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http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=6QSvH-69GRA

at 1:53 you can see how this Mormon Missionary prefers to carry his Book of Mormon. I don't think I would accept this one after seeing where it has been.

The video also shows how bad some missionaries can act. It seems like more and more videos are popping up on youtube showing terrible behavior of LDS Missionaries. I would not be surprised if they make a new rule that says if anybody is video taping you, leave before you embarrass the church.

The missionaries were acting poorly, but the born-agains were taking it to a whole new level of arrogance. The sort of preacher who would assume that everyone else has committed all of the internal "sins" that they presumably have deserves the sort verbal smackdown that those missionaries were obviously not skilled enough to give. "Judge not, that ye be not judged..."

Thama wrote:The missionaries were acting poorly, but the born-agains were taking it to a whole new level of arrogance. The sort of preacher who would assume that everyone else has committed all of the internal "sins" that they presumably have deserves the sort verbal smackdown that those missionaries were obviously not skilled enough to give. "Judge not, that ye be not judged..."

I would not say the born-agains were being arrogant because they would say they are guilty of everything also. If you have not seen these guys before they pretty much run down the 10 commandments and ask if anybody is guilty of them. Of course everybody is including the people doing the preaching and they will admit that. This is the same approach that Ray Comfort and his buddies use like at the web site www.wayofthemaster.com

Their message is pretty simple "Everybody is a sinner, you need Christ or go to hell forever".

They put somebody up on the stand to try and get a crowd going and then the others do the one on one stuff when people stop. I would not say it is offensive, just a different way of preaching the "Jesus Saves" Gospel.

I don't find it any more offensive than Mormon Missionaries going around and preaching what they believe is true.

Not saying that these EVs have the truth, just that I don't find it offensive what they are doing like this missionary did.

neworder wrote:I would not say the born-agains were being arrogant because they would say they are guilty of everything also. If you have not seen these guys before they pretty much run down the 10 commandments and ask if anybody is guilty of them. Of course everybody is including the people doing the preaching and they will admit that. This is the same approach that Ray Comfort and his buddies use like at the web site http://www.wayofthemaster.com

Their message is pretty simple "Everybody is a sinner, you need Christ or go to hell forever".

They put somebody up on the stand to try and get a crowd going and then the others do the one on one stuff when people stop. I would not say it is offensive, just a different way of preaching the "Jesus Saves" Gospel.

I don't find it any more offensive than Mormon Missionaries going around and preaching what they believe is true.

Not saying that these EVs have the truth, just that I don't find it offensive what they are doing like this missionary did.

It's not the street-preaching techniques which are arrogant. Those are annoying, but so is tracting. It's the assumption throughout their preaching that they know what those around them have done, thought and believed that is arrogant.

The most egregious example of this is their insistence that the missionaries are not Christian. According to their own doctrine, what is important to salvation is one's personal relationship with Jesus. To have that belief, and then go up to anyone and tell them that they are not saved, that their relationship with Jesus is flawed, with the wrong Jesus, or whatever other BS responses their pastor has come up with for keeping the money in his coffers from leaking into the Mormon church... it's arrogant virtually by definition.

"Why are you so fat?" He's 150lbs overweight.
How much does he eat daily to maintain this fatty blob?

His ecclestial leaders should recognize the real problem this guy
faces, instead of sending him on mission field to be ridiculed he should go to a Phat Farm.

But as is the case more often than not, a "Crutches" like to work in pairs.