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Resignation Event En Masse 6/29, 7pm, SLC [Mormons becoming ex-Mormons]
ExMormon.org ^ | June 28, 2013 | Whatthejosh

Posted on 06/29/2013 5:44:06 PM PDT by Colofornian

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To: Elsie; ansel12; svcw
Thank you for your inputs.

If there's one message in this, it's that there is no such thing as a perfect human.

Been there, done that, and still shaking my head over it.

Have a great day.

101 posted on 06/30/2013 7:23:55 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: ejonesie22
You are correct.

I am always forgetting to look a people's pages when this sort of, well whatever it is starts.

After your reply, I took a look (has one of the same items as Resty, curious) and this as a statement:

If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. - Sun Tuz

All I ask is for an honest advantage.

So apparently, an honest debate is not possible, just attempts to irritate and the obligatory.....it's not fair, when you are called on it.

It all makes sense. I wise person replied to me once "do not feed the beast", they were right.

that was you, by the way

102 posted on 06/30/2013 7:59:14 AM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: ejonesie22
You are correct.

I am always forgetting to look a people's pages when this sort of, well whatever it is starts.

After your reply, I took a look (has one of the same items as Resty, curious) and this as a statement:

If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. - Sun Tuz

All I ask is for an honest advantage.

So apparently, an honest debate is not possible, just attempts to irritate and the obligatory.....it's not fair, when you are called on it.

It all makes sense. I wise person replied to me once "do not feed the beast", they were right.

that was you, by the way

103 posted on 06/30/2013 7:59:15 AM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: Colofornian

Off topic, but I am looking for an article posted here. It was about a female journalist that had converted to Christianity. I think she even wrote a book?

I am always curious about people who for no apprent reaso become Christians.

Any help would be appreciated!!


104 posted on 06/30/2013 8:03:05 AM PDT by johnnygeneric (Female journaist converts to Christianity)
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To: 23 Everest

Seriously, that’s all the person does is attack the Mormon religion. Have an opinion, but to make it one’s life’s work is mental.


Colofornians’s posts as well as similar posts on this website had a part in our family leaving Mormonism.

That is a fact.


105 posted on 06/30/2013 8:35:41 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: johnnygeneric
Not the one you're looking for...'cause this one involves a guy: How an AP Reporter Found Religion (but thought you might still be interested)
106 posted on 06/30/2013 8:39:11 AM PDT by Colofornian (West went South)
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To: freedomlover; All
Colofornians’s posts as well as similar posts on this website had a part in our family leaving Mormonism. That is a fact.

Praise God!

Truth is one of those insistent things that tends not to like being ignored.

And God the Holy Spirit illuminates our hearts -- and doesn't bypass our minds in the process.

107 posted on 06/30/2013 8:57:27 AM PDT by Colofornian (West went South)
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To: ejonesie22
Salvation and truth have no bounds, digital or otherwise...

Amen!

108 posted on 06/30/2013 8:59:03 AM PDT by Colofornian (West went South)
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To: Elsie; cherry; All
Mormons for the most part are good people... [Cherry, post #20]

Sigh... Yet another "Mormons are good people" poster that says NOTHING about the false religion those 'good people' are deceived by! [Elsie]

We know that Jesus was pretty "down on" the legalistic Pharisees. But...we know of one great compliment He gave to the outward "assets" of legalistic Pharisees, saying to others that unless your righteousness exceeded that of the Pharisees & the teachers of the law, "you will certainly NOT enter the kingdom of heaven." (Matt. 5:20).

IOW, Jesus can still use the legalistic Mormons as an object lesson for all of us -- just like He did legalistic Pharisees -- to remind us that our faith shouldn't be privately tucked away...
...that zeal is to be displayed outwardly...
...and that righteousness was never meant to be hid in a corner.

But...
...Jesus...
...later...(Matthew 23)...
...outlined the true internal vs. external "scorecard" of the Pharisees:

25"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. 27 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Cherry, if Jesus only looked upon outward assets, then the Pharisees & the teachers of the law...
...and perhaps SOME Mormons, too...
...passed -- or would pass -- your standards w/flying colors...
...and, by implication...Jesus was mistaken to "diss" them.

Bottom line: Hey, if you're auditioning for godhood, which temple Mormons are, you better be on your best outward behavior.

But since there's only one God...
...and will only ever be one God...
...what does this kind of Mormoneering inward power grab say about such power-mongers in God's eyes...
...for them to not only postulate
-- but to redefine Jesus' Gospel --
-- to tell the world with vast missionary zeal that hundreds, thousands, millions, & billions gods and/or potential new gods exist or will exist...
...and to openly claim they will such "new gods" on the universal block???

All this is such a contradiction to the foundational principles of our free republic (and to this site, Free Republic)!

I mean c'mon...we properly lambast Obama's utopianistic socialism as an overreach of power-mongering...and yet temple Mormons think they will be new gods creating their own new worlds -- the ultimate power-mongering!

109 posted on 06/30/2013 9:23:22 AM PDT by Colofornian (West went South)
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To: freedomlover

Praise God!!


110 posted on 06/30/2013 9:31:24 AM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: freedomlover; Colofornian; svcw
Colofornians’s posts as well as similar posts on this website had a part in our family leaving Mormonism.

Your post encourages the Flying Inmans in their mission against false prophets and cultic practices. Thank you.

Inman mission statement photo CALLTOACTION-1-1.jpg/

111 posted on 06/30/2013 9:46:16 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Thanks, Mitt.)
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To: elcid1970
Sadly, it seems that most ex-mormons wind up as atheists.

You have some proof to post regarding that statement, I suppose?

112 posted on 06/30/2013 9:59:25 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Thanks, Mitt.)
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To: freemama
Tonight pray for Mormons everywhere that someone gets to them with the true Gospel of who Jesus is and what He did for them.

Amen!

113 posted on 06/30/2013 10:00:48 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Thanks, Mitt.)
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To: greyfoxx39; freemama; All

(Yes, Amen!)


114 posted on 06/30/2013 11:23:40 AM PDT by Colofornian (West went South)
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To: OldNavyVet
If there's one message in this, it's that there is no such thing as a perfect human.

My old geometry teacher would say, "That's a given."

It sure illustrates what a FALSE prophet is; too.

115 posted on 06/30/2013 11:34:22 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: johnnygeneric
I am always curious about people who for no apprent reaso become Christians.

I'd be curious about that myself!

I don't think I've ever read a testimony that did NOT include just WHY the person came to the Lord.

116 posted on 06/30/2013 11:37:21 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: freedomlover

Praise GOD!


117 posted on 06/30/2013 11:37:46 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: greyfoxx39; All
And to reinforce this "Flying Inman" mission: Apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians 10:1-5:

By the humility and gentleness of Christ,
I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am “timid” when face to face with you, but “bold” toward you when away!
2 I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world.
3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
5 We DEMOLISH arguments and EVERY PRETENSION that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

118 posted on 06/30/2013 11:52:00 AM PDT by Colofornian (West went South)
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To: 23 Everest

My “master”? Who, pray tell, do you imagine is my master?


119 posted on 06/30/2013 11:55:07 AM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: Elsie

I guess I was a little too loose with my wording. But there are people who go along and feel life is ok. But when exposed to the Scripture realize somoething was missing in their life.

You hear stories of people who hit rock bottom and turn the Christ and they have incredible stirring testimonies. But the quick read I did on the headlines, there wasn’t anything like this in this woman’s life. I wanted to read her testimony.

So, next time, try not to be so snarky with your comment?


120 posted on 06/30/2013 12:05:28 PM PDT by johnnygeneric (Female journaist converts to Christianity)
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