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To: cantabile; colorcountry
If your goal were to convice, and ultimately to convert

MY goal is to warn innocents of heresy that will lead them to hell.

Bringing out the truths of mormonism will either convince them or not. The only conversion I'm interested in is one that God instills in their hearts when their mind is flushed of the lies that are provided by the mormon corporation.

Do you personally know anything about mormon doctrine? If not, your condemnation of those who DO is unwarranted when mormonism's goal is to "convince and convert" the entire population of the earth. Do you believe mormons will give YOU a pass? If you aren't converted on this earth, you will be converted after you die.

Colorcountry put this succinctly in an earlier post: "Everyone must earn exaltation, except those who have never heard of it and died before they did and IF they died without doing their own works, then a good, worthy Mormon must earn it for them by doing works, BUT by then, the deceased (who spent some time in spirit prison waiting for some worthy Mormon to do their Temple Work) has been meeting with worthy spirit missionaries who taught him the lessons so he would understand the Mormon necro-baptism that just took place in his stead in the Mormon Temple where god dwells, but not really because god dwells in heaven in his body of flesh and bone - then after the ordinance is performed in absentia and the spirit lessons taught, the deceased now has the opportunity to choose whether or not the baptism and ordinances are accepted. If the dead guy now accepts those works, then he is allowed to go and do more works so that he too can progress and become a god."

"“Few men on earth,” said Elder Bruce R. McConkie, “either in or out of the Church, have caught the vision of what the Book of Mormon is all about. Few are they among men who know the part it has played and will yet play in preparing the way for the coming of Him of whom it is a new witness. … The Book of Mormon shall so affect men that the whole earth and all its peoples will have been influenced and governed by it." … (Millennial Messiah pp. 159, 170, 179.)

499 posted on 05/25/2011 10:35:49 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Why do people try to "out-nice" Jesus?)
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To: greyfoxx39
MY goal is to warn innocents of heresy that will lead them to hell.

Rubbish. Your goal is to get your jolies trashing people who are your natural political allies.

The pleasure you take in tormenting people who are mistaken in their theology reflects more poorly on you than on them.

Why do you feel threated by the LDS? If they come to your door, all you need do is tell them you're not interested. That's what I do, and I do the same when the JW's show up.

If you want to know how to deal with Mormons, all you need do is consider the example of Jesus confronting the Samaritan woman at the well. Did He trash her beliefs? Did he condemn her as a heretic? No, he treated her with the respect due to every human being, and thereby convinced her that He had the words of everlasting life.

Your behavior, and that of your cohort, brings disgrace upon authentic Christianity, for you will be judged, by other human beings, not by your arguments, but by your example.

Your apalling behavior also brings disgrace upon this forum, and is one of the reasons that it is (unjustly) characterized as a hate site. In short, it is your behavior which is problematic, far more so than that of the LDS.

Ultimately, the question for FR will be decided by economics. If you're allowed to continue to turn this place into a cesspool by unnecessarily alienating those who are your natural political allies, it will not survive. Your choices are to amend your behavior, be shown the door, or ultimately be deprived of a forum for your bigotry because it no longer exists.

And, BTW, I'm not a member of any "lobby"; I'm just an individual expressing my opinion. My hope is that FR may recover its former sanity and influence, nothing more. But, as a Catholic, I consider that I have paid quite sufficient dues in all the abuse I'm expected to endure in order to participate in FR. And I will give this place not one penny until the bashing stops. Eventually, the financial rubber will meet the road on this, and the management can either recognize that reality, or resign itself to decline and extinction.

530 posted on 05/25/2011 11:23:52 AM PDT by cantabile
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