Posted on 03/08/2008 5:14:33 PM PST by Zakeet
Spanish-speakers are fueling growth in the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which recently opened new worship space on Tucson's predominantly Hispanic South Side.
Many local Mormon worshippers, like 47-year-old Juan Arroyo, converted to the faith from Catholicism while living in their native countries. Arroyo, a roofer who has four children, joined the church when he lived in Guadalajara, Mexico. He's been in the United States for seven years.
"I was missing something, and my life changed greatly after meeting the missionaries," he said in Spanish.
Nationally, the number of Spanish-speaking congregations in the Mormon church grew by 64 percent between 2000 and 2006. There are 639 such congregations in the United States.
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The church is growing quickly in Mexico.
Church officials say its presence there began in 1875 when Brigham Young, then denomination president, called on six missionaries from Salt Lake City to bring Spanish-language materials about the church to Mexico. In 1885, a group of nearly 400 colonists from Utah arrived at northern Mexico's Casas Grandes River. Mexico's first stake was created in Colonia Juárez in 1895. By 1912, more than 4,000 members had settled in Chihuahua and Sonora.
More than 1 million members now live in Mexico, a predominantly Catholic country with a population of about 108 million.
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You do like to use degrading language, don't you.
Tells of your mind set.
Don't worry about the truth, just put down.
It is very clear you are spitting up someone elsies ideas.
You show no personal study.
And in regard to the nature of God, we are all in full agreement
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What is the one nature of God that everyone agree on?
It might help if you would give a straight answer, and not call me names because you cannot explain it good enough.
The prophecy was false.
Get over it.
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You put up a pretty picture of a car, instead of thinking about the answer.
So the Jesus Christ of the Bible is an “anti” (something) who gives me half-truths ???
Fred, someone who would say that about the Son of God has some serious ‘splainin’ to do when them meet Jesus at the judgement...
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How did that answer come out of this statement, are you trying to confuse the topic?
“You have just said to me that you are one of the people who does not care about us. You come here and tell us we are wrong, then you do not want to understand more about us.
You are trying to prove something to us, yet you are happy with only the half truths the antis give you.”
Yes, the blacks had been “freed”.
Yet, if you called what the blacks lived under as freedom, then you care more about being an anti-mormon, then you care about the truth.
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I see you were unable to excuse away the facts so you throw out a smoke screen argument in a desperate attempt to obfuscate and deflect away from the proof of these false prophecies. Nice going. That’s okay I understand you’re squirming in your boots right about now. You’re desperate. That’s apparent from the many posts you’ve put out — the Holy Spirit is working on you, I can tell. So, I’ll keep praying He’ll be able to remove the blinders Satan has put on you in the meantime.
BTW: I lived in the south in the 60’s too Roy. No sell. Whatever the hardships and trials endured during that time period is in no way to be compared to the conditions of actual slavery -— shame on you for even trying to compare the 2! You are really straining here Roy trying to excuse your own leaders false prophecies. That speaks for itself. So don’t go lecturing me about ‘truth’, you wouldn’t know truth if it came up and bit you on the rear end.
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Dr. King and his following seemed to think your way of thinking is wrong.
And yet, you never mention the place in the Book of Mormon that says that from time to time He does say it is right.
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That’s because it isn’t in there.
If you think you can spin...
I will command my people into an acceptance of polygamy, we would SURE like to see the logic.
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You are showing how little you really know.
you just proved the New testament is false.
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Oh?
Show us.
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It is in what I said.
You seem to use this kind of post to confuse the discussion.
The Bible tell us of false living prophets, but not a true singular prophet.
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Then why did not Father tell us there will be NO Prophets.
If we use your logic, the Bible teaches there will be no teachers.
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Thank you for using his proper name.
Showing them scripture doesn’t mean anything to a Mormon. They don’t believe in the Bible. Their Bible is the BOM ONLY...NOT the KJV as they pretend.
Funny how the Bible is only used to show ERROR but the BOM is infallable!
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I see a strawman arguement building here.
If you would take the time to learn what you were talking about in our history, you would know why I bring it up.
Joesph was visited by mote then the Father and the Son.
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Joseph Smith might have thought he saw “motes” but he was not visited by “the Father and the Son” of the Bible..
How did that answer come out of this statement, are you trying to confuse the topic?
“You have just said to me that you are one of the people who does not care about us. You come here and tell us we are wrong, then you do not want to understand more about us.
You are trying to prove something to us, yet you are happy with only the half truths the antis give you.”
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Was I supposed to tell the RM that someone was getting personal ???????????????????
Twice ???????????
Joseph Smith’s
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Thank you for using his proper name.
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false prophet, debaucher, pedophile, adulterer, polygamist, liar, sexual abuser, child rapist, cad, lecher, sexual deviant, conman, thief, etc are also names for Joseph Smith, but by using his “proper name” he is distinguished from the rest of the criminals...
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Question: Wheter the baptism conferred by the community «The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints», called «Mormons» in the vernacular, is valid.
Response: Negative.
The Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, in the Audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect, approved the present Response, decided in the Sessione Ordinaria of this Congregation, and ordered it published.
From the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 5 June 2001.
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Oops!
Why does it matter? Go to the library and look it up. Or just grab your own copy of the Journal and compare it. Or are you afraid to????
P.S. Notice I posted the entire thing instead of just the underlined parts just so you wouldn't be able to say it was taken out of context.
How do you know? WERE YOU THERE????
2 Cor. 11:14 - And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Gee, Bible says it Satan who visited him.
It is you roy who don't worry about the truth. Its you who follow men who gave false prophecies and then excuse them away.
Every idea I have given you has been scripturally supported complete with citations. That someone else's idea would be GOD since He is the author of Scripture. On the other hand, you show no personal study because you have rejected God's revealed Word and chose instead to follow the words and teachings of false teachers and prophets.
No, he put up a pretty picture of a car to illustrate how incapable you are of cognitive thinking skills when shown from your own sacred scriptures that your leaders are false and still you defend them. And then you lecture him on the inability to think coherently?
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