Posted on 04/25/2016 5:29:27 PM PDT by reaganaut
#1: Under this line of reasoning, nobody is EVER to confront anybody on the planet earth. Why? Because every single person "underranks" a more potent spiritual enemy. This is where contrast-&-comparison is downright dangerously deceptive.
#2: Hoosier-Daddy, have you ever read these Biblical passages referenced -- like Acts 20?
As the apostle Paul was leaving the church of Ephesus, he warned them with this high-priority alert:
"I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears." (Acts 20:29-31)
Paul's cultural priority? (Defend against specific false disciples who will proselytize the flock and draw away men unto themselves!)
Tell me something, H-D: If you did something tearfully night and day for three years, do you think it's rather important? So what? We're just to conclude, "Oh, the man who contributed a good chunk to the New Testament -- what does he know about cultural priorities?"
So tell you what, H-D. When you get to heaven, be sure to take apostle Paul aside & use his own writings to lecture him...Cite him Eph. 6:12 & tell him how "inconsistent" he was to confront those "savage wolves" when there was a wolf-of-wolves preying upon people (Your weak application of sentiment drawn from Eph. 6:12). After all, didn't Paul have a "greater enemy to confront" than those "savage wolves?"
...I felt compelled to write and urge you to CONTEND for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. (Jude 3)
If you don't want to contend for the faith once delivered, then don't.
If you don't desire to "demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God" (2 Cor. 10:5), then don't.
Just stop your mild scolding of others who actually desire to flesh out those Biblical passages.
When shown their own religious organization's writings; the FR Mormon tend to get really quite.
That’s horible.
That is not true and you know it.
That is a lie and you know it!
No its not a lie and I sourced it from LDS.org a few posts below it.
LDS ‘exlatation’ is godhood
OK, spelling Nazi...was replying via a cell phone. Was it a fat finger typo, orrrrr....Could it be....Satan?!!!!
As to the Mormons I’ve known...I have never personally known a bad one. Salt of the earth, shirt off their back type folks.
And that is how they like to appear, but behind closed doors it is very different. They are very two faced that way.
If this thread did not interest me, i would not have posted.
My aunt was a convert Mormon and I’ve personally known a few dozen more. Not a bad one in the bunch. Hard workers who were family oriented and see to their own. They breed like rabbits, so i see a good counter to the Islamic monsters that roam the earth.
That is a lie and you know it!
What ever happened to the few FR Mormons that could make at least a try at defending their chosen religious organization?
So?
What do you think about the theology they follow?
your Idea is that God is an incomprehensible being
I have no issue with God at some level being incomprehensible to us. He would be a pretty feeble God if human intellect could fully comprehend Him. I am confident that He has provided us all we need to know about Him but there are probably limits on what the finite can understand about the infinite. I don't find that a problem at all, in fact, it makes me want to praise Him even more as I realize that His greatness and loving kindness is beyond my comprehension.
Concerning your criticism of creeds: The orthodox view of creedal statements is that they are summary statements which have value only when they align with Scripture (Christian Scripture not LDS "scripture"). Most Christians would hold that the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed meet that standard. Other creedal and confessional statements have less wide-spread acceptance. However, there is often edifying material in them but personally, I tend to hold to these loosely.
He has CHOSEN to not point out what is so bad in ANY of them; just makes a broad statement with NO evidence to back it up; merely parroting what JS had said so long ago:
"...the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight..."
Even JS can't say it was GOD that spoke to him!
Dear Tammy,
Yes, people are people. Yes, there are all ‘shades of greys’ for ALL the folks, even me.
My experience with the Mennonites comes from ‘the band’ around the Lancaster, PA area, just down the road from QVC Hdqtrs. This was back in the early ‘90’s, which by the mathematics of time alone, isolates and insulates those folks I met, from times today, since they were my senior in age, then, and the adage ‘70 years, 80 if ...’ comes into play.
Dear reaganaut,
The year was 1977. I was assigned as Asst. Shop Chief, at George AFB, CA. On one of the shifts under my supervision, were two Mormon two-stripers. It was not more than 5 months later, that I had heard them give their ‘schpiel’, and also, their ‘other explanations’.
We all did the job and duties required, and then some, but, it was the rest of the ‘krewe’ that called out those two on their stories, and told them ‘no thanks, no sale’.
Assuming that the First Vision really occurred, it is likely a 2 Corinthians 11:14 event.
#11 “Oh you are a Christian, so are we.”
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