Posted on 10/04/2007 9:40:06 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
When Mitt Romney appeared last week (via closed circuit from California) before the Council of Retired Chief Executives meeting in Washington, he faced kindred souls: rich Republicans who had managed big enterprises. Yet the second question from the audience was whether Romney's Mormon faith was hurting his quest for the Republican presidential nomination. He replied that about the only people who brought up his religion were members of the media, an answer that simply is untrue.
Romney is asked about Mormonism wherever he goes. In my travels, I find his religious preference cited everywhere as the source of opposition to his candidacy. His response to the former chief executives that only reporters care about this issue sounded like a politician's tired evasion. Romney was either too obtuse to appreciate his problem or was stalling because he had not determined how to deal with it. Contact with his advisers indicates that it's the latter.
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I enjoy exposing hypocrits : ) Nothing pleases me more than to knock people off their pedestals, except for maybe a deep powder skiing day, or doing yard work, or reading a good book, or you get the idea.
Why is anyone's religion your enemy?
You really are funny sometimes : )
I DO get it; but fail to understand it.
Why would an 'atheist' wish to have a 'holier than thou' attitude?
...a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
Yes, I care for and about my friends. I give a rip about your “silent majority”. Your screen name should be “NonSequitur”.
I made the exception for “priests” in my post. They are not “pastors”. Read it and you will see.
The Lord has not ordained a single pastor in all of America to preach the gospel. That they want to is admirable, but they have no commission aside from their own inclinations. Show me in the scriptures where any man ever took that honor upon himself, without being set apart by the laying on of hands by those having authority. No man is an authority unto himself, but that is what pastors would have us believe. They are wrong.
No.
Yeah, I don’t know for sure about that. The point I was trying to make is even if they were, they were doing so with the sanction of the Lord for they had been set apart to that office. Pastors have not a leg to stand on when it comes to priesthood authority or being called of God according to the scriptures.
Don’t all you all Christians know. YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITY! This is what DanielLongo believes it is what Mitt Romney believes.
We are all just running around playing like we know Christ, but without the proper priesthood authority and the laying on of hands, we are nothing but an apostate bunch!
I hope you know Daniel, that your Church also preaches that the Catholics have no authority either. YOUR Church believes the Catholic Church fell into apostasy shortly after Christ was crucified and that the Lord’s Church was removed from the earth until it was restored to Joseph Smith in the early 1800’s.
Thanks danny boy. You just effectively proved what we have been saying for months now. And your defenders have been saying they never “attack” another persons faith. BAH!
If Mr. Limbaugh made the remark he is reported to have made, it reflects very poorly on him."
This is all Romney said because he had not heard the original story!And you are trying to make a hay out of this!
News flash not everyone listens to talk radio if they are focused on a champaign!
I don't hear Rush making a deal out of this and I a member of his EIB link to hear all of his programs!
I have read a lot of hear say!
The Huffington piece there are parts missing for it appears to cut and jumps!
To say might have voted for Mitt causes to doubt for get your news from a negative blog!
PI,
Clearly you exaggerate! Scientology, another American Cult,
like Mormonism, states that it is the fastest growing. Don’t
forget, Mormonism had a HUNDRED year head start on
Scientology. Yet they are cleaning your clock!
You have Larry King, they have Tom Cruise.
You both can keep them.
“No religion in history has spread as fast or as far in as short a time as Scientology. Today it is practiced in more than 30 languages in 129 countries on every continent.”
The truth is that neither Mormonism nor Scientology is to be trusted when they report their own numbers. Nor any other cult. Cults lie. Their central authority structure controls
information. Followers must follow.
ampu
HEBREWS
1:1-4 In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets, in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages; who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest, having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they. [ Young’s literal translation from the Greek ]The Book of Hebrews was written to Jews who were familiar with prophets and priests of Judaism. The author’s purpose becomes clear very quickly because the writer contrasts the past method by which God spoke to the Hebrews --via prophets-- with the new way He speaks to us via His Son. The writer is making this case to people who had identified themselves as Christians and making the case in order to prevent them falling back into Judaism and/or falling short of true faith in Christ rather than the system of the law and the prophets.
Mormonism has sought to reestablish the Judaism system of ‘law and prophets’ … which Jesus replaced by fulfilling them and has thus become our Great High Priest and speaks directly to us via His Word such that we are not now to establish ‘different’ or ’new’ doctrine and covenants via ‘prophets‘ calling themselves messengers of God: HEBREWS 2:5 For not to messengers did He subject the coming world, concerning which we speak,
. . . 2:7 Thou didst make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honour Thou didst crown him, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands,
. . . 2:9 and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.
"While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction...My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for THOSE who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one..." (John 17:12, 20-21)
Question: Was Jesus' praying for "those who will believe in me through Joseph's word, or through the message of his immediate disciples' Word? (So who exactly did Jesus pray for again? I mean why would Jesus bother to pray for down-the-line "apostates" who arose from a supposedly truncated Word of God?)
So...Jesus is specifically praying here for the believers who would arise from the First Testimony of Jesus Christ. (Sounds like pretty authoritative to me)
As for the "believers" who would rise up from a supposed "Second Testimony" of Jesus Christ, those "believers" won't even pray directly to Jesus even those the supposed "Nephite" disciples did (3 Nephi 19:18, 24-26). Those "believers" won't even go around mentioning that they worship Jesus even though those supposed "Nephite" disciples did (3 Nephi 11:17). Those "believers" won't go around highlighting that Jesus Christ is "their Lord & God" even though those supposed "Nephite" disciples did (3 Nephi 19:18). (Maybe LDS need to spend more time just reading their own Book of Mormon, starting with 3 Nephi).
Also, see John 1:12: "Yet to ALL ["all" in the Greek means "all"] who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God." (John 1:12-13)
Did you catch that?..nothing "human" is involved in receiving, believing Christ. The Greek word for "right" in John 1:12 is exousia and it means "authority." So to ALL who receive & believe in Jesus' name--He (not any mere human authority) gives the authority to be His children (now why would Jesus need to give this authority if all folks on earth were already his spirit-kids in heaven in some pre-mortal existence?)
Perhaps you do, but that isn't the issue, as you know. The issue is that you are not trustworthy.
Have I ever said I am “not mormon?”
LOL So now you are suddenly trying to claim you are? Gee, we've been bantering back and forth for awhile now, and you're just bringing this up? Uh huh.
I am pro-Thompson, btw.
And your meaning is...?
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