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Title: Out of Mormonism: A Woman's True Story
ISBN: 0764226045
Author:
Judy Robertson
Publicate Date: 2001-08-01
Publish: 2001-08-01
List Price: $13.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: A well-written testimony from Mormonism to Christ
This was a very moving account of how a husband and wife get drawn into the Mormon Church. They find work with a nice couple and were attacted to their friend's strong family values and the orderly manner of their lives appealed to them. They are introduced by their friends to the LDS Church. Once in the church, As they were kept busy serving, Judy starts to reflect on contradictions she sees and starts to notice what she was experiencing in Mormonism was not about devotion to Jesus Christ, but was instead about devotion to the LDS church and it's rituals, lessons and doctrines,etc. they began to see cracks in the foundation of Mormonism. They started to see LDS teaching a religion that requires works for salvation.
Each red flag in their mind they suppressed, while they saw what looked to be perfect people living perfect lives. But as their involvement progressed, they learn of the hidden stresses with those leaders who taught them and how they were trying to cope with living up to the impossible standards. The exclusive doctrines of LDS were starting to trouble Judy and her husband, as she and her husband was not finding what they we're being taught in the bible. Once they seen God's grace, that Salvation is not earned it is the gift of God, Eph 2:8,9 what had been blinding them, now the Word of God reveal in - The Bible, brought them freedom and forgiveness for sin.
Judy recounts key insights of how she was introduced into the LDS church that give the reader an illuminating look into Mormonism. The book is so well-written that it was hard to put down.
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2: A Work of Fiction - Please Beware
This book makes so many wild claims about Mormonism, I am surprised anyone can take it seriously.
The author is a bitter and vengeful woman who willingly became involved in a religion that she didn't even believe in the first place and eventually left because she could not handle her commitments. She uses extremely misinterpreted Bible verses to back up her beliefs that the Mormon church is untrue. On top of this, she creates an anti-Mormon organization with the intent to indoctrinate Christians with false beliefs about the Mormon church - AND her family's income comes out of this organization ... hmmmmm.
The book falsely claims that Mormons believe that God has multiple wives, that woman's duty on Earth is to have as many babies as possible, that God literally impregnated Mary, and that God is progressive and changing. All of these are untrue statements and I wonder how she could possibly believe those things, having been an LDS member for 7 years.
The overall tone is sarcastic, spiteful and condescending to the Mormon way of life from page 1. The writing is so forced and the dialog so unnatural that I believe she has made up a lot of conversations that take place in the book.
I can't help wondering if God would want one of his children to be so negative and hateful to a group of good people who mean harm to no one.
If you are curious about the Mormon church, then please attend church services or read the Book of Mormon. This woman has an agenda and it makes me incredibly sad to know that people may believe her writings.
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3: I couldn't put it down. Exposes the secret teachings.
Ths exposes the secret Mormon teachings which the neatly--dressed Brighamite missionaries will not tell you about. They're instructed "meat before milk" so, they won't tell you the surreal teachings, which diverge wildly from traditional Christianity, such as (1)the idea that a man may become Exalted and get to be a God ruling his own planet, while he and his wife or wives get to crank out Spirit Children to inhabit the human bodies on the planet. Nor (2)the idea that God was once such a man. (This (2) is in direct contradiction to Bible passages such as: "the Father of lights, with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change." --James 1:17 (NAB))
The book documents each unusual teaching it exposes with authoritative references to books by Brighamite LDS "Church" officials. such as "Apostle" Bruce R. McConkie's Mormon Doctrine, and the collected sermons of Church President Joseph Fielding Smith: Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings. Another good reference is Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
It was fascinating; I couldn't put it down.
It has inspired me to do Bible reading more frequently. Thank you, Judy.
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4: Keep in mind it's just one woman's story
This story is fine as long as you keep in mind that it is just one woman's perspective. I also grew up Mormon and left the church when I was 27. I do not share her ideas that Mormons are worshipping Lucifer and are a part of a cult. I know them to be good people who are very much living for God. Her descriptions of rituals are all right on as are her feelings a woman goes through as she tries to maintain the perfection the church requires. But not all of us go from Mormon to born-again Christian - so this book is probably for you if you are headed to born-again Christianity.
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5: JUST STAY AWAY - CHURCH CONTROLS YOUR LIFE !
I want everyone who is teeter-tottering on whether the LDS church is for them or not to understand this story.
Forget JS marrying a bunch of teenagers, forget about the uneasy history of Mormonism, forget about DNA and the Book of Mormon, and the contradicting doctrines. All churches have these things in common to some degree.
The most screwed up thing about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the way it treats it's own members and families. It claims to be pro family, but it splits up families and screws with people's lives. It makes them pay large sums of money in order to see a loved one's wedding. It takes, and takes, and takes. Whether it is your time, money, or sanity. It sucks you dry and does not give back anything of value except some pipe dream of a perfect afterlife. An afterlife which the church makes you feel is impossible to obtain, and uses this to heap unnecessary guilt upon it's members.
It's not the doctrine that makes the church a damaging cult. It's the way they screw their members over. Such as not letting a father attend his child's wedding unless he pays $4000 in back tithing. He had to get a bank loan to do this.
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