Any Mormons Here?

[firem3]

are you a judeao christian? if so why would you invite a group into your home to plant a seed of doubt in your heart. If Ive been educated properly on them they believe in salvation through work I believe in salvation through the Crucifixion of Christ, faith in that results in good work not good work results in faith. they claim to have new books in the bible, I'm not sure of their origin or even what they teach but be very careful not to allow your faith in Christ to be tainted by swift tongue salesmen.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

Wow, very intellectual thread we have going here! I am enjoying and learning from your posts...well, all but Mark's, lol!!!..think I must have known him in high school!!...anywya, great posts, alot of info. I hadn't really thought about, especially firem3's post.

 

[TxChiknRanchers]

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Can't add anything to that ! Well said.

Randy

 

[speckledhen]

Lisa Jean, I will be sending you a PM soon. Thanks.

**Sent.

 

[arlee453]

Well, since you invited them I think you should at least be polite enough to welcome them nicely. However, if they start talking religion, I would just say, "I hope you didn't take my invitation to come over as an indication I am interested in Mormonism. Now, would you like some cookies?"

If they persist, then I'd politely say, "I really have no wish to discuss religion. If that is all you would like talk about, then we really have nothing left to speak about. Thanks for coming by." as you stand up and start walking to the door.

Believe me, if they are missionaries, they are used to the RUDEST behavior. They will not likely take offense personally if you are kind but firm.

Being kind but firm is the Christian way, I believe. If you are firm in your own faith, then it doesn't matter what they say to you - they are not going to sway you, and being rude them them is probably not what Jesus would do...just my opinion there...

When these folks stop by my house I always say hello to them on the porch, then kindly say something like "I really admire you for taking on your mission and believing so strongly in your own religion. However I am a member of XXX church already and and very comfortable with my beliefs. thanks for stopping by"

I do admire them - it takes a lot of guts to go up to perfect strangers day in and day out to talk about your religious beliefs. Many of us aren't comfortable speaking about our beliefs in our own churches or families, so I do think highly of their motivations. I just don't have any interest in hearing a sales pitch for another belief system...

 

[Zylphrix]

yea .. im that guy most of the time ... but I try to keep it clean and respectful

... its not easy trying to be good all the time

Mark

 

[OHChick]

i hope this doesn't get me flamed here but... i don't think we should ridicule anyone else's religion. every church/denomination has its own rites, etc and think how hurtful it would be if someone made fun of your's.

i personally enjoy learning about other religions. i have friends of differing christian varieties, jewish friends, hindu friends, jehovah's witness friends, mormon friends. (tho i think the last 2 are technically christian as well.) i enjoy chatting with them, learning their traditions. the people i surround myself with are interested in sharing their beliefs, not converting me. and i find that educational and quite enjoyable.

merry christmas to you all.

 

[TransplantedTexan]

"Magic underware"
That's hilarious, but true.

My mother has been a christian all her life, the daughter of a So. Baptist minister. She knows the bible like the back of her hand. When i was a kid my brother and I would always laugh when the J.Witness's or Mormans came to the door.
Little did they know what my mom had in store for them.
She would invite them in and go to work on them.
There they would sit in the living room, both feverishly trying to convert one another.

I am sure the women will love this tidbit from Mormanism..
"Celestial" marriage, as this eternal marriage is often called, is essential for Mormon women. Without being celestially married to a holder of the priesthood, a woman cannot be "saved" (Green 154). Mary Ettie Smith, a Mormon woman who left the church and Utah in 1856, said that "women do not amount to much in themselves," and that women in those times were often celestially married to men they had no intention of ever living with, so that they could have a man who would be able to get them into heaven (Green 154).

http://www.exmormon.org/mormwomn.htm

 

[LisaJean]

OHChick, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be offensive with my last post. I actually find a lot to giggle about in most religions. I didn't mean to pick on Mormonism in particular.

It's just funny to be an outsider looking at these things.

I think I will have the men over anyway. If things get too heated I can always excuse myself to the bathroom, and then come out naked.

 

[SunChick]

Naked!