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Melchizedek Priesthood of LDS and Dead Sea Scrolls Perspectives (OPEN)
Mormonism Researched ^ | Kerry Shirts

Posted on 02/11/2009 7:42:17 AM PST by greyfoxx39

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Another view of Shirts' version of the Melchizedek Priesthood
1 posted on 02/11/2009 7:42:17 AM PST by greyfoxx39
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To: colorcountry; Colofornian; Elsie; FastCoyote; svcw; Zakeet; SkyPilot; rightazrain; JRochelle; ...

Dead sea scrolls ping


2 posted on 02/11/2009 7:43:00 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Is it possible to become a lame duck in the first 100 days? Yes we can!)
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To: greyfoxx39

This is intellectual wanking.

It’s not that complicated.

It is like arguing the authenticity of the yellow paint on an obviously fraudulent painting.


3 posted on 02/11/2009 7:51:13 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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To: greyfoxx39

And Mormonism continues to try and promote itself by denigrating Christianity. No surprise here ... turn Christ into just one of millions of ‘high priests’ and ol’ Joe ‘hot undies’ Smith becomes bigger don’tchaknow. I wonder, when was the last three times a mormonism melchizdek priest showed the Authority of God’s presence within by performing healing or raising someone from the dead? I have no doubt the mormonism advocates have a few stories they could offer to us, don’t ya think? And we will not be surprised ‘cause a religion founded upon lies will use more lies to promote itself.


4 posted on 02/11/2009 7:51:16 AM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: greyfoxx39

A: There are many passages in the BOM that are straight copies of the KJV.

B: LDS’ers point out that there could be a good reason for that: Most of the content is the same because most of what God was conveying was the same.

C: But, There are errors in translation in the KJV. The KJV translators did not have many of the source materials that we now have.

D: Yet, these errors in translation show up in the BOM. Why would translation errors from the KJV show up in the BOM?

E: The existence of translation errors from the KJV in the BOM proves that mormonism is a totally false religion created by Joseph Smith, and he just copied much of it from the KJV.

F: I have posted this many times on this site, and nobody has been able to refute this.

G: I don’t expect this posting to be any different, it will simply be ignored by the adherents of this false religion.


5 posted on 02/11/2009 7:51:41 AM PST by Ron Jeremy (sonic)
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To: greyfoxx39

Kerry Shirts is an anti-christ and confirmed wacko. Why the LDS lend any credence to him is a mystery....

...oh, nevermind!


6 posted on 02/11/2009 8:00:29 AM PST by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: MHGinTN

You are just another “hater” doing what “haters” do, telling the truth...

The nerve...


7 posted on 02/11/2009 8:02:36 AM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: greyfoxx39

Mormonism’s divided Trinity (with the L-rd and G-d as distinct beings) is inconsistent with the Shema.

Ergo, it is false.

Hear, O Israel, the L-rd is our G-d, the L-rd is One.

“Blessed be the name of the glory of His kingdom forever and ever.

You shall love the L-rd your G-d with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might. And these words which I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them thoroughly to your children, and you shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign upon your arm, and they shall be for a reminder between your eyes. And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates.”

Christians should note Jesus deemed this the most important passage of scripture/mitzvah:

The Gospel of Mark 12:29 mentions that Jesus considered the Shema the beginning exhortation of the first of his two greatest commandments: “And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, ‘Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord’” (KJV). Jesus also refers to the Shema in The Gospel of John 10:30. A group of Jews in the Temple in Jerusalem at the Feast of Dedication, or Hanukkah, asks him if he is Messiah, the anointed one of God. Jesus concludes his response with the words “I and my Father are one” (KJV). This is an allusion to the Shema, which the Jews immediately recognize.

In addition, the apostle Paul reworks the Shema in 1 Corinthians 8:6 vis-à-vis the risen Christ: “yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.”

(BTW, the Shema above is also the response to false claims by others that Christianity is polytheistic.)


8 posted on 02/11/2009 8:10:17 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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To: greyfoxx39
Lets see if I am getting this correct. Jesus may or may not be a priest, we know this because of what was removed/expunged from the Bible. Melchizedek is important, we know this because of what was removed from the Bible. Jesus may or may not even be important because the BoM may or may not say so. JS is the finally authority on what is or is not important maybe or maybe not. The Bible is full of errors but the errors are also found in BoM, maybe or maybe not.

Wow it is all so perfectly clear.

