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I don't know how many times I've stated that I'm OCD honest and despise proselytizing on forums.

Because I tested I thoroughly through prayer, scripture study, thoughtfulness, experience etc. See Thessalonians 5, especially verse 21.

Of course.

Clarifications on the Trinity subject: LDS Christians believe that the Father, Son, and Spirit are three person in one God. That's all the same. The three are believed to be one through unity, versus through consubstantiality as stated in the Athanasian Creed.

For an LDS Christian, somethings are indeed Thus Saith the Lord. Why does an indicviaul believe that? Because they asked God. Other subjects do ahve specualtion in them, and hence why I highlight when that's the case.

It's not a deflection, it's addressing what I've found most Creedal Christians are thinking when they ask that question. And no, nothing like that. By "God" here you are referring to the Father specifically. I just addressed the subject of the Father's past: There isn't a single scriptural /...

For LDS Christian, the highest authority is God Himself. Not any book, Creeds, or man's thoughts. God. That is your interpretation.

Not in any way you're thinking of with a birth canal, lots of screaming, and a person coming to be that didn't exist at all 12 month before hand. There isn't a single scriptural / autoreactive statement on the subject. LDS Christian readily acknowledge that we don't know everything about God...

On that we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Even with the oldest manuscripts and working strictly within sola scriptura Protestantism, you'll still find huge disagreements about beliefs. Example: Calvinism and Armininsim.

Amen to that a million times over!

LDS Christians are Christians. Not Protestant Christians. Not Catholic Christians. But Christian nonetheless.

As did I.

Because I want you to validate your epistemological methodology here without any hypocrisy, else this entire discussion is groundless. Should I learn about Protestantism form the ex protestant that tells me they taught cheap grace?

Do you acknowledge that the road you are taking endorsing the idea that LDS Christians should learn from the ex-Protestants who say Protestantism teaches cheap grace, Modalism, and that it's ok to sleep with whomever because you're already saved?

Not just occasionally: they are rampant. So much so that your typical LDS Christian believes that Evangelicals believe in cheap grace and that the Father/Son/Spirit are one person. Now: should a person get thier information from ex folks, or from actually asking a person of that faith?

I'm the hypocrisy and fallacy in your approach. You want to seek ex folks when learning about other people's faiths, but reject such a mythology being applied to your own faith. I could easily learn about Protestantism from an ex-Protestant. And they will tell me how they were taught cheap...

I majority appreciate you posts (this one and many previous). On this particular subject, we do disagree, as I believe Christ >> the Bible. Which isn't to diss the Bible at all, but to remember the supremacy of God. Yeah, we disagree on this too for many sub-points. I see man's ideas trying...

Who do I ask you about your beliefs and what your teaches? Shall I ask you? Or shall I ask my friend Mike that grew up Protestant and then converted to an LDS Christian?

If you want to know anything, you're free to ask, including for sources. Just ask. If you don't want to know / don't care, then that's your choice too.