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All Mormon Category Featured On "Jeopardy" [What 'answers' to which Qs do you have?]
MidUtahRadio ^ | Oct. 18, 2013 | Kathy Farnsworth

Posted on 10/21/2013 4:45:19 PM PDT by Colofornian

The long-running game show “Jeopardy” featured an entire category on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last night. The category was popular as it was the first one chosen in the round. The “answers” in the category included missionaries, the Tabernacle, Marion Romney, Joseph Smith and Deseret Industries. Every contestant who was asked a question got it right.


TOPICS: Religion; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: answers; inman; jeopardy; lds; mormonism
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To: Elsie

sorry, I meant 70 :) that was a response to my post on 8.

You can take a Marxist over a Mormon if you like. In fact, that is what happened last year.

I can agree with Mormons on plenty of social policy and economic policies, despite having a theological difference.

No Mormon ever came to my house demanding I give up my guns, my liberty, my Bible, and my children at the point of a gun. That is what Marxists, do, and they do more damage to society than Mormons. That is a fact.


141 posted on 10/22/2013 4:58:32 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: reaganaut

I was referring to post 70 in most of my responses on this thread...it is for me a dangerous way of thinking.

We need to agree with Mormons where we can agree while holding firm to the truths we know in Scripture.

I will work with anyone who wants to stop Obamugabe’s Death Panel law and replace it with a more free-market solution. I don’t care where they worship.

I will work with anyone who wants to stand with Israel against the Muslim Brotherhood. That includes orthodox Jews who reject Jesus as the Messiah. I think they’re totally wrong on that count, but I’ll stand shoulder to shoulder with them on Israel.

I will work for the sanctity of life with Catholics with whom I disagree on a host of intra-Christian issues. We are brothers and sisters of a same mind when it comes to protecting the unborn.

I have worked with homosexuals in the past who are free market conservatives. They knew me well enough to know that my opinion of their chosen lifestyle was not one of approval. But they voted for conservatives in the voting booth, right along with me, because they know that if we have economic success and freedom all boats are lifted.

I am not on a crusade to defend Mormon theology. I am insistent, and no one has persuaded me otherwise (from post 70 on) that a Marxist leader is better than a Mormon leader.

I can find points of agreement with some things a Mormon asserts. I can think of nothing substantial that I can agree with a Marxist about.

Thanks.


142 posted on 10/22/2013 5:05:48 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Colofornian
Can’t believe that the Mormons would build a temple on land they don’t own..

Don't worry.

ANY church that can buy the entire downtown of a major American city and rebuild it; SURELY has a little left over to make an unrefuseable offer on things it wants to buy!

143 posted on 10/22/2013 5:06:23 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Colofornian


"Now the way he translated was he put the urim and thummim into his hat and Darkned his Eyes than he would take a sentance and it would apper in Brite Roman Letters. Then he would tell the writer and he would write it. Then that would go away the next sentance would Come and so on. But if it was not Spelt rite it would not go away till it was rite, so we see it was marvelous. Thus was the hol [whole] translated."
---Joseph Knight's journal.


"In writing for your father I frequently wrote day after day, often sitting at the table close by him, he sitting with his face buried in his hat, with the stone in it, and dictating hour after hour with nothing between us."
(History of the RLDS Church, 8 vols.
(Independence, Missouri: Herald House,1951),
"Last Testimony of Sister Emma [Smith Bidamon]," 3:356.

"I, as well as all of my father's family, Smith's wife, Oliver Cowdery and Martin Harris, were present during the translation. . . . He [Joseph Smith] did not use the plates in translation."
---(David Whitmer,
as published in the "Kansas City Journal," June 5, 1881,
and reprinted in the RLDS "Journal of History", vol. 8, (1910), pp. 299-300.

In an 1885 interview, Zenas H. Gurley, then the editor of the RLDS Saints Herald, asked Whitmer if Joseph had used his "Peep stone" to do the translation. Whitmer replied:

"... he used a stone called a "Seers stone," the "Interpreters" having been taken away from him because of transgression. The "Interpreters" were taken from Joseph after he allowed Martin Harris to carry away the 116 pages of Ms [manuscript] of the Book of Mormon as a punishment, but he was allowed to go on and translate by use of a "Seers stone" which he had, and which he placed in a hat into which he buried his face, stating to me and others that the original character appeared upon parchment and under it the translation in English."


"Martin Harris related an incident that occurred during the time that he wrote that portion of the translation of the Book of Mormon which he was favored to write direct from the mouth of the Prophet Joseph Smith. He said that the Prophet possessed a seer stone, by which he was enabled to translate as well as from the Urim and Thummim, and for convenience he then used the seer stone, Martin explained the translation as follows: By aid of the seer stone, sentences would appear and were read by the Prophet and written by Martin and when finished he would say 'Written,' and if correctly written that sentence would disappear and another appear in its place, but if not written correctly it remained until corrected, so that the translation was just as it was engraven on the plates, precisely in the language then used."
(Edward Stevenson, "One of the Three Witnesses,"
reprinted from Deseret News, 30 Nov. 1881
in Millennial Star, 44 (6 Feb. 1882): 86-87.)

In 1879, Michael Morse, Emma Smith's brother-in-law, stated:
 
 "When Joseph was translating the Book of Mormon [I] had occasion more than once to go into his immediate presence, and saw him engaged at his work of translation. The mode of procedure consisted in Joseph's placing the Seer Stone in the crown of a hat, then putting his face into the hat, so as to entirely cover his face, resting his elbows upon his knees, and then dictating word after word, while the scribes Emma, John Whitmer, O. Cowdery, or some other wrote it down."
(W.W. Blair interview with Michael Morse,
Saints Herald, vol. 26, no. 12
June 15, 1879,  pp. 190-91.)


