Excerpts from Conversation with a Mormon
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008mormon: “[God] has invited you to read [the book of mormon], and then pray. That’s when the still small voice comes. After the trial of your faith” Me: no wait, let me rephrase, you’ve invited me to read it
[some debate about why I should read the book of mormon...]
Me: Nothing in your power is going to change me, you can have the best arguments in the world for me to read that book. lock me up and talk to me day after day 360 days a year, but it will take God himself to come down from heaven in some fashion in order for me to read the book or mormon or any other book as the word of God. whether it be in a still small voice or a earthquake, it will take him speaking to my heart persistently. He will honor that I test the spirits.
mormon: “what you’re describing is conversion. And you’re absolutely right. It’s not done by convincing, or arguments, or forcing
It’s by the spirit
only God’s spirit can enter and make that change
for that, the heart has to be open”
me: That comes down to, which spirit is converting people to accepting the book of mormon as the word of God - is it God’s spirit? or the man’s own heart
mormon: is what?
me: the spirit which is causing people to accept the book of mormon as truth and follow its statutes
there is a spirit (many spirits) behind people accepting that they can be empowered with psycic powers
it all comes down to testing the spirits
see that they glorify Jesus Christ and not man or anything else that crawls upon the earth.
and see that the spirit is of Christ and not to glorify man in the name of Christ
[end of conversation]
That is what it comes down to. Is, “the spirit” … the spirit of God? You must test all things against the word of God to make sure that they are of the spirit of God. Many can claim to be of, “the spirit”… but it was only the voice of their own heart and desire that they sought out that spirit and now they are trapped.