Thursday, October 31, 2013
Help Us Please To "Come Out Of Mormonism!"
But come out of Mormonism and into WHAT?
They always say to 'come out of Mormonism" but into what? not ONE of my Christian brothers could agree on anything except for, "Just Not Mormon." (BY THE WAY, All credits to this piece goes to: D Lawrence Barksdale of the "Fair Mormon Apologetics Page" on Facebook)
This is an open invitation to our non-LDS friends, who are so eager to help us "come out of" Mormonism.
Here it is: "Witness to us." Really. We'd love to hear your witness, as long as it centers on what you DO believe, and not what you DON'T.
Speaking for myself, I'm ready to accept the Jesus of the Bible as my personal Savior and walk away from Mormonism forever..
But here's my deal...
1) Since you've told us (repeatedly) that we worship the "wrong" Jesus, you need to show us from the Bible where the 'homoousios' ("One-in-actual-substance-or-being") Jesus of the consubstantial Trinity is taught in the Bible. I'll need at least one passage that includes that all-important word, "homoousios," to be be acceptable. After all, it is the ONLY word in Koine Greek that means "one-in-actual-substance-or-being." I need the assurance that the Jesus YOU want me to believe in is the "right" Jesus.
2) Since you've told us that the "Bible Alone" is the ONLY source of spiritual truth, I need you to show me with irrefutable, incontrovertible evidence WHICH Bible I should accept... the one WITH the apocrypha, or the one WITHOUT. Which translation? They all differ. Which Codex? None of them agree. Then I need you to explain to me how a collection of books with over 350,000 textual variants is "infallible" and/or "inerrant."
3) Since the doctrine of salvation is so important, I need to be assured that you're not inviting me to believe in "another gospel" than what Paul taught. Therefore, you need to show me a) where Jesus taught Sola Fidianism, b) Where the NT teaches that obedience is not necessary, c) Why the Early Church Fathers never taught Sola Fidianism, and d) why NO ONE in Christianity taught Sola Fidianism until Martin Luther.
4) Since Jesus Himself established a very specific church organizational structure, complete with offices and authority, I need you to show me who your proposed church's prophets and apostles are. They are, after all, the very foundation of the church Christ established.
I have more, but these will suffice for now. I'm an open book. I'm ready to be "saved." The requests I have above are more than reasonable. The Bible teaches, if I'm not mistaken, to "give a good answer" to those who ask. Thanks in advance.
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LDS say the bible is wrong, or mistranslated, point out to me the wrong parts.
What is the NEW testament of Christ, in the BOM,
WHAT DID HE SAY?
Where in the bible are blacks less than the white man?
why were the plates written in Egyptian ?
Egyptians were not white?
First of all, allow me to correct you. In the Book of Mormon, our beliefs are already well understood. In 2 Nephi 26:33, we read, "...he doeth nothing save it be plain unto the children of men; and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile." (edited for length) - so right there, it is well established that salvation is a gift to all.
Not at any time has our church taught that whites are better than blacks so you would be in error to believe this. Even worse, to believe someone that tells you this. Can you say that racism is real and that some men have held preconceived ideas or beliefs about men and women of different cultures or races and mis judged them? Absolutely.
But what about priesthood and 1978 they ask me?
I can't even begin to explain the priesthood rites to people until they realize 2 things: 1) the author of this priesthood decides to whom this authority is given...and 2) not all men of Israel at all times during the history of the world were ALLOWED to hold the priesthood. Priesthood rites were based on lineage and being members of certain tribes of Israel. And YES, this is Biblical. Look it up.
1 of the 12 Tribes held the Levitical Priesthood or the Priesthood of Aaron and the other would hold the Melchizedek; (Through the tribe of Joseph) which was also part of the Blessing that Jacob gave to Ephraim and Manasseh, giving the majority of the blessings to the tribe of Ephraim. (Genesis 49:22-26, Deut 33:12-17)
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