Mine, as looking at the bigger picture of Mormonism in general; moves the verse reference up to the beginning of the chapter:
"Who has bewitched you?"
Posted on 05/25/2013 5:46:24 PM PDT by WilliamIII
SALT LAKE CITY -- When the Boy Scouts of America began a discussion earlier this year about lifting its ban on gays, some speculated it could lead to the severing of ties with the Mormon church that goes back 100 years.
Those predictions ended up being off the mark.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints threw its support behind the new policy voted on Thursday by the Boy Scouts of America that opens the door for gay youth to join the ranks, while continuing to ban gay adult Scout leaders.
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“Please explain then, since you think you know everything about the Morg, why my own stake covered up for a rapist and threatened the women who wanted to press charges?”
what are your thoughts on the fact that Mormon women cannot hold the priesthood?
“BTW The Christian Bible places adultery and homosexuality on the same level.. both are crimes against God and “not in line with Jesus Christ’s teachings”
i’m sure adultery is not limited to those who choose to practice polygamy. also, i presume those non-mormon christians who cheat on their spouses are in as much trouble with God as the polygamous FLDS.
“anything but be exposed as refusing to help McCain get elected And beat a “black man”
it’s interesting that you want to claim that mormons didn’t want a half white man elected president, but somehow also wanted BO to be elected so that Romney could run next. a little cognitive dissonance i would suggest on your part.
where do you get these notions of yours: from whatever self-righteousness christian denomination that you claim to represent?
most mormons i know supported McCain’s candidacy. might mormons have been opposed to BO’s election because of their opposition to his less than conservative left-wing progressive agenda, and not because of the amount of melanin his skin contained?
"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned;
and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given,
and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.
Brigham Young - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)
The Holocaust was 'legal' in Germany.
“Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?... And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?... Do you not know that we shall judge angels?... How much more, things that pertain to this life?.. If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge ? (1 Corinthians 6:1-5).
Many commands of God require the exercise of righteous judgment.
“But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us” (2 Thessalonians 3:6).
“And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that person and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother” (2 Thessalonians 3:14,15).
“Teach and exhort these things. If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wrangling of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself” (2 Timothy 6:2b-5).
“Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple” (Romans 16:17,18).
All these commands require the careful exercise of righteousness judgment. Do not be deceived by smooth words and flattering speech. Beware of wolves who come to you with a sheep’s skin.
We must be careful not to make unqualified judgments. But we must judge appropriately when commanded to do so.
“Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.” (John 7:24).
It would be the priestESShood; right?
Why are you flabbergasted? Of course SLC lds accept homosexual scout leaders and homosexual marriage.............polygamy is the end game.
You must 'know' a very small subset of them...
I meant on a nationwide scale...lets see what SCOTUS does. If it comes down to a lawsuit and subpoenas (like with blacks and the priesthood) they will get a revelations.
Yeah but he sure rents free space in your head.
//what are your thoughts on the fact that Mormon women cannot hold the priesthood?//
My thoughts are, as a Christian - Galatians 3:28
I no longer have a dog in that fight, since their ‘priesthood’ is not Biblical, but I do have some friends on both sides of the debate and both sides have their merits.
MCC - stealing peoples' souls for the devil since 1970. I have not read anything about any of their churches sponsoring BSA units.
Official LDS Porn & Boy Scouts
by Aaronita Smith
Wayne Perry, Boy Scouts president, is pro-gay - and, believe it or not, MALE porn is officially part of his religion!
Scholars, including Mormon ones, know of a hard-core porn sketch in the Mormon-approved “Book of Abraham.”
This Book is part of the “Pearl of Great Price” which, along with the “Book of Mormon,” is LDS-authorized scripture.
Figure 7 in Facsimile 2 in “Abraham” shows two beings facing each other. Joseph Smith described them as the “Holy Ghost” and “God” (the Father), the latter showing an erect male sex organ.
Mormons were offended when Smith’s newspaper published this sketch in 1842, so the phallic part was whited out for more than a century until the “restored” LDS church restored the X-rated drawing in 1981!
LDS scholars have hushed up the fact that the “Book of Abraham” is not about the biblical Abraham but actually portrays ancient Egyptian documents showing occult obscene sketches.
Those scholars also know that Smith fraudulently altered them so that he could (blasphemously) portray the Christian trinity as sex fiends in order to promote polygamy among his followers!
For more info see “Book of Abraham” (Wikipedia). And check out the Tanners’ “Mormonism - Shadow or Reality?” which reproduces the original Egyptian sketches Smith plagiarized and exploited. Also Yahoo or Google “Facts From Mormons (By a Utah Resident),” “God to Same-Sexers: Hurry Up,” “The Background Obama Can’t Cover Up,” and “USA - from Puritans to Impure-itans.”
I'll have to assume you are NOT a MORMON; for you did not answer the question.
(Or; perhaps you ARE!)
And elsewhere...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2995645/posts
Mine, as looking at the bigger picture of Mormonism in general; moves the verse reference up to the beginning of the chapter:
"Who has bewitched you?"
This cries out for a picture!
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