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Gee it is your History not a myth or embellishment like many try to do to the LDS by taking things out of context.

Yep the gig is up no more secrets as you guys like to claim you are an open book... ha ha ha what hypocrits!

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Resty, honey, I will take this slow and easy for you...

I will GLADLY discuss Church History with you until the Second Coming (it IS, after all, my area of specialization).

However, you make a mistake by claiming we are ‘hypocrits’ and apparently assume Christians either whitewash or ignore church history. That is not the case at all, there is no need.

Christians recognize (or they should) that ‘church history’ is a history of RELIGION (rites, rituals, debates, people, denominations). But, as Christians, our faith is NOT in our denominations. It is in Christ alone and HIS work on the Cross.

Any Christian church historian (such as myself) knows that ‘church history stinks’ (to quote Shawn McCraney). BIG DEAL. It really does not matter. Because church history has ABSOLUTELY NO BEARING AT ALL on our faith. Nor should it. Our faith is in Christ alone.

The Mormons do not have that luxury, however. Why? Because of the foundational claims of Mormonism, meaning that ALL churches were ‘corrupt’ and ‘apostate’ and that Christ founded a denomination that Joseph Smith ‘restored’. That claim binds LDS church history to it’s doctrine. If there are lies and problems in LDS history, or the LDS LIE about their church history, then it, in a VERY TANGIBLE WAY, makes Smith’s claim of restoring the ‘true’ church suspect.

You see, the LDS cannot divorce themselves from their church history because they EQUATE Christ with the LDS church. The LDS denomination claims to be the ONLY TRUE WAY of getting to Heaven (the Celestial Kingdom and exaltation), therefore, the claims of Joseph Smith rise or fall upon the history of the organization he claims was restored.

So, LDS history is fair game while most Christians (all should) do NOT equate their salvation based upon the history of their denomination for their denomination does NOT, cannot, save them. Only the Blood of Christ can.