[Paragon Defender]

The article references a previous article. I’ll post that one the next time I post if I remember.

It’s here though if anyone wants to peruse it. It is a good article also.

http://www.mormontimes.com/article/20128/Proof-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves ... For such are FALSE apostles,
DECEITFUL workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.”
(Matthew 7:15; 2nd Corinthians 11:13).

 

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[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I went to an evening young people’s get together dinner at a Mormon church many years ago. As the program progressed the hosts, some of the elders in the church asked the young people (late teens and early 20s) for a testimony.

Each stood up and gave a testimony as to why they had joined the Mormon church.

Good fellowship, friendship, good get togethers, social programs.

After all were done, I noticed that NONE had joined because they needed a saviour or even believed J Smith, but considered the church to be more of a social club.

[tumblindice]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3FMSXAfVp0&feature=related

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

“Fortunately, we are not left with emotion alone to discern God's hand in our lives. Reason, experience, counsel from others and other forms of revelation may all assist us.

Reason! Lol! Everything about Mormonism is unreasonable, illogical, unprovable, and totally unsupported by archeology. Take Smith's Book of Abraham for instance. He bought an old papyrus scroll and claimed he translated it and was all about Abraham. But any fool who studied Ancient Egypt can easily tell that the scroll a piece of the Book of the Dead. I studied Ancient Egypt in elementary school and I could tell that easy as pie. It shows the embalming process and the judgment of the soul before Osiris.

And if J. Smith couldn't be trusted in his 'translations' in that account, why should anybody trust anything he ever said? This is not even to mention Smith's false prophecies (example: his claim that the second coming would be in 1891). Everything is against Smith. The evidence indicates that he was a conman.

[SZonian]

I noticed the author and others referenced in the article failed to mention a little thing that happened in the Acts of the Apostles. An example we are to follow when we hear something that contradicts the written Word.

Test what they “feel” and “hear” against the Word of God.

http://www.creationists.org/how-to-test-the-spirits.html

http://www.bible.ca/ef/expository-acts-17-11.htm

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17%3A11&version=NIV

http://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Bible.show/sVerseID/27535/eVerseID/27535

http://mormonchurch.info/ldsd.htm

Oh, btw, your lds.org link was useless in my research on this topic. There is only a D&C reference that is unbiblical.

If it does not come from the Bible, it is not of God.

[fulltlt]

PD,

Please read the following and give us your thoughts on it.

http://www.watchman.org/lds/heart.htm

Is that how it works?

[svcw]

From you r post: "The church exhorts all people to approach the gospel not only intellectually but with the intellect and the spirit, a process in which reason and faith work together.”

I have and God said flee, lds is not My church.

[svcw]

From your post: What’s ironic about the “feelings/emotions” charge made by critics is that they often base their rejection of the restored gospel on emotions or non-intellectual reasons (as we will see in next week’s installment).

Nonintellectual reasons - what a hoot. What is lds trying to say, that nine versions of the first vision is not an issue, that no reputable archaeologist or anthropologist has ever found any evidence of the claims in the BoM, that lds changes its foundation at the whim of government pressure - there is no intellect in lds only feelings IE burning in the bosom.

[rickomatic]

When Oliver Cowdery made his failed attempt at translating the plates the Lord told him: “Behold, you have not understood; you have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me. But, behold, I say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you; therefore, you shall feel that it is right.” (Doctrine and Covenants 9:7-8).

With all due respect, I have a question. If the Lord spoke with Oliver Cowdry about his attempts to translate the plates, why did he tell him to seek a burning in his bosom rather than just telling him? Wasn't he just speaking with him?