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To: mrreaganaut
Well, of course "being Christian" and "being A Christian" are two different things.

Christianity is binary. You are saved or you are not.

102 posted on 01/31/2010 9:17:18 AM PST by T Minus Four (Donate to Haiti now and sponsor a Haitian child for the long term - Worldvision.com)
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To: T Minus Four; mrreaganaut; reaganaut; colorcountry; greyfoxx39; SZonian; Godzilla; Elsie; ...
Christianity is binary. You are saved or you are not.

Well, even in Mormon circles they talk more in trinary & quadnary terms re: your potential salvation or outer darkness status.

Example: At the 2001 BYU Women's Conference, the professor of marriage and family therapy in the School of Family Life @ BYU (she was also chair of the BYU-Relief Society Women's Conferences for more than one year) was talking about female members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
...when she talked about the spiritually upper-etchelon Mormon women -- those "whose life is saturated with the words of the Lord" -- then she could...
..."often hear unspoken sentences lodged in others' hearts. For example," she said,
"when her child says 'Leave me alone,' she is able to hear, 'Please don't leave me alone.'"
"When her husband says, 'I'm just not celestial material,' the Spirit can bless her to hear, 'Please show me how wrong I am to think I'm just not celestial material."
(Wendy L. Watson, Ye Shall Bear Record of Me, pp. 265-266, Bookcraft)

So that's how Mormon couples communicate at home, eh?
"I'm just not celestial material."
"I'm just not cut out to become a god."
"My divine embryo status is petering out."
And then upon hearing that, the dutiful Mormon wife "re-translates" that into the exact programmed opposite:
"Dear, you are celestial material, after all!"
"Dear, you are Kolob star stuff!"
"Dear, you are my master god-in-embryo!"

Lds, I hate to break it to you: But none of us is god all-star pool material.
There is no divine draft where the gods reach down into Earth's bush leagues & draft future gods.
The Mormon system is not a minor league farm system for godhood development, after all.
Christlikeness & godliness does NOT equal divinity status. (And if you say then "Well why does the Bible say we're made in God's image?" I'd have to respond that since Lds believe that image is a physical one, does that then also mean that Lds women turn into male gods if they follow after that image? You can't have it both ways).
And the Mormon husband who concludes, "I'm just not celestial material" has finally taken a good look in the mirror & has painfully embraced a bit of truth. Hurrah to him!!!

117 posted on 01/31/2010 8:28:40 PM PST by Colofornian (As the Lds once were, the fLDS are; as the fLDS are, the LDS will become.)
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