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Some Evangelicals on Defensive over partnering with Glenn Beck
CNN Belief Blog ^ | Aug. 27, 2010 | Dan Gilgoff

Posted on 08/29/2010 11:41:39 AM PDT by Jess Kitting

A handful of prominent evangelical activists are defending their decision to attend television host Glenn Beck's conservative rally in Washington this weekend after some Christians complained that evangelicals shouldn't be partnering with Beck because of his Mormon faith.

"There is no need to 'de-Christianize' each other over the matter," wrote Jim Garlow, an influential California pastor, in a five-page memo this week arguing that evangelicals can attend Beck's rally and partner with the television and radio personality in good conscience.

"Glenn Beck is being used by God - mightily," Garlow wrote in the memo, which was obtained by CNN. "The left loves to slam him and do so viscerally and often with vulgarities. Glenn is not perfect... But his expose on America's sins is stellar."

(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...


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To: Tennessee Nana
 
Quote, “President Hinckley outlined four ways young women can ensure virtue as a staple in their lives: prayer, study, tithing, and church attendance.” (Deseret News Sunday 3/25/07)
Before THAT - THIS came from the mouth of a late Prophet of MORMONism:
 

In conclusion let us summarize this grand key, these “Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet”, for our salvation depends on them.


1. The prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything.
2. The living prophet is more vital to us than the standard works.
3. The living prophet is more important to us than a dead prophet.
4. The prophet will never lead the church astray.
5. The prophet is not required to have any particular earthly training or credentials to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time.
6. The prophet does not have to say “Thus Saith the Lord,” to give us scripture.
7. The prophet tells us what we need to know, not always what we want to know.
8. The prophet is not limited by men’s reasoning.
9. The prophet can receive revelation on any matter, temporal or spiritual.
10. The prophet may advise on civic matters.
11. The two groups who have the greatest difficulty in following the prophet are the proud who are learned and the proud who are rich.
12. The prophet will not necessarily be popular with the world or the worldly.
13. The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidency—the highest quorum in the Church.
14. The prophet and the presidency—the living prophet and the First Presidency—follow them and be blessed—reject them and suffer.

I testify that these fourteen fundamentals in following the living prophet are true. If we want to know how well we stand with the Lord then let us ask ourselves how well we stand with His mortal captain—how close do our lives harmonize with the Lord’s anointed—the living Prophet—President of the Church, and with the Quorum of the First Presidency.

Ezra Taft Benson

(Address given Tuesday, February 26, 1980 at Brigham Young University)

 


 


121 posted on 08/31/2010 4:25:23 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DelphiUser
 
FYI, the urim an thummim were seer stones used to see the future and receive revelation.
They were worn in the breastplate of Aaron by the high priest...




"Now the way he translated was he put the urim and thummim into his hat and Darkned his Eyes than he would take a sentance and it would apper in Brite Roman Letters. Then he would tell the writer and he would write it. Then that would go away the next sentance would Come and so on. But if it was not Spelt rite it would not go away till it was rite, so we see it was marvelous. Thus was the hol [whole] translated."
---Joseph Knight's journal.


"In writing for your father I frequently wrote day after day, often sitting at the table close by him, he sitting with his face buried in his hat, with the stone in it, and dictating hour after hour with nothing between us."
(History of the RLDS Church, 8 vols.
(Independence, Missouri: Herald House,1951),
"Last Testimony of Sister Emma [Smith Bidamon]," 3:356.

"I, as well as all of my father's family, Smith's wife, Oliver Cowdery and Martin Harris, were present during the translation. . . . He [Joseph Smith] did not use the plates in translation."
---(David Whitmer,
as published in the "Kansas City Journal," June 5, 1881,
and reprinted in the RLDS "Journal of History", vol. 8, (1910), pp. 299-300.

In an 1885 interview, Zenas H. Gurley, then the editor of the RLDS Saints Herald, asked Whitmer if Joseph had used his "Peep stone" to do the translation. Whitmer replied:

"... he used a stone called a "Seers stone," the "Interpreters" having been taken away from him because of transgression. The "Interpreters" were taken from Joseph after he allowed Martin Harris to carry away the 116 pages of Ms [manuscript] of the Book of Mormon as a punishment, but he was allowed to go on and translate by use of a "Seers stone" which he had, and which he placed in a hat into which he buried his face, stating to me and others that the original character appeared upon parchment and under it the translation in English."


