Posted on 10/20/2019 6:56:07 PM PDT by mkleesma
We have been ‘elesied’
Oy. I know. I dont read her posts to me if its in a Catholic thread.
“Being in a group to worship as a group is far more important than what one wears”
True, being dressed the best you can is a sign of respect.
Oops
True, being dressed the best you can is a sign of respect not reverance.
A Wiccan told me they go to a cemetery and dance without clothes.
Or as Lewis Grizzard would say nekkid.
“when you’re naked, you ain’t got no clothes on. If you’re nekkid, you ain’t got no clothes on ... and you’re up to something!”
My Mama’s church is what some would call a “money church”. In cold weather many women do wear furs.
I suppose - but back in the day, the wealthy and the Pharisees made the scene ‘styling” while the “regular” folks wore coarse robes and sandals...like the Teacher of Teachers...God probable doesn’t notice, or care, what one is wearing when He gazes upon us.
Growing up protestant I remember some of the fancy clothes woman wore to church. Woman use to cover their heads in church. It seem I always ended up behind a lady with a very big hat. :)
Yep - was “initiated” in the Catholic church. The older ladies wore their hats/jewelry/veils/rouge/and way too much perfume...made me feel carsick sometimes.
Romans 12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
Merely trying to be an antidote to folks who have been Smithed
Brigham Young, October 9, 1859
Intelligence, Etc.
Remarks by President BRIGHAM YOUNG, delivered in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, October 9, 1859.
Reported by G. D. Watt
Journal of Discourses, Vol. 7, p.282-91
They succeeded in killing Joseph, but he had finished his work.He was a servant of God, and gave us the Book of Mormon.He said the Bible was right in the main, but, through the translators and others, many precious portions were suppressed, and several other portions were wrongly translated; and now his testimony is in force, for he has sealed it with his blood.As I have frequently told them, no man in this dispensation will enter the courts of heaven, without the approbation of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jun.Who has made this so?Have I?Have this people?Have the world?No; but the Lord Jehovah has decreed it.If I ever pass into the heavenly courts, it will be by the consent of the Prophet Joseph.If you ever pass through the gates into the Holy City, you will do so upon his certificate that you are worthy to pass.Can you pass without his inspection?No; neither can any person in this dispensation, which is the dispensation of the fulness of times.In this generation, and in all the generations that are to come, everyone will have to undergo the scrutiny of this Prophet.They say that they killed Joseph, and they will yet come with their hats under their arms and bend to him; but what good will it do them, unless they repent?They can come in a certain way and find favor, but will they?
God is my right hand man.[8]
(Joseph Smith, in a letter to James Arlington Bennett on November 13, 1843, History of the Church, (Deseret Book, 1975), vol. 6, p. 78.)
"God made Aaron to be the mouth piece for the children of Israel, and He will make me be god to you in His stead, and the Elders to be mouth for me; and if you dont like it, you must lump it."
Joseph Smith at the LDS Conference on April 8, 1844, History of the Church, vol. 6, pp. 319-320.
"God is in the still small voice. In all these affidavits, indictments, it is all of the devilall corruption. Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter- day Saints never ran away from me yet."
Joseph Smith, Sunday, May 26, 1844 History of the Church, vol. 6, pp. 408-9.
"We will become gods and have jurisdiction over worlds, and these worlds will be peopled by our own offspring. We will have an endless eternity for this.
Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., Doctrines of Salvation, Vol.2, p.48
As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become.
Lorenzo Snow, Mormon Prophet and president
"The day will comeand it is not far distant, eitherwhen the name of the Prophet Joseph Smith will be coupled with the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Son of God, as his representative, as his agent whom he chose, ordained and set apart to lay anew the foundations of the Church of God in the world, which is indeed the Church of Jesus Christ, possessing all the powers of the gospel, all the rites and privileges, the authority of the Holy Priesthood, and every principle necessary to fit and qualify both the living and the dead to inherit eternal life, and to attain to exaltation in the kingdom of God."[5]
Joseph F. Smith, sixth president of the LDS Church, Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed. [1939], p. 134; as quoted in Joseph Smith: Restorer of Truth, Ensign, (Dec. 2003): p. 17.
Thus those who gain eternal life receive exaltation. . . They are gods.
(LDS Apostle Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pg. 237).
(Gordon B. Hinckley, the fifteenth president of the LDS Church, Ensign article entitled Joseph Smith: Restorer of Truth, December 2003)
My brothers and sisters, in this bicentennial year of his birth, I should like to speak of our beloved Prophet Joseph Smith. . . . In the 135th section of the Doctrine and Covenants we read the words of John Taylor concerning the Prophet Joseph: Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it. [D&C 135: 3]
(Thomas S. Monson, counselor to President Gordon B. Hinckley, the semi-annual LDS Conference in Salt Lake City, 2005)
“I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.”
—Joseph Smith
...yet...
Ephesians 4:11-16 King James Version (KJV)
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
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The Lord gave us apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.
You have some, apostles, evangelists, pastors and teachers.
You are missing part of God’s blessings.
Oh?
Which part(s)?
John 5:38
Jesus statement, You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form,
At least E is only on her anti-catholic rants. Normally she is posting half a book she is working on trying to expose her neighbors of the desert.
Part of the reason I look around and feel like there is soooooo much effort to divide those who should band together to safe the republic instead of attempting to decide through derision and hate.
Kelsie, more love, less anger for your neighbors and others who worship differently than you, either in your youth or your current years,.......please?
Oops, I should have scrolled ALL the east to the bottom.
Elsie, you just couldn’t help yourself, could you?
Nothing like having someone make my point for me.
I imagine the Pharisees wanted Jesus to show more love when he was turning over the money changers tables
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