Are you worthy?

"When I was a Mormon I walked out into the field by our home. I spent a great deal of time there on my knees before God pleading with him for help and just a hint that he was truly there. Week after week after week I would cry out to him. ... I never heard an answer. Not once. Not a sign, not a vision, not a burning my bosom, no sensations in my heart or my mind - nothing. Not a single answer in all 16 years in Mormonism. ... Mormons told me that I had already received an answer. I was told to stop trying and to start obeying. If I was not paying my tithing, fulfilling my full duties to Mormonism including attending and callings - then I was not worthy enough to receive an answer." -Infymus(emphasis mine)

Who seriously believes God works like this? I mean, obviously Mormons do -this is the mindset I was taught and grew up with. When I didn't feel anything special doing baptisms for the dead, I figured it was because I was too rebellious, I wasn't a good little Mormon girl so I didn't deserve the blessings or whatever. Funny thing is, this is the exact opposite of God. The Good News of the Bible is that even though we are rebellious and disobedient, God still wants to save us!! If God only answered people who were being obedient, very few people would be saved -and then what would be the point of Christ dying on the cross for everyone's sins?? We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and this grace is a gift. (Eph 2:8) If we have to work (pay, pray, and obey) for Him to give an answer, then it is not a gift -no longer "not of ourselves"- but a response. It's just such BS that you have to meet certain requirements first -it's part of that belief that Mormons are special people, the only ones with the whole truth. "We're good/holy enough that God reveals his true Gospel to us." I'm sorry I'm getting really upset right now with the absurdity of these statements/beliefs that I'm realizing as I'm typing.

Romans 5:8 says "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." This reinforces the teaching that there's NOTHING we can do to merit God's grace. Mormons were right that he had received his answer: God did not affirm his beliefs so the answer is no, "the Church" is not true, the Book of Mormon is not true, Joseph Smith was not a prophet of God. Silence can speak volumes.

So I've been posting a lot about things about Mormon Curtain, but I assure you it's not the only thing I read. Actually, most of my energies are currently spent on Mormon Coffee but most of my refutations to those posts get posted there. Mormon Coffee has no place for comments so I vent them out here. Check out the Links sidebar for a list of other helpful Mormon and Christian sites that are usually up in my browser.