Comments on: New Dialogue with a Mormon Apologist https://mormonisminvestigated.co.uk/2014/05/24/new-dialogue-with-a-mormon-apologist/ Mon, 06 Jun 2016 22:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bobby https://mormonisminvestigated.co.uk/2014/05/24/new-dialogue-with-a-mormon-apologist/#comment-12077 Sat, 24 May 2014 21:25:17 +0000 http://mormonisminvestigated.co.uk/?p=2216#comment-12077 You are right this does not perfectly fit my overall goal. But I like trying new things and I like this guy I am dialoguing with.

Sometimes its nice to show LDS people I can listen as well as speak. But hey, we will see hot this goes.

]]> By: Bobby https://mormonisminvestigated.co.uk/2014/05/24/new-dialogue-with-a-mormon-apologist/#comment-12076 Sat, 24 May 2014 21:22:53 +0000 http://mormonisminvestigated.co.uk/?p=2216#comment-12076 We will have to see Ned, but I like trying things like this, hopefully helps you guys see I am not all bad.

]]> By: Ned Scarisbrick https://mormonisminvestigated.co.uk/2014/05/24/new-dialogue-with-a-mormon-apologist/#comment-12073 Sat, 24 May 2014 20:57:13 +0000 http://mormonisminvestigated.co.uk/?p=2216#comment-12073 Interesting. If we keep our guns holstered and don’t come out blasting away, hmmm…

-Ned

]]> By: Henry Lions https://mormonisminvestigated.co.uk/2014/05/24/new-dialogue-with-a-mormon-apologist/#comment-12063 Sat, 24 May 2014 18:38:33 +0000 http://mormonisminvestigated.co.uk/?p=2216#comment-12063 An interesting idea, Bobbie, but ultimately the point of you ministry is still, I assume, to draw people out of the LDs and in to mainstream Christianity, and the purpose of some one such as Mr. Flournoy’s work is to bring people in to “the restored Gospel of the LDS.”
Surely this puts you both in a position of irreconcilable difference?
In both cases the showing of respect and of “getting along” can only have one purpose; that being to establish a firm footing in trusting friendly relationship from which to try and prove to the other that they are mistaken in their religious certainties and attempt to “save” the lost sheep.
The other point at which this whole exercise will be at odds is that aside from the affiliations of either interlocutor a Mormon, or Latter Day Saint proceeds from the assumption that the LDS and the mainstream churches have more in common than they have differences, where as the mainstream Christian, especially the evangelical variations, proceed from the standpoint that the LDS are not Christians at all and that the members of the LDS are subject to Satanic deception.
To the Evangelical this is a blasphemy, to the LDS this is highly insulting and offensive.

It will be interesting to see how the experiment progresses and how long it will last, but I do hope you are both going in to this with eyes open, a genuine empathy and understanding for the motives and intentions of the other and an expectation that it is at best likely to be ineffectual on those entrenched in their individual beliefs and likely to back fire on those in your readerships with weaker testimonies either by converting them in an unexpected direction, or in destroying their faith altogether.

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