Joseph Smith's brother William also testified to the "face in the hat" version:
 
"The manner in which this was done was by looking into the Urim and Thummim, which was placed in a hat to exclude the light, (the plates lying near by covered up), and reading off the translation, which appeared in the stone by the power of God"
("A New Witness for Christ in America,"
Francis W. Kirkham, 2:417.)


"The manner in which he pretended to read and interpret was the same manner as when he looked for the money-diggers, with the stone in his hat, while the book of plates were at the same time hid in the woods."
---Isaac Hale (Emma Smith's father's) affidavit, 1834.




144 posted on 10/22/2013 5:07:51 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: reaganaut

Would he use a spinner or a pick-a-number machine?


145 posted on 10/22/2013 5:09:52 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SoFloFreeper
The Council of Trent condemned all Protestants. Rome has never repudiated that ruling. But I don’t fear CATHOLIC candidates or nominees.

Maybe next time...

146 posted on 10/22/2013 5:10:57 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

What year did Joe Smith die in that shoot-out? He has to be the most successful con artist in the History of humankind, since he has been dead so long and continues to con so many.


147 posted on 10/22/2013 5:14:02 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

#70  Either way, I'll take a MARXIST any day over such a person.

 
What I typed does NOT say what you have claimed: 
 
    #110 Saying Marxism is better than Mormonism (which provoked my latest post) is moronic.
 
 
 
 
 

148 posted on 10/22/2013 5:17:58 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

yes. it does.


149 posted on 10/22/2013 5:20:06 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: MHGinTN

June 27, 1844

It appears that ol’ Joe was a poor shot, in more ways than one.

All them wives and only two offspring listed for him.


150 posted on 10/22/2013 5:22:07 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SoFloFreeper
I am not on a crusade to defend Mormon theology. I am insistent, and no one has persuaded me otherwise (from post 70 on) that a Marxist leader is better than a Mormon leader.

I haven't tried to; just told you what my opinion was.

I here now, just trying to spit out words that have been put in my mouth.

151 posted on 10/22/2013 5:26:09 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Or just roll a die?


152 posted on 10/22/2013 5:30:41 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If you say so.


153 posted on 10/22/2013 5:31:50 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SoFloFreeper; All
The Council of Trent condemned all Protestants. Rome has never repudiated that ruling. But I don’t fear CATHOLIC candidates or nominees.

Nice try. But the entire foundation of the Roman Catholic church doesn't stand or fall upon the Council of Trent's position on Protestantism. IoW, the Roman Catholic church had already considered itself quite fine & dandy for umpteen years before uttering a single word @ that council!

By parallel, you cannot make the same conclusion re: Mormonism's position on the worldwide Christian church. It literally makes -- or breaks itself -- based upon what the true status was of the worldwide Christian church when two unnamed entities appeared to Joseph Smith in the 1820s.

Hence, if you take away the alleged "Great Apostasy," there would NO need...as in "zippo" -- for a restored (Mormon) church.

'Twould be all superflous. Redundant. 100% unnecessary.

You see, the Mormon church has NEVER billed itself as some "improved" reformed church.

Nope.

It claims to be the ONLY church in town. (D&C 1:30). And in order to make that claim, it needed a HUGE spiritual graveyard called "Christendom" as its foundation.

No such spiritual graveyard? (Then No Mormon church-as-THE-true-restored church)

A Catholic politician can take the Council of Trent -- or leave it -- and really won't make much of a difference. But a Mormon who tries claiming that the Christian church wasn't in apostasy for 1800 years or so???

Why there goes the entire claimed foundation of the Mormon church and its First Vision!

154 posted on 10/22/2013 6:34:43 PM PDT by Colofornian (You'd think the Mormon god would have told BoM 'prophets' 'bout this important stuff!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
No Mormon ever came to my house demanding I give up my guns...

(Speak for yourself...the descendants of the Fancher & Baker parties...whatever few of them are left, that is, could give you a "Mormon testimony" that'd downright disagree with you)

155 posted on 10/22/2013 6:50:11 PM PDT by Colofornian (You'd think the Mormon god would have told BoM 'prophets' 'bout this important stuff!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
I can agree with Mormons on plenty of social policy and economic policies, despite having a theological difference.

So what?

You (& I) could agree with Muslims from the same angles above...

In fact, Muslims have been more consistent on homosexuality & abortion than Mormons! [Mormon leaders backed gay rights legislation in Salt Lake City in 2010...and other movements in that direction were afoot in other areas of Mormondom in 2013]

156 posted on 10/22/2013 6:52:49 PM PDT by Colofornian (You'd think the Mormon god would have told BoM 'prophets' 'bout this important stuff!)
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To: Colofornian

You pick one quote from Joseph Smith, and suggest that we teach or believe that Jesus Christ is not the focus of our religion.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Christ is the reason that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Everything we do and believe revolves around the fact that Jesus is our Lord and Savior, and that only through him can salvation be obtained.


157 posted on 10/22/2013 7:24:53 PM PDT by Normandy
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To: Elsie

Age related


158 posted on 10/22/2013 7:30:38 PM PDT by reaganaut (I don't do hopey-changey. I do ouchy-bleedy.)
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To: MHGinTN

1844


159 posted on 10/22/2013 7:31:10 PM PDT by reaganaut (I don't do hopey-changey. I do ouchy-bleedy.)
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To: Normandy

BS. And I can give you quotes that put Smith (and even Monson) over Christ.

Jesus is just a footnote in Mormonism.


160 posted on 10/22/2013 7:32:50 PM PDT by reaganaut (I don't do hopey-changey. I do ouchy-bleedy.)
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