Yesterday (September 12, 2013) the LDS Missionary Facebook page launched a challenge to fellow church members to share their testimony of Jesus Christ. Church members can meet the challenge a couple of ways; one is by making the icon seen here as their profile picture and another is by sharing their testimony of Jesus Christ on the various social media outlets.
I sent this picture and the link to the challenge to a friend this morning. I asked her “if they have a testimony of Jesus Christ, how in the world can they stay Mormon?” Even though my question was rhetorical the answer is very simple. The sad truth is they don’t know Jesus, the real Jesus.
Sure they know the guy who they’ve been taught is their elder spirit brother, who was chosen by their Heavenly Father over Lucifer to be the savior, who atoned for their sins in the garden of Gethsemane, who visited the people in the Americas, who’s just one god in a plethora of gods out there, who was first created spiritually through a sexual union between Heavenly Father and one of his goddess wives, and who possibly was a polygamist.
Even their past prophet Gordon B. Hinckley knew their Jesus wasn’t the one Christians worship.
“In bearing testimony of Jesus Christ, President Hinckley spoke of those outside the Church who say Latter-day Saints ‘do not believe in the traditional Christ.’ ‘No, I don’t. The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak. For the Christ of whom I speak has been revealed in this the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times. He together with His Father, appeared to the boy Joseph Smith in the year 1820, and when Joseph left the grove that day, he knew more of the nature of God than all the learned ministers of the gospel of the ages.'” (LDS Church News Week ending June 20, 1998, p. 7).
The Mormon Church is very good when it to comes to twisting and changing the meaning of words. They may be using the same vocabulary Christians use but their meaning is completely different.
Christians, if or when you see someone using this picture in social media speak up and share Jesus with them. Share His true gospel of grace with them; they need to know the truth before it’s too late.
In Christ,
Melissa Grimes
References:
The Share Your Testimony Challenge – https://www.facebook.com/notes/lds-missionaries/the-share-your-testimony-challenge/628148037205405
In addition, Christians don’t know the meanings are different. This is just as sad.
Amen to that sister! With the world throwing info at people a million miles a second it’s hard to keep focused and as time goes by that’ll only get worse. Because of that everyone’s too busy with their own agendas instead of obeying what the Lord said – expose the lies, make disciples of men, spread the gospel…
What we need to do is unite before it is too late. The Jesus we believe in is the same one you believe you believe in. He is the Son of God; He died for our sins; He rose from the dead so we will live again too.
This is from wiki.answers but actually addresses this quite well: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_the_Mormons_consider_the_Nicene_Creed_to_be_'corrupt_doctrine‘
Mormons are Christian’s best friend. When Christ returns good, God-fearing people of all faiths will live with Him. Please don’t spend your time dividing us. There’s too much real evil in this world for the believers to not be united – see here as one example: http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/religious-freedom-resources
Your friend and brother, Lee
The Jesus Mormons believe in isn’t the same as Christians worship, and for that I’m very thankful. You may believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and he died for our sins and rose again, but what do you believe about His beginnings?
For the Mormon he was a created being, conceived spiritually through some sort of act between the Mormon Heavenly Father and his goddess wife.
For the Christian He’s an uncreated being, and He is and always will be God.
For the Mormon Jesus is the spirit brother of Satan.
For the Christian Jesus created Satan.
I could go on.
Actually because of their rejection of what God has said about himself and His Word Mormons are the enemy of God, and therefore can’t be “best
friends” with the believing Christian.
When Christ returns with His body of believers Mormon’s will see how deceived they were, and not everyone who believes and fears God will spend eternity with Jesus Christ. Even the demons believe and have a fear of God yet they will have their place in hell along with everyone else who rejects the one true God.
Until you reject Mormonism, repent and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior you’ll never be my “brother”. Once you do so I’ll be more than happy to call you brother.
Your arrogance is appalling. I reached out in sincere brotherhood and in your arrogance and ignorance you rejected it. I am glad these comments are public so anyone can see your “fruits”. I do not require that you reject your Christianity before I call anyone a brother / sister. Amazing. What Jesus do you believe in? Obviously not the one who said to love another. I frankly forgive your rudeness. But I am sad something has blinded you so deeply. My desire was to unite. You want to be devisive just because you view my beliefs as incorrect. Very sad for you really.
To Leeziebarth –
1. this is your one and only warning. If you choose to call people names and attack their character you will be banned from this site.
2. The Jesus that Melissa is speaking about is the Jesus in the Bible. Joseph Smith rejected this Jesus and created his own idea of who Jesus should be. As Melissa kindly pointed out to you, the Jesus of the Bible wasn’t created, nor was He a brother in the sense of what the Church purports him to be.
Don’t get Melissa wrong – she doesn’t hate Mormons or you. Her heart is broken for those who are lost in this confusion of lies as she once was.
Know that we’re praying for you!
Michelle
LeeZieBarth – Despite what Mormons believe we’re not all brothers and sisters, we’re not automatically born into the family of God, nor did we exist in the prior to being born on earth.
I too am glad this is public. My hope and prayer for all Mormons is and will always be that they repent of their sins and of following this false religion, and that they’ll embrace the real gospel of Jesus Christ of grace not of temple works.
I tend to be very straight forward and blunt when it comes to sharing the truth about Mormonism, and the truth is this religion is going to take you to a place I know you don’t want to go. I also know that your pride and sense of allegiance to this religion won’t let you hear the truth right now but one day you will know the truth.
Leesiebarth-
Mormons are not Christians and NOT recognized as such by the vast majority of Christian churches. Despite what the LDS puts out and tells you, you are not a Christian. Here is why (as an example of the answer, from our church, Lutheran Church-Missouri synod, under the FAQ, Someone asked this question):
http://www.lcms.org/faqs/denominations#mormon
“Q: Are Mormons generally regarded as Christians, and how do their beliefs differ from those of the Missouri Synod?
A: The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, together with the vast majority of Christian denominations in the United States, does not regard the Mormon church as a Christian church. That is because the official writings of Mormonism deny fundamental teachings of orthodox Christianity. For example, the Nicene Creed confesses the clear biblical truth that Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Trinity, is “of one substance with the Father.” This central article of the Christian faith is expressly rejected by Mormon teaching- thus undermining the very heart of the scriptural Gospel itself. In a chapter titled “Jesus Christ, the Son of God: Are Mormons Christian?” the president of Brigham Young University (Rex Lee, What Do Mormons Believe? [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992] summarizes Mormon teaching by stating that the three persons of the Trinity are “not… one being” (21), but are “separate individuals.” In addition, the Father is regarded as having a body “of flesh and bone” (22). Such teaching is contrary to the Holy Scriptures, destructive to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and indicative of the fact that Mormon teaching is not Christian.”
“For more information …”
This is the link for the PDF with the more detailed explanations.
http://www.lcms.org/Document.fdoc?src=lcm&id=386
If you want to talk to one of our Pastors on what here wrote about the Trinity, go here, READ, then send hIm and email:
http://pastorreeder.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/we-confess-the-holy-trinity-father-son-and-holy-spirit/
Hope that you can see that you are not what the LDS is telling you- a Christian…this is part of their NEW teaching to members.