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To: Jeff Head
Your statement: I have accepted Jesus Christ, just as I have said. He alone saves and has saved me.

How do you reconcile that with the teachings of mormonism and the lds prophets?

April 8, 1973, LDS Apostle Mark E. Petersen proclaimed that salvation "comes only through the Church itself as the Lord established it. Therefore it was made clearly manifest that salvation is in the Church, and of the Church, and is obtained only through the Church."

"From the day that the Priesthood was taken from the earth to the winding-up scene of all things, every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are, I with you and you with me. I cannot go there without his consent" (Journal of Discourses 7:289).

The Book of Mormon says of salvation: "for we know that is is by grace that we are saved, after all that we can do" (Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 25:23).

George Q. Cannon "If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by Joseph Smith; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him." -1988 Melchizedek Priesthood Study Guide, p. 142, Apostle George Q. Cannon

Joseph Fielding Smith: "that which man merits through his own acts through life and by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, p.134).

Bruce McConkie: "Jesus kept the commandments of his Father and thereby worked out his own salvation, and also set an example as to the way and the means whereby all men may be saved" (The Mortal Messiah, Vol.4, p.434).

Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, pg. 153:"Each command we obey sends us another rung up the ladder to perfected manhood and toward godhood; and every law disobeyed is a sliding toward the bottom where man merges into the brute world"

154 posted on 04/27/2012 7:44:04 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: svcw
He can't, no Mormon can. Saved by the simple grace of God is an anathema to LDS teaching.

So in order to be “Christian” such is ignored...

155 posted on 04/27/2012 8:42:33 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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