Close, but no cigar.

We worship the Biblical Jesus, we just don’t define him the way you do ... because we actually read the Bible, not a dogma created in 325 AD.

I know, it doesn’t fit your template for us, but what the heck, lying for Jesus isn’t a Mormon term either...

Anyone brave enough to read the bile on this thread has all the evidence they need to see unreasoning opposition.

JFTR, you are not Jesus.

He is not posting on this thread.

I had friends in high-school who were always saying. “What Would Jesus Do”. One day they asked me why I never quoted that. My response was that I knew I was Not God (Jesus) and What Would Jesus Have Me Do? Was too long. So instead of quoting, I just went about doing.

I'll repeat and extend, Jesus is not posting on this thread though there are many posting in his name without the authority to do so.

God bless and teach you LC

I’d love to see you Biblical source for proxy work by mortal men being forbidden.

Put up or slink away time!

The link that had the really old list from the missionary handbook. It was followed by talk of a wife and arthritis, I just wondered if that was you, or the site, because I didn’t see that on the site.

I know it's hard to see, being right on top and all...

Uh... are you going to UPDATE us folks with the NEW list?

The Unauthorized Investigator's Guide to
The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints

Mormon Missionary Rules

Introduction

The Mormon Scriptures teach that the purpose of life is a test to see if we will do everything that God commands us to (Abraham 3:25). Once we get pretty advanced in the game God might push the envelope on this and command us to do something totally bizarre and immoral such as killing our children (Genesis 22:2), but most of us never reach that level.

The Mormon missionary is given innumerable opportunities every day to show God that he will obey. The missionary's life is defined by rules. The rules dictate who he will be with, what he does with each hour of the week, which books he may read, and that he won't receive information about the world through radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, or the Internet. And he is assigned a vigilante to follow him around 24-7 to make sure he obeys. A church video about missionary life has a scene depicting a missionary reading the newspaper. That missionary was breaking the rules.

Last night, my wife saw me reading the Missionary Guide. It brought back all sorts of nasty memories from her mission and she said I must be a masochist for reading it. I laughed at that, but now I'm wondering if she had a point--just thinking about the mission rules is painful to me. As a missionary, I felt that the mission, God's church, and ultimately God himself despised individuality and freedom. My efforts to obey the mission rules resulted in immeasurable amounts of emotional and physical pain. I have had Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis since I was a child, and it was impossible to take care of my body and obey the missionary rules. So, I tortured my body throughout my mission, and abused it to the point where I literally couldn't stand, much less walk.

Keep whistling, as you’re almost past the graveyard.

We worship the Biblical Jesus, we just don’t define him the way you do ... because we actually read the Bible, not a dogma created in 325 AD.

Too bad you don't OBEY it!

TRUTH IGNORED

Smith, Young, Taylor, Pratt, Snow, Kimbal,l Woodruff ...

1 Timothy 3:2-3
2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.

Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.

BEHOLD!!!! The Restorative Power of the Book of Mormon!!

THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI

CHAPTER 2

24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.

Typically, a group of Mormons practice better morality, at least at face value, than any other group that I have encountered.

Therein lies the truth. Face value. In my experience, having been born and reared a mormon, underneath they are no better or worse than any other group of people. They are obeying the admonition from their leaders, "Every member a missionary".

If you were to spend much time on the mormon threads at FR, you would see a very different "face".

MORMON

ATTITUDES OF SUPERIORITY

  1. I’m Superior; I have a special gift of the holy Ghost -- you don’t!
  2. I’m Superior; I have God’s true priesthood power -- you don’t!
  3. I’m Superior; I can go in God’s secret Temple -- you can’t!
  4. I’m Superior; I’ve been Endowed with special Gifts and Knowledge -- you’re just normal!
  5. I’m Superior; I’ll have my family with me in heaven -- you’ll be with strangers!
  6. I’m Superior; I’m becoming a God -- you aren’t!
  7. I’m Superior; My women know their place as servants of man and yours don’t.
  8. I’m Superior; YOUR creeds are wrong because they come from man - mine comes from God (you can find each one printed in our Scriptures).
  9. I’m Superior; I don’t HAVE a creed - I’ve got 13 Articles of Faith.
10. I'm Superior; I have 4 "Bibles"-- the standard works (5 if you count the JST) -- you've only got one: in as far as it is translated correctly.
11. I’m Superior; I can lie with impunity about such things as church membership, church growth, church doctrine, church history, church influence, etc. —                           -- You can’t.
12. I’m Superior; I am right (everybody knows) when I say 'evangelical' Christians are lunatics --

