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To: MissesBush; Tennessee Nana
Yes, if a Mormon does something bad it must mean all Mormons are bad! Because Baptists, Catholics, Presyberterians and Lutherans never do anything bad and if it does it never says anything negative about the entire religion, right??

(So the first words out of your keyboard on this thread is that you're defending this exploiter of an elderly person -- and not siding with the victim? What? Did you just "feel the need" to be the personal apologist of this scammer?)

Secondly, Baptists, Catholics, Presbyterians and Lutherans to my knowledge actually say that the qualification for being members of these churches and the doctrinal ties linked to them is that they need to actually admit they are sinners.

Mormons? No. Mormons claim actually that when they are born into the church, they are 100% totally innocent for at least the first 8 years of life.

Furthermore, they deny the doctrine of "original sin" -- meaning that people have inherited a sin nature down through this day from Adam & Eve.

In addition, Lds leaders call fellow Mormons "gods in embryo" -- and that the spirits that inherited their bodies were perfect spirit beings who lived perfect spirit lives on another planet before inhabiting some body on earth (either in embyronic or birth process).

So, believe me. If you were a member of XYZ Church...and your leaders claimed that...
(1) We're completely innocent creatures for the first 8 years of our lives;
(2) And before that, in another life on another planet, our spirits were 100% perfect there;
(3) And after this life, we will be a "god" -- yes the kind of god you pray to, worship, adore, glorify, and yes, beyond all you mere mortals, etc.;
and (4) Until then, well, we're "gods-in-embryo"...
...tell me, Mrs. Bush, who's upped the moral standard as to who they are? Bottom line: The contrast is MUCH greater. (And that's also why Jesus was so harsh-sounding on the religious legalists, the Pharisees, 2,000 years ago)

11 posted on 05/04/2010 1:12:25 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

The jump is from a 56 year old to a 8 year old. How do we get there?


18 posted on 05/04/2010 8:11:55 PM PDT by BlueMoose
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