Posted on 03/31/2010 9:00:52 AM PDT by Colofornian
Jews have one. Catholics have one. Do Mormons need an independent anti-defamation group...
-- I suppose Latter-day Saints shouldn't be too surprised the latest put-down from Chuck Colson, leader of the Prison Fellowship. Ironically, it was as he and leaders of Christian groups announced a new "civility covenant."
When a reporter asked if the covenant should include Glenn Beck, CNN reported Colson saying that the document:
"Wouldn't apply to Glenn Beck because we're talking about the conversation in the family of believers ... Glenn Beck is a Mormon." CNN continues: "Many Christians don't consider Mormons -- members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- to be Christians, though Mormons consider themselves Christian."
Colson's statements follow a long line of less-than-civil evangelical exclusionary actions including keeping Mormons out of National Day of Prayer services to a Christian student press group excluding BYU journalism students from its competition.
SNIP
Here's another example from friends at the ADL during the campaign entitled "Judge Romney by his platform, not his Mormonism":
"But two recent polls found that at least one quarter of Americans said they would not vote for a Mormon for president. These findings are troubling and disappointing, but so is the fact that some religious conservatives have compared the Mormon religion to a 'cult' and its doctrines to paganism. The Web site of Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network, for example, says the religious beliefs of Mormons 'are simply wrong,' and 'when it comes to spiritual matters, the Mormons are far from the truth.' While doctrinal differences and debates among Christian groups are their own theological business, such assertions are surely painful and disturbing."
(Excerpt) Read more at mormontimes.com ...
1Cr 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Gal 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
Just for my information, why does the COJCOLDS come down hardest of all on Presbyterians?
Could it be the latter’s emphasis on predestination?
Oops, gotta run, my Benedict XVI secret decoder ring radio is buzzing.
;^)
“Do Mormons need an Anti-Defamation League?”
Well they seem to get the most pissed when people tell the truth about their beliefs.....so I am not sure that anti-defamation is what is called for.
No mention of the Crucifixion.
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Why would they, to them it is just simply the method of execution, no biggie, he could have been stoned to death or shot by firing squad. It doesn’t matter to the LDS.
I am not kidding and can back that up if anyone wishes.
Yet you come with nothing in had to back your charge...
Wonder why that is...
No, no, being a cylon isn't the same as being a god - wait; actually, given the limited scope that Mormonism assigns to the (not nearly) Almighty, being a cylon IS the same as being a Mormon god.
Certainly it is to all those who know what true Christianity means. Unfortunately, not for many of whom I will call "Christian-lite" and they are precisely the ones that Mormon missionaries go to and they "straighten up the questions as to 'why we were born, where are we going,'" etc.
Those who barely understand issues of faith are the easiest to convince all kinds of non-Christian "beliefs."
My word to all, especially those brought up in a church, baptized as a baby or child, or a new Christian: learn what it truly means to be a Christian by reading your bible yourself (the New King James is easy to read and hasn't been altered in meaning.)
Read John 3:16 and 17, and Romans 10:9-13then read all of the Gospel of John (not the Epistle of John) to understand who Jesus is; followed by Gallatians which explains the basis of faith - Grace, then the Book of Hebrews.
“(not nearly) Almighty” VERY VERY apt description of the Mormon God, my dear.
(Irony: This Cylon happens to be named Lucifer which according to LDS doctrine is Jesus' brother's name as well...)
Read John 3:16 and 17, and Romans 10:9-13then read all of the Gospel of John (not the Epistle of John) to understand who Jesus is;
Very good and well worth repeating
You’re aware, I assume, that Battlestar Galactica’s creator, Glen Larson, is a Mormon, and that the original series fairly drips with Mormon allegory.
PLEASE, PLEASE do not encourage my husband!
Just the Kolob/Kobol piece alone points it out...
It is an analog of a sorts, with Mormonism and BSG being fiction and full of mythical ideas.
That is NOT funny. Well, ok, maybe a little.
Mrreaganaut LOVES that pic, even if I did ruin BSG for him.
We’ve been waiting for you to post a rebuttal, any rebuttal that prove(s) your points. To date, you and other Mormons have not. The internet age has caught the LdS church in a vise and is slowly turning the spindle. Each day, more and more information comes to light. The truth can no longer be hidden from reasonable people.
I posted this once before and do so again and again...
I will preface the following with this; most mormons are good and decent people, like any other group of people, they have their bad apples. I am married to a mormon, a very active mormon. Works in the temple, so that should tell you that she is obeying the tenets of her faith.
For those who have been encouraged to research the LdS religion, I will tell you this as an apostate, a member of the Melchizidek Priesthood, temple recommend holder, sealed to my wife in the Washington D.C. temple, an active and fully participating member of the LdS for over 6 years.
A man whose eyes were finally opened because of the efforts of the very people on this board who have been accused of lying and attacking a religion that many of them know intimately because they were members at one time. Some were born into it, having family history that traces back to the founding of mormonism.
It goes without saying that the basis for the religion is JS. One must have complete faith in him and what he purported was the truth. Yet, for reasonable people, this is impossible because as we now know, he was a liar and a deceiver. A less than common manipulator, thief and adulterer. He took those traits to a whole other level.
If you subscribe to the belief that JS was an honorable, chaste and virtuous man, then one has been mislead. He was none of those, in fact, he was the antithesis of those values and morals.
It is well known that the LdS contradict themselves in their scripture, in their teachings and in their doctrine. They can’t reconcile their doctrine with the Bible, though they try, because in their Articles of Faith, they denigrate the Bible with the disclaimer “As far as it is translated correctly”. So from the beginning, they marginalized the Bible and its teachings in order to put in place their own perverted religion.
One need only look at those simple facts and it should be readily apparent that there is no truth to be found within mormonism. It is unbiblical and unchristian. Where in the Bible can one find the scripture that states that men can become gods? Where in the Bible can one find that men are to be rulers over kingdoms with a harem of women giving birth to “spirit babies” for eternity?
Sounds suspiciously like islam doesn’t it? The promise of 72 virgins comes to mind. Promise an earthly man eternal sex and you’re going to have quite a following.
For the lurkers or any other poster, I encourage you to please do as was recommended on this thread. Research mormonism, research the teachings, the doctrine, the history. Do so objectively, but do so by comparing a conventional KJV of the Bible to the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible to see the significant differences between the two. Do so by asking your pastor, church leader or a person you trust that has a knowledge of scripture. One you can trust to be reasonable and reasonably unbiased in helping you to discover the truth.
Don’t do so based on how nice a mormon is. Do so based on your desire for Biblical truth and your eternal salvation.
Second time you have posted this same bit of Rhetoric.
Yet you come with nothing in had to back your charge...
Wonder why that is...
Because there are too many people here twisting and misrepresenting. Unlike some of them it would seem, I can’t spend all day long here correcting them.
So, instead of wasting my breath on those that obviously have no real interest in the truth, I point out to others that what is being done here daily, attacking Mormonism, shouldn’t be where you get all of your info.
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