Oh go eat your Wheaties it is too early....
You keep comparing the LDS Church leaders to men like Jimmy Swaggart. It is disengenious of you Saundra. You know that your Church claims to be the only one with the fulness of the gospel and the only one with the holy priesthood. How come your priesthood holders fall as regularly as anyone in any Church anywhere. Could it be that you belong to just another “Church” populated with sinners just like everyone?
That is another reason for the falsness of Joseph Smith’s claim of retoration. We all sin. You guys have no “more truth.” Christ died for sinners - that’s the only truth that’s needed.
All Sandra did was point out that churches disciplining members is not a unique feature of Mormonism, hardly a comparison of Swaggart to any LDS leader.
“How come your priesthood holders fall as regularly as anyone in any Church anywhere.”
Where is your data to support that claim?
“Could it be that you belong to just another “Church” populated with sinners just like everyone?”
The truth is the truth regardless of what individuals, or how many of them, don’t accept it or fail to live it. Having the fullness of the gospel doesn’t prevent someone from feeling temptation or remove their freedom to choose to sin so even if your claim is correct (which I doubt), even if MORE Mormon leaders wind up getting ex’ed than leaders of other churches, the statistic means nothing when it comes to evaluating the truthfulness of the gospel. Wouldn’t Satan work harder on those who had the truth?
You objected to the very notion of excommunication for ANY reason, and have been shown in scripture it being ordered by an apostle of God. You called it cultic and have been shown many, many orthodox churches that also do it.