DAVEH: Yet you accept the T-Doctrine, which to me seems to have been handed down to and through the RCC folks to the Reformers.....which indicates your beliefs are rooted Protestantism.
I am content to read and watch this thread but allow me to chime in, briefly. Because I get some of my thinking from orthodox Protestant theology does not make me a Protestant anymore than gleaning truth from Bonhoffer makes me a German or learning from Peck makes me a psychologist. You believe in those two or three categories (Protestant, RCC, restorationist) because your church believes that. Unity in Mormonism is imposed. I see you and Blaine as thinking individuals but not free thinking. Your church does not allow that (of course the church cannot stop you from thinking, but you are not allowed to reach certain conclusions.) Blaine would never be allowed to fellowship me as a true brother in Christ dispite his claim that we are such. That is part of the reason why your missionaries are not allowed to remain in homes where there is disagreement with their views. What unity you see in this list is due to agreement after free spirited debate and the working of the spirit.
I get frustrated with some of the disagreement on this, but I am not ashamed of it. Disagreement and spirited debate occurs when people are free.
John Smithson
