MrStakhanovite wrote:Rich,
It's nice to see an Apologist who is answerable to his Elders.
I read a post from a Christian father who joined a message board telling a story along these lines: “I raised my daughter as a Christian and she went to Church with me her whole life. Now she is 18 and has fallen in love with a young Mormon man. She just announced that she is going to marry him and I have just learned that her mother and I will not be allowed at the wedding. Please help.”
My thoughts are always, “Perhaps if you and your daughter had looked into Mormonism before she got engaged to this man, she may have made a more informed decision?”
Before I buy something from Amazon.com I read all of the reviews, both pro and con. If people would do the same type of comparison when it comes to their faith, at least they would have a ‘heads up’ about what they were buying.
For this dad it was too late. His daughter ended up shunning him. And, I’m not judging if shunning was the right or wrong thing to do. My point is: If dad would have looked into the LDS faith before this point in his life, at least he would have known what to expect. The answer, according to the daughter, is for dad and mom to convert to Mormonism. Problem solved!
The good news is: If the father and mother do become Mormons now, not only will they be redeemed in the eyes of their daughter, they will finally learn something about Mormonism!
Going to a church where teachings about contending faiths are not allowed, leaves the congregation wide-open to recieve messages from the Elders on the street, or, at the door.