Posted on 03/21/2017 9:16:13 AM PDT by metmom
Well...
...the Founder himself said...
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Isn't "Haters gonna hate" a bit overused these days?
We’ve got our love to keep us warm.
Nor others is a pretty broad brush.
Do you consider ME as one of those fellows?
If so (I want to be as correct as possible) would you care to point out any 'erroneous charges' I've made so that I could directly address them instead of trying to read what is on your mind?
Thanks.
Perhaps WHO is right is not important; but WHAT is right sure as hell is!
Why are all you guys ganging up on the only person to declare himself ‘right’ in this whole thread - amorphous?
You probably meant Abishag the Shunnamite (I Kings 1:14, 15) .
100% correct. Right address, wrong name! Thanks.
I can tell you where they do NOT come from; and that is the book of MORMON!!!
There's not much in it that has any ANTI-Christian theology in it.
That's why they want you to READ it and then pray about it's veracity!
Other than goofy; impossible to detect early 'history' the BoM is a mish-mash of KJV verses.
The REAL goodies of MORMONism are found in the OTHER LDS 'scripture'.
The ones they do NOT hand out to you and ask you to pray about: The Doctrines and Covenants, the Pearl of great Price, and the suspect KJV instead of the 'Inspired' Version that 'GOD' told JS to translate to REMOVE the 'error' found in the KJV.
(He did so; but Salt Lake City (SLC) does NOT claim it to be SCRIPTURE - go figger!!)
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Neither you nor anyone (save for Bathsheba for Abishag) showed i made any erroneous charges while progressively losing what little credibility you had.
What should've/could've been a friendly/respectable discussion has turned into a hate fest; condemning Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and maybe even Hindus, IIRC. I know you feel you're right, and of course, I know I'm right, but who's right isn't important. How we treat one another, especially when it comes to our fellow Christians, is far more important.
Therefore your recourse is to "Well genius," "take your bigotry and stuff it" and snowflake whining about being the subject of reproof, which real Scripture commands.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. (Ephesians 5:11)
And as the mods says , Open threads are in a town square format.... Antagonism though not encouraged, should be expectedIf you keep getting your feelings hurt because other posters ridicule or disapprove or hate what you hold dear, then you are too thin-skinned to be involved in open RF debate. You should IGNORE open RF threads altogether and instead post to RF threads labeled prayer devotional caucus or ecumenical.
Yup, but that's not a presumption, since texts exist, one dated to the 2nd century, before the establishment of the Church in Rome, which gives the ages of Mary and Joseph in startling precision.
If that panics or rocks your world, I'm sorry for you. But I'm going with an ancient, written text, over someone(s) opinion or assumptions not based on anything but handed down doctrine.
You and your friends are welcome to believe whatever you wish, but you're not going to change my mind. Nor even your admittedly "harsh treatment". I only asked for contradicting evidence from scripture, not a treatise on the evils of Catholicism, Judaism, Mormonism, or graphic clips from horror films.
Despite all of the vitriol you and your friends have drummed up, not one verse have you presented that contradicts the ages of Mary and Joseph as given in the texts I listed at the start of this most horrible example of "Christian" love, I've seen in quite some time.
With that, I take my leave from your wonderful thread, even more confident in the story of Mary and Joseph, as told in the Infancy Gospels, and in the virtuousness of Mary, which I firmly believe she maintained all her life.
God bless her! What a wonderful, priceless gift she brought forth for ALL mankind.
Yet those texts you’re hanging onto as accurate were somehow so critical to the rcc they did not include them as canon at Trent. It is you, sir, who is building on sandy soil.
Thank you, metmom, for posting this beautiful reflection from John MacArthur.
It is overwhelming to think about how Jesus sacrificed Himself for sinners like us.
It IS truly amazing to meditate on His sacrifice, isn't it. Best regards to you and yours.
AGAIN??
It neither panics me nor rocks my world.
There’s no evidence that it’s true and for someone to pass it off as truth or Scripture is wrong and I will speak out against it.
What rocks some people’s world is the thought that Joseph and Mary had a normal marriage and had sex within it and produced offspring, all totally supported by actual Scripture.
So if virginity is so virtuous, then all the rest of us folks who are married and enjoy it are not virtuous, eh?
Just a bunch of carnal heathens for enjoying what God blessed mankind with.
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