An (Un)Obvious Difference Between Evangelicals and Latter-day Saints
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“What are the most obvious differences between Latter-day Saints and evangelicals?”
I get asked this question often. My answers involve the usual suspects: Trinitarianism, ecclesiology, soteriology, scriptural canons, and so on. Mainly beliefs.
But this past summer someone asked me what I thought were the most “un-obvious” differences between Latter-day Saints and evangelicals. The question caught me off guard.
“What do you mean by ‘un-obvious’?” I asked.
“Well,” he clarified, “there are obvious differences between the two groups, but do you know of any differences that neither side readily recognize?”
I blue-screened; a complete 404 error. I had nothing.
What are some differences that are present but not seen or felt or known? It’s a great question, one that began to answer itself for me with the arrival of a package from Amazon.
