I wrote this to a friend on a Mormon chat group who lost faith in God after many years of attempting to defend the Church. I have only added a word or two here and there.
What gags me is how pathetic it is to accuse God foolishly. Mormons are raised in compound condemnation. They break the commandments of Jesus Christ every week by administering the sacrament to anyone trampling upon what the Father commanded Jesus to make clear to the Nephites/Lamanites.
3 Nephi 18
26 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken these words, he turned his eyes again upon the Disciples whom he had chosen, and said unto them:
27 Behold verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you another commandment, and then I must go unto my Father that I may fulfil bother commandments which he hath given me.
28 And now behold, this is the commandment which I give unto you, that ye shall not suffer any one knowingly to partake of my flesh and blood unworthily, when ye shall minister it;
29 For whoso eateth and drinketh my flesh and blood unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to his soul; therefore if ye know that a man is unworthy to eat and drink of my flesh and blood ye shall forbid him.
30 Nevertheless, ye shall not cast him out from among you, but ye shall minister unto him and shall pray for him unto the Father, in my name; and if it so be that he repenteth and is baptized in my name, then shall ye receive him, and shall minister unto him of my flesh and blood.
31 But if he repent not he shall not be numbered among my people, that he may not destroy my people, for behold I know my sheep, and they are numbered.
32 Nevertheless, ye shall not cast him out of your synagogues, or your places of worship, for unto such shall ye continue to minister; for ye know not but what they will return and repent, and come unto me with full purpose of heart, and I shall heal them; and ye shall be the means of bringing salvation unto them.
33 Therefore, keep these sayings which I have commanded you that ye come not under condemnation; for wo unto him whom the Father condemneth.
Then Jesus made certain that the Mormons realized that they were in this very situation early on by September of 1832.
D&C 84
54 And your minds in times past have been darkened because of unbelief, and because you have treated lightly the things you have received—
55 Which vanity and unbelief have brought the whole church under condemnation.
56 And this condemnation resteth upon the children of aZion, even all.
57 And they shall remain under this condemnation until they repent and remember the new covenant, even the Book of Mormon and the former commandments which I have given them, not only to say, but to ddo according to that which I have written—
58 That they may bring forth fruit meet for their Father’s kingdom; otherwise there remaineth a scourge and judgment to be poured out upon the children of Zion.
59 For shall the children of the kingdom pollute my holy land? Verily, I say unto you, Nay.
And this partaking of the sacrament having never received the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost is only the first offense....
1. Being ordained to the priesthood
2. Holding high callings
3. Temple endowments
4. Holding the highest callings
All these offenses and the like cause DARKNESS of mind........loss of faith.....cluelessness about scripture and the REAL gospel. And it stews until:
3 Ne. 16: 10
10 And thus commandeth the Father that I should say unto you: At that day when the Gentiles shall sin against my gospel, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel, and shall be lifted up in the pride of their hearts above all nations, and above all the people of the whole earth, and shall be filled with all manner of lyings, and of deceits, and of mischiefs, and all manner of hypocrisy, and murders, and priestcrafts, and whoredoms, and of secret abominations; and if they shall do all those things, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel, behold, saith the Father, I will bring the fulness of my gospel from among them.
The claims of God fail to pan out eh? Pal, you never gave God one pinch of a chance to prove himself to you. You allowed yourself to be mislead all your life and vaunted up in the vanity of your ego to teach what you knew not. Now the world has power over you to shame you.
Repent and do the first works. Prove God by obeying what he commands first and see if he able to fulfill what he promised. What did Jesus coach the Jews about for forty days and then leave them to do it? To obtain the Promise of the Father which IS the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost. ACTS CHAPTER ONE.
I have worn out my life preaching this gospel to the deaf, dumb and blind Mormons. None gave the slightest damn about it. WHY? Because they were past feeling knee deep in condemnation and damnation and fully dark in their academic excellence. End.
I am serious about the rejection of the gospel by the LDS Church, whom Jesus referred to as the Gentiles. Forty-seven years long they have trample upon my witness as if it counted for nothing. I have yet to encounter the smallest sort of argument. This is cowardice and like all bullies they delight to cause me to suffer for their sins. It has not been pleasant.
