From Moksha, pasting D. B.:
David Bokovoy at the MAD forum:
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Is there ever a good reason to abandon Mormonism?
Not if one has obtained a spiritual witness from God concerning the truthfulness of the Church. Still, throughout our lives, many of us encounter pieces of doctrinal and/or historical information that appears to indicate that we have been deceived, that in fact Mormonism is not true.
In these moments, perhaps before doubting our spiritual convictions, we should approach our concerns from the perspective of a paradigm shift, meaning a change in the basic assumptions concerning Mormonism that we hold to be true.
In other words, perhaps the only thing that we have encountered that is untrue is our basic assumption concerning the doctrine and/or historical information rather than the Church itself.
I ask, "is there ever a good reason to accept Mormonism?" I answer, "of course for the one accepting it."
That being the case, "of course there are good reasons to abandon Mormonism, for the one abandoning it."
Since DB didn't ask what such "good reasons" might be, but prefers to assume there must not be any, as "he" hasn't found just-cause to do so; i can only wonder, "how sincere is his question?"
Mok, maybe ya can relay back?? Warm regards, Roger