Despite all this, there is great
news for the Mormons. The same saving Gospel and Church that Jesus started and
is building are still efficacious today. Jesus Christ called us to Himself. He
did not set up any other mediators for people to go through or join in order to
come to Him. (Ed Haviach, The
Restoration Fallacy; see A
Great Example of an Anti-Mormon Using the Fallacy of "Guilt by
Association" for a response to a conference presentation by Haviach)
Ed,
I have asked you this privately, and I am going to ask this in
public, too.
Name *ONE* single person from A.D. 100 (after the close of the New
Testament period when you believe the final book of Scripture was
inscripturated) until A.D. 1100 (I am being super generous in giving you 1,000
years to work with) who believed what you believe about the
"essentials" of (your Protestant) Gospel:
(*) affirmed a symbolic merely
view of baptism (read: rejected baptismal
regeneration)
(*) affirmed eternal
security/perseverance of the saints
(*) affirmed forensic
justification and imputed righteousness
(*) held to the formal
sufficiency of the Bible (the question of Sola
Scriptura)
There you go. If your claims about there being no Great Apostasy
from your Protestant perspective is correct, you can (1) name an individual or
group who affirmed such and (2) provide the source(s).
The very fact you will be unable to do such should give you cause for concern if you care about the truth of your theological claims.
As for your continued eisegesis of Rom 10:9-10 (which you have
been corrected on, including by myself), see:
Full
Refutation of the Protestant Claim Romans 10:9-10 Teaches Sola Fide
