Don’t be so condescending, I reject your opening statement out of hand. Claiming title to something doesn’t make you one...
But, an interesting hypothesis nonetheless 10, especially since theirs is a jesus of vengeance and not salvation...
Tell me, since you’re all knowing, where in the Bible one can find any example of this “...by far the authentic Christ.” of which you speak destroying numerous cities and killing 100’s of thousands, possibly millions of people in order to save the world from sin?
I am well read, but not all-knowing, that's reserved to God.
Here's where it gets dicey. You know the OT and the stories of the deaths of the first born of Egypt, the story of Jericho, 1 Samuel 15:2-3 (Saul and Amalek), slaughter of the Canaanites, etc. you can look up the amount of killing in the OT. Jehovah is Jesus Christ, so he's ordering all this killing. God lawfully has the right to execute judgment upon anyone as they've all sinned and failed in righteousness.
It gets worse though if you don't believe that salvation is available to the dead because as far as the Bible reads most people who ever lived from Adam to the Oct. 2013 never ever had the Gospel preached to them in any form. That's an estimated 100 billion people.
That's a lot of lost souls. We're lucky to live in the modern age, no?
End part one.
The more interesting part is the “authentic” Jesus part. You guys got me kicking this around a lot lately.
This is even worse because:
Jesus is born a baby,
has a body,
eats after his resurrection,
ascends bodily up to heaven (a specific place),
we are all made in the image and likeness (better outline) of God,
and all look forward to a resurrection,
plus we’ve got the testimony of Stephen who sees Jesus at the right hand of God (seated).
That’s an awful lot of “physicalness”, no?
Yet, the LDS pick that up right away. It’s wholly Biblical, but not Catholic. So if you’re a schismatic Catholic you have to choose between what the Catholic Church teaches about the nature of God and what the Bible says about God.
End Part 2 of 2.