Posted on 11/05/2010 6:32:25 PM PDT by Colofornian
Thank you for your support.
LOL
Thank you for your support.
I guess you know I’m stealing that graphic ;o)
LOL ... you said ‘steal’ on the NUMBER!
OH NOESSSssssssss.!
Funny kitteh placemark
Wrong Resty, my fithly rags have been washed clean and made white as snow by the Blood of Jesus shed on the Cross. His blood is suffucient to cleanse ALL sin.
It is the Mormon Jesus that seems to need help with your works and whose blood isn't worth much (since it only kicks in AFTER ALL YOU CAN DO and doesn't cover all sin).
Resty, you should talk given the uncertain status in 1844 that Joseph Smith had shortly before he died. Smith must have felt the guilt gnawing at him from no assurance of forgiveness of sins; but he wouldn't let go of his "everlasting burnings" teaching late in life:
"Those who have done wrong ALWAYS have that wrong gnawing them. Immortality dwells in everlasting burnings." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 1938, p. 367)
(Yeah, some "immortality" that will be...ALWAYS conscious of sin gnawing away at you conscience and ALWAYS regretful over the lack of trust in the true Jesus...as Smith invited his followers to join him in "everlasting burnings.")
Lurkers & Freepers, just tell the Mormon missionaries, "no thanks...I don't want to join Joseph Smith in his 'immortal...everlasting burnings.' 'Tis a tad bit too hot there."
Unlike Smith's Mormonism, ONLY Christianity offers assurance and confidence of salvation NOW. All the man-made religions and the distortions of the Bible by errorists within orthodoxy make eternal life out to be something FUTURE ONLY.
Yes, salvation is future...Yes, eternal life is future (heaven WITH Heavenly Father). But they are also both present.
In fact, salvation is also in one sense past: Calvary...the cross.
What the cultists & errorists miss out on re: the Bible is that Salvation/eternal life is present tense (John 3:36; John 5:24). Why? Because Jesus defined eternal life as a relationship with the true Son and the true Father -- see John 17:3 -- and we don't wait til Heaven to become related to Him. (Also we are born from above on this side of heaven via the Holy Spirit).
It's been a while since I challenged Mormons and those in Christian churches and those unattached to ponder a few Bible verses...so here goes...what could be the most important verses that you digest in your life coupled with the verses I just cited...1 John 5:11-13:
And this is the testimony:
God HAS given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 Whoever HAS the Son HAS life;
whoever does not HAVE the Son of God does not
HAVE life.
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that YOU MAY KNOW that you HAVE eternal life
Mormons and many so-called "Christians" don't KNOW they HAVE eternal life...no assurance. They think it's somehow all "up in the balance"...as if God doesn't already know our hearts perfectly...and whether or not we're in an active relationship with Him...and if we are trusting Him.
The only guilt here seems to be coming from your imaginations...
Nice try...
Some how the attitude stain never was removed....
You mean there was a time limit on that??? I thought one had to die before entering into Final Judgment?
Oh yeah, I forgot that in Mormonism, it's never really final until the person succeeds in that final push towards into Godhood. Maybe. Because when you consider the teachings about creation and the development of gods in the Mormon pantheon, only Intelligence is said to reign forever. Even a god can fall down and go boom (again), if he doesn't keep his nose clean after exaltation.
Jesus has washed my spirit and soul clean ... it helped me love Mormons who reject the true Jesus of the Bible, not the one described in the BOM or Talmadge’s writings of Jesus ...
You mean there was a time limit on that??? I thought one had to die before entering into Final Judgment?
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I am not the one who claim...
my fithly rags have been washed clean and made white as snow by the Blood of Jesus shed on the Cross. His blood is suffucient to cleanse ALL sin.
I am not the one who claim...
my fithly rags have been washed clean and made white as snow by the Blood of Jesus shed on the Cross. His blood is suffucient to cleanse ALL sin.
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Well you may not claim that for yourself, resty...
But I do for me...
Even if I had committed murder, the Power that is in the Blood that the LORD Jesus Christ shed on the Cross to save me, would be strong enough to forgive me even that evil deed...
Instantly...
I do not have to wait years or centuries for the power that is in the Blood of Jesus to work...
His Blood has miracle working power...
PRAY!
(That I do not become mere wallcovering like this stuff behind me!)
Speaking of trying:
Have you given up on getting a valid Temple Recommend®?
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