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Originally Posted by TheLutheran
What an interesting thread! I would just like to offer that sometimes we "gentiles" encounter aspects of LDS doctrine and culture in very innocent ways which can lead to speculation and confusion about Mormonism. But that certainly doesn't make all of us anti-Mormon!
For example, our family's introduction to the "white and delightsome" or "pure and delightsome" concept came when our then 7-year-old daughter returned from school one day. She reported that one of her LDS girlfriends believed that the entire Rodriguez family of children was "turning white" because their formerly Roman Catholic father had finally decided to join the LDS church. This was in the mid-90s and I don't remember what the official teaching of the church was on that particular issue at the time or whether the language in the BoM had been altered yet but it certainly prompted interesting discussions and research at our house.
I have scores of other instances of how our unsuspecting Lutheran farm family was/is impacted by our surrounding Mormon culture in ways that lead to many questions about LDS doctrine and tradition. I hope that this curiousity (which led me to this board) coupled with my unwaivering Christian faith does not make me unwelcome here or considered anti-Mormon.
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Your curiosity is welcomed here, we love to have none members to talk to, what i personally object to are the guys that come here looking for a fight, yet call themselves "Christian" , why do they have to be so spiteful and hurtful with the horrible things they say about such a loving church, if thay are not sent here with the spirit to learn what we are about, then they are here to create contention amongst us, you must ask yourself why they would act in such an unchristian way, and who must have sent them, and why.