Aristotle Smith wrote:It's true, I am incredibly stupid.
I doubt that! :)
Aristotle Smith wrote:Leaving Mormonism for Christianity means learning to think and view the world differently. So if you would like to explore Christianity, I would explore resources that help you to do that.
My intent is not to
explore Christianity, at least at first. My intent is to find out
whether God endorses Biblical Christianity, to find out if God
wants me to explore Biblical Christianity.
Aristotle Smith wrote:I would recommend two things.
1) Get a modern Bible translation and start reading it. This will force you to see and think about things differently.
How will reading "a modern Bible translation" (or
any Bible for that matter) lead me to a knowledge of whether or not God endorses Biblical Christianity?
Aristotle Smith wrote:If/when you find one that you like give it a try for a few weeks to get a better idea.
I'm not interested in finding a congregation I like. I want to find the group of people
God wants me to associate with.
Aristotle Smith wrote:If you have a more scholarly bent, I can recommend good resources for studying the Bible and Christian theology.
Once again, I'm not really interested in "the Bible and Christian theology," at least at first. What I'm interested in is what the reasons are why I should believe
God wants me to be a part of Biblical Christianity. If and when I discover that God
does want me to be a part of that faith,
then at that point I'd be
completely happy to study the Bible and Biblical Christianity.
For completeness I should point out that I
am in fact a devout Latter-day Saint, and am convinced that God wants me to be in the LDS Church. But for decades now I've been of the opinion that it really can't hurt someone to give serious consideration to the possibility that that someone might be wrong about her/his core beliefs. So, Aristotle (or anybody else for that matter), how can someone like me go about discovering that God wants me to be a part of Biblical Christianity?