Posted on 04/26/2007 6:03:35 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
No, dear. Tell me which chapters God has thrown out and told His Faithful not to read?
God has protected the Bible for millenium. He has the power to ensure that His message is kept intact.
And be it a story about the baby Moses, Elizabeth or Peter, each and every story further shows mankind who our Creator is and what our relationship is to Him.
If you remove the parts that you don’t like, you are inhibiting the next person who really does need to learn about Joshua or Ezekiel.
Because God is the author you can rest assured that every letter and punctuation mark has the sole purpose of bringing Christians into a closer relationship with God.
Without God’s Word in the Holy Bible, each and every word, our communion with him would never be complete.
Oh you earthling the way you describe it, you have foolish imagination
FOTFLMHO
I’ve read those links, but thank you for posting them again.
I have the source I will PM it too you!:)soon
“Interesting, thanks for the clarification. Always good to hear what people actually believe instead of what other people say they believe.”
Thanks for your open mind. So many people join threads like this and decide not to listen to the answers to their challenges. They refuse to “go to the source,” condemning themselves to remain ignorant and bitter.
We Mormons are happy to respectfully answer any question asked in respect.
Christ himself defined who His church was hundreds and hundreds of years before Mormonism came along. And His declarations on that point have not changed. For God’s very nature shows us that He does not change.
Oh you earthling the way you describe it, you have foolish imagination
It's described just as Mormonism teaches.
“The Book of Mormon is claimed to have been translated from documents antedating by thousands of years the King James version of the Bible. Strange that it should so closely resemble it. Well, I guess that proves how miraculous it really was, huh?”
Of course the Book of Mormon is similar to the Bible. How could it not be? Does God teach a different truth to one people than to another? Additionally, as the Book of Mormon states, the ancient Americans had access to a good deal of the Old Testament, and they taught from it. A goodly chunk of Isaiah is quoted in it.
"I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam...Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him, but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet"----History of the Church, vol. 6, p.408-409
Odd that Joseph Smith "translated" Reformed Egyptian(which Egyptian scholars all say did not exist) into King James English that the King James Bible was translated in.
I am not sure what you mean: How has the LDS Church tried to "align with" evangelical Christians or any other group?
We work with other groups (such as Catholic Charities) on humanitarian and charitable work. Is that what you mean?
I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him, but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet"----History of the Church, vol. 6, p.408-409
Yet Jesus said in Matthew 16;
17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Well Jesus, Joseph Smith says You failed and the gates of hell did prevail against Your Church.
Either Jesus was a false prophet or Joseph Smith was.
I'll stick with Jesus.
“Would I have a problem voting for a candidate who was a member of the LDS Church? No, not even a small one.”
While it tends to be Evangelicals who are the most ardent and blatant exceptions, the Conservative base overwhelmingly agrees with you. I find it comforting that the bigotry against Mormons (and Catholics) is pretty isolated.
The problem with that statement is that even Satan believes in Jesus Christ, though he desires to replace Him.
Mormons also believe that Jesus Christ is Satan's brother (if that is so, how does Jesus Christ claim to be the "Only Begotton Son" of God? The last time I noticed, only means there was/is one period - not two, ten, ten thousand.
It is not enough to belive "in Jesus Christ," it's WHAT you believe about Jesus Christ that either makes you a "Christian" or not.
If you have ever attended a Mormon Sunday worship service, what they state when they serve communion is "I believe the Church is true, etc." Their unique beliefs about Joseph Smith, their relationship to God and their Church, is far more interesting than the fact that they "believe in Jesus Christ."
Why did Joseph Smith create his own translation of the Bible that Mormons recognize by footnotes in the King James Version?
Was it inspired?
“Why did Joseph Smith create his own translation of the Bible that Mormons recognize by footnotes in the King James Version?”
Because he was commanded to. Don’t like it? Then don’t read it; it’s not my lookout.
I’m out of this one. Most of the detractors of the LDS Church in this thread have already made the same tired arguments in other threads; their questions have all been answered ten times over. Their only goal is to smear the LDS Church; it’s their “hobby,” if you will.
I’ve got better things to do with my life than repeat myself to people who refuse to listen.
If you are a person who is genuine in your desire to learn more about the LDS Church, feel free to message me privately. I will answer any questions you may have to the best of my ability.
So it was inspired then, by God?
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