findbeautyinallyoudo asked: I'm a Mormon. I just watched your video about mormonism, and how we are on a path to hell. I love how you encouraged others to explore other religions, I would hope that something you would encourage your followers to read would be our doctrine, "The Book of Mormon," and I would hope you encourage them to fervently pray to their Father in Heaven and ask if it's true. Mormonism 101 may be a great book, but it's not what we live by, to understand us, read the Book of Mormon, and pray about it.
I can assure you I will not be asking my followers to pray about the Book of Mormon anytime soon.
However, I will undoubtedly ask my followers to examine the Book of Mormon’s teachings for themselves to find out if it matches up with reality and the world that we see around us — which it does not. The evidence stacked up against what I would consider a 19th century novel makes any warm, fuzzy feelings I might get about it entirely void.
Jeremiah 17:9, as well as other passages, tell me that my heart is deceitful and wicked above all things. How can I trust what such a heart tells me as ultimate Truth? 1 John 4:1 and 1 Thessalonians 5:21 call me to test everything that claims to be of God, line it up with the Bible and with reality, and see if it proves itself to be true. I have done just that, and it is overwhelmingly evident that Mormonism does not line up with logic or reality.
You might be surprised to find how many of your own church’s publications and leadership are quoted in books like Mormonism 101, which are then disproved by comparison to Biblical Christianity.
Might I also challenge you with a reading assignment? The New Testament is something that many Mormons, while claiming it as their Scripture, are unfamiliar with. However, it is filled with reasons why there is nothing that a sinful man can do to earn his way into God’s favor. That alone is reason enough why I could never accept the Book of Mormon to be true.
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