afraid of the Book of Mormon.” To totally reject the Book of Mormon would mean to reject those portions of the book that clearly come straight out of the Bible. I look at the Book of Mormon as an apocryphal work with eponymous names and places. The chronology of the Book of Mormon is totally messed up (cf. references to Jesus and the Church by name during the Old Testament period), and the archaeological data is totally missing.Wow. You people are that afraid of the Book of Mormon!
My guess is that the 6th grader got a Book of Mormon from a Mormon 6th grade classmate or neighbor.
6th grade is not too young to start reading the Book of Mormon although it will likely be years before real understanding is gained. Preteen boys typically love the battle scenes. It’s a start.
A Mormon 12 year old male, if worthy, will be ordained as a holder of the Aaronic Priesthood, will participate in the administration of the sacrament, will begin learning his greater ecclesiastical responsibilities, will meet and speak in the Sunday Priesthood session with men of his ward and with his own Priesthood quorum. He will also begin his role as an emissary of God.
So which is it friendly act of a schoolmate or fulfilling his duties in the LDS church?Wow. You people are that afraid of the Book of Mormon!
My guess is that the 6th grader got a Book of Mormon from a Mormon 6th grade classmate or neighbor.
6th grade is not too young to start reading the Book of Mormon although it will likely be years before real understanding is gained. Preteen boys typically love the battle scenes. It’s a start.
A Mormon 12 year old male, if worthy, will be ordained as a holder of the Aaronic Priesthood, will participate in the administration of the sacrament, will begin learning his greater ecclesiastical responsibilities, will meet and speak in the Sunday Priesthood session with men of his ward and with his own Priesthood quorum. He will also begin his role as an emissary of God.
for the details.]Tell him not to fear The Book, that it teaches no new doctrine, and is the only book that supports the Bible and confirms the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
[See www.bomchristian.com
So a scientologist friend of yoru child’s begins to give him Hubbard’s books and wants to talk to him about the evil of pharmaceuticals… and you are truly neutral?Wow. You people are that afraid of the Book of Mormon!
My guess is that the 6th grader got a Book of Mormon from a Mormon 6th grade classmate or neighbor.
6th grade is not too young to start reading the Book of Mormon although it will likely be years before real understanding is gained. Preteen boys typically love the battle scenes. It’s a start.
A Mormon 12 year old male, if worthy, will be ordained as a holder of the Aaronic Priesthood, will participate in the administration of the sacrament, will begin learning his greater ecclesiastical responsibilities, will meet and speak in the Sunday Priesthood session with men of his ward and with his own Priesthood quorum. He will also begin his role as an emissary of God.
Of course we can all make comparisons such as yours. For example, as a parent would I want a friend of my child give him Mein Kampf and say, this book is wonderful, please read it? No.So a scientologist friend of yoru child’s begins to give him Hubbard’s books and wants to talk to him about the evil of pharmaceuticals… and you are truly neutral?
I don’t believe it for a second. I’ve seen enough Mormon parents fear a simple cup of coffee.
I don’t want to confuse you. But I do think that catholics should not be engaged in disparaging someone else’s faith either. To give an objective understanding of the book of mormon would be the way to go. Likewise, if a mormon child brought in a rosary to sunday school and ask if he or she should pray the rosary, I wouldn’t think it proper for the mormon teacher to disparage the catholic church with a some slanted ‘words’ about catholicism.Your arguments won’t help you steer DiggidyDog away from the truth, nor will they help you confuse me.
Mormons don’t need a hypothetical and unlikely scenario to teach using slanted words. They do it all the time, starting with: our creeds are an abomination.I don’t want to confuse you. But I do think that catholics should not be engaged in disparaging someone else’s faith either. To give an objective understanding of the book of mormon would be the way to go. Likewise, if a mormon child brought in a rosary to sunday school and ask if he or she should pray the rosary, I wouldn’t think it proper for the mormon teacher to disparage the catholic church with a some slanted ‘words’ about catholicism.
why me, why so defensive??? if you go back and read what my actual recommendations were, it was to explain in a basic way what mormonism is, what the book of mormon is in mormonism to put into context whatever the child’s friends have told him. Big deal.Of course we can all make comparisons such as yours. For example, as a parent would I want a friend of my child give him Mein Kampf and say, this book is wonderful, please read it? No.
But if I had a mormon 6th grader and he came into my class with a rosary and said that his friend told him to pray the rosary, I certainly wouldn’t become anticatholic and discourage him. I would just tell him why catholics pray the rosary but mormons don’t and give the reasons.
Why would I want to sour the child against his or her catholic friend by repeating anticatholicisms?
And catholics do it all the time on this forum by stating that mormonism is not christian.Mormons don’t need a hypothetical and unlikely scenario to teach using slanted words. They do it all the time, starting with: our creeds are an abomination.
If the kid just reads the BOM, he probably will find it boring, and rather incomprehisble at his age. Without the Mormon church behind them, I don’t think anyone wiould find this book worth reading. (No I have not read all of it, but enough to know).If Mormons feel they have to recruit children and teenagers as if they were selling encyclopedias, there is something wrong with what they are selling.
Children in the jurisdiction of their parents should be left that way. The Church has a rule that a child cannot be baptized without the consent of the parents. Not that this isn’t violated.
Even as a kid, I knew they were “hard-selling” me. I sensed something disturbing in that. Interestingly, the Scientologists went after my teenage brother. They even got him into their building. He did not join, but, he has never been quite the same.
I am aware that Mormon and JW’s use some of the same tactics. If any of you belong to these churches, doesn’t it bother you that it requires this type of “programming” to convince people of your point of view?
We are all indoctrinated into our parents’ beliefs. The difference is in whether or not we end up owning that belief according to, or against our will. This may be a difficult thing to discern. I purport that the techniques used by these churches cause conversions by tricks of the mind, rather than free will.