When you try to be clever in using scripture to try and insult someone (you spittled in closing, "and hearkened no more to the words of this wicked man" ... and you directed that at Jim Robinson who allows your religion to post at Freerepublic!), you are not loving the other, you are feeding your twisted ego. Astonishingly, you appear incapable of shame as you repeatedly insult the host.
Are you mind reading again…
Think what you want, think the worst, the glass is always half empty etc.
Well that is not the Lord Counsel.
Search the scriptures is good advice which enables one to discern which is the Lord’s way and not get fleece.
Mormon "hospitality" ... nice to you face-to-face... & then you notice the "tithe settlement" round-up -- where Lds Inc has this pipeline running directly into Mormon bank accounts...
And from this pipeline, a certain portion is devoted to the "attack Christians" coffers.
I don't think Restornu or DU "gets" it.
Analogy:
Let's say DU is 19 again.
Let's say his fiance was a member of another [non-Lds] church in another town.
And say, once a month she would arrive at DU's home and they'd both proceed to head off to a pre-marital counseling program started by your local bishop.
And let's say that every time DU's fiance would talk to his family members, she would accumulatively find out what this bishop really thought of her...in fact, she pieced together various comments that your bishop thought she was...
...a "blasphemer..."
...an "apostate..."
..."corrupt..."
..."of Anti-Christ..."
...and her most cherished beliefs were an "abomination"...
...Oh sure, these "comments" weren't usually directed to her one-on-one in her face...
...but accumulatively, from talking with DU's family members, they would document that these were the exact terms he used...
...and these were just the most common...there were other terms, a few worse...
...and then when she directly confronted the bishop if these things were true, he didn't deny any of them.
Now do you honestly think for a moment, that a fiance's argument to his "bride"...
...when he persistently failed to defend her before the bishop or before his family members...
...an argument that for every one of these critiques the bishop said of her...
...he happened to say 1,000 things positive about other subjects that nothing that have to do with her...
...is going to give you "brownie points" in her eyes?
Wouldn't that actually make things worse? I mean, if Mormons were right -- that their leaders don't spend the rest of their time downgrading anybody else -- well, doesn't that mean in this analogy that the bride-to-be has been singled out for the harshest treatment that the bishop would dish out upon others?
The "bride to be" in this account is the "Bride of Christ," His church.
The accusations of your leaders are hurled at the bride of Christ.
And yet Mormons continue to defend the bishop in this account, and NOT the honor of the Bride.
Tell us, DU, what kind of a bridegroom does that make you? (Especially in her eyes?)