Reason # 193: “Doctrines That Are Going Away”
I am a “lurker” on an Internet message board where LDS historians and others speak about “doctrines that are going away” (their words, not mine.) Q: How can a DOCTRINE go away? A practice, yes. But a definition of God shouldn’t “go away,” right? Here’s another quote (which I assume is tongue in cheek, but telling): “Mormons, we used to be peculiar, but ever since 1995 we have been just as normal as you!” For more information, see The Mormon Mirage 3rd Edition: A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today (Zondervan, 2009). Also available as an audiobook and as an expanded-text E-book for Nook, Kindle and other reading...
Reason #192: Romney’s Candidacy Highlights the Role of LDS Secrecy
”That aspects of the religion of a devout president of the United States should be concealed from all but 2 percent of us may be a legitimate question that merits pondering.” Quote from a provocative article in The New York Times: Everyone is asking this question. Will This Election Be the Mormon Breakthrough? www.nytimes.com . ”That aspects of the religion of a devout president of the United States should be concealed from all but 2 percent of us may be a legitimate question that merits pondering.” Quote from this provocative article in The New York Times. . What is going on in those secret temple ceremonies? For more information, see The Mormon Mirage 3rd Edition: A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church...
Reason #191: What would a Christian Church have to Change to Become Mormon?
A VERY big unspoken assumption Mormons operate on is that all blessings (except the most general ones of having life itself and “rain on the just and the unjust” and Romans 1:18-20 type things) are only available through the LDS Church organization and priesthood as gatekeepers. I can’t emphasize enough how tied together the idea of eventual reward in heaven, is to membership in the LDS church. A very insightful question was asked by another ex-Mormon to a Mormon once: “What would my congregation have to change in order to be a Mormon congregation?” The answer is, almost everything they believe about salvation, the identity of God, and what practices are necessary, both in corporate worship and individual lives. LDS believers would...
Reason #189: A Breakthrough about the Eternal God
It’s been 38 years since I left Mormonism. For the first time, today, I thanked God for being eternal, infinite and unmeasurable, by time or any other means. For the first time, I am emotionally grateful that God is not the god of Mormonism. Goodbye, little god.
Reason #189: More about the Eternal God
A Christian friend of mine has an ongoing cyber-discussion with a Mormon. The Mormon recently sent him a chart he’d devised that supposedly contrasted Mormonism to Christianity. I was disheartened, because the Mormon wasn’t honest. He wanted agreement, not definition. Here’s something I wrote to my Christian friend about the correspondence with the Mormon, whom we’ll call George: I just did an interview yesterday with a Detroit radio station on the Salem network. I talked of the “unbridgeable gap” between LDS and Christian doctrine: that of the identity of God. (Pardon me if I’m repeating something I told you before, but here goes.) I am always struck by what happened to the Israelites while Moses was on the...
Two new online articles praise The Mormon Mirage
The furor over a Dallas pastor calling Mormonism “a cult” has led to the release of two new online articles that have nice things to say about my book, The Mormon Mirage. I’m particularly grateful to see that someone who doesn’t know me personally says that I’m not inclined to “bash” Mormons. Read that article, “Former Mormon Agrees With Baptist Minister that ‘Mormonism is a Cult’”. Also, a podcaster in Great Britain is reading the book. Here are some of his comments. He says that my book scares him. Did it scare you, and if so,...
