ArchivedJesuss Deity...That's my current dilema.... All I can really do now is just pray for them...As for me..well I had my own misgivings back in time...see, I was raised Catholic until my dad died...then the mormons came after us, but at the time we didn't know that they were mormons..... My mom reckoned that they worship God just like we do and every church is different [but we do worship one god] and we need a community... I was skeptical, but I didn't have any christian friends and I wanted to be around them now [before I used to have non-christian friends, mainly jewish, gothic, wiccas that I didn't know about since they never really spoke about it to me].... Anyway, I was never baptized so I read the part where we had to be immersed into water...[sorry I'm going off-topic..] and this church did that [literally]. I was pleased with that but soon after we were baptized into the church and the two brothers that brought us in had to go elsewhere on a different mission. The people told us not to get close with the little missioners and not treat them so kind and that bothered me alot [we would often welcome them for dinner at least once a week]....also they made some new law that they were not allowed to come into a house of a woman that was alone [when I was at school they used to come visit my mother]; they would need an older male escort. The men in the congregation were reluctant to visit us [due to their own time or whatever]. Also at the church, I though they were supposed to be nice to their new converts, but that just wasn't the case They only wanted your money. I found it odd that they never spoke about the bible but focused more on their doctrines and a different member would come up to tell about their family and problems and not pray for anyone else, ect. It bothered me alot and I knew that I made a huge mistake...I trust and love my mother and loneliness did add to part of us going there, but I was not going to continue down that path. I stopped going to the church and after a while they excumunicated us. It wasn't that bad. They would call and things like that but since I didn't really tithe to them, they didn't miss us much. We later found a presbyterian church [through God's grace] and we made our way back to our journey in God's true doctrine. I never did any research into the mormon church... I did question them about alot of things and at the time they had the right questions because I myself didn't know my own scriptures properly. I just 'trusted' what they were telling me and their "circular" answers satisfied me at the time... My cousin went to islam at the time I was on my journey to Christ. He used my mistake of going into mormonism as an excuse for him going to islam. He showed me that it was recorded, he showed me the errors in the bible ect, ect and so forth. He also showed me all the passages that showed that Chist was "just" a mere man who was a prophet and no more. Of course I was devastated...everything my parents taught to me when I was younger, all the programs I would watch during the resurrection, ect..christmas... [based on pagan religions]. It all came crashing down on me... This was around the time I was getting pressure from other muslims from my job . It was driving me insane for a bit and I was in an abyss of torment. The old church I was in didn't help me neither [presbyterian]. The pastor was too young and had other problems within the church that took priority over my problems [like which restaurant they would go to after service :roll: ]... I left that church and found a reform church that believes in the Holy Catholic church. They have a new pastor there but I think he seems irritated when I ask him questions about islam and tell him about my past [ex-mormon]. I sometimes feel ashamed to tell anyone about it because they seem to look down on me... It really hurts my feelings...but it has to be said and I have past that hurdle now. So the question still remains as to how to help those people who are in these other religions that are taken away through false prophets? The only answer I know of is to pray for them and have them see what God's TRUE LOVE is all about in my own actions of every day life. There's a strong christian lady at my job that was hired recently and I started talking to her. I think she believes that I'm a non-believer because I seem to question alot of things in christianity. I told her my main purpose is to try and minister the word properly to others who are not of the faith [without making a fool of myself ops: ] and want to try to get into a debate with me. She told me that sometimes these people are just happy in their existence and their faith and there is nothing we can do about it. She told me that one time she was ministering to a muslim man and God showed her that this person was happy with who he was and what he believed in and she was to leave him alone. I thought that was powerful...sad but powerful. I'm still going to pray for my cousin and whomever he's going to try to get into the religion [he's smart and has a way with words...] since I found out that if a muslim gets someone into their religion, allah will reward him/her two-fold in heaven. Anyway...sorry for going off-topic like that ops: I just wanted to share my testimony with you. |
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