I don’t disagree with Paul, but I don’t believe you have divine power or authority. By your postings and behavior you show yourself to be a monomaniac focusing attacks on a single minority group. The posse that supports you and delights in this contains known and admitted bigots. Perhaps they’re the exception and perhaps you’re not a bigot.
Would you vote for a Mormon for President? Any office?
Is your goal to destroy the LDS Church?
Your answers to the above questions will lead me to either beg your forgiveness or demonstrate clearly that you’re a monomaniac to be condemned and pitied.
#1, my goal is to be used of God to liberate those from legalistic bondage by way of the cross that functions thru God's grace operating thru faith.
#2, Per 2 Cor. 10:3-5, the precedence we have as "sent-ones" is to demolish arguments, pretensions, and strongholds.
* Arguments and pretensions is more both in the apologetics realm...destroying arguments & pretensions is hardly destroying people. Certainly arguments & pretensions also falls under the umbrella of spiritual warfare vs. the forces of darkness -- as especially does "strongholds."
* Taking on strongholds is a power encounter involving spiritual warfare vs. the forces of darkness.
#3, I define "church" as flesh-and-blood. People. (In Christ's true church, the Greek word is ecclesia, which means "called-out" ones).
Even with "counterfeit" Christians in Christian churches, Jesus says to not "weed" the tares out of the church. And even in counterfeit churches (cults who use a "Jesus" front), they are still people -- "flesh and blood" -- and the apostle Paul clearly says:
2 For our struggle is NOT against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Eph. 6:12)
So...am I out to destroy people spiritually? No! Eph. 6:12 directs us that our struggle is NOT vs. flesh and blood!!! And the Mormon church, beyond its legalistic hierarchy, is certainly that (people)!
Am I out to destroy the "ISM" within MormonISM! Yes! This "ism" -- along with many others in our various cultures of the world -- sets itself up as knowledge against the God of the Bible. It presents counterfeit 'realities' (arguments/pretensions). Hence, my Biblical warrant for this is 2 Cor. 10:3-5.
#4, Finally some Bible interpreters look at passages like Eph. 6:12 and Col. 1:16...the latter being: For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities
... and they think that thrones, powers, rulers, authorities/principalities, all represent various levels of dominion with various demons at the helm.
You should know by now that I deem the cults to be part of the "disinformation" campaign that these principalities have embarked upon over the centuries. I include Mormonism in that.
Hence, if these doctrines are indeed what the apostle Paul told Timothy are the "doctrines of demons"...then who am I to think I could "bring down" an entire work of dark ex-angels?
You: I don’t disagree with Paul, but I don’t believe you have divine power or authority.
Well, the only authorization we have is to be His children (John 1:12). Beyond that to your comment, who cares? Jesus said:
"ALL authority has been given unto me." (Matthew 28:18)
What part of "ALL" does Mormonism have trouble dissecting???
Even if you claim Jesus gave the Mormon priesthood some authority, means that you still don't think Jesus has 100% authority...because if He did, since you think He's a "different god" than Heavenly Father, that would mean that Heavenly Father has no authority here...since Jesus has it all!
Anyway, Jesus has all authority. I am not on some "power trip" to yank it away. He hasn't abdicated His authority on earth. He still has it. He said in the same Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20) that He would be with us always. He hasn't left.
Mormonism is the one which has an "authority" problem.
Where does Mormonism claim they got their authority from? Oh, they say a bunch of visions paraded before Smith...John the Baptist, Elias, Peter, etc.
Where did these characters get their authority? Oh, Mormons will then point to members of the Godhead (JC/Heavenly Father).
Well, then, you ask...Where did the once-upon-a-time-a-man-turned-god get his authority?
Well, per Joseph Smith, this counterfeit "elohim" got his authority from a "council of gods."
Well, then where did this "council of gods" get their authority?
Mormons can't answer that. Unlike the God of the Bible, and Christians who worship Him, Mormonism has no ultimate God. Which means, in turn, it CANNOT point to ANY Ultimate Authority. Mormonism doesn't know from whence its Authority comes. Every "authorized" figure that Mormonism points to has to ultimately "pass the buck" on Ultimate matters; because if such a lower-level god attempted to master an Ultimate Matter, they would stealing the decisiveness, the glory, and the Authority that resides with the Ultimate God alone!
And I don't use "glory" here lightly. The very Biblical word for "glory" is wrapped up in a meaning that includes weightiness -- as in the gravity of a decision. (ya know, like the Supreme Court making a weighty decision)
We Christians worship the Supreme Ultimate God. Which gods do you worship? (Most Mormons say two)
I could vote for Mitt Romney for local dogcatcher...
Well, wait...on second thought...anybody who puts a dog on top of a station wagon for a cross country trip doesn't exactly "qualify" for that...
But, yes, I could vote for a Mormon in certain circumstances...but not POTUS.
Somebody who is gullible in the most important area of their life would be vulnerable due to lack of discernment...hardly who you want as Leader of the Free World.
Have you seen the polls thru the years? Like how more than 50% of voters (probably HIGHER among conservatives) who have said they would NOT vote for a Muslim presidential candidate?
So you would label them all "bigots?"
Would YOU vote for a Muslim POTUS? If not, why not?