"Martin Harris related an incident that occurred during the time that he wrote that portion of the translation of the Book of Mormon which he was favored to write direct from the mouth of the Prophet Joseph Smith. He said that the Prophet possessed a seer stone, by which he was enabled to translate as well as from the Urim and Thummim, and for convenience he then used the seer stone, Martin explained the translation as follows: By aid of the seer stone, sentences would appear and were read by the Prophet and written by Martin and when finished he would say 'Written,' and if correctly written that sentence would disappear and another appear in its place, but if not written correctly it remained until corrected, so that the translation was just as it was engraven on the plates, precisely in the language then used."
(Edward Stevenson, "One of the Three Witnesses,"
reprinted from Deseret News, 30 Nov. 1881
in Millennial Star, 44 (6 Feb. 1882): 86-87.)

In 1879, Michael Morse, Emma Smith's brother-in-law, stated:
 
 "When Joseph was translating the Book of Mormon [I] had occasion more than once to go into his immediate presence, and saw him engaged at his work of translation. The mode of procedure consisted in Joseph's placing the Seer Stone in the crown of a hat, then putting his face into the hat, so as to entirely cover his face, resting his elbows upon his knees, and then dictating word after word, while the scribes Emma, John Whitmer, O. Cowdery, or some other wrote it down."
(W.W. Blair interview with Michael Morse,
Saints Herald, vol. 26, no. 12
June 15, 1879,  pp. 190-91.)


Joseph Smith's brother William also testified to the "face in the hat" version:
 
"The manner in which this was done was by looking into the Urim and Thummim, which was placed in a hat to exclude the light, (the plates lying near by covered up), and reading off the translation, which appeared in the stone by the power of God"
("A New Witness for Christ in America,"
Francis W. Kirkham, 2:417.)


"The manner in which he pretended to read and interpret was the same manner as when he looked for the money-diggers, with the stone in his hat, while the book of plates were at the same time hid in the woods."
---Isaac Hale (Emma Smith's father's) affidavit, 1834.



122 posted on 08/31/2010 4:26:44 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

No....That was the TV Station where I was an engineer.


123 posted on 08/31/2010 4:43:32 PM PDT by TommyDale (Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
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To: Elsie

The Fancher Party. That’s bloody brilliant, Elsie. Gee, why didn’t I think of that?

Here I was worried about the COMMUNIST Party, the DEMOCRAT Party (same thing), the various global ISLAMIC Parties — all of which are threatening our very EXISTENCE right now, TODAY — and I forgot all about the Fancher Party.

And when was that again, exactly?

And how many people died, exactly?

Certainly recent enough and numbers enough for us to forget all about the 300 MILLION Americans in daily peril TODAY under the current WH regime.

Boy, you are stupid. You are so stupid it boggles the mind.

Unless you are one of THEM. Then you’re not so stupid at all. Clever. Like a weasel.

Go to it Elsie! Rip our flesh!


124 posted on 08/31/2010 4:45:51 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: TommyDale

Ah...


125 posted on 08/31/2010 8:02:01 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: samtheman
Boy, you are stupid. You are so stupid it boggles the mind.

Smart enough to see through MORMONism's false claims!

126 posted on 08/31/2010 8:03:28 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Choose Ye This Day
"Mormons--at least they won't decapitate you.",/p>

LOL,

That should be a bumper sticker sold at LDS bookstores...

127 posted on 09/02/2010 11:38:27 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day
"Mormons--at least they won't decapitate you.",/p>

LOL,

That should be a bumper sticker sold at LDS bookstores...

128 posted on 09/02/2010 11:38:27 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: Elsie

Gee, someone who thinks that the God and the Devil called a time out in the eternal war for means souls just because America is have some issues right now called you stupid.

It just doesn’t get any better...


129 posted on 09/02/2010 11:41:06 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: Elsie

Precisely why it is heretical.


130 posted on 09/03/2010 4:03:12 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: ejonesie22

I was once called UGLY by a TOAD!


131 posted on 09/04/2010 6:01:08 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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