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This blog came from a long series of emails I had in debating Douglas's book with two brothers, both of whom were Mormons at one time until I started sharing with them the Bible, and I might add the Materials provided by Lighthouse ministries in Salt Lake City. One brother who had seemed for awhile to be a believer in Gods Word (for over ten years), now was being persuaded by his brother to read this book by Del Tondo. One brother became heavily influenced by Del Tondo, and the other brother began to lose faith and respect for 'everything' in the Bible because of his brothers arguments.

I truly love these two brothers so I am saddened by this series of events. This caused me to examine Del Tondo's book and study his arguments. Del Tondo's premise is wrong and everything else in the book is an attempt to fabricate a hypothesis to demonize Paul as the origin if the salvation by Grace Theory

The arguments Del Tondo made are not new but are packaged in a unique rhetoric that is built upon two (or three or more) fallacious statements, and builds from there. Someone with previous misconceptions could easily fall into the trap - particularly the trap of legalism - if they have not understood that; 'all' of us have sinned, and that we need forgiveness for 'all' of our sins (We begin to veer of into legalism when we lose the daily personal conviction of the Holy Spirit, awareness of our own sin nature and the daily need of Jesus for our help, etc.). I have read Del Tondo's book and I see a number of very large leaps in illogic to reach Del Tondo's conclusions. I am sorting the arguments into a more systematic order than the email debate produced, and yet I am still debating the brothers, and so this blog is still under construction.