Posted on 03/16/2010 10:51:13 AM PDT by Paragon Defender
For some people, any perceived slight against Mormons is “persecution”. Looking at them cross eyed would count for some.
Mommmm, make him stop looking at meeee......
SELAH!
Oh, man its like driving with the grandchildren........smack waaaaa. Ok what happened? I hit him because I thought he was going to hit me.
**How quickly it started. As Paul wrote to the Galatians 1:6-8 "I marvel that you are so soon removed from him who called you into the Gospel of Christ unto another Gospel; which is not another but there be some who would trouble you and pervert the Gospel of Christ"
and Paul to Timothy: (2 Tim 4:3-4)"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears..And they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables."
Yes, the Church will always teach the truth .. as long as it is the true church of Jesus Christ
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Then how do you explain the lies of your (LDS) church?
The LDS church has less of a claim of being a ‘restored’ church than the RC church has a claim of being the original church.
And, no, I am NOT Catholic, nor a Protestant.
ROFL.
Actually, the ROCk in this, was the TRUTH that Peter spoke, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God
not that Peter was THE ROCK
Peter is a man, and a man that Jesus called Satan just after he spoke that truth
You are correct Peter is not the Rock but neither is the principle of revelation, which is how the LDS interpret it.
The truth Peter spoke is the foundation of the Body of Christ, the Church universal.
great read. I am going to read it again tomorrow. Very interesting.
Thank you.
They after all spend day and night looking for new converts, within mainstream Christianity, calling us “Apostates”, “Whores of Babylon” and coning people with contrived constructs that “answer the question you should have asked” or “ignoring subjects of substance in the discussion and answering non-sequitors”.
Further, they hold the Bible, certain parts, as foundation to their belief, while claiming it is a flawed book and theirs, when convenient completes God's word.
They are, in fact, selling a lie and they know it. Otherwise, why obfuscate, avoid or deny truths about their belief system?
See they will feign insult but their very Student manuals explain the differences, so why can't they acknowledge such?
Why can't they explain the duplicitous nature of their doctrine such as people of color may receive the Priesthood here on earth but, they cannot enter into the Priesthood in their celestial kingdom?
Why can't they offer a reasonable explanation for why plural marriages are forbidden in LDS, except where it is not illegal or where it is tolerated/accepted?
Why can't they explain the rationale of a woman being passed around in plural marriage, in their celestial kingdom yet, it is not “approved” her on earth?
Are women chattel in the spirit world? Why?
There are many other questions but they won't discuss them to disabuse us of our skepticism or incorrect perception based on facts we have, with their fact of opposition and writ of explanation?
How is the church growing by making coffee can conversions, praying for the dead, while still discussing Agency and Free Will?
In short, they are gaining new converts among Christians and mostly in areas where learning is subsumed to survival and resulting an illiterate audience who has no possibility of reading and checking veracity. They can only accept what is told them and hope the speaker or salesman is telling them the truth.
They have no voice and we are their advocates.
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young proclaimed all other religions abominations, Apostates and Whores of Babylon.
So in regards to being Non-Christians, are not the efforts of the LDS to evangelize Christians a defacto statement that you do not consider us Christians, under your definition?
Isn't being Christian or Christian Lite a relatively new phenomenon of LDS?
All that is fine but LDS proclaims they are the one true church. How can that be?
That was II's quote.
You SEEM to be a bit MORMON apologetics challenged.
Would you like a list of official MORMON websites to use?
FARMS and FAIRLDS have disclaimers that they are NOT Official Mormon Websites (OMS).
Hell!
He never even saw his LAST day!
JESUS: Hey Smith!
Remember that boast you made about doing more than even I had done to hold the 'church' together?
JOSEPH SMITH: Where am I?
JESUS: Don't you remember? A few seconds ago you were in that jail.
JOSEPH SMITH: Oh; yeah; but where am I NOW?
JESUS: Don't you remember? Does bang - bang ring a bell?
JOSEPH SMITH: Oh; yeah - that crummy gun I had was about USELESS!
JESUS: I hope you left instructions on how to hold your church together.
JOSEPH SMITH: Dang! I knew there was SOMETHING I was forgetting!
JESUS: Looks like there's a power struggle going on down there.
JOSEPH SMITH: Yeah; there was always SOMEone who wanted the power that I held - especially over the LADIES - wink wink.
JESUS: No need to worry about that now; remember what my friend Matthew wrote down?
JOSEPH SMITH: This? “At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven” (Matthew 22:30)
JESUS: That's it.
JOSEPH SMITH: I thought that was mistranslated.
JESUS: Nah - it was right.
JOSEPH SMITH: Oh well; it was fun while it lasted. My buds will still get it on with the girls.
JESUS: Uh; I'm sorry; in just a few more years; your followers will cavein to the United States government and abandon the 'Eternal Covenant' that you came up with.
JOSEPH SMITH: ME!? YOU are the one that told me to do that!
JESUS: Sorry; but you must have mistranslated what I told you. What part of Do NOT commit ADULTERY did you not understand?
JOSEPH SMITH: mumble....
JESUS: What did you say?
JOSEPH SMITH: Oh, nothing.
JESUS: Well; it was interesting talking to you; but now I must get back to perparing a place for those who believe in Me.
JOSEPH SMITH: Oh, yeah; the Celestial Kingdom.
JESUS: No...
JOSEPH SMITH: The Telestial one?
JESUS: Nope.
JOSEPH SMITH: SUREly not the TERRESTRIAL one!!
JESUS: Nope. Didn't you read that the mind of man had NOT conceived of it? Paul wrote it down in 1 Corinthians 2:9.
JOSEPH SMITH: I thought that was mistranslated.
JESUS: No; it wasn't.
JOSEPH SMITH: You SURE?
JESUS: Yes. Now I must be going: what did you say your name was again?
JOSEPH SMITH: Joseph Smith.
JESUS: Hmmmm. According to my Heavenly Facebook, you didn't sign in as one of my friends - sorry, I never knew you.
JOSEPH SMITH: But....
THAT’s not a knife!
Crocodile Dundee
Pride goeth before a fall.
And THAT is why the Bereans checked the SCRIPTURES daily to see if what they were being told matched up to what was WRITTEN.
http://www.icr.org/article/be-berean/
Wrong again honey! Not one word.
I just found myself forced to scroll past your way-too-long post by simply browsing the "latest comments"
And I'll bet you have several of those way-too-long posts elsewhere in this thread and many others.
A total waste of time and bandwidth.
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