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_Drifting
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Two mopologists explain the difference between...

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...the Mormon Holy Ghost and what non Mormons claim as the Holy Ghost:


Letters to a Mormon Elder: Eye Opening Information for Mormons and the Christians Who Talk with Them

by James R. White

Minneapolis, Minn. Bethany House, 1993. 304 pp., with scripture index. $8.00 donation.
Reviewed by Pahoran with Kerry A. Shirts

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I would also like to know what you mean when you say "the Spirit has testified" to you (p. 17). This is not because I doubt your sincerity, but because I wish to know whether we are talking about the same thing. Do you actually mean that you have personally received revelation from your Father in Heaven, by the power of the Holy Ghost?

Or do you mean what many, or most, evangelical Protestants have meant by similar statements—namely, that you have formed a conclusion from your reading of the Bible and you give that conclusion the status of a revelation?



http://maxwellinstitute.BYU.edu/publica ... m=1&id=310


Are they right to differentiate?
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Those writing or commenting on Latter-day Saint doctrine also need to understand that certain words in the Mormon vocabulary have slightly different meanings and connotations than those same words have in other religions. (or than those same words in real life...)

(from bcspace's pet, http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/a ... n-doctrine)

Every words in the Mormon vocabulary may have any meaning the Correlation Committee wants to have.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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