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To: lmiller007

As for Presbyterians being Abominable, Show me in the BoM where it says if you interpret the Bible to mean Trinity you are a heretic doomed to the lowest depths.

This is a false statement. Mormons do not believe that, not even close. Where are you getting your material?

 

Right here:

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/js_h/1/19#19
  17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
  18 My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.
  19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”
  20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother, “I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.”
 
 
 

 1 Nephi 14:9-10. 

And it came to pass that he said unto me: Look, and behold that great and abominable church, which is the mother of abominations, whose founder is the devil.  And he said unto me: Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth.

 

This passage sets up a division between the two churches, making it plain that one must belong to one or the other. 


440 posted on 02/20/2008 2:29:46 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

I like your creative interpretations, but they are in fact not correct, or at least not those of the mormon faithful. That those professors were corrupt, not the people believing in Christ. There certainly have been many corrupt church leaders through history. Just because religions are wrong because they do not have all truths that were lost during the last 2000 years or so, does not mean that those belonging to that church will not be saved by christ or that they will be damned to some sort of hell. How did you come to this conclusion?


448 posted on 02/20/2008 2:39:39 PM PST by lmiller007
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To: Elsie
Presbyterians being Abominable

They are??


485 posted on 02/20/2008 3:23:47 PM PST by Godzilla (Lets put the FUN in dysfunctional)
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