-- You’re a hideous narrow-minded bigot, who is persecuting me by practicing discrimination by saying I'm not a Christian.
13. I'm Superior; I have a testimony about a prophet -- you don't.
14. I'm Superior; I have a Scripture-producing Amos 3:7 prophet -- you don't
15. I’m Superior; I have a Living Prophet who talks to god every day -- you have a dim-witted hireling of Satan who only talks to himself.
16. I'm Superior; I have my calling & election made sure -- you don't.
17. I’m Superior; I have magic underwear to protect me from the bogey man -- you don’t.
18. I’m Superior; I have secret clasps and grips to give the angel so I get admitted to the celestial kingdom -- you don’t ;so you can’t.
19. I'm Superior; I know secret handshake codes for afterlife entrances-- you don't.
20. I’m Superior; I will see Joseph Smith setting on the right hand of GOD, when I get to Mormon heaven, and he will recognize me and judge me favorably -- You’re on your own; when you get to wherever you’re going!
21. I’m Superior; I’m going to hie to Kolob -- you’re going to who knows where.
22. I’m Superior; I get to have a harem and act like a celestial stud for time and all eternity -- you don’t.
23. I’m Superior; I have sun stones, moon stones, sky stones, cloud stones, Saturn stones, and the evil eye of Osirus guarding my temple

-- all you have is a stupid cross.
24. I’m Superior; My church has billions in assets stashed away -- yours has taken a stupid vow of poverty.
25. I'm Superior; Last - we have the power to keep a whole race out of our priesthood if we wanted to reinsert our 148-year legacy (we ARE still keeping an entire GENDER at bay!)

26. I'm superior; I have the "higher law" -- everyone else "lives under the "lesser law' because I say so...(over and over).

Revision 46.2

Semi-Official creed of the EXclusive club of Freeper Flying Inmans.

All rights liable to be abused.

I am a child of God.

Jesus said so.

Anyone brave enough to read the bile on this thread has all the evidence they need to see unreasoning opposition.

Sigh; thanks for showing us all that you WILL NOT point out what you are ACCUSING us of.

Begone; foul MORMON!

He is not posting on this thread.

I've posted HIS words.

I thought you said you READ them?

“Why don’t you know go after Muslims??”

Muslims are not pretending to be Christians.

I’d love to see you Biblical source for proxy work by mortal men being forbidden.

I'd like to see ANY 'scriptures' from the MORMON pantheon that says that PROXY WORK by men is ACCEPTABLE!

Put up or slink away time!

Randall; it sure is!

I wonder, do you suppose Delph has yet learned just what the official LDS assertion is on how Joey Smith the peepstone divination sexual predator of married women ‘translated’ the BofM? A few years ago it was pointed out to him that Joey didn’t even have the plates in his presence during most of the supposed translating. This fatc had eluded the great missionary to that day! And I wonder if Delph still clings to the specious assertion that Joey didn’t have sex with all these ‘other wives’, some of whom were still married to living men? ... Don’t hold your breathe waiting for an honest response from that one.

The records kept by Constantine show that:
A. He was still not baptized in 325AD.
B. He called the conference, set the agenda and determined the outcome.
C. The Pope was notified later of both the outcome, and the conference.

Click my name, follow the links. The source is the Catholic encyclopedia on-line.

Do you really think the definition of the nature of God should be organized, overseen and set by a government official?

I don't!

Nana, I love it when you call me kid :-)

But I think the HEIGHT of condescension is to tell someone “God Bless” when what you really mean (perhaps) is you hope they bark at the moon, die, and go straight to everlasting outerdarkness. Preferably today.

Wisdom indeed.

When losing an argument, try to change the subject... Satan

Polygamy, not practiced in over a hundred years, and Biblical to boot is addressed on my page, but it’s off topic here.

Before anyone gets bent out of shape, if you accept the atonement of Jesus Christ, you accept the principle of proxy work

Well, isn't that special. That may be the most ignorant post I've seen in.....weeks.

I know it's hard to see, being right on top and all...

The Unauthorized Investigator's Guide toThe Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints

Mormon Missionary Rules

Introduction

The Unauthorized Investigator's Guide to
The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints