sock puppet wrote:But it might be only COJCOLDS and Catholicism that drove people away from Christianity due to each religion's claim to be the only true church, with necessary authority to conduct saving ordinances.
I've read about too many Protestants who became atheists to believe that.
Was it due to the Protestant sects' claim to be the one and only true church of god?
BartBurk wrote:Could the LDS Church's doctrine be correct even if the founding story is false? Could the Book of Mormon's doctrine be correct even if it wasn't delivered by an angel with gold plates?
The Community of Christ noticed than under everything else there is still a Christian church.
bcspace wrote:Very little has changed in decades. The doctrine remains the doctrine and even perennial favorites such as plural marriage and the priesthood ban are still unchanged doctrine.
bcspace, do you believe the doctrine of the Priesthood ban - excluding otherwise worthy people from holding the Priesthood solely because of their lineage; is from God? Do you agree with it?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
sock puppet wrote:Was it due to the Protestant sects' claim to be the one and only true church of god?
Protestants claim the church only consists of all believers in Jesus Christ so in effect they are making a claim to be part of the one true church as well. Many Protestant churches claim that people who reject their version of Jesus (Mormons and Catholics for example) are damned. I don't see much of a difference in their claims than I see in the claims of the Mormons, Catholics and Eastern Orthodox. And some Protestants do quit their churches and become atheists.