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Joseph Smith: An Apostle of Jesus Christ
LDS.org ^ | Dennis B. Neuenschwander

Posted on 01/02/2011 5:46:30 PM PST by Paragon Defender

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This is ridiculous.
Joe Smith called Christianity "an abomination".
Why didn't Joe just go into the brewing biz? He had a license to sell all the beer he wanted to from his home.
It makes zero sense for mormons to abstain from beer or wine. Joe indulged plenty. But he is just of a cult is all,
so none of what Joe says matters anyway. Pretty funny tho.

All you need to know about mormonism is here:

The BEST deal is if Romney decides to run again. He will need to give an hours-long speech on Joe Smith and all he believes.
It will finally be the end to any mormon cultist running for any political office, anywhere. Thank you.

281 posted on 01/02/2011 10:23:03 PM PST by NoRedTape
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To: americanophile
Can we all just agree that Islam sucks?

Mormon leadership will never agree to that. They are crawling in bed with the Islamic leadership worldwide.

282 posted on 01/02/2011 10:23:17 PM PST by caww
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To: Anti-Bubba182

So bigoted...argh


283 posted on 01/02/2011 10:23:49 PM PST by JaneNC (I)
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To: Cymbaline

Tagline is a classic.


284 posted on 01/02/2011 10:23:59 PM PST by americanophile
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To: restornu

Jesus aka Jehovah has always been known as I AM.
_______________________________________

Where does it say that in the Christian Bible ???

Meanwhile Jesus is God,

the Second Person of the Trinity...1 John 5:7

The Lord Jesus Christ was always the Word...

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1

He created everything...

All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:3

He was there in the beginning...He will be there at the end...

Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega...the beginning and the end...Revelation 1:8

Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever...Hebrews 13:8


285 posted on 01/02/2011 10:25:13 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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Joe Smith was a rookie snake-oil salesman. Bring'em Young was a chump in it for more cashola.

All you need to know about mormonism is here:


286 posted on 01/02/2011 10:26:11 PM PST by NoRedTape
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To: Admin Moderator

This is petty and annoying. I come to FR to get breaking news. I don’t care if you think this is giving some poster his “just desserts” by putting his thread in the breaking new section to be ridiculed. Just be the website you are intended to be.


288 posted on 01/02/2011 10:26:47 PM PST by stand 4 something
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To: caww
"They are crawling in bed with the Islamic leadership worldwide."

Pray tell.

289 posted on 01/02/2011 10:26:52 PM PST by americanophile
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To: JaneNC

Oh dear...

Mitt Romney is not well liked either...


290 posted on 01/02/2011 10:27:01 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: fuzzybutt
All of a sudden I see a dozen postings a day on FR about LDS\Mormon's. What is up with that?

In my opinion, many of them are posted with the sole intent to cause arguments. If my memory is correct, the anti-Mormon thread invasion started right about the time of this poll which said that Mormons are the most conservative religious group. The pro-Mormon threads started a little later. I believe this all started with one or two disruptor trolls who tapped into the existing anti-Romney movement with a plan to divide and conquer.

291 posted on 01/02/2011 10:28:06 PM PST by retrogo
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To: F15Eagle

About 2005 there was a story of the of the growing Utah Muslim community and their opening of a free health care clinic in Salt Lake City. The 4th free clinic Utah Muslims have opened in the past year or so.

The Democrats in the state saw the rapidly growing Muslim presence as something that would help their party in years to come - they even went all-out to register Utah Muslims the past election in the hope they’d vote Democratic which they tend to do.

The Islamic Society of SLC and the Islamic forum of Utah are fairly upfront with their missionary plans for Utah.


292 posted on 01/02/2011 10:28:51 PM PST by caww
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To: stand 4 something

What’s “annoying”? The fact that Joe Smith is a farkin Schlub; a fake-profit; a dude that got his own brother killed while he was shot by escaping from jail?


293 posted on 01/02/2011 10:30:03 PM PST by NoRedTape
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To: stand 4 something

No Admin Moderator moved this thread. Read comment 27.


294 posted on 01/02/2011 10:30:29 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Paragon Defender
Joseph Smith was killed by a mob while he was being held prisoner in Carthage, Illinois.
295 posted on 01/02/2011 10:32:47 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Jim Robinson; restornu; Paragon Defender; All
Jim I have always respected your right to run your site your way. I still support you in that right.

I have been a long time conservative, a defender of the Mormons, an activist. Locally...

I have not supported Mitt Romney because he was Not a conservative. Lies have been told about me saying that I supported him. Google me and mitt you'll see they are lies.

As to this thread being moved, and your now open hostility toward a religion whose adherents are generally conservative, well it does not bode well for this forum. Not because Mormons will break you or anything silly like that, but because “who is next” will be on people's minds and as soon as censorship is the norm on the forum, well other forums will get traffic that was here.

I know you won't care that you are intimidating people and cutting off free speech on what was a shining beacon, how sad.