9 posted on 02/11/2009 8:18:06 AM PST by svcw (This maybe my last transmission - God have mercy on us.)
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To: svcw

I say it is!

I am glad you have finally come to that understanding!

Now explain it to the rest of us...

Lord knows the Mormons can’t...


10 posted on 02/11/2009 8:24:27 AM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: ejonesie22

Please, don’t sic the Resty upon me!


11 posted on 02/11/2009 8:34:56 AM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

Why? Don’t you feel like being called names and having motives attributed to you that you never dreamed of?


12 posted on 02/11/2009 8:52:17 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Is it possible to become a lame duck in the first 100 days? Yes we can!)
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To: greyfoxx39

All I know is this...

There was only one “Melchizedek Priest”

And there will be only one “Melchizedek Priest”

And that was and is Jesus...

Actually Jesus is “a priest after the order of Melchizedek”

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High. ...Genesis 14:18

The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind, “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek ... Psalm 110:4

As he also says in another place, “You are a priest forever
according to the order of Melchizedek ... Hebrews 5:6

having been designated by God to be a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 5:10

where Jesus, our forerunner, has gone on our behalf, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. ... Hebrews 6:20

Hbr 7:1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

Hbr 7:2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

Hbr 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

Hbr 7:4 Now consider how great this man [was], unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

Hbr 7:5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

Hbr 7:6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

Hbr 7:7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

Hbr 7:8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he [receiveth them], of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.

Hbr 7:9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.

Hbr 7:10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

Hbr 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

Hbr 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

Hbr 7:13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.

Hbr 7:14 For [it is] evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

Hbr 7:15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,

Hbr 7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

Hbr 7:17 For he testifieth, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Hbr 7:18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

Hbr 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

Hbr 7:20 And inasmuch as not without an oath [he was made priest]:

Hbr 7:21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

Hbr 7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

Hbr 7:23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

Hbr 7:24 But this [man], because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

Hbr 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Hbr 7:26 For such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Hbr 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Hbr 7:28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, [maketh] the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. Hebrews 7:1-28


13 posted on 02/11/2009 8:53:10 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: greyfoxx39

I’ll have to study on that question and then get back to you with a non answer.


14 posted on 02/11/2009 8:53:46 AM PST by svcw (This maybe my last transmission - God have mercy on us.)
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To: greyfoxx39

I can use the same (logic?) as Shirt’s does. Here we go:

I know who invented beer. It was a stand up comic, Bug Abbott of Abbott and Costello fame.

Abbott, abba, abbey, all mean “father” and “father “ is used to mean “source or origin” as any dictionary shows.

“Bud”, beer, kind of self explanatory.

Therefore by logic and according the latest scholarship,

Bud Abbott invented beer, but this valuable history has been lost.

Understand? Of course not, it’s foolishness but at least it is as correct and reasonable as Shirt’s blathering.


15 posted on 02/11/2009 8:55:16 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Tennessee Nana
But, But, Shirts explains all this in the article...."The understanding that Jesus would be the last high priest was a rather late Christian teaching put onto the text of Hebrews with absolutely no justification."
16 posted on 02/11/2009 8:56:43 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Is it possible to become a lame duck in the first 100 days? Yes we can!)
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Now who is claiming victims status ~ MHGinTN

And Mormonism continues to try and promote itself by denigrating Christianity.

I have recognized it is the mainstream who does it to themselves for the LDS don’t feel that way about you!

It is the LDS who are being put in the position by those who do not or refuse to understand, because whether one is or is not LDS this knowledge belongs to all those who love the Lord, Jesus Christ!


17 posted on 02/11/2009 9:00:56 AM PST by restornu
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To: greyfoxx39

Shirts must have decided that the book of Hebrews was one of those nasty inclusions that the Great Whore added to the Biblical canon.

This is evidence that this particular Mormon (as well as those who believe in Mormon apologetics) doesn’t place any stock in the Bible being the word of God.


18 posted on 02/11/2009 9:04:59 AM PST by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: restornu

I have recognized it is the mainstream who does it to themselves for the LDS don’t feel that way about you!
__________________________________________

Blood Atonement anyone ?????

Brute Beasties, anyone ????


19 posted on 02/11/2009 9:12:32 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: greyfoxx39

LOL

The Book of Hebrews is SOOOOOOOOO packed with stuff that would make the hair on a mormon turn gray...

:)


20 posted on 02/11/2009 9:13:50 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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