3 Reasons I’m Not Mormon

In this episode, Trent shares the three biggest problems he has when it comes to accepting the truth of Mormonism.

Check out Tim Staples' article titled “Are we Gods?”

00:00 – Introduction
03:03 – Understanding Mormonism
10:53 – 1. The Mormon god
14:59 – 2. Book of Mormon Geography
22:10 – 3. The “Great Apostasy”

[dboan]

I was LDS for years. Became LDS after college, married a beautiful cradle LDS lady I met in a singles ward, served in the Bishopric, on the Stake High Council, and then started reading LDS history. Big mistake for my LDS faith!

It was a long journey, fraught with challenges to our married life, but God got hold of my life and my wife's heart . . . we entered Christianity in a Baptist Church, researched Church history and became Orthodox and are now "back home" practicing Catholics. Praise God!

[TheRichmondRoadie]

As a former Mormon who read/ found his way home to the Catholic Church, I say very well done.

[Centurion]

My wife is ex Mormon, coming from a Mormon family. Her family always treated me so kindly, way better than my own southern baptist family. Even after I converted to catholicism they still treat me well, and were more supportive of my conversion than my evangelical parents.

[elizabethking]

I too was a devout mormon. (6 generations). Found out that Joseph Smith wasn’t true. Left at 33 yrs old. Joined a baptist church and nondenominational for 20 plus yrs. Found the church fathers thru a Catholic who just invited me to look them up! I’ve studied for 6 yrs. Now just trying to get in the Catholic Church! 😀 not an easy task.😜🙏🏻 but trusting God through it. Please pray for me.🙏🏻❤️

[sonnyjim]

Belief in the Catholic faith is not based on a single piece of evidence, such as the sincerity of the apostles, but on the totality of all the evidence. And it's overwhelming.

[bradleyjoseph]

I was a Mormon for 18 years now I’m a Orthodox Christian. I respect my Catholic brothers and sisters

[JacobHerring]

I was a Latter-day Saint for 3 years, now I make videos exploring the Catholic faith - This is great!!

[rgvonsanktpauli]

Mitt Romney just disinvited Trent from his next BLM fundraiser.

[arsenicrice]

Please keep these episodes coming! For some reason finding a lot more Mormons than I realized in my life

[ethanf.]

As a Latter-day Saint/ long time fan of yours, I must applaud you for the high quality video. Though I obviously have my disagreements with what you've presented, overall it's a very well researched/ considered critique of our faith that deserves serious attention. Quite often people who criticize Mormonism do so from a blatantly misinformed perspective. It's refreshing to see somebody take our faith seriously enough to actually do their homework. Well done!

[dusty_dietrich]

Man, I'm so stoked for this video. I used to be mormon and I'm reading about Catholicism. I've been waiting for Trent to do a video about this. I'm going to save it for tomorrow after work as a reward for making it through another shift. Lol. Love your videos.

[knockout]

EXCELLENT explanation Trent. Thank you for this fantastic material to educate all - not only Catholics.

[vincentorr]

I’m a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We have scholars that give great answers to all these issues which Trent raises. I appreciate his honesty and sincerity. I once left my faith once after learning about these issues. My favorite scripture though is proverbs 3:5 which says to trust in the Lord with all thine art and lean not on thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths.” I’ve done that and I’ve overcome the craftiness of men and answered all my questions and issues. Nevertheless I get why people can’t get over these issues and I still love y’all. I enjoy the channel and find all these discussions interesting.

[Circle_Breaker]

Another former Mormon that became Catholic. Although Orthodox rather than Roman. I enjoy most of your stuff. Funny the way time changes things for us. If you were to say 10 years ago I’d be offering up prayers to Mary and the Saints I’d say you were crazy. My soul is finally at peace now. Love my Roman brothers!

[thesweuteen]

What's interesting about the LDS Church is that they claim they're the "restored" Church of the Apostolic Age. Yet, when you read the Apostolic Fathers (Ignatius mainly) and the Didache, we can see that the Church of the Apostolic Age has really no theological similarities. I recommend to every Mormon to read the Didache.

[MBiggens]

Thanks for the video. I was born and raised LDS. I also served a mission and taught about the Book of Mormon for two years. I'm 35 now and, for a variety of reasons that would be too long to list here, recently came to the conclusion that the book isn't what I thought it was/what it claims to be.

That conclusion has left me reeling because of it's implications, so I've been engaged in listening to a lot of apologetics recently while I try and piece my faith back together. Your channel has been refreshing and I appreciate you taking time to touch on this. Consider this a request for you to do more videos on the subject.

[Thiago_Lamin]

Great video! I also suggest you to do more on Seventh-day adventism, it would be great!

[jendoe]

Knew some lovely Mormon folks in college. Friendly, well dressed, and pretty fun to hang out with. Eventually I did find the Catholic center so slowly stopped seeing them, but they weren’t too disappointed about it.
Even went with them to their temple down in Houston, which was…. Different for me. One of the guys told me he actually “stood in” for his deceased relatives there, something like 10 times he was ‘baptized’ in their place. Still don’t really understand how that became a practice with Mormons, but I feel that way about a lot of non-Catholic practices.

At the end of the day though, I do feel a bit sad for Mormons/LDS folks. Yes they seem happy and all that, but I just can’t understand how they can reconcile such strange ideas when compared to basic history. Catholics get the same accusation of course, but most of those accusations can be refuted with solid evidence if the accuser is willing to argue in good faith. Mormonism though, I just don’t see the same level 🤷‍♀️

[ParchedPinemarten]

I'm LDS but I found this video very interesting and informative. You earned a sub.

[paulblum]

THANKS TRENT! We had a Mormon Nanny, who made many of these points. This was extremely helpful.