Are Latter day Saints who ask for the Holy Spirit, Christians?

[Dennis Tate]

Over the past three to four years I have been mentored by perhaps twelve or fourteen Latter day Saint missionaries and

I was really impressed how these young men and women pray and ask for guidance by the Holy Spirit before each session.... and at the end of each session.  

I am convinced that a high percentage of Latter day Saints do indeed receive the Holy Spirit.....

and are guided by the Holy Spirit.....

I do not think that any of us need to have all doctrines figured out before Jesus and the Holy Spirit will begin to guide us

toward better and deeper understanding on all topics and issues that we pray and ask to be corrected on.

 

"And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?"

[12] Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion? [13] If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?[Luke 11:11]

[Credo in Deum]

1 hour ago, Dennis Tate said:

Over the past three to four years I have been mentored by perhaps twelve or fourteen Latter day Saint missionaries and

I was really impressed how these young men and women pray and ask for guidance by the Holy Spirit before each session.... and at the end of each session.  

I am convinced that a high percentage of Latter day Saints do indeed receive the Holy Spirit.....

and are guided by the Holy Spirit.....

I do not think that any of us need to have all doctrines figured out before Jesus and the Holy Spirit will begin to guide us

toward better and deeper understanding on all topics and issues that we pray and ask to be corrected on.

 

"And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?"

[12] Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion? [13] If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?[Luke 11:11]

Last time I checked the Mormons do not believe in the Trinity nor do they baptize in the Trinitarian formula.

 

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20010605_battesimo_mormoni-ladaria_en.html

This means they would be helped by actual grace but not sanctifying grace.  

[Dennis Tate]

7 minutes ago, Credo in Deum said:

Last time I checked the Mormons do not believe in the Trinity nor do they baptize in the Trinitarian formula.

 

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20010605_battesimo_mormoni-ladaria_en.html

This means they would be helped by actual grace but not sanctifying grace.  

Thank you for this relevant comment.....

until I began to read near death experience accounts I regarded the Holy Spirit as a force or power kind of like electricity or gravity but I did not until about twenty years ago see the Holy Spirit as also a Person.

 

My errors in doctrines over the past fifty years did not seem to stop me from being guided by the Holy Spirit and shown more and more and more, (especially since I began to pray and ask for more of the Holy Spirit... .... which was roughly forty five or forty six years ago).  

http://www.drbo.org/chapter/52008.htm

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And they who are in the flesh, cannot please God. [9] But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. [10] And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin; but the spirit liveth, because of justification.

 

Edited December 29, 2021 by Dennis Tate
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