Yet, the lds membership dutifully worships him, while claiming to be Christans.
Posted on 12/08/2011 6:10:12 AM PST by Colofornian
It is a constantly recurring mystery to me how some people speak with admiration for the Church and its work while at the same time disdaining him through whom, as a servant of the Lord, came the framework of all that the Church is, of all that it teaches, and of all that it stands for...
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...we acknowledge the Prophet; we proclaim him; we respect him; we reverence him...
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The story of Joseph’s life is the story of a miracle.
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When I was a boy 12 years of age, my father took me to a meeting of the priesthood of the stake in which we lived. I sat on the back row while he, as president of the stake, sat on the stand. At the opening of that meeting, the first of its kind I had ever attended, 300 or 400 men stood. They were from varied backgrounds and many vocations, but each had in his heart
Praise to the man who communed with Jehovah!
Jesus anointed that Prophet and Seer.
Blessed to open the last dispensation,
Kings shall extol him, and nations revere.
(“Praise to the Man,” Hymns, no. 27)
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Great is his glory and endless his priesthood.
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(Hymns, no. 27)
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1. Show a picture of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and invite family members to tell what they know about him. Make a list of their responses...Discuss ways family members can better know the Prophet and his teachings. You may want to encourage family members to plan a special family activity on December 23rd to celebrate Joseph’s 200th birthday.
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3. Read or sing “Praise to the Man” (Hymns, no. 27), and study President Hinckley’s testimony...
(Excerpt) Read more at lds.org ...
Nope. Article after article about Joseph Smith.
From the article:
Even the Holy Spirit testifies of Jesus Christ (John 15:26)...not proclaim a 'prophet'! The true church of Jesus Christ proclaims Jesus Christ!
From the article: Discuss ways family members can better know the Prophet...
This is from the "Ideas for Home Teachers" section. (Mormon Congressman Harry Reid is a Mormon "Home Teacher"). Jesus Christ said eternal life is about knowing Him -- and His Father (John 17:3). The Mormon church wants you to "know the prophet" (Joseph Smith).
Jesus Christ's life starts off with a virgin birth miracle. Of course, Mormon usurpation makes Joseph Smith's life into a "miracle."
From the article:
Kings extol a "prophet" (not Jesus Christ?) Nations revere a "prophet" (not Jesus Christ?) Great is his glory? (Joseph Smith's? Not Jesus Christ?)
Why is the Mormon church singing direct praise to Smith?
Because. It's "Merry Smithmas!" time!
Yet, the lds membership dutifully worships him, while claiming to be Christans.
Why, that's the feller in the picture on Romney's desk!
2 Corinthians 11:3-5
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 one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those “super-apostles.”
1 Timothy 4:1
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
Galatians 1:6-9
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.
Did you photo shop Smith into that painting? Really weird if its true. I mean no wife, no kids no grandkids just a lying adulator pedophile picture - Smith.
Magic Underoos Placemarker!!!
Where’s the golden tablets? The “magic” glasses? The original declarations of J. Smith and not the revised revised revised revised revised revised revised revised revised version?
Wasn’t there a bucket involved too somewhere along the line?
Ever notice how Smith's portraits change with the times, almost like a chameleon.
Last official pictures of JS I saw he morphed to look more like Alec Balwin, and then more like George Clooney.
Who knows, in a few years he might morph to look more like the TWILIGHT blood sucking vampire.
Gotta keep Joseph relevant to the youth!
Joseph Smith = Mohammed
Yeah, I did. Also added the underpants he's holding.
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Gordo has attempted to put Joey Smith in scriptures about the LORD Jesus Christ right there...
However there is also this verse from Luke...
a verse about Joey Smith and others like him...
The LORD Jesus Christs said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that temptations to sin will come, but woe to him though whom they come! Luke 17:1
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