Lynn Wilder

Update I must recommend that you do not read this book as it almost ruined my faith, testimony and everything I knew to be true about the church. Again I believe she is just trying to sell books . She has no real basis for her new found religion !!! I feel sorry for her !!!!

I have read a few reviews on this book. I understand that Dr. Wilder converted from the LDS church to a born again evangelical faith. She reportedly spends a lot of time in the book comparing the Jesus and Gospel “of the Mormons” to the Jesus and Gospel “of the Bible”. I imagine that she is in a similar position as the Tanner’s in that they work to expose the inconsistencies of Mormonsim while being somewhat blind to the inconsistencies of their own evangelical belief systems.

However I choose to give her the benefit of the doubt in that I assume she honestly believes that she and her family were led to a saving relationship with Jesus of the bible and led out of the LDS church. I assume that she is genuine in wanting her readers to come to know the Jesus and Gospel of the Bible (as she understands it).

However I choose to give her the benefit of the doubt in that I assume she honestly believes that she and her family were led to a saving relationship with Jesus of the bible and led out of the LDS church. I assume that she is genuine in wanting her readers to come to know the Jesus and Gospel of the Bible (as she understands it).

This.

Ironically, Mormon theology says she still has the potential to end up in the Celestial Kingdom, as long as she truly is doing her best to worship and follow God according to her conscience, while her new evangelical theology condemns billions of people to Hell for their sincere beliefs. I know far too many LDS members don’t understand how liberal our theology is, but I can’t help but chuckle a bit about the irony.

This reminded me of an incident early on in my faith crisis. Part of what precipitated my FC was a gross injustice committed by a Christian non-member. In attempting to console me, a very orthodox friend said something along the lines of punishment coming to him in the final judgement when I would be in the CK and he would not. I left him speechless by saying I didn’t believe that and neither did he. At the time I was stuck in the idea that as a church member who had accepted the gospel I was actually worse off than he was as far as going to the CK. I now recognize that God’s grace applies to all and while he does have as much opportunity as anyone to go to the CK, so do I even if I reject some LDS theology.