quote:Originally posted by Jennifer:quote:Originally posted by beternU:quote:Originally posted by Jennifer:
I suggest you ask a Mormon. I'm not a devotee of any religion, but I do know why the Mormons "store up food", and I have ask questions about things I want to know from followers of other religions.
I have had visits from four different sets of Mormon "elders" doing their missionary work. None of these fuzzy-cheeked "elders" knew as much about Mormon history and doctrine as I do. I asked them numerous questions that pretty much dumfounded them. In particular, I showed them where the Book of Mormon condemns plural marriage and the Doctrine & Covenants (considered by Mormons as an inspired work equal in authority to the Bible)mandates every able Mormon man to engage in plural marriage, with both books citing the practice ln the Old Testamant--the Book of Mormon claiming it to have been an abomination in the sight of God and the D & C Testament asserting that the practice found no condemnation in His eyes.
When I showed each of these Mormon missionaries the conflicting passages from their "scriptures" none of them could explain the discrepancy, but each group promised to confer with someone in the church more knowledgeable than themselves and get back to me with an explanation. I never heard back from any of them.
When confronted with such difficulties, Mormons invariably will rationalize the matter by saying something essentially like this," I might not understand everything about the scriptures, but I have asked God to tell me if Joseph Smith is a true proplet of God and if the Book of Mormon is the true word of God, and God has revealed to my heart that these things are true."
Thus they rest their faith upon the emotional perception that God has come directly to them and confirmed their heresy!
Pardon me if I don't really believe you've been visited by Mormons (unless invited), or "stumped" them with questions. Personally I have never known Mormons to go door to door like that, and especially to the extent you'd be visited four times. I don't think you're an expert on the Mormon religion or any other. Your interest in the Mormons seems to stem from your hatred and fear of Glen Beck, and your desire to attack and discredit him. Have you taken apart other religions as well? Do you yourself follow any religion? It seems odd to me that you would devote so much time to Mormons and not all the other religions out there. Are you as well versed in Islam? Scientology? How about the Baptists, Church of Christ, Amish, Quakers, Jehovahs Witnesses, Catholics, the list goes on and on.
Then you've not read many of beter's posts. Whether you agree with him or not, you have to at least accept that he's very intelligent and could "stump" a Mormon with questions without a problem.
In fact, many Christians could because what's in their Book or Mormon contradicts the Bible. Beter has already pointed out quite a bit of it and it has absolutely nothing to do with Glenn Beck. Personally, I didn't even know Beck was Mormon until well after I'd heard enough of his show to convince me he's crazy.
And the Mormon's do go door to door and try to convince people that Mormonism is the one true religion. I have a good friend who's Mormon - so is her family - and I've learned quite a bit about how they operate. Beter is right when he says they rationalize what doesn't make sense by saying "God revealed Mormonism as truth" and my friend used to tell me that Christianity is all based on faith anyway, so they just have faith that Joseph Smith was not a fraud.