Matthew 23:27
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean."
Posted on 09/29/2010 3:05:05 PM PDT by zippythepinhead
Atheists and agnostics know more about major world religions than many people of faith, while Mormons can answer more Bible questions than their Catholic and mainline Protestant counterparts.
Those are among the somewhat startling conclusions about religious literacy in America the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life drew after surveying 3,412 Americans.
Some of the multiple-choice questions were relatively simple: Where was Jesus born and who led the exodus from Egypt? What religion was Mother Teresa, what day does the Jewish Sabbath begin and what is the name of Islam’s holy book?
Others were more obscure: What is Indonesia’s dominant religion? Which Christians teach that salvation comes through faith alone?
About half the Protestants (53 percent) couldn’t correctly identify Martin Luther as the person whose writings and actions inspired the Protestant Reformation. Fewer than half of Americans (47 percent) knew the Dalai Lama is Buddhist and only 38 percent correctly associated Vishnu and Shiva with Hinduism.
John Morehead, director of the Western Institute for Intercultural Studies in Salt Lake City, had already noted religious illiteracy in the general population as well as in the evangelical community. But he did not expect Mormons to top them in their biblical fluency.
“Mormons tend to emphasize Mormon scriptures like the Book of Mormon rather than the Bible in their devotional life,” Morehead said in an e-mail.
Even some LDS scholars were surprised to find Mormons at the top.
(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...
Now that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are...
The LDS river is wide, we see that here on FR all the time. They will “claim” anyone, indeed the more confused they and their message is the better. The success of the LDS is totally based on never really landing on one idea for long.
Keep the balls in the air so all eyes are on them...
You can slander and mislead, but he didn't do it so you can't prove it.
As fro Mormonism being based on polygamy, LOL! you are so far from reality that it's hard to see you from here. (reality)
For anyone who's actually interested,,, http://freerepublic.com/~delphiuser/#Polygamy see my Page’s section on polygamy.
That is brilliant.
Matthew 23:27
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean."
Wasted Breath. Merely accusations; empty wind...
Keep ‘em guessing, keep ‘em distracted, the hallmark of a con...
When it’s all ya got, it’s all ya got...
When it’s all ya got, it’s all ya got...
Thanks for the wonderful example of how to state something from deception. (FACT)
Hard Truth Alert!!!
Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"
Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."
Can any MORMON prove JS actually learned ANYTHING that was untrue about PRESBYTERIANism?
Jesus loves you too.
I have nothing to be ashamed of. So far, you and your Mormon buddies are 0-4 in your attempts to run to the moderator and squeal on me for "inappropriate" behavior. I have only been chastized once by the moderator and that for pinging someone who had been kicked off the thread (which I didn't know). I was trying to clarify something with that person which IIRC was you!
Hundreds of times the LDS has reach out and all you antis do is taunt, mock, and try to annihilate
What do we "taunt, mock, and try to annihilate" in our discussions? Mormon doctrine. Speaking on behalf of all the Flying Inmans, we have no ill will towards individual Mormons. Our dispute is with the system of theology which blinds people to the true Jesus Christ, the one who can save your soul. Those of us who have studied Mormon doctrine have realized that it leads to another Jesus Christ. The Bible is loaded with warnings about false prophets and false teachings which lead to a false Christ and ultimately to the destruction of a person's soul. Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and the entire Latter Day Saint movement is a textbook example of false teachings based on a false prophet. The Flying Inmans pray that the scales will fall from your eyes and the eyes of your Mormon friends and you'll see the truth. We will continue to confront false Mormon teachings at every opportunity and if you take that personally, then so be it. It's NOT intended as a personal attack.
so when the error of your ways are pointed out to you, you want to pretend it is the LDS being rude...
Let me give you a challenge. Go back to the thread on the murder of the Mormon bishop and carefully re-read it and ask yourself which side was out-of-line. Notice that it was people from your side, not mine, who got booted. (Any lurkers who haven't followed these Mormon apologetics thread are encouraged to view that thread. It will be an eye-opening experience.)
22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.I will await with baited breath your apology as part of seeking repentance from our lord and savior, or do you imagine that you can sin against your bother and repent to God with out seeking your bother's forgiveness? If so, let me point out... the next tow verses:
23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;Now we will just have to wait and see if you actually believe and obey the Bible you like to quote so much...
24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Huh? I thought we have been told dozens of times that lds don’t believe in Hell’s fire.
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