Yes, so people who live in glass houses . . . At the same time, if other Christians dump on Mormons for not being their definition of Christian, it is kinda difficult just to take that one lying down. It could get a person's dander up. As much as I love our resident Christians, and I really do--respecting their religion increasingly as time goes by--I am often left to wonder why it is that Mormons need to become more Protestant or orthodox, in the general sense of the term, to be properly Christian.drumdude wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2023 6:51 pmHe writes as if he has discovered the truth that Mormonism all fits together and the evidence supports it.
But he can't put all these fragments into a cohesive whole. Because as you said, there is no obviously right version of Christianity. One man's truth is another man's falsehood. There is no objective way to weight all of the evidence in support of one objectively correct interpretation. It's all ultimately subjective, and should be understood likewise.
Who is to say that the creeds are right? If they are not, then why don't other theologies work just as well? Is the Book of Mormon "wrong" because it is not part of the old Biblical canon? Were the proto-orthodox Christians of the second or fourth centuries AD the people that God chose to tell everyone else what Christianity should be? Was Paul?
I'm just not convinced. Honestly, I don't like Paul all that much. Why should I care so much about what he thinks?