Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Saturday, February 16, 2008 9:56:56 AM
A Reply to the Mormons
These are a series of replies to the Mormons who responded to my open letter in the previous post. My hope is that they will read these words as a defense of the truth as it is in Jesus as revealed in the NT. It is Mormonism we seek to expose rather than attack individual Mormons.
In general the replies indicate that they disregarded the Biblical references in my letter and they did not understand my main objection. By what authority do they accept a second testament of Jesus Christ when there is no fault in the first? This is the key question on which everything else hangs. Will Christ be our authority or not? You cannot have a shared authority between God and man…
‘No servant can serve two masters…He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters’ [Luke 16:13 & 11:23].
I presume to know nothing about Mormonism except what they have revealed in their comments. Their responses tell some alarming things about their religion; things that are common in man made perversions of NT Christianity. The bottom line of any religion is the doctrine of salvation: How is man reconciled to God and brought into a right relationship with Him?
All man made religions will have a works component in their doctrine that commends them to God. The Bible says that all our works of righteousness are as filthy rags. We can bring nothing of ourselves before God. By faith alone with empty hands we embrace the cross. We marvel at the empty tomb for therein is our righteousness. ‘Christ was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification’ [Romans 4:25].
I will respond to each of them in turn. Additional comments are welcome as long as we refrain from personal attacks. Show me my error from the NT Scriptures and not from your book, since you say they are one in agreement.