“You would not stop claiming to be a Christian sect, yet your religion has at its heart the assumption that all other Christian sects are apostate and only Mormonism restores the Apostolic aAuthority. THAT will be magnified like you cannot even imagine when Romney comes up against the “D” candidate.”
Here’s the remarkable thing, the apologists here are claiming to be no different than any other Christian church. If that were true, then they would believe it possible for Orthodox Christians to go to heaven. In turn, if you could get to heaven without Joseph Smith and the BOM, then those concepts could be ejected from the Mormon religion and no soul would be lost.
The fact that the Apologists are completely unwilling to give up Joseph Smith thus signifies they believe all other Christians are damned to hell. So it is a bit disingenuous to suggest we cool down our opposition, because they define themselves (when they are truthful) as above and apart from the rest of us.
If the Mormons were worthy of their roots, they’d just quit monkeying around and tell us straight to our faces that we are damned in their eyes. Instead, this will be hidden until the nomination is obtained, at which point Romney will be skewered by the Dems as the Bishop who believes most of America’s voters are an abomination (unless he is a Jack Mormon and just hasn’t told anyone).
Bill Clinton is southern Baptist. Although Romney is a johnny come lately convert to the prolife movement, and at least on paper shares our values. you have to admit you would hold your nose and vote for him over Billary. Duncan Hunter however is the best choice out there and only true blue conservative. A real bulldog conservative. Sheesh
“If that were true, then they would believe it possible for Orthodox Christians to go to heaven.”
FC, we have explained this time and time again. You have failed to hear us.
We believe that the Celestial Kingdom - what you refer to as “heaven” - is attainable to EVERYBODY who follows Christ as best as they know how. Be that person Mormon, Orthodox Christian, Muslim, or pagan Bushman.
God judges us according to the desires of our hearts, not the knowledge of our minds.
If he receives the nomination and Bible-believing Christians learn the truth about his faith system, they will be alarmed.
But, I also keep this in mind. Non-Christians do not like being told they are damned. No one would like to hear that only Muslims go to heaven, for example.
So, the unbelievers may look askance at his “holier than thou” attitude and grow disdainful about Romney. They may say to themselves, “This is a man who received prominence in his faith system, and he believes I’m damned. I don’t LIKE him.” It’s that simple.