RE: Questions to ask a Mormon
September 20, 2009 at 2:01 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2009 at 2:23 pm by Rhizomorph13.)
Danny,
I've done what you are about to do and the only thing I would suggest is to stay near your computer with http://www.bilbegateway.com open so you can check all their biblical references. Me and a friend allowed a couple mission workers to preach their message to us, it was a seven week course where they visited us every Thursday. We were surprised at how poorly their biblical references supported the points they were preaching. After all, this was a presentation that the Mormon Church designed to win new Mormons. After a couple sessions with them they brought in three church elders! They were no help and gave us pat answers like, "Well, it is a matter of faith."
I don't know what Fr0d0 is on about. It was a great opportunity to learn about the Mormon religion, they were quite forthcoming about what they believe. They spoke of Elohim, the angel Moroni and the golden scrolls and how after Joseph Smith translated them (No mention of special stones or a hat into which he gazed) the angel Moroni took them back to heaven. (How conveinient!) Ok, so they didn't talk about magic underwear, or sex through a sheet or any of the weirder bits that I have only picked up from dysphemistic Christian sources but they gave me the gist.
Rhizo
Edit - Oh, and they went into great detail about the planet we, as men, would rule. It sounded great! We would be able to populate our planet by taking as many wives as we could find. Women can't get to heaven unless they marry a Mormon, sorry girls.
I've done what you are about to do and the only thing I would suggest is to stay near your computer with http://www.bilbegateway.com open so you can check all their biblical references. Me and a friend allowed a couple mission workers to preach their message to us, it was a seven week course where they visited us every Thursday. We were surprised at how poorly their biblical references supported the points they were preaching. After all, this was a presentation that the Mormon Church designed to win new Mormons. After a couple sessions with them they brought in three church elders! They were no help and gave us pat answers like, "Well, it is a matter of faith."
I don't know what Fr0d0 is on about. It was a great opportunity to learn about the Mormon religion, they were quite forthcoming about what they believe. They spoke of Elohim, the angel Moroni and the golden scrolls and how after Joseph Smith translated them (No mention of special stones or a hat into which he gazed) the angel Moroni took them back to heaven. (How conveinient!) Ok, so they didn't talk about magic underwear, or sex through a sheet or any of the weirder bits that I have only picked up from dysphemistic Christian sources but they gave me the gist.
Rhizo
Edit - Oh, and they went into great detail about the planet we, as men, would rule. It sounded great! We would be able to populate our planet by taking as many wives as we could find. Women can't get to heaven unless they marry a Mormon, sorry girls.
