Posted on 10/24/2014 11:11:33 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Hilarious video from the point of view of a Lutheran Pastor. Among the highlights is this exchange:
"You can know the Mormon church is the One True Church, because we always have twelve living Apostles!"
"Let me get this straight...according to the Mormon church, the Apostle John never died and is fact still roaming this Earth?"
"According to Section 7 of Doctrines and Covenants, that is correct."
"Patrick - is St. John the Evangelist currently an Apostle in the Mormon church? You're telling me that, after eighteen hundred years with no church to worship in, no fellow believers to gather with, no one to preach to, baptize, commune or consecrate, that the disciple who Jesus loved was too busy tap-dancing atop a pile of yak manure to claim the spot that Jesus gave him on the freshly rebooted apostolic roster?"
"Uh, I don't know about the yak manure..."
"You're also telling me that in the subsequent time since the One True Church woke up from its near-two-thousand-year coma, that the guy who wrote five books of the Bible couldn't even be bothered to show up at your Salt Lake City headquarters for an official meet-and-greet?"
Gotta admit........pretty funny
The Apostle John Retired to the Island of Yap, NOT the Island of Yak manure. LOL.
(Patmos got too crowded once the 144,000 showed up.
Besides John the Beloved, the Three Nephites have parallels to The Wandering Jew, Catholic saints and even the Prophet Elijah. Although reports of Three Nephites activity are not — for good reason — official Mormon doctrine, their calling is mentioned in Mormonism’s most unique scripture. One who claims a literal belief in the Book of Mormon must agree that the three are still hanging around somewhere. The same goes for the Bible and John the Beloved.Related threads on the LDS belief in the Wandering Apostle, and the similarly not-dead Three Nephites....
-- from the LDS thread So what’s your experience with the Three Nephites?
I’d never heard they believe John the Apostle is still alive.
When the 12th Imam appears, is he going to co-opt the lds by claiming to be John, also?
"Okay, I don't think you understand the complexities of this. You see, even though almost everyone thought he was dead, he wasn't really dead. But he couldn't just show up again and tell people that he was still alive!"
"Right, because that would have gone against everything that he was trying to teach them!"
"Yes, Patrick, we know - The Dark Knight Rises was a very compelling piece of cinematic storytelling. But let's get back to St. John the Evangelist."
Voted for Obama, not Romney, eh?
Now Patrick why do you keep posting these videos?
"'Romneycare is good enough for me'...is that what this is about, Patrick?"
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