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To: reaganaut
The fruit of Mormonism is rotten to the core.

But, they make great families. That is the fruit of Mormon doctrine. Their doctrine directs one toward all the saving any Evangelical needs.

Mormon doctrine starts with faith in Jesus Christ as God and Savior. You might not like that, but if believing in the One God has sent gets you to Heaven, then Mormons will be there.

118 posted on 07/13/2011 4:25:27 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD; Elsie; reaganaut
Mormon doctrine starts with faith in Jesus Christ as God and Savior. You might not like that, but if believing in the One God has sent gets you to Heaven, then Mormons will be there.

Looks like you are either unfamiliar with Mormon theology or are deliberately misrepresenting it. "A god" by definition cannot be "the One God." You're engaging in semantic mysticism. The devil is in the details and Mormon theology details a quite different Jesus and God than the one presented by the apostles (that is, biblical, not LDS, apostles). But that's nothing new. Even in the first century there were scammers wandering around preaching their novel versions of Jesus:
"But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
Paul encountered the same phenomenon in Galatia. He said the Galatians who were too gullible and ready to accept whatever someone was peddling. His conclusion:
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let that person be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let that person be under God’s curse!
A "great family" built on unsound theology is a house built on sand.
121 posted on 07/13/2011 4:51:57 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: 1010RD
Their doctrine directs one toward all the saving any Evangelical needs.

And then some!


 
They would not listen, however, but persisted in their former practices.
Even while these people were worshiping the Lord, they were serving their idols.
To this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
 
 2 Kings 17:40-41 


131 posted on 07/13/2011 6:37:38 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: 1010RD
Mormon doctrine starts with faith in Jesus Christ as God and Savior.

But they want you to 'pray' about the 'truth' of the BoM!

132 posted on 07/13/2011 6:38:34 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: 1010RD

Their doctrine directs one toward all the saving any Evangelical needs.

Mormon doctrine starts with faith in Jesus Christ as God and Savior. You might not like that, but if believing in the One God has sent gets you to Heaven, then Mormons will be there.

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Proof you don’t get it.

Mormon doctrine directs one to the opposite of Evangelical salvation. It is a system of works. Having good families wont’ save you.

Believing in the One God (which Mormons don’t even do), and believing in the False Christ of Mormonism won’t save you.

Salvation only comes by grace through faith in the Jesus of the Bible.

Mormon doctrine doesn’t focus on Christ, it focuses on ‘the Church’ and the works of the person. It is always all about what that person needs to do to be ‘exalted’ (godhood).

How many times is Christ even mentioned in Sacrament talks through the year? Maybe a dozen? Last time I went to Sacrament meeting, He wasn’t mentioned at all and I have heard others echo the same experience.


182 posted on 07/13/2011 7:45:04 PM PDT by reaganaut (Mormonism is spiritual prostitution.)
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