Meet a Real Mormon!

I'm not a big fan of being against things. I prefer being for things.

When I was trying to choose a church to join, I avoided those that spent all their time trying to put down other churches. I felt that their own beliefs must be shaky or shallow if they had so much time to waste being against other churches. I wanted one so full, so spiritually rich, that they had too much to teach about their own beliefs to waste time on what others believe.

And I found one.

One problem I have with so much anti-Mormonism is that it is amazingly canned. Long ago, some bored, angry people with nothing better to do thought up a bunch of arguments. Sucessive generations repeated the same nonsense. No one fact checks. No one keeps up with new developments. No one has any idea if that silly nonsense is true or on target.

Often the nonsense I hear concerns fringe ideas. They aren't canonized doctrine. They're things we don't know, really. Mormons are like anyone else. We like to speculate on things. We're intelligent so we do a lot of wondering. Even leaders have done a lot of wondering, although in recent years, they've learned some people aren't careful enough to know the difference between doctrine and opinion, so they're more cautious to explain which is which. Who, in Brigham Young's day, could have imagined how far communication would progress?

Much of it is half truth. They take a piece of the doctrine and don't include the rest or teach it without the background that would make it comprehensible, and thus mislead their students/readers. This is fundamentally dishonest, and dishonesty is not a good Christian value.

When people want to know about me, I hope they will come and ask me themselves. I don't want them to go to my enemy, because naturally, everything about me will get slanted to make me look bad. I'm sure you feel the same way. When you go to anti-Mormons to learn about my religion, you are intentionally seeking out a slanted point of view and that is unkind and unfair.

If you want to know what I believe, ask. If you want to know what my church believes, go to the source. Then go to the real source.

Who is the only source of absolute truth? God. Ask Him. I did.

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