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Posted on 01/02/2011 5:46:30 PM PST by Paragon Defender
John 6:28-29
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."
"You know the Scriptures: what do THEY say?"
That statement made ZERO sense. Are you saying those people were zotted by God because they were the first humans to ever be offensive? Or are you comparing removing a caucus staus on a thread with the judgement of God?
Norm,
A confession of faith (a TRUE one) that stems from a belief in Christ alone to save you will bring about a change in behavior, but it does not make a change in behavior REQUIRED to inherit the kingdom of God. A change in behavior is one of the proofs that salvation has ALREADY OCCURRED, but that doesn’t make it required. Expected is NOT required.
The Mormons put the cart before the horse, again.
LOL!
I guess it does!!
Shall we choose BANG! or whimper...?
I can put one up. That isn’t a problem. I live in a town where only two people have their yards fenced, and one is to keep the dogs in and the other one is to keep the neighbor kids out of the above ground pool in the summer.
You would think people to be smarter than that and not see through it.
I hereby prophesy that the Binger will never go to the moon and will be mocked on FR by certain PR spinners for good and evil among all nations, kindreds and tongues. And I bear my solemn testimony that this is true.
Completely agree.
When will you realize that God is not our servant, but rather, you are a servant of God?
Worth reposting. Very well said, Sky.
i second that prophecy. Do we have a quorum?
Yup :-) Blasphemous titles on FR threads really crank me up.
>A confession of faith (a TRUE one)....
= = = = = =
God is the only one who knows what’s in a person’s heart.
So how can one human say that another human’s confession is NOT true?
(P.S. That’s a genuine question: I’m not merely baiting you.)
(This thread already has its fill of people trying to trap other people.)
That is sooooo cute!
We could do like Mo ham head’s family did, start collecting every scrap of data from UB and compile his every word spoken or written, then fashion a ‘Book of the Binger’ and make it cannon to the faith.
OOh.. a town!
It may have LAWS against FARM ANIMALS.
A neighboring community had a big flap last year over a family and their pet milk goats.
Someone raised a stink over the goats (2-3 whatever) and sicced the town marshall on them for having FARM ANIMALS.
Now ANYONE who knows goats can tell you they are WAY less of a ‘problem’ than the same number of DOGS, and, this was brought up in the court case.
But, just like on these threads, that was not the point.
Goats are FARM AMINALS, not PETS.
However, the law, being what it is, said, in essense: “There shall be no boarding of FARM ANIMALS within the city limits.”
Sounds pretty cut and dried; eh? Perhaps, but the ‘law’ did NOT stop there, it added: “such as horses, cows and chickens.”
The QUALIFying phrase was what let the folks KEEP their goats!
(Who knows what the future will bring, law-wise, as the complainer has already tried to get the ‘law’ changed.)
Sing it loud girl, whoo-hoo!
Sidenote:
I offered to bring my 4 into town and protest anytime they needed us!
;^)
Posted before I saw yours. Yours is better, imo. :)
Or what? Money back guarantee of all our tithes if we don't make it to at least the middle kingdom?
JOSEPH SMITH WAS DEAD RIGHT (literally) REGARDING TWO PROPHESIES
A VAIN PROPHET WILL BE THROWN DOWN: July 1828. D&C 3:4.
For although a man may have many revelations, and have power to do many mighty works, yet if he boasts in his own strength, and sets at naught the counsels of God, and follows after the dictates of his own will and carnal desires, he must fall and incur the vengeance of a just God upon him.GLOBAL WARMING: Nov 3, 1831. D&C 133:26.FULFILLED: On May 26, 1844, Joseph Smith made the following statement in a public sermon (Brodie p 374, HC 6:408-412):
Come on, ye persecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! For I will come out on the top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.At the time that he boasted that he was greater than Jesus and denied that he had plural wives, Smith was secretly married polygamously to over 30 women, some of them wives of men still living. Many who knew of these secret marriages accused him of changing the doctrine of the church to satisfy his own carnal desires in violation of the Book of Mormon (Jacob 2:23-29, 3:5) and D&C 49:16.
Almost exactly one month after this boast, on June 27, 1844, Smith was killed in a blotched escape attempt at Carthage Jail.
NOTE: For some reason, this prophecy by Joseph Smith, although it was fulfilled quickly and literally, is rarely cited by Mormon apologists.
Those who are in the north countries... shall smite the rocks, and the ice shall flow down at their presence.JOSEPH SMITH WAS DEAD WRONG (literally) REGARDING DOZENS OF OTHER PROPHESIESFULFILLED: Smith's uncanny prediction of Global Warming resulting from hydrocarbons taken by smiting the rocks has been confirmed by no less of an authority than the Nobel Laureate AlGore.
You can see a partial list of 50 or so of Smith's failed prophecies HERE.
As to my favorite prognostication by Smith, personally, I'm torn between his prophecies of: (1) the violent overthrow of the United States in the 1830's, (2) the second coming of Christ sometime before 1891, (3) the discovery of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel living in cement houses in a valley near the North Pole, (4) the finding the moon is inhabited by men dressed like Quakers, and (5) his prediction that science will discover the earth has knobs on each end.
Perhaps you also have a personal favorite. If so, I would love to hear it.
/Zak
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