{"id":3500,"date":"2018-07-09T04:04:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2018-07-09T04:34:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:34:41","slug":"mormons-are-mormon-because-their-parents-were-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2018\/07\/09\/mormons-are-mormon-because-their-parents-were-mormon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormons are Mormon because their parents were Mormon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most Mormons are Mormon not because the church is true, but because their parents were Mormon.<\/p>\n

If they had been raised Muslim, they would\u2019ve prayed to Allah and discovered that Islam is true. If they had been raised Jewish, they would\u2019ve prayed to Jehovah and discovered that Judaism is true. If they had been raised Catholic, they would\u2019ve prayed to God and discovered that Catholicism is true. If they had been raised atheist, they would\u2019ve prayed to no one and discovered that atheism is true.<\/p>\n

Ask any person of faith what their religion is and what their parents\u2019 religion is, and there\u2019s a super good chance they\u2019re the same.<\/p>\n

Certainly, Mormons will say they prayed to know if the church is true and have received a spiritual witness that it is true. However, if you ask them which other churches they prayed about to know if they are true, it\u2019s likely they\u2019ll say none. It\u2019s understandable that if the only church they pray about is the LDS church that the spiritual experience they have confirms what they\u2019ve already been influenced to believe.<\/p>\n