Although Mitt is falling in the polls he has been often the "candidate to beat".
Even when Mitt was running last time I had the same viewpoint. My mother really likes him and insists that his faith should have nothing to do with whether or not he is a good president. Many people in the U.S. feel the same way. I don't.
Any person that believes that an angel named Moroni delivered gold tablets to a man and was given seer stones that allowed him to translate gold tablets is capable of believing any other kind of hokie ideas. Our country just can't afford such a risk.
Now I realize everyone says that Mitt won't bring his faith into his job as President. It's his personal relationship with God. That's nice and all but the bottom line is; to be a Mormon you must believe this is how Joseph Smith got the Mormon bible. If he believes this as a Mormon what other things would people be able to convince him of. What would happen if Ahmadinejad told Mitt he wants to be the U.S.'s friend and that he means no harm to Israel? How easily can Mitt be convinced of that if he can easily be convinced of gold tablets and seer stones?
Let me preface my comment by saying that I am not voting for Romney. I don't agree with lots of his views or his record in office. But, I thought I'd point out something.
ReplyDeleteYou stated you don't believe in gold plates and seer stones. That's fine. But when other Bible-believing Christians say that Mormon beliefs are *strange* is when their logic doesn't add up.
Do Christians believe that God spoke through a burning bush that wasn't consumed, and then gave Moses commandments written on stone tablets on Mount Sinai? Or that a donkey talked because it saw an angel in the road? Or that a God came to earth, became mortal, and then rose from the dead?
Christianity calls for its adherents to believe some pretty "out there" stuff. But in spite of the hard-to-believe stuff in the Bible, we believe the Bible anyway. It seems that the Lord requires faith, even when it seems logically strange.
It seems like you can't discount strange Mormon beliefs without discounting your own Biblical beliefs as well. Just my thoughts. :) So if another religion's beliefs seem strange, I think it helps me to remember that God's ways are higher than our ways, and it's probably because I don't understand everything! And if I need more evidence of that, I just read the strange stuff in the Bible again. :)