Tag: exmormon
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When I was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I believed that the Book of Mormon helped to clarify the Bible. One of the ways that I thought it did this was by offering a more accurate, easy to understand, and inspired version of the text of the Isaiah chapters…
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Two years ago I made the difficult decision to step away from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I had spent several intense weeks wrestling with deeply conflicting emotions. As I’ve written about previously, in a pretty short time, God had opened my eyes both to Biblical truths regarding grace and the nature…
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The writer reflects on their experience as a Latter-day Saint preparing for a mission and the subsequent anxiety about achieving full spiritual cleansing. They struggled with the idea of being fully cleansed through missionary service and felt guilty when succumbing to worldly temptations. However, they ultimately realized the true Gospel of grace: salvation is a…