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Old 04-08-2016, 02:09 AM   #1
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That the evangelical author finds comfort in Mormonism moving towards orthodox Christianity gives me little pleasure. In fact, it does the opposite.

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2...hing-orthodoxy

Mormonism, even if it doesn't realize it, is in the midst of a crisis. Of what it is. And what it believes. And how it is distinguished from the world, and other sects. And how it interacts with these other sects.

What reason does an Evangelical have to become a Mormon? If we can't come up with good answers this may explain why (it seems to me) so few really religious, smart people (yes they do exist in tandem in the same person) join this church.

We have to offer something, and that something has to be backed up by a divine witness. God has a role to play here. When people knock, that door needs to be opened with some divine force and import.

What do I care. No one cares about my opinion. I'll just get zapped for touching the ark.
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it's also because other Christians are becoming less obsessive about the details and/or the Christian rank and file are listening less to the most ultra conservative of the evangelical clergy for how they're supposed to define Christianity.
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it's also because other Christians are becoming less obsessive about the details and/or the Christian rank and file are listening less to the most ultra conservative of the evangelical clergy for how they're supposed to define Christianity.
I think it's more of the fact that Christianity is fracturing...the decline of the denomination that had actual specified beliefs. Now it's independent churches who act like, say, or pretend that they are part of the same body of Christ and have the same beliefs. But they really don't. Or their beliefs are so non-specific to be meaningless. Or they do have very specific beliefs, but they are too small to have any influence.
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I think it's more of the fact that Christianity is fracturing...the decline of the denomination that had actual specified beliefs. Now it's independent churches who act like, say, or pretend that they are part of the same body of Christ and have the same beliefs. But they really don't. Or their beliefs are so non-specific to be meaningless. Or they do have very specific beliefs, but they are too small to have any influence.
yeah, good points.
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Givens pens response:

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2...-the-forefront
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Great job by Givens.
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