Posted on 06/30/2011 12:33:48 PM PDT by Colofornian
...The church's assets are thought to be worth more than $30 billion.
...The church reportedly receives more than $5 billion in tithes every year.
The church also has substantial real estate and for-profit business investments, managed by Deseret Management Corp. The company is one of the largest owners of farm and ranch land in the U.S. It owns the country's largest nut producer, AgReserves, Inc., the 14th largest radio chain, Bonneville International Corp...
Economic entrepreneurialism is...part of Mormon doctrine — 88 of...112 revelations received by... founder Joseph Smith deal with fiscal matters.
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The Twilight saga is actually about the Mormon belief in eternal marriage.
The Twilight series, by Mormon author Stephanie Meyers, is an allegory for the Mormon concept of "celestial marriage" - the belief that a couple that is "sealed" in a Mormon temple will stay bound together forever...
Edward and Bella's bond is sealed when Edward bites Bella. As with a Mormon marriage, there's no turning back for Bella, who is transformed into a vampire for eternity.
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The Mormon church thinks polygamy might be okay in the afterlife.
...(the official Mormon church)...still believes...the divine principle of plural marriage may apply in heaven. In the case of death or divorce, Mormon men can be sealed to another wife and all of their celestial marriages will be honored in eternity.
The LDS...tried to distance itself from...40,000 fundamentalist Mormons who still practice polygamy...
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Mormons wear special undergarments called a "temple garment"...designed to give "protection against temptation and evil."
Many Mormons believe the underwear provides spiritual protection.
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Mormons believe that when Jesus returns, he's coming to the U.S.
Mormons believe...all the...Christian churches fell into apostasy...
...Jesus will personally return to reign over a paradisaical Kingdom on earth. His headquarters will be at the...temple in Jackson County, Missouri...
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This is just an extension of the various non-Catholic movements
First Luther says that the fall away happened in the late 1400s, then Baptist push it back to the 300s, then Seventh Day Adventists to the 1st century. And finally Mormons to the time of the Apostles itself. The Jehovah's Witnesses did the same as the Mormons
I know Catholics don't like hearing it, but the only true guide is the Word of God. It is the measuring stick by which one can understand if a person is truly following what God commanded. I can tell Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are way off base simply because they do not accept the points made in Colossians 1 about Christ. (I know because I've asked them.) I know my Sunday School teacher (long ago) was off base when she said the virgin birth was a myth. My argument was she was wrong because it's in the scriptures. On more finer points, when Catholics tell me Mary was sinless and know that can't be because the scriptures tell us (in more than one place) all have sinned.
BTW-That is precisely why people attack the inerrancy and infallibility of the scriptures. They need something to justify their positions.
Jude makes it very clear we are not pronounce judgement on apostates (which is what the Catholic did to poor Luther) but we are only to correct (rebuke) people who are in error. The rest is up to God to deal with them.
Jude 1:9 But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
That’s the trouble with a works-based salvation type religion. The rules get so convoluted, the commandments of the law crush the adherer. Christ took that crushing blow and offers salvation to us freely as a gift. Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Dang!
The dead CAN be resurrected!
What wild search brought THIS thread back into play??
I thought all this discussion happened a few days ago. I missed the 2011 part. Ha!
It easily could have been; since NOTHING ever changes in MORMONland!
Wait!
Should that have been ‘ALWAYS changes’?
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