Prominent Evangelical Scholar Takes on Mormonism in 'Christian' Debate

jessica333 »

Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:25 am Agree: 20   Disagree: 4

I became a Christian while being raised by devout mormon parents. My father was a high priest...my mother served as relief society president. And I served as the president of our ward's youth organization. Dubbed as "special" and "spiritual", I was often asked to give "talks" during weekly services. Monday nights were reserved for our Family Home Evenings, and we concluded each day on our knees in prayer.
But it was not until I was 8 years old that I heard the true gospel for the first time when I attended a neighborhood Christian church with a friend. For the first time, I heard a preacher describe my internal struggle with sin perfectly. For the first time, I heard someone describe the sin nature that accompanies each physical birth, and its need for redemption. For the first time, my eyes recognized the cross as the point of origin, where sin dies and new life begins...not a weapon of destruction (which is the perception of mormons whose confused theology denigrates the cross as a weapon used to kill rather than the instrument of salvation.) And finally, I heard the divinity of Christ exalted as the One and Only Way of salvation... Not one of many gods...nor the created son of one of many gods...but the One true God over the heavens and earth through whom all things were made. At 18, I abandoned mormonism, following the Lord's lead to a Bible Study. After nine years of intense study, God's Word succeeded in peeling away the scar tissue of deceit, grafting in the truth found only in the Bible.

Do I hate mormons? No, they are not the enemy. I remember what it felt like to be ostracized and abused by many well-intentioned Christians.

Would I vote for a mormon president, who met the qualifications and was a "good" man? Absolutely not... A man caught in such a gruesome web of spiritual deception could not possibly lead a country-in-crisis with God's strength and discernment. A man who believes that he will one day become a god of his own world will not lead under the yoke and in submission to the God of this universe. Remember Jesus' words to those deceived by appearances, "Woe to you... You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean..." Matt. 23:27

Do not lower your defenses against this seemingly harmless, peace-loving cult... Heed the warning..."And no wonder, for satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness..." 2 Cor. 11:14-15