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To: Normandy

Norm,

You were not being asked to judge anyone. You were being asked about the contradictions in LdS teachings. Now you’re really grasping at straws.

Is the JS doctrine (King Follet sermon) regarding apostates true or not? If so, why is not taught as LdS doctrine? Why did you previously claim it was not LdS doctrine and when shown the proof, refused to address it further and now obfuscate with claims of being asked to judge people?


953 posted on 03/25/2010 4:44:38 AM PDT by SZonian (We began as a REPUBLIC, a nation of laws. We became a DEMOCRACY, majority rules. Next step is?)
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To: SZonian

Hi, SZonian,

Yes, I believe the statement of Joseph Smith in the King Follett Discourse.

” All sins shall be forgiven, except the sin against the Holy Ghost; for Jesus will save all except the sons of perdition. What must a man do to commit the unpardonable sin? He must receive the Holy Ghost, have the heavens opened unto him, and know God, and then sin against him. After a man has sinned against the Holy Ghost, there is no repentance for him. He has got to say that the sun does not shine while he sees it; he has got to deny Jesus Christ when the heavens have been opened unto him, and to deny the plan of salvation with his eyes open to the truth of it; and from that time he begins to be an enemy. This is the case with many apostates of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

When a man begins to be an enemy to this work, he hunts me, he seeks to kill me, and never ceases to thirst for my blood. He gets the spirit of the devil—the same spirit that they had who crucified the Lord of Life—the same spirit that sins against the Holy Ghost. You cannot save such persons; you cannot bring them to repentance; they make open war, like the devil, and awful is the consequence.”


954 posted on 03/25/2010 6:51:04 AM PDT by Normandy
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