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People who claim to have seen God and found religions based on revelation from God with no testimony other themselves usually have to come up with wacky excuses why the religion the said person claims that he or she continues or corrects, ends up rejecting the said person or vastly historically contradicting what the said prophet teaches. Take Mohammed and Islam for example which claim testimony from Judeo-Christian scripture only to vastly end up contradicting it. The Muslim solution is to say that the Christians and Jews corrupted their scriptures and their faiths which explains why they contradict Islam, their scriptures don’t have Mohammed in them, or why they don’t confirm Islam or it’s theology in the slightest way. Mormonism does the same in this regard, but isn’t as good as Islam in that regard, as I’ve realized the newer a heretical religion with a fake prophet is founded the more far fetched its claims seem to become from its predecessors. I’ve pointed out to Muslims that there claims aren’t unique in the slightest regard, as everything they say about us such as Mohammed being the final prophet, the Bible being corrupt and so forth, are repeated by newer religions such as Bahai’s about Islam, and to be honest religions founded by a guy who claims to be a prophet always follow the exact same pattern. Nothing ever really changes with people like this. Another fact which I wouldn’t call very fun is that all these guys had very horrible unexpected deaths for some reason.In the Coptic Orthodox tradition, there is a part of our midnight praises chanted for Sundays that begins: "Who is likened unto You, O Lord among the gods, You are the true God, the Performer of miracles."
Probably if Mormons heard this, they would say "Aha! It says 'Gods'! See, even your church once believed as we do, but then you were swept up in the apostasy like all the churches were!"
It seems that it does not matter how clear the reason for the use of certain language is in expressing Christian theology; what Mormons focus on instead is that the use of such language exists -- i.e., "We found this word of this combination of words", and not what they actually mean in the context in which they are found. It's very much like my experience of arguing the same with Muslims, which I do not believe is coincidental in the slightest (as both groups need for Christianity as it was actually established to be false, or else their subsequent parasitic religions have no reason to exist at all, ever).
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