Poor Devils or the Devil's Poors?

[ThePassenger]

Hello, there. This is my first posting in one of the LDS forums. I live in Hamburg, Germany, and English is not my native language, so please give mercy if there occur faults in writing or meaning. It's only my school English and I've never been in an English spoken land.

I've been in some forums here and liked to discuss about Mormonism. And I've experienced rejections, misunderstanding, offending, and hate against this religion. And I've experienced that many people here (in my home country) have lost their believe in God, the Allmighty. They have lost their faith. There ist s.th. they believe in, but many of them are constructing their own individual way of what they call faith.

I'm from the evangelical-luth. church, I mean, I was baptized ev.-luth. shortly after I was born. My father was a sailor, and he was not at home for long terms, and so it was my mother who brought me to church and let me baptized as a Christian, and she was convinced, and with all her love convinced to do the right thing. I'm sure she was.

I left that church many years ago, in 1980, I think. Why? I never went to the church on Sunday or never joined any celebration. They didn't mean anything to me, and I left that church (I had to let it attested by the authority) in the end. Many years later I stepped into contact with missionaries of the LDS. I've learned a bit about Mormonism by time, and I've received back what I had lost once ago; my faith.

And my question is, why all those members of christian denominations reject Mormonism and why even those ones, who dont't believe in God, who are non-believers or whatever behave so offending and aggressive against Mormonism. Here in Germany they call it a sect. They warn you not to get captured by them, and they were no Christians and so on.

Give me some statements from you. And let's start a discussion about this subject. And if you have any questions about me, I'll answer honestly. Thanks in advance.

[WmLee]

Passenger ~ you’ve asked a few questions, each one could have a lot of answers. I want to address just one, why do other faiths hate or reject the LDS faith?

From what I have experienced, in my never humble opinion, they are afraid of losing their members to the LDS faith. There is no smoke and mirror, no “just believe cause I said so” in the LDS church, the trueth is right there for everyone to understand. To me, that truthfulness is the gospel of Jesus Christ. If people knew the truth of the church, they wold join. And other religious leaders need the members to stay or join them. They need them because without the members paying a tithe or contributing to the church, they don’t get money. They are paid to be the leader. This is not true in the LDS faith.

There is also the part of being LDS where you are expected understand your Savior and once you are a Christian, you are expected to live, as Christ would. You are expected to live a clean, pure life to the best of your ability and understanding. In the LDS church there is accountability for your actions.

I have someone I work with who is a very devote catholic. I asked him what would happen, in church, if he was to commit adultery. He said “nothing”. He would have to confess to the priest, the priest would tell him what he needed to do to repent, (prayers to make, all written out for him) but other than that and some counseling from the priest, not much else.

To summarize what I’m trying to say, to me, it seems like other churches will conform to what people want and expect. The LDS church expects us to conform to what out Father in Heaven expects. People don’t like to work for what they get (salvation) and again, they have to keep the members coming back. The less they know of the LDS church the more secure they have of keeping the membership number up.

[Blackmarch]

Hello, there. This is my first posting in one of the LDS forums. I live in Hamburg, Germany, and English is not my native language, so please give mercy if there occur faults in writing or meaning. It's only my school English and I've never been in an English spoken land.

I've been in some forums here and liked to discuss about Mormonism. And I've experienced rejections, misunderstanding, offending, and hate against this religion. And I've experienced that many people here (in my home country) have lost their believe in God, the Allmighty. They have lost their faith. There ist s.th. they believe in, but many of them are constructing their own individual way of what they call faith.

I'm from the evangelical-luth. church, I mean, I was baptized ev.-luth. shortly after I was born. My father was a sailor, and he was not at home for long terms, and so it was my mother who brought me to church and let me baptized as a Christian, and she was convinced, and with all her love convinced to do the right thing. I'm sure she was.

I left that church many years ago, in 1980, I think. Why? I never went to the church on Sunday or never joined any celebration. They didn't mean anything to me, and I left that church (I had to let it attested by the authority) in the end. Many years later I stepped into contact with missionaries of the LDS. I've learned a bit about Mormonism by time, and I've received back what I had lost once ago; my faith.

And my question is, why all those members of christian denominations reject Mormonism and why even those ones, who dont't believe in God, who are non-believers or whatever behave so offending and aggressive against Mormonism. Here in Germany they call it a sect. They warn you not to get captured by them, and they were no Christians and so on.

Give me some statements from you. And let's start a discussion about this subject. And if you have any questions about me, I'll answer honestly. Thanks in advance.

Probably the simplest answer is that the devil rages in the heart of some and those people decieve many.