tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6456004896537039211.post7757530183283212197..comments2023-10-29T01:02:38.839-07:00Comments on Ed Decker's Blog: Cult ThinkEd Deckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06045561099728631893noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6456004896537039211.post-61086183825098313462010-05-16T08:55:39.885-07:002010-05-16T08:55:39.885-07:00Hi Ed,
I found your site through OliveTreeViews.o...Hi Ed,<br /><br />I found your site through OliveTreeViews.org. I'm in my fifties and was saved at the age of 35 out of a very legalistic church with a works-based gospel. My closest school chum from 2nd grade through high school is LDS, from a strong LDS family, with an LDS husband and four children. We keep in touch though she lives out of state. I love her so much. I pray for an opportunity to proclaim the true gospel to her. I pray for her salvation. <br /><br />When we were in jr. high, I went twice with this friend to her Mormon girls' summer camp and witnessed first-hand this hypnotic bearing of testimonies which you've described. I was amazed but not swayed. I wasn't saved at the time (though I thought I was a Christian) but God protected me from being seduced by Mormonism.<br /><br />God bless you for your faithful ministry year in and year out. It must be exhausting and exasperating at times working in this highly resistant mission field - but God loves Mormons and I'm so glad you love them too! <br /><br />I'm looking forward to exploring the rest of your site and learning. Just wanted to encourage you, brother.<br /><br /><br />Til the shout, <br />LoriEd Deckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06045561099728631893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6456004896537039211.post-32589584634046733452010-05-07T08:37:30.336-07:002010-05-07T08:37:30.336-07:00I visited your site "Bot" and I am under...I visited your site "Bot" and I am underwhelmed.<br /><br />In support of your claim that "Mormons are First Century Chrisians" you cite the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices, anointing rutals, secret names and rituals, secret teaching about creation and levels of heaven in the same groups and, to top it all, you cite Harold Bloom, a self-declared "Jewish Gnostic" whose main area of expertise is literary criticism. You are sharp as a button, I will give you that.<br /><br />I can't quite put my finger on it but I sense something is missing...Oh! I know. The Bible and early Christian teaching. It always amazes me how much someone can achieve without ever engaging their mind, or opening the Word of God.<br /><br />As to so-called "Creedal Christians", you clearly don't understand the role of the creeds and confessions in Christian teaching and praxis, otherwise you would be thankful for the way they refute error and uphold truth. Oh, but you're a Mormon so maybe you would rather refute truth and uphold error. I see where your coming from now.<br /><br />"Creedal Christians", of course, is a handy tag that indolent Mormons use to characterise Christians with whom they don't agree rather than engage in discussion of the issues. It is meant to convey the erroneous nonsense that what we believe stems from the fourth century while what Mormons believe stems from the first (although it has to be said from desert groups whose teachings are not found in the Bible)<br /><br />The creeds declare biblical truth and if I were a betting man I would bet you a penny to a pound (alright, a dime to a dollar) that I can find so-called "Creedal Christianity" in the Bible while you will fail to find Mormonism there.<br /><br />Any time you want to take on the challenge I will be here. You name a Creedal statement and I will demonstrate its biblical root, then I will name a Mormon doctrine and you find its biblical root.Mike Teahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14505904110015305223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6456004896537039211.post-65365073066097273572010-05-06T16:53:41.058-07:002010-05-06T16:53:41.058-07:00Bot... Mormons are no more First Century Christian...Bot... Mormons are no more First Century Christians than they are 21st Century Christians. <br /><br />They reject the Cross, they reject His blood, they reject the gift of salvation freely given to those who believe, they serve a false Jesus, brother of Lucifer, serve a false prophet..one who does not prophesy, they reject His completed Word...They toss out grace and pick up works..<br /><br />The list goes on....Ed Deckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06045561099728631893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6456004896537039211.post-3470250134036692392010-05-06T15:37:31.437-07:002010-05-06T15:37:31.437-07:00This an excellent and forensic description of what...This an excellent and forensic description of what you aptly call cult think. It is exactly how it works and so frustrating when you do so much work to faithfully respond from Scripture only to find it ignored by a Mormon who doesn't even know how to respond to and use Scripture.<br /><br />I have taught for years that Christians need to be sharp and to model sound biblical dexterity so that the Mormon goes away with a picture not only of what you have said but of how you deftly and confidently handled the book. It is no guarantee of success but they must see it done becasue they don't see it done in church.<br /><br />Your picture of a glazed look is chilling but you are right. People won't believe it of their friends but they really do switch off and become Stepford believers.Mike Teahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14505904110015305223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6456004896537039211.post-86452123498991654632010-05-06T04:51:42.187-07:002010-05-06T04:51:42.187-07:00Mormons are First Century Christians, not Fourth C...Mormons are First Century Christians, not Fourth Century Creedal Christians;<br /><br />http://MormonsAreChristian.blogspot.comBothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00757658749743484881noreply@blogger.com