RE: Glenn's dilemma

Christians ought to define and defend their faith---Who Christ is and
what He did on the cross. Let Mormons hear and read Scripture and decide
for themselves if their co-opting of the Christian vocabulary is
consistent with Scripture.

Moorad

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Morton [mailto:glennmorton@entouch.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 5:02 PM
To: Alexanian, Moorad; Don Winterstein; asa@lists.calvin.edu
Subject: RE: Glenn's dilemma

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexanian, Moorad [mailto:alexanian@uncw.edu]
>Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 2:28 AM
>To: Glenn Morton; Don Winterstein; asa@lists.calvin.edu
>Subject: RE: Glenn's dilemma
>
>
>The question asked to Simon Peter by Jesus is the very same
>question He asks us today regarding Him, viz., "But who do you say
>that I am?"
>Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living
>God." And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona,
>because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father
>who is in heaven. " There is no test you can run to determine how
>the Father revealed who Christ is to a Christian. Only Christians
>know that and if you do not have that, then no one can convince
>you of that. Notice that people are moved to different faiths and
>one cannot, on this side of death, say which belief is true and
>which is false. Faith is a sort of imperfect kind of knowledge
>that one knows but cannot use it to prove it to someone else.
>However, Christ did say that either one is with Him or against
>Him, which means if Christ is who He said He is, then all other
>religions are false.

While all this is entirely true, it doesn't count as what I was speaking
of--a grounding in fact. There simply must be some. Mormons could say
similar things about them being made gods in the after life.
Received on Fri Oct 22 08:27:58 2004