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To: tantiboh
No one has EVER been kicked out of the LDS Church for not paying tithing. You may be representing the story accurately as you heard it, but somebody in the chain of information is lying.

Just because it didn't happen in your town or involve your church doesn't mean it didn't happen elsewhere. Just like all those alledged Sunday services pouting anti Mormon rhetoric, that I personally haven't heard.

646 posted on 05/05/2007 7:17:01 PM PDT by Netizen (If we can't locate/deport illegals, how will we get them to come forward to pay their $3,250 fines?)
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To: Netizen; tantiboh

But in my 25 years I never was sent a bill or asked.

It has nothing to with one baptism or their journey with the Lord if they were excommmunicated it was far greater reason than that which many like to save face and not tell on themselves!

As far as preaching in other churches on the big bad Mormon how so many became aware when they fine out I am LDS and say my Church told me to be careful of the LDS for they aren’t Christian now some one is talking to the sheepo!


656 posted on 05/05/2007 7:55:22 PM PDT by restornu (Elevate Your Thoughts!)
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To: Netizen
Just because it didn't happen in your town or involve your church doesn't mean it didn't happen elsewhere. Just like all those alledged Sunday services pouting anti Mormon rhetoric, that I personally haven't heard.

One of the things that make this assertion so hard to believe is that unlike the thousands of different Christian sects that teach different things, the LDS Church is very structured. In fact, some of these threads that have been turned into Anti Mormon banging posts have condemned us for it.

The structure is such that the same thing is taught all over the world, be it in Anaheim or Algiers. On a given Sunday, for example, if one congregation in California is learning of specifics about the atonement of Christ, that same lesson is being taught that dame day in a remote village meetinghouse in Africa.

The structure is there to protect the doctrines and practices of the church from being changed. Tithing receipts and practices are also highly structured, and are the exact same from ward to ward. Doing something outside of official sanctioned practices, especially in matters of sacred tithing stewardship's, can be grounds for excommunication.

So, here's a test whither or not I'm right about consistency... Today in Gospel Doctrine (Sunday School) the lesson was on Christ healing the blind man on the Sabbath, John 9. As this year we are studying the New Testament by course, I am asking if any of the other LDS posters out there had the same lesson, or one within a week or 2 of it?

965 posted on 05/06/2007 10:24:55 PM PDT by sevenbak (A LIE travels around the world while the TRUTH is still putting on its boots -Winston Churchill)
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