Delph

296 posted on 01/02/2011 10:33:15 PM PST by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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To: F15Eagle; restornu

Isa 43 Jehovah was the only God formed
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No this is not in the Bible...

Plus who did this “forming” ???

“before Me there was no God formed” Isaiah 43:10 is nowhere near the same as “Jehovah was the only God formed”

When someone starts messing around with the words of the Christian Bible and changing them...

like Joey Smith did...

then you wind up with a Godless cult...

like mormonism...


297 posted on 01/02/2011 10:33:51 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: restornu
It would appear, Resty, that I've studied your religion more than you have, and that I am more familiar with the meaning than apparently you are.

Your own founders taught that god gained the attributes of godhood from once being a man, which you really ought to read completely before trying to accuse me of lying about your cultish, blasphemous, heretical beliefs! ...

Was the Mormon jesus, God with us? NO! Not according to Mormonism. Mormonism teaches that the Mormon jesus gained the attributes of godhood and was not therefore God with us prior to the resurrection! Oddly, they also try to teach the opposite, too! But let's look closely at the founders' teachings through their direct quotes. Your religions founders also teach that the Mormon jesus and satan are spirit brothers in a ‘pre-existence’, making the Mormon jesus an equal with not superior to the created angels … of course prior to gaining the attributes of Mormon godhood. [Literally, according to the founders of Mormonism, the LDS jesus is our elder brother, born to Heavenly Parents in a ‘premortal life‘. According to Mormonism, Jesus, Lucifer and humans are all the same species and are brothers and sisters. (LDS Gospel Principles pp. 11, 17, 18)(D&C 93:29; PGP:Bk of Abr 3:21-22; Teachings, pp. 352-354) ]

"In the very beginning the Bible shows there is a plurality of Gods beyond the power of refutation. It is a great subject I am dwelling on. The word Eloheim ought to be in the plural all the way through--Gods. The heads of the Gods appointed ONE God for us ..."(Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 372)

"In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it. (Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 5, 1844)

"I will go back to the beginning, before the world was, to show what kind of a being God is. What sort of a being was God in the beginning? Open your ears and hear, all ye ends of the earth; for I am going to prove it to you by the Bible, and to tell you the designs of God in relation to the human race, and why he interferes with the affairs of man. God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted Man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens. That is the great secret." (Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 3, 1844)

"All of us lived in this heavenly spiritual realm before we were born with physical bodies on the earth. Christ was begotten of the Father, as were all of us, including Lucifer, who was a Son of the Morning. The title “Son of the Morning” could either signify that Lucifer was one of the earliest born of the spirits, or was illustrious, or both. The name Lucifer means “lightbearer” or “shining one.” Since both Christ and Lucifer were born of the Father, they are brothers in a spiritual sense, as all of us are brothers and sisters in that sense. (LDS teaching regarding Joseph Smith‘s, Pearl of Great Price: Book of Moses 4:1-4)

"Endowed with agency and subject to eternal laws, man began his progression and advancement in pre-existence, his ultimate goal being to attain a state of glory, honor, and exaltation like the Father of spirits. During his earth life he gains a mortal body, receives experience in earthly things, and prepares for a future eternity after the resurrection when he will continue to gain knowledge and intelligence. (D. & C. 130:18-19.) This gradually unfolding course of advancement and experience -- a course that began in a past eternity and will continue in ages future -- is frequently referred to as a course of eternal progression."
"Those who gain exaltation, having thus enjoyed the fullness of eternal progression, become like God." It should be realized that God is not progressing in knowledge, truth, virtue, wisdom, or any of the attributes of godliness. He has already gained these things in their fullness. But he is progressing in the sense that his creations increase, his dominions expand, his spirit offspring multiply, and more kingdoms are added to his domains. (Elder Bruce McConkie, Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp. 5-10.)

Pay close attention here, Resty, for the following exposes and clarifies the duplicity in Mormonism:

"Paul says that which is earthly is in the likeness of that which is heavenly. Hence if Jesus had a Father, can we not believe that He had a Father also? I despise the idea of being scared to death at such a doctrine, for the Bible is full of it. I want you to pay particular attention to what I am saying. Jesus said that the Father wrought precisely in the same way as His Father had done before Him. As the Father had done before? He laid down His life, and took it up the same as His Father had done before." (Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 373)

Now Resty, by what McConkie taught, that god the father in Mormonism had to earn the attributes of godhood, combined with what Smith taught regarding the Mormon jesus doing just as his father had done, do you see why I say that Mormonism teaches jesus was not god with us until after he gained that attribute through his atonement for mankind? ... I doubt you will even read this far, but there it is Resty, in all its blasphemous glory.

298 posted on 01/02/2011 10:35:00 PM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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I could not have said it better it has shades of WW11


300 posted on 01/02/2011 10:35:54 PM PST by restornu (Focus on the issues not the group think stink bombs!)
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