The church is the individual believers. There is no organization that is "the church". Given that truth, it is impossible for the church to persecute the church.
That is not a "truth", that's a falsehood, because the Bible clearly teaches an authorized and authoritative Church was set up by Christ. Those who deny this are follow a religion, not the Bible.
Believers persecuting each other is incomprehensible. Believers combating heresies, that I can see, but combating each other? No.
But without an actual "church", you have no clue OR authority to claim what is "heresy" and what isn't. Your "opinion" is not God's authority and truth, thus you are only persecuting other believers by combating their so-called heresy's.
Further, it's one thing to preach the Gospel and against certain things such as the Apostles did in their letters, but another to go against Christ's words in Mark 9, Luke 9, & Matthew 18 concerning other believers, as well as to bear false witness against them in order to be critical of them. Since 99% of what our critics say of us is falsehood, perversion, and misrepresentation, I don't see how you can claim you aren't "offending" other believers as we claim and Christ warns against in those chapters, and thus how you can believe you are following God's Doctrines?
What is funny is that LDS really wouldn't have much of a problem with our enemy's if they actually were simply critical of who we actually are, instead of their straw-men. I'm all for difference of opinion concerning what a person personally holds sacred. But to misrepresent and lie about people to attack them, that's something else don't you think?
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