I get a lot of guff for being a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) from the Prods. Catholics, JW's, and other non-Protestants religions don't have any issues but the Prods start frothing at the mouth and calling my church a cult and telling me I'm going to hell. Is that Christian love or what?
2006-07-12 04:32:35 · 17 answers · asked by Ethan M 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Tina B. Well said thank you
2006-07-12 04:47:23 · update #1
Not really Christian Love as you say. Heck, I have been getting guff from Prods all my life for being a Catholic. I don't understand what their problem is. We invented the religion that they are practising - they just didn't like certain things about it - like no divorce etc and they broke away. The only difference is the pope and that was Henry the VIII's problem. I think that religious intolerance has been around forever. Something people are taught from childhood so they just have a problem without thinking about it!
2006-07-12 04:39:41 · answer #1 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Then why are you attacking the Protestants? If Mormons followed the word of God and not some foolish man they wouldn't be under scrutiny.
I had to live with Mormonism as a child so there is nothing you can tell me about it. On the most part that's why I've been a Born-Again Christian for many years.
2006-07-12 11:38:56 · answer #2 · answered by Who am I? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well...the truth is that Mormonism doesn't believe in the Jesus of the Bible (Old and New Testament). Since I'm not Catholic and I'm not a Mormon...I guess that makes me a "Prod" as you put it. But God's Word is the final authority...not Protestants, Catholics, or anyone else.
2006-07-12 11:46:20 · answer #3 · answered by DL 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are enough significant differences in beliefs as they pertain to Christ, salvation, and God, that Mormonism cannot be reconciled with Christianity.
Please go to the link below. It helps explain the significant differences between what a Mormon believes and what protestants and catholics believe based on the Bible. Just go through the links in the "In this entry" section.
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/m04.html
Just a sample of the differences just with Jesus Christ are: (M=Mormon thought, C=Christian thought)
M: Jesus was created and the elder brother of Lucifer
C: Jesus is the uncreated God
M: Jesus was once sinful and imperfect.
C: Eternally sinless and perfect.
M: Jesus earned his own salvation
C: Since He is God, He never required salvation.
M: Jesus is just one of many gods.
C: Unique as the Second Person of the one and only Godhead.
2006-07-12 11:38:26 · answer #4 · answered by bobm709 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Welcome to being a minority. In the world today no matter if it is religion or politics the majority rules. That is until enough minorities stand up together and say we have had enough. People fight everyday for equality, Both in this nation and around the world. Sometimes they win the war, but only after losing a lot of battles.
This country was founded on freedom. Yet I think too many tend to forget this belief. Instead they try force others into their beliefs. This world is large enough that we can all enjoy our own beliefs and co-exist.
2006-07-12 11:39:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believe what you believe and let others do the same. I sometimes wonder about all religious people giving out about all the other religions, it shows a lack of trust in ones own faith when you constantly have to give digs at others and spread the message by way of preaching about change. Be an example instead.
2006-07-12 11:41:20 · answer #6 · answered by ThereisEnough 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Protestants.
2006-07-12 11:35:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many religionists and so-called Christians who cannot use the bible alone as their authority. Such ones tend to use name-calling and insults in place of logic and Scriptural reasoning. Besides throwing the "cult" bomb at everything in sight, they even deny that some well known religions are even Christian!
For example, Trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.
The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".
In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all the times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"
(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.
(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”
(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name
So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:
(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded
Learn more!
http://watchtower.org
2006-07-12 16:43:55 · answer #8 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Protestants have the tendency to call EVERYONE a cult a telling them they're going to hell. Muslims, Jews, Catholics, we all get it from them.
Just let your heart be at peace with what you believe, and pray for them.
God bless.
2006-07-12 11:35:56 · answer #9 · answered by Robin J. Sky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Martin Luther
2006-07-12 11:37:42 · answer #10 · answered by tdsbu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