When people comment on my blog, I have it set so that I preview all comments first.
No comment can be posted without my approval.
Originally, I had my blog set so that anyone could post anything they wanted, and I didn't need to approve it.
I didn't want to limit what people could say on my blog.
Free speech = woot!
But then, over the course of time, I changed my settings to the current settings.
Why did I do this?
Because some people are just rude.
I started getting comments from anonymous people I didn't know that were rude.
Now, normally I wouldn't mind.
You don't have to agree with anything I write about.
You are allowed to have your own opinion.
But when I started getting rude comments that trashed my religious beliefs, I started to get angry.
Say what you want about me,
Do not say what you want about my Savior.
Let me clear some things up about Mormons.
First and foremost: we are Christians.
We are not Satanists or Devil worshippers.
It's right there in the name of the church:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
We believe Jesus Christ to be the divine Son of God.
We believe in our Heavenly Father.
We celebrate Christmas, the birth of our Savior, and Easter, the resurrection of the Christ.
In our church service, we partake of the sacrament: bread and water, in remembrance of the dying sacrifice our Savior made for us.
Second, we are not a cult.
No one is brainwashed.
No one is forced to join the church.
There's this thing called agency: free choice.
Everyone has a mind of their own.
Everyone is free to think for themselves.
That is something Jesus taught: we have the freedom to either accept or reject his gospel.
Third, the temple is not a place where all these crazy shenanigans happen.
The temple is the house of the Lord.
It is a sacred place where only those who are living the commandments of the Lord should attend.
Sacred ordinances happen in the temple.
Not actions that are to be mocked or defiled.
Fourth, we do not believe that only Mormons make it to Heaven.
That's just crazy.
Everyone can make it to Heaven.
God does not look at you and say, "Oh Helen, you lived a great life, a kind and caring soul. But I'm sorry, you are not Mormon, so you must go to Hell with Satan."
Um, no.
Fifth, yes we do have additional scripture than the Bible.
Key word being additional.
We still use, read, and study the Bible.
A lot.
We also have the Book of Mormon.
The Book of Mormon was written by the earliest of those of the Americas.
It was translated by the prophet Joseph Smith.
We regard the Book of Mormon as sacred scripture right along with the Bible.
If you don't know much about Mormonism, I encourage you to check out this site:
Or you can ask me anything you want to know.
You can check out my profile on Mormon.org {HERE}.
There I talk more in depth about the religion.
Please do not listen to random comments people make here and there.
Don't "Google" Mormonism - you'll get a lot of crazy things.
Mormonism is such a misunderstood religion.
And people, for some reason, like to trash it.
Just don't trash it on my blog.
;)
I am honestly confused by the Book of Mormon. Could you maybe explain what it is? I know it's supposed to be a companion book to the bible.
ReplyDelete"Smith said that an angel had directed him to a buried book of golden plates inscribed with a religious history of ancient American peoples."
Where are these plates? I don't think Jesus lived in America, or any of the apostles or deciples. And the bible was written a couple thousand years ago. So it seems to outsiders as something Smith pulled out of nowhere.
Smith was also a polygamist which goes against that rule of no adultery. I know Mormons are not polygamists, but you're regarding a book written by this morally corrupt guy as scripture.
I just want to know why Mormons think this book is legit, and I honestly do not at all mean it to be an attack or anything, I just don't understand.
Amen to that! i try to keep my comments on topic & positive and You've always approved them.
ReplyDeleteI love the Mormon TV commercials, they really show that we're all the same, no craziness needed.