Posted on 05/09/2015 12:02:16 PM PDT by Colofornian
(Btw, are you intolerant of my religious expressions on these threads?)
No Christian denomination accepts Mormonism as Christian, that is something that they all agree on.
Why shouldn’t Christians discuss other religions?
So the following ritualistic assembly line is what you label as "worship?"
Latayne Colvett Scott wrote about her experiences in the Mormon temple as a Mormon teen (The Mormon Mirage: A Former Mormon Tells Why She Left the Church, Zondervan, 1979, p. 194):
"When my name was called, I went down into the water. The baptizing elder turned me around so that he could see a large screen, something like an electric football scoreboard, which he looked at over my shoulder. On top of the screen was my name, and below it a name I don't remember, but which I'll say was Elizabeth Anderson. 'Sister Celeste Latayne Colvett,' he said, looking at the screen, 'having been commissioned of Jesus Christ, I baptize you, for and in behalf of Elizabeth Anderson, who is dead, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.' Then he quickly dropped his right arm from the square and lowered me beneath the water. As I was regaining my footing (you learn after the third or fourth time to put one foot slightly behind the other to help you get back out of the water) he had already begun the same prayer, inserting this time the name of another dead woman which had flashed onto the screen behind me. Fifteen consecutive baptisms were performed with me as proxy in a matter of about three minutes. As I left the font, another proxy was preparing to be baptized. Then I was led into a 'confirmation room' where a man sat on a high stool with a chair near his knees. I sat on the chair, my back to him, and he and several other elders placed heir hands heavily upon my head while he pronounced this prayer: 'Sister Celeste Latayne Colvett, in the name of Jesus Christ, we lay our hands upon your head for and in behalf of Elizabeth Anderson, who is dead, and confirm you a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints..."
The former Mormon added on the next page:
"A Christian in looking at this doctrine that a person can accept Christ after death will want to know how Mormons explain the story of the rich man and Lazarus as found in Luke 16:19-26." (p. 195)
Instead of trysts, the missionaries talk to the bar girls and try -- usually unsuccessfully -- to lure them into Bible study. American missionaries' work is rarely criticized in Thailand and often praised, mostly because their schools, hospitals, orphanages and other facilities are open to everyone without obligation to convert.
Taking things out of context is a big mistake.
Wrong context and no apparent agenda.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3288050/posts?page=44#44
Luckily their opinion doesn’t matter.
You worship a false god of flesh and bone who has sex with a legion of goddesses. Watching action movies with sexual content would probably be a lesser sin, insomuch that you keep the perversion secular.
Whose opinion doesn’t matter, about what?
Actually, Jesus said this in Matthew 22:29
29 But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Paul warns us of this...
Galatians 1-6-9
No Other Gospel 6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
Careful, Teppe. If you preach another gospel, you will be cursed!!!!!
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Ccarreffful ... In Mormon victimology a warning is hating on them. In their calculus you should be tolerant of their demise lest you hurt their feelings as they perish. Recall, they have been convinced they are to become gods, if they can earn it via all that they can do. They believe god will owe them at the end of the race.
Yours is a strange argument, based on stories, again.
Prove your points, one by one.
The post you are responding to literally has one sentence that simply says: "If you believe Obama is the issue but not that false doctrine is an issue, you hate God and are His enemy." (or something along those lines).
The proof of this, if you are a Christian, is right here:
"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." (Gal 1:8-9)
Thus false doctrine damns, and, furthermore, we are not even to give false preachers any support or endorsements of any kind:
"If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds." (2Jn 1:10-11)
Thus those who defend false teachers or their theology make themselves a partaker of their evil deeds, and should be justly condemned as haters of God and man.
No, I’m not asking you to repeat a bunch of stories. I’m asking you to prove your points.
Today’s crafty religious “leaders” teach their members to protect their club more than our society, more than our families. You see, there’s a lot of money in it for the religious professional and the follower believes that they will be saved despite sinning all the time. Hey, COOOL!!
Think about it: If one cares more for their religious club than our children, more than our nation, what does that tell you about them?
If you can only quote your club’s versions of scripture, your mind is limited by evil. Use the brains that God gave you. When you stop believing in all these liberal versions of forgiveness, you will become serious about God’s orders.
Then David was a 'pretend' believer when he sinned with Bathsheba.
in 1963, just a few days before I was due to ship back stateside from Bangkok, this Christian listened to the cab driver and did something almost similar.
Messed me up pretty good for about 20 years or so...
Sounds quite similar to the respose SLC recently gave the Jews when they complained about their dead being proxy' baptized.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mormon+baptize+dead+jews&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADRA_enUS475&gws_rd=ssl
It kinda conflicts with SLC's Forever Family©
She wasn’t dead when I married her, but now?
I’m not so sure...
Sorry, but if protecting your family and society requires rejecting God and His commandments, then your family and society is worthless trash.
**Is that legal?**
I don’t see why not. Now having a honeymoon is another story.
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