Quite the contrast....good post Elsie!
Aw, shucks...
Posted on 01/22/2011 2:19:40 PM PST by Colofornian
* Origins
o Based on entirely unevidenced stories
o Doctrines created and evolved over time, sometimes changing
* Founders
o Known for their extreme desire for wealth
o Known for telling stories and lies
o Convicted and imprisoned for illegal activities
o Died during their trouble with the law
* Legal troubles
o Involved in many illegal activities, in many cases as part of official organization doctrine and practices
o Support destruction of outsiders, especially apostates (blood atonement, shunning, "fair game")
o Legal troubles led to changes in doctrine (at least on the surface, note polygamy and "fair game")
* Teachings
o Pre- and post-mortal existence
o Eternal progression (godhood, clear thetan)
o Only way to know truth is to experience it yourself
o Christianity, Bible only partly true
o Focus on thriving and happiness in present life rather than the afterlife or eternal life
o "Salvation" by works
o Give "milk" instead of "meat"
o Official endorsement of lying about or avoiding discussion of controversial doctrines, especially origin of man and key figures (Heavenly Father, Xenu, spirit children, thetans, etc)
o Levels can be achieved (Operating Thetan levels, temple Mormons, eternal progression, different kingdoms)
o Resistance is dismissed as proof/evidence of validity
* Behavior
o Persecution complex
o Label and treat opposition as evil enemies ("Antis", "Suppressive Persons")
Quite the contrast....good post Elsie!
Read faster!
You are WAY behind!
That's sick.....
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Amazing Osage Orange only you "the bias" would ask a question & answer the quetsion...
NO Osage Orange!
do not put words into my mouth
The Reader's Digest edition means the edited version came from the Tradition of Men stamp approval...
In other words antis really do not recognized the whole Bible!
I am not surprised caww, you also would join the wagon to jump to conclusion...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2661622/posts?page=324#324
Seriously, you don't see them wanting to debate anything. There is always a word play or they divert from the subject. If Mormonism was on trial, would the facts of their history and the character of Joseph Smith hold up in a court of law?
Not a chance.
Mark 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in HEAVEN. So all of those “requirements” the mormons want you to meet in order to attain the celestial kingdom and to be able to dwell with God are superfluous. God has already said you will not be married in heaven.
Has any mormon at Free Republic ever address this?
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Surely you jest those whom Jesus address do not believe in the ordinance of the Lord and like the antis on FR Jesus address only the portion they were willing to accept!
Had Jesus given the full ordinance like here it would be endless hoots and howls!
ANTI-CHRISTIANITY IN ACTION!
You...think the Holy Bible needed a sequel...or a "better version".
Big type..and colors will not change that fact, Resty. May God help you.
You aren’t worthy.........
It is the mormons who claim to accept the bible "as far as it is correctly translated" - absent any clarification as to just what parts they may be referring to. It is mormons who claim the "plain and precious parts" have been taken away from the bible.
“Directly from Tommy Monson...I don’t suppose it occurs to mormons that Christians can change denominations any time without being slandered and libeled for doing so...because they move from Christian church TO Christian church and are known by their fealty to the REAL Jesus Christ, which never changes.”
You, continually show your utter lack of understanding..of God, and the Bible.
Resty....I pray for you..now and again. You are totally lost. Your mind has been corrupted...
May God open your eyes...once and for all.
THX1138
Jesus' so-called "missing" "full ordinance" that He "failed" to reveal...by that do you mean the Mormon "full ordinance" of plural bed partners?
So, Resty, tell us: After the Mormon jesus comes, do you plan to be part of a polygamous family? (Lds "apostle" Bruce McConkie, 1966 version of Mormon Doctrine: "Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium."
Oh wow...so polygomy is a "holy" practice? Thought I heard it all. Amazing how tacking "holy" onto any practice or thing somehow makes it more than it is. So polygomy is "Holy" unto who?
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