Does anyone but Mormons see evidence that the rest of Christianity has gone astray?
Many non-LDS people have been troubled by the facts of history, which show that original Gospel of Christ was corrupted by humans after the era of the apostles. One recent example comes from the Evangelical Christian, David W. Bercot, Will The Real Heretics Please Stand Up: A New Look at Today’s Evangelical Church in the Light of Early Christianity (3rd edition, Peabody, Mass.: Scroll Publishing, 1989). He gives a list on page 138 of issues that were invented by men after the apostolic era (thanks to Mark Schindler for calling Bercot’s writings to my attention). These human inventions include: • that Mary was born and lived her entire life without actual sin; • that unbaptized infants are eternally damned; • that sex within marriage is an inherently debased act; • that war can be holy; • that there will be no literal millennium; • that there is no forgiveness of sins outside the Catholic church; • that some of the practices and teachings of the apostles no longer apply to Christians be
