The literal simplest meaning of "Christmas" = Christ as the "Sent One." The Mormon Church stresses Joseph Smith as key "Sent One":
| 1862 (July 13) [Quote republished by church in 1925] | Brigham Young: "I have taught for thirty years, and still teach, that he that believeth in his heart and confesseth with his mouth that Jesus is the Christ and that Joseph Smith is his Prophet to this generation, is of God; and he that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and SENT Joseph Smith with the fulness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is antichrist. All who confess that Joseph Smith is SENT of God in the latter days, to lay the foundation of his everlasting kingdom no more to be thrown down, and will continue to keep his commandments, are born of God" | Journal of Discourses Vol. 9 |
| 1994 (June) | Official Lds Church Magazine re: Joseph Smith "shed[ding] his blood in order that the final testament, the reestablishment of the new covenant, might be in full effect.": "As suggested earlier, the life of Joseph Smith was in some degree patterned after that of his Master, Jesus Christ. That pattern holds true even when extended to its tragic conclusion. Like his Master, Joseph Smith also shed his blood in order that the final testament, the reestablishment of the new covenant, might be in full effect ... Thus, to bear witness of Joseph Smith is to bear witness of Jesus Christ, who SENT him, in the same way that a testimony of Christ also implies clearly a testimony of the Eternal Father, who sent Him. On the other hand, to deny Joseph Smith outright—to deny the spiritual impressions which attest to his prophetic assignment—is to deny the Lord, who sent him." | Lds Church Magazine Ensign |
Answers to these 26 questions are to be found at this second posting:
What a Liturgical Order of Smithmas Sacrament Meeting Might look like! [Vanity, Part B]
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Is it better to spend an extra two days walking around the borders of Samaria? Or would it be better to take the shorter route directly through.
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I am a Christian and the day is Christmas.
Merry Christmas to every Mormon reading this thread!
May you truly know Christ as revealed in the Bible, and the glorious Gospel of His Grace.
May the New Year be a time of spiritual blessing for you.
Didn`t his picture once appear on a cough syrup bottle?
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“The literal simplest meaning of “Christmas” = Christ as the “Sent One.””
A nonsense statement…. the term Christmas comes from a combining of Christ and mass….not Chris is the sent one but Christ’s mass (i.e. the celebration of his death because that is what a mass is)
I don’t give a rat’s behind what the Mormon’s chose to worship or do because that is not my faith.
I do care deeply about the overall decline of my church and it’s inability to find a way to stay true to the original teachings of the Nazarene.
I celebrate Christmas.
Don’t bother to respond back with all of your usual anti mormon stuff. I really just don’t care but I did want to at least make your opening statement accurate
O give me back my Prophet dear,
And Patriarch, O give them back;
The Saints of latter days to cheer,
And lead them in the gospel track.
But oh! they’re gone from my embrace,
From earthly scenes their spirits fled;
Two of the best of Adam’s race,
Now lie entombed among the dead.
Ye men of wisdom tell me why,
No guilt, no crime in them were found,
Their blood doth now so loudly cry,
From prison walls, and Carthage ground.
Your tongues are mute, but pray attend,
The secret I will now relate,
Why those whom God to earth did lend,
Have met the suffering martyr’s fate.
Your tongues are mute, but pray attend,
The secret I will now relate,
Why those whom God to earth did lend,
Have met the suffering martyr’s fate.
O give me back my prophet dear.
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