Bible Question:
Dear EdB Here are some answers to your questions from your previous e-mail. My husband truly loves the jesus he believes to be the savior. To make a long story short, my husband never felt loved until he went to a Mormon church and they accepted him and loved him. I think this is why he feels so strongly about his religion. Without Mormonism, he might of been dead by now due to the wild lifestyle he was living. Anyway, he said that I have a lifetime to try to convert him. However, he has an answer for everything I try to talk to him about. Unfortunately, he knows the bible better than me and I can't find certain passages to show him. When I do find a passage I want him to look at, he thinks I'm taking it out of context, but I show him what is before and after the passage and he just doesn't see the truth. I asked him to pray and ask for the one and only true holy spirt of God to speak to him and to pray that no other spirit can speak to him. He said he has done this and has asked jesus into his heart, but this hasn't really happened. Is there a way for him to pray to find the real Jesus? It says, seek and ye shall find, but if he doesn't truly believe it, would it still work? I believe that HE THINKS HE IS really asking to have the spirit reveal things to him, but it hasn't changed him. Any thoughts on this? PS. I am in the process of reading Reasoning The Scriptures With Mormons and have read many other books too. I have written my husband several letters as well, but nothing has helped. Am I wasting my time? One last thing, I read in a book and I think in the bible too that a wife is to try to win her husband to God by example, not by words. Could this be a problem? Remember, he does go with me to church when he doesn't have to go to his church (every once in awhile) and he will sometimes go with me to Wednesday night bible studies with me too. Thanks! dat |
Bible Answer: Dat Your husband's story is like so many. All they found in a Christians church was condemnation. Then they found all this love poured out on them by the Mormons. You don't know how many I have heard others say the same thing. Your on the right track if your husband is attending church with you. Have you told your pastor about his background and why he became a Mormon? If not do that immediately. If you have is your pastor working with you? Is your pastor familiar with Mormonism? He would do you both a service by brushing up on it. Your right you won't be able to reason or argue your husband into Christianity therefore you need to pray that God will open your husband’s eyes. You need to love him and live a Christ like life before him. You need to settle your relationship with God. He still loves you and is drawing you to Him. Recommit you life to Jesus, asking forgiveness of your transgressions and believe they are under the blood of Jesus. The Word says if we earnestly ask for forgiveness He is faithful and just and will forgive us. Once they are forgiven they are forgotten so get on with your life, not looking back. Then you need to sit down with your family and ask their forgiveness and get back into relationship with them. You need their support, you need their prayers, most of all you need their love. Each time your brother rejects your husband it reinforces what your husband thinks about Christians and reopens all the wounds that drove your husband to the Mormons in the first place. It starts first with you. Get right with God! then get right with you family both natural and church family asking them to pray for your husband and to love on him. My heart and prayers go out to you! EdB |