When Mormons see the errors of the religion they have been taught to revere, they are faced with a dilemma. They realize that if they embrace the truth of the word of God and leave the falsehood of Mormonism, they will encounter the wrath and/or tears of their loved ones. To those who may be in this predicament we offer the following considerations. First, truth is the only path of happiness in this life and for eternity. Only by embracing the truth does a person exhibit true love toward God and toward their loved ones. Forgiveness for sins and where a person will spend eternity are the most important issues. Jesus Christ, the Son of God loves you and has paid the full penalty for your sins. Your first and foremost responsibility is to Him. If you call upon Him for salvation, you will become His child and be immediately added to His true church. By living in the truth, you will not only have the personal peace and joy which God bestows on His children, but may also have the delight of seeing some of your loved ones and friends come to Christ and be saved themselves. Real love can take no other course than the truth. Thank God, he has made the way into His love and grace clear and universally simple and available. It is a fact that "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Rom 3:23; Eph 2:1-3) and "the wages of sin is death" (Rom 6:23). Like a drowning man, we can do nothing to save ourselves. God in His mercy and love sent His only begotten Son to live the perfect sinless life we could not live (Heb 7:26), then He died and went to hell in our place (John 3:16; Eph 4:9; Acts 2:27) paying the penalty for our sins. The one verse encapsulation of this truth is found in 2Corinthians 5:21. "For he (the Father) hath made him (the Son) to be sin for us, who (the Son) knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2Corinthians 5:21) When a person realizes their "drowning," helpless condition and cries out to Him for salvation and forgiveness, God hears and responds from heaven! "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." (Acts 16:31) "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10:9-13) "And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." (Luke 18:13-14) God saves them and gives them a new life. "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2Corinthians 5:17) At the same moment He places them into His family or church. "Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved." (Acts 2:47) "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." (2Corinthains 12:13) Are you willing to forsake your proud efforts at saving yourself and open your heart to the loving forgiveness of Jesus Christ by faith in the work He has already completed for you? "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." (Isaiah 53:6) "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation." (Hebrews 9:22-28) "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:23) http://www.BibleTruths.org/christ1s/cults updated September 4, 1998 by Webservant@BibleTruths.org |
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