674da32071 After all, we are told that we are to love the Lord (our) God with all (our) heart and with all (our) soul and with all (our) MIND and with all (our) strength (Mark 12:30). Mormons generally hold to the belief that, just as God was once a man, the faithful temple Mormon has a chance for godhood in the next life and the ability to rule over his own planet. They present their best take on Mormonism and then honestly assess problems that arise given these beliefs. It is most disconcerting when co-editor Carl Mosser makes it appear that such Christian ministries dont respect Mormons, instead treating them as the enemy. He writes, To evangelicals I would like to point out that as a community, with respect to Mormonism and other New Religious Movements, we have often succumbed to the sinful habits of caricaturing and demonizing the enemy, recycling arguments that have long been answered, refusing to admit genuine mistakes, and being generally uncharitable. The New Mormon Challenge (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2002) is, by many accounts, a different type of anti-Mormon book. That is, rather than attack a caricature of Mormonism, these authors have made an informed and good-faith attempt to present our arguments and beliefs in their strongest form. 342). (Located on the back cover, he wrote: Intellectually serious evangelical responses to the faith of the Latter-day Saints have been depressingly rare. Parrish and Carl Mosser) is very similar to two books coauthored by Parrish and Francis Beckwith: The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis (1991) and See the Gods Fall: Four Rivals to Christianity (1997); chapter 7 (The Absurdities of Mormon Materialism: A Reply to the Neglected Orson Pratt by J.P.
The list could go on. I like Owens tenacity in going after Barker since she is used by Mormons to support the idea that pre-Christian Israel was not monotheistic. No so The New Mormon Challenge. He writes, Until very recently the exchanges between evangelicals and&(Mormons) have been of a very poor quality. He writes on page 81: When I have discussed these theological trends with other evangelicals, some have been very resistant to the notion that there has been any theological development within contemporary Mormonism. Owen flays Barkers ridiculous ideas in a lengthy section of eight pages (301-308). Maps. How were the editors able to determine which of the three criteria ought to be used to determine Mormon doctrine? Certainly if you consider the widespread and historically held position of a doctrine, then you would have to eliminate the other two possibilities as a primary understanding of that teaching.
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