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To: Colofornian
When a Mormon talks about "salvation," they usually mean, "Just about everybody is saved. Jesus is the only way to just about everybody being saved." [near universalism -- Mormons teach just about all people will go to one of 3 "degrees of glory"]

Sounding remarkably like the teachings that Smith was exposed to - that of Swedenborg.

In response, you won't usually hear Lds volunteer the following -- that a resurrection unto damnation is also what Jesus talked about (see below)...so much for resurrection = a form of "salvation":

Nor do they volunteer the 12 steps required for 'salvation' either

Step One: Faith
Step Two: Repentance
Step Three: Baptism by Immersion in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Step Four: Laying on of Hands by a Member of the Melchizedek Priesthood in Order to Receive the Holy Ghost
Step Five: Ordination as a Melchizedek Priest (for males only - sorry ladies, your only salvation is to be eternally pregnant as one of a god's harem)
Step Six: Receiving the Temple Endowments
Step Seven: Celestial Marriage
Step Eight: Observing the Word of Wisdom
Step Nine: Sustain the Prophet
Step Ten: Tithing
Step Eleven: Sacrament Meetings
Step Twelve: Obedience

Since the bom contains the fullness of the gospel, how come these items are not in it?

14 posted on 09/20/2009 4:53:19 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: Godzilla
Since the bom contains the fullness of the gospel, how come these items are not in it?

Uh....

--MormonDude(I sure THOUGHT they were in there! Does that mean I am IGNORANT?)

117 posted on 09/21/2009 4:29:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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