Posted on 04/16/2010 4:09:24 AM PDT by Daisyjane69
That was the link to the original post. And I want to once again thank everyone who replied on the thread with advice, and via FReepmail.
My beloved neighbor passed away on Monday night and truly, I miss her already.
She was her spunky self right until the end, I hear. It wasn't until Monday that she woke up and decided not to "get up," choosing instead to take medication. She only had to take pain medication for one week, and only occasionally. She fell asleep, and that was that.
All four of her living adult children (out of seven) made it to St. George on time, as did 35 of her 37 grandchildren. From what I heard, this past Sunday was one enormous picture-taking day. We finally had a beautiful sunny day so there were photographs galore: Grandma with the grandsons, Grandma with the granddaughters, Grandma with all of them. Taken on the outside swing! A picture with all her children. She was alert and awake enough to give personal keepsakes to each and every grandchild. We should all be so lucky.
She was my gardening buddy, here. I notice that one of the three roses we planted together last fall has a bud that might be blooming by Tuesday...the day of the service. If so, I plan to bring it with me. That is a part of a joke she and I used to have: When people would ask us why the heck we were trying to plant roses in the desert, we would say "Because we girls want our flowers while we're still here to enjoy them!" LOL That's why. And if that thing is blooming Tuesday, she is going to get it.
Thanks again everyone, for answering the question: "How does a nice Catholic gal pay proper respect to her LDS neighbor?"
Well ya didnt bother with the courtesy and niceties of PINGing ejonesie22 and me but I found my way to answer ya any way...
From your # 40
Tennesse Nana: you said
Jesus said to flib and the mormons, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man or woman comes to the Father except by me. John 14:6
flib: I agree, which would be why I have accepted Christ as my savior and so have my LDS friends.
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flib it was the Jesus of the Christian Bible who said that...
mormons do not believe the Jesus of the Christian Bible...
mormons do not believe the Christian Bible...
mormons do not accept the LORD Jesus Christ of the Christian Bible as Savior...
the mormons worship Joey Smith as savior and another jesus and another god...actually godS
mormons are not Christians...
The mormons sing praise songs to Joey Smith...
The Christians sing praise songs to Jesus...
The mormons say that Christans worship a different Jesus...
Not the same Jesus
“There are those outside the Church who say Latter-day Saints do not believe in the traditional Christ.
No, I don’t. The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak.
LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley (LDS Church News, June 20, 1998)
It is true that many of the Christian churches worship a different Jesus Christ than is worshipped by the Mormons. LDS publication, Ensign Magazine, May 1977, p. 26
. “Are Christians ignorant? Yes, as ignorant of the things of God as the brute beast” (Journal of Discourses, John Taylor [3rd Mormon President], 13:225).
“Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls (Morm. 8; Moro. 8)” (Mormon Doctrine, 1966, Bruce R. McConkie, 177).
“He (Joseph Smith) is the man through whom God has spoken... yet I would not like to call him a savior, though in a certain capacity he was a god to us, and is to the nations of the earth, and will continue to be.”
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 8:321
“You call us fools; but the day will be, gentlemen and ladies, whether you belong to this Church or not, when you will prize brother Joseph Smith as the Prophet of the Living God, and look upon him as a god...”
- Herber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 5:88
“If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him [Joseph Smith]”
- (as quoted in 1988 Melchizedek Priesthood Study Guide, p. 142)
There is “no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth...no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God”
- Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, p.190
“I know that Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God, that this is the Gospel of salvation, and if you do not believe it you will be damned, every one of you”
(Journal of Discourses 4:298, March 29, 1857).
On October 9, 1859, Young said,
“From the day that the Priesthood was taken from the earth to the winding-up scene of all things, every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are — I with you and you with me. I cannot go there without his consent”
(Journal of Discourses 7:289).
There is “no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth...no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God”
- Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, p.190
and the Millet answer is....
Your # 40
Ejonse22 you wrote: Catholics and Orthodox pray THROUGH saints, as intercessors to God on their behalf, not TO them.
Let me refer to to Nanas statement above..... Ummm no one gets to the father except by Christ.... soooo are Catholics a cult and not christian? There are probably a few judgemental pharisees on this thread who would think so.
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Kid that wasnt my statemment...
I’m not that smart...
I was quoting the Jesus of the Christians from the Christian Bible...
Jesus said to flib and the mormons, “I am the Way, the truth, and the Life. No man or woman comes to the Father except by me.” Jophn 14:6
The mormons believe they can get to God through Joey Smith...
Jesus says “No way. The mormons have got to come through Me just like anyone else.” John 14:6
Courtesy PING to ejonesie22
Don’t worry, nana, I wasn’t pinged either.
Were you mentioned too ???
Was that nice and courteous treatment ???
Is that how those so called nice mormons act ???
I see...
Anti-social behavior is the new nice...
I was mentioned first. So there...LOL...
Maybe you guys were busy; wiping the froth and foam off, and failed to hear the phone ring...
It is an AWESOME responsibility: owning a BIBLE.
and the Millet answer is....
LOL. That MUST have been it.
It is an AWESOME responsibility: owning a BIBLE.
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So very true. I know I shouldn’t be amazed, but I am, at the number of people who OWN a Bible yet don’t bother to READ it or try to UNDERSTAND it.
“To whom much is given; much is expected.”
Kinda like the logic of someone saying “I want A”, then after being handed “A”, they complain mightily about not having “A”...
At that point you walk away shaking your head and perhaps snickering a bit...
But I can see where the poster gets their ideas of about Mormonism...
When facts need not apply...
When facts need not apply...
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Sgt Joe: Just the facts, Ma’am
Bro Joe: Anything but the facts, Ma’am
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