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To: muawiyah

On the one hand I must be consistent with other Mormons, on the other hand I am completely mystified what my response has to do with a world wide church of god moment, when my response to Ingtar was directly off the Official LDS Church web site addressing a false premise he/she was attempting to promote.

Excuse my density but I really don’t get it.


487 posted on 12/13/2007 7:24:17 AM PST by wita
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To: wita
The greater part of the old Armstrong Church (called World Wide Church of God) went conventional several years back. I've noticed that virtually all of my Mormon friends and associates over the years have done pretty much the same thing and just ignore the part of Mormonism that's not consistent with their earlier Christian upbringing ~ there are, after all, a gazillion converts out there.

Pentecostalism is suffering the same sort of "conventionalism" ~ a survey last year revealed about 40% of them don't believe in speaking in tongues ~ and that used to be the hallmark!

Converts can bring strength to any religious body. They can also tote in the customs of their former church. That's how Santa Claus showed up in Scandinavia ~ and then in Northern Europe and America. The Christmas Tree is yet another phenomenon of a similar nature, and it's too late for the purists to eradicate it.

494 posted on 12/13/2007 8:20:10 AM PST by muawiyah
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