Posted on 07/24/2007 4:39:38 AM PDT by Gamecock
I can save them a lot of work and trouble: "Reformation Ink is a biased site", "Shane Rosenthal, M.A., Historical Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary is anti-mormon" " Shane Rosenthal, M.A., Historical Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary in CA,("He's not from BYU") is a freelance audio/video editor and producer. He is currently one of the creative producers for "the national radio program The White Horse Inn,(On the air since 1990, the show features a regular roundtable discussion of Christian theology and apologetics.) uses the Tanner website for their information" and "Rosenthal has never had the Holy Ghost witness to him, so how would he know anything?"
My luck wasn’t so good though. I was born into another weird religion.
Aw, c’mon, share!..lol your tagline.
You forgot, he makes MONEY from his profession. It’s filthy anti-mormon lucre I tell ya!
Excellent article Game !
“Reformation Ink is a biased site”
Sure is, pro-Christian.
Care to address his point or are you content to attack the writer?
My RLDS friends grew up in parts of idaho where there were no "christians" let alone catholics at the local high schools.
American teenagers have been disappeared in MExico and other places south of the border since drugs took over the culture in both countries.
We are all prone to follow the faith we were born into.
So true!
But with God's grace...
I missed an attack!
Where was it>
Sorry, guess I should have added the /sarc tag to my post.
Mormon Missions are on of the safest ocupations in the world. out of 60,000 young missionaries all over the world in any given year only about 10 die. Most of them due to vehicle accidents. Once in a long while one will be murdered. In my personal experience the Mexican gangs left us alone. Foreign mormon missions are safer than any other group of similarly aged young adults, even in the US.
I agree, too bad he didn't. Catholic Missionaries, Priests and Nuns exemplify faith in their missionary work. They do so at great personal risk in some areas. When Mother Theresa passed away she was spoken about specifically in general conference by our Church leaders as someone with true and pure faith who led a life dedicated to God. My brother lived with a Catholic priest in Guatemala while he did a BYU school internship studying the Mam (Mayan-descent) peoples. I have a few close Catholic friends in town. One is a Constitutionalist the other a moderate. We get into political discussions as well as religious. I highly respect the Catholic Church and their beliefs as they do mine.
One thing I appreciate about Catholics is they also have big families. Without them the US would start shrinking like Liberal Europe.
Luckily, we live now and not 2000 years ago!
Luke 24:32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Yours is a very good post.
I have another reason to object to Mormon theology, and it takes a while to get there, but is based on the simple concept of monotheism.
I was raised Jewish, and would have been properly described as Orthodox in my level of observance by my mid-twenties; part of which was saying the “Shema” (part of Deteronomy and a chunk of other verses).
The Shema is said twice a day by obervant Jews since the events of Mt. Sinia, and is posted on every archway in a typical Jewish house in a mezuzah (except bathrooms and the like).
So ingrained is this tradition (Law, actually) that Justice Ginsburg, likely an ahthiest, post the Shema on her doors.
And it’s confirmed as “old” in multiple ways, as one would expect with such a common passage.
Most interesting is a copy frm Eqypt, in fact, that is about 100 years older than the Dead Sea scrolls, and only 100 or so years after the Prayer was given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinia — giving very little time for change.
All the ancient copies, from various sources, are identical, down to the letter, for they have to be written a certain (”kosher”) way.
In sum, there is little or no doubt we are dealing with the proper text.
And what does the first line say? The line ordered, by God, to be repeated and preserved with such care?
“Sh’ma Yis’ra’eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.”
“Hear, O Israel: Jehovah/Adonai [the Lord] [Elohim][God] is one LORD [Jehovah].”
Which is wholly inconsistent with the triad gods of Mormonism.
There are many, many more examples of this kind, such as:
Isaiah 43:10,11. Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD [Jehovah] and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God [Elohim] formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the LORD [Jehovah]; and beside me there is no savior.
It is pretty plain to me that the Mormon authors were just mis-cued by the variations on God’s name used by the King James translators to designate the various Hebrew words for God.
Mormons are great people; I have no idea if they are Christian or not, but their additions to the theology pretty obviously came from a con man.
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