The Mormon View of Salvation: A Gospel That Is Truly Impossible

Equip.prg ^ | January 8, 2015 | Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson

[9YearLurker]

Maybe—but it tends to make Mormons good neighbors.

[SoConPubbie]

Actually Elsie, I was looking for more along the following:

Romans 8:1-4

8 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

[Elsie]

Do you REALLY mean to steer this thread into Protestant differences and let the MAJOR heresy of Mormonism slither away?

[Alex Murphy]

Maybe—but it tends to make Mormons good neighbors.

How do you know that's not the Prozac at work?

[Elsie]

Ezra Taft Benson

HMMMmmm...

That name sure sounds familiar...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Taft_Benson

[Elsie]

Sounds like a person for whom exposure to Mormonism has left a bad taste in his mouth for ALL religions.

Many folks; after finally seeing the deception that Mormonism had taught them, turn to atheism; thus the questions we see here.

[Elsie]

Will reveling in temptation bring you happiness?

Of COURSE!

Else we wouldn't do it!

But; it don't last and ends up causing more pain than pleasure.

[Elsie]

A doorstep encounter with missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...

 

If you have cable TV, there won’t be much on to watch.

 

 

 

 

If there isn’t much on to watch, you will answer your door whenever someone rings.

 

 

 

 

If you open your door, you will see mormons.

 

 

 

 

If you talk to mormons, they will trick you into “praying about whether something is true”.

 

 

 

 

If you rely on your feelings, you may become a mormon.

 

 

 

 

If you become a mormon, you will have to wear magic underwear!

 

 

 

 

If you wear magic underwear, people will immediately label you as a cultist.

DON’T be a cultist!
Get DirectTV.

[9YearLurker]

They both probably help.

[Elsie]

What AM I?

A MINDREADER???

;^(

[Elsie]

Not to OTHER Mormons!

They’ll scam each other in an INSTANT!!!

[9YearLurker]

Really? Romney was a bit of an operator, but what do you base that on?

[Gamecock]

Do not handle explosives?

[Gamecock]

The sound you just heard is Diet Mountain Dew being forcefully propelled out of my nose.

[metmom]

If faith in Jesus alone is adequate for salvation, why does He command us to pray that God “forgive us our trespasses” and “lead us not into temptation”?

Because there's a difference between asking God to forgive you for something you did to offend Him so you can restore the relationship and thinking that it's on again off again salvation every time you sin.

There's where a lot of Catholics miss it. They think that sin severs the God/man relationship instead of interfering with the communication and intimacy of it.

In any relationship, admitting wrongdoing and asking for forgiveness results in restoration of the relationship to what it should be, but the offense did not nullify the relationship, as in breaking it. It was simply a breakdown of communication.

If a husband and wife have an argument, it does not nullify the marriage. They are still husband and wife.

If a child disobeys his parents, he is still their child, heir of all things and a legitimate member of the family, even though the lines of communication are broken down by the rebellion.

In either case, the party who was wrong is obligated to confess their wrong and ask forgiveness to get the relationship back to it's proper intimacy.

When we are born again, born of the Spirit into God's family, we are His children, no if's and's or but's. We will sin. He knows that. But it doesn't cancel the relationship, it interferes with what God wants to do in our lives and prevents us from being open with Him.

the confession and asking forgiveness is for OUR benefit, not His.

[DuncanWaring]

I’m making no assertions on what is necessary for salvation.

Others claim that faith in Jesus is all that is necessary for salvation, and that once they are saved they are always saved.

[DuncanWaring]

Reveling in temptation does not bring me happiness.

There are others who would not answer the same.

[metmom]

But if one believes in “Once saved, always saved”, why would one need further forgiveness? Why not revel in temptation?

There's no more need for forgiveness that leads to salvation. That's a done deal.

There is a need for us to ask forgiveness for disobedience that breaks down the communication.

Also, God will not let His children go on a path to self-destruction. He will chastise them and bring them back into right relationship with Himself.

[metmom]

You do realize that temptation and sin are not the same thing, don’t you?

Temptation is not sin.

Engaging in it crosses the line and then it becomes sin.

[DuncanWaring]

Also, God will not let His children go on a path to self-destruction.

Doesn't that contradict the concept of "free will"?