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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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
False teachings can really make a person DEPRESSED
:)
First off, Paul's Damascus road experience both in Acts 7 and 22, do not have him confusing Jesus with an angel and is structurally consistent. However, smith's vision is very inconsistent.
Who you believe and which way you interpret it is up to you. but I believe in the Theophany of Jospeh Smith just as I believe the theophany of Paul. If you choose not to believe as I do that is fine with me.
Perhaps you can answer for me which of the three versions released under Smith's authority one is to believe? My sources are D&C; Messenger and Advocate, 1834, vol.1, no.3 and History, 1832, Joseph Smith Letterbook 1, pp.2,3, in the handwriting of Joseph Smith. Again, these are based upon mormon documents of the tale and I have not included the multiple second and third hand passages by your other prophets regarding the event, so perhaps you can answer me.
Was his age at the first visitation: 14, 15 or 17 yrs old?
Was it a)in the woods b) in his bedroom or c) who knows?
Who visited him a)an angel b) Jesus only c) both Jesus and the father?
Fred seemed to be unable/willing to answer them, he wouldn't say.
What is realy interesting is the Book of Abraham (mormon scripture) ....
Is this the same boa that was translated from the papyri that was returned to Slc in 1968 and found to be a common pagan prayer generally known in egyptology as a "book of breathing", whose 20th century translation has nothing to do with Abraham at all? Have you heard about smiths translation of the Kinderhook plates? How about an old Greek Psalter Smith was given to translate? Only a bogus prophet translates bogus plates and documents.
There is NO Creed in the Bible!
The words (book of mormon) are not in that scripture
2. the book of mormon is NOT the “everlasting gospel”
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Yes it is!
keep on you might find out!:)
There is NO book of mormon in the Bible!
the book of mormon is like a Grimms fairy tale...
but not as entertaining...
and there’s no moral to it and no morals...
No lost to me what ever you want to think!
We already know who the sons of perdition are...
Joseph Smith was one...
From Wiki
“Son of Perdition is also a phrase used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes referred to as Mormons) to describe a person who will not take part in the glory of God in the afterlife.”
Joseph Smith and his ilk wont be in Heaven...
He is bound for Hell...
So according to the mormons, Joseph Smith is a son of perdition...
No lost to me what ever you want to think!
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No, that’s true...
But if somone thinks and believes that the mormons have the answer, that person is lost and far from God...
No lost to me what ever you want to think!
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But you seem weally, weally concerned that Christians dont think the way you do about Jesus and salvation..
And you seem to weally, weally be in need of validation from Christians for your anti-Christian beliefs...
What’s up with that, Doc ??????
But you seem weally, weally concerned that Christians dont think the way you do about Jesus and salvation..
And you seem to weally, weally be in need of validation from Christians for your anti-Christian beliefs...
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You are mistaken tn
What you choose to believe is what free agency is all about.
You can even tell other what you believe and they can either agree or disagree.
It is that simple!
Now that is interesting
someone is wrong and someone is right!:)
Son of Perdition wiki
Christian eschatology said that, this is where all of the confusion come in, others speak for another than their own faith and people go away thinking that is what the LDS believe and that is totally in error.
This shows when someone grabs something off the internet and do not fully understand what they are throwing around reveals carelessness in their thinking!
LOL!! I just posted a plethora of scripture passages proving the concept of the creed is indeed there - in spades. There is far more scriptural support for the Nicene Creed than ONE Doctrine of Mormonism. No surprise you won't accept it deceived as you are.
BTW: There are many Mormon Doctrines not even found in the BOM!!!! (Such as that whole polygamy thing Joseph Smith came up with before he was against it, then for it, then later prophets were against, some still for it.....LOL!! Kind of like John Kerry! ;) )
Hi there Elsie...what I want to know is, where is Satchel?...he has been missing now since Sunday...this Bucky drama, of a Bucky-oriented world, has been going on now, for too long...
What you choose to believe is what free agency is all about.
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The words free agency are not in the Bible
but regardless of what kind of budsiness the mormons are in, Go is in the Savation business, and that is through Jesus only...
Joseph Smith has nothing to do with salvation...
Joseph Smith does not decide who gets into Heaven...
I choose to believe in Jeus who is the Way, the Truth and the Life...
but the mormons are like the moslems...
They slander me because I do not regard Joseph Smith or Mohammad as a prophet of the God of the Bible...
And Jesus is not the way to God the Father...
Both groups claim that the way is through a “prphet”
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I would like to see the mormons take on the moslems...
tell a moslem that he is a “son of perdition” and see how far that gets him, or her..
I have. What’s your problem?
Christian eschatology said that, this is where all of the confusion come in, others speak for another than their own faith and people go away thinking that is what the LDS believe and that is totally in error.
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No, what mormons believe is well known...
and posted here continually...
Since mormons hacve never proven the posts to be wrong by stating anything different...
And have never denied the “beliefs” of the mormons, but instead have spinned their wheels attacking Christian beliefs, even the very words of Jesus...
After many months ...the posts of Elsie et all must be true..
You know more than the LDS...
OCD does seem communicable
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