Mormons?

I was just talking with a Mormon chap. He was very nice (see earlier blog entry).

However it struck me that, whilst we were talking about theology, we really could not have a debate about it at all. It would be rather like my debating theology with somebody who believes in little green men from Mars. Their doctrines are so, well, ridiculous that there really quite simply isn't any room for debate, doing so it tantamount to madness.

Irenaeus said, talking about Gnostic doctrines that he refuted in his work Against Heresies that to simply describe some of these doctrines is to utterly refute them as they are so ridiculous.

Nevertheless, some good men do debate Mormons over their beliefs and I believe that their work is important and furthers the cause of the gospel.