Anyone trying to use Easter observation practices as a cause for an argument is simply trying to pick a fight where none needs to exist.
Is Christ's death on the cross sufficient for salvation?
Mark Cares, who runs a ministry reaching out to Mormons, just published a blurb this week where he closes with a quote from a BYU prof about grace: As Robert L. Millet, a BYU professor wrote, “Therefore acting alone, the grace of Christ is not sufficient for salvation. The works of man – the ordinances of salvation, the deeds of service and acts of charity and mercy – are necessary for salvation.” It’s teachings like these that cause us to say that Mormonism is a very dangerous religion.
Source: Does Staying in the Faith Contribute to Salvation?
What did Lds "apostle" Bruce McConkie say about grace? Is it, as grace is defined, a gift from God? Or is it proportionally triggered by man?
Grace is granted to men proportionately as they conform to the standards of personal righteousness... (LDS apostle Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 339)
No, it isn't, Bruce!! Men don't force God's gracious hand!!! (Can you imagine a Mormon leader saying, “An earthly father's Christmas gifts are granted to their children proportionately as they conform to the family standards of personal righteousness”? That would be an outrageous conclusion!) Yet LDSaints don't seem to bat an eyelash over this kind of misunderstanding as to what grace is!
And then another LDS doctrinal reference:And when we obtain ANY blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated. (D&C 130:21)
Once again, the Mormons force God's hand of blessings by pointing to their obedience as the trigger of those blessings, NOT as God's lovingkindness or provision or mercy or grace!
Anyone trying to use Easter observation practices as a cause for an argument is simply trying to pick a fight where none needs to exist.
Mormon doctrine focuses on the Garden as the source of atonement. Did Jesus say, "Pick up your gardening, and follow me?" Why the aversion to the cross?
You asserted, “The atonement and Christ’s grace are central points of LDS theology.” Have you ever actually researched these two aspects in Mormonism, to see just how the LDS change the meaning of The Grace of God in Christ in being born again the moment of trusting in His Grace, and the ‘after-the-fact’ use of the cross rathering fodcusing on the Garden as the atonement focus? I suggest you dig a bit if you wish to defend the vagaries of the non-Christian religion known as Mormonism. You might also research the missuse of baptism in lDS as different from the meaning applied in Christianity.
Oh this was back in ‘98!
We are MUCH more OBSERVANT of easty now!
We have LOTS of egg rolls and LOTS of choclate bunnies and LOTS of candy and LOTS of stuffed toys and lots OF....
—MormonDude(and, if we ain’t to busy with church BUSINESS; we’ll even talk about Jesus some!)
Why because they don’t. P mormons teach the price was paid in the garden not on the Cross, where you not aware of this?
mormons teach that Salvation is earned not of Grace IE “after all you can do”, where you not aware of this?