Lisa Rae

"It's not fair that you don't get the whole story in the beginning.  And if it's right, why is it hidden?"

John Farkas

"If we are both praying to the same God, how come we are getting different answers?"

Randy Gavin

"...the current LDS Church Prophet had lied to the church when he issued a statement in the Church News that Brigham Young never taught that Adam was God...It settled in on me that, regarding Brigham Young, the Mormon Church was lying publicly to the masses and privately threatening those who knew."

David Lovse

"The first seed of doubt planted in my life was the story of Mark Hofmann... an antiquities dealer who was "unearthing" old LDS church documents. He had LDS leadership paying him extravagant amounts of money to acquire these documents for the purpose of hiding them from the public.... This factor spoke to me--If the leader is a prophet, why was he not able to discern that these documents were forgeries?"

Sharon Taylor

"I...couldn't believe how much the Book of Mormon had been changed. Some changes were so drastic that it changed the meaning of the verse completely!...It was sinking in now that Joseph himself had changed some of it when he started to preach that men could become gods, and that the Godhead was three separate gods."

 

Lisa Rae

 

I read the material that [CRC] handed out at the Louisville, Kentucky Temple open house. I have been a member of the Church for 2 1/2 years now. My husband is Catholic, as are my two sons. My husband supported my decision to join the church, thinking as I did that it was a good Church.

In the beginning everything was centered around Jesus Christ - I couldn't figure out what everyone else was talking about -- the church being a cult -- it didn't make sense.......till now.

I attended a temple preparation class two weeks ago. The teacher told us that we would learn certain token words/phrases, etc. necessary for our salvation into the Kingdom of God. And that we needed to learn them here as opposed to in heaven if we were to pass by the angels who stand as sentinals.

I immediately felt uncomfortable. What do tokens and secret handshakes have to do with salvation? What happened to Jesus Christ? I feel like I've been had, you know? I feel like a dummy. I mean I was very serious about my desire to be baptized by immersion in the name of Jesus Christ. Only now to find that it all revolves around the temple and knowing the secret handshake and maybe being sealed to your spouse which would never happen because he is not Mormon. It's not fair that you don't get the whole story in the beginning. And if it's right, why is it hidden?

So anyway, no one at the Church knows that I'm not coming back. I made a lot of good friends who helped me very much there - they did do a lot of good as well - trying to be Christlike - It's going to be very hard for me because I know they all will be swarming my house and trying to talk me into staying. But I guess it's what I'm going to have to go through.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I don't know what [CRC's] motivation is for handing out the literature, but it was very informative and I even learned something that I did not know. That Mormons believe they will have children in heaven that will worship them as we worship our God.