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Half truth as you define it, AMPU. But that does not make it so, that just makes it your interpretation of what I say. But God knows and sees and judges the heart and I am grateful for that, and comfortable with it. I have sincerely born you my witness and it is up to you to deal with it however you will. But the witness is sincere and it is true. It is not "finely crafted" it is not meant to hide anything, it is simply my wintess and the feelings of my own heart regarding my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The fact that you think you have to tell me what I believe, and then try and define my words to fit that definition, is what is really happening here, and it ios ashame that you feel you have to be so judgemental...but if that is your desire, so be it. I am more than content for others reading to make up their own mind, and as I stated, ready, willing, and comfortable to stand before my Savior when He calls me, for I know He knows my heart and the truth of my convictions to Him. God's best to you and yours.

"Half truth as you define it, AMPU. But that does not make it so, that just makes it your interpretation of what I say."

Let's consider your claim Jeff. Since you are using half-truth to mean whatever you want it mean, let's start with a definition:

half–truthDefinition of HALF-TRUTH
1: a statement that is only partially true
2: a statement that mingles truth and falsehood with deliberate intent to deceive

Please note that Merriam Webster defines it EXACTLY as I used it.

I have sincerely born you my witness and it is up to you to deal with it however you will. But the witness is sincere and it is true. It is not "finely crafted" it is not meant to hide anything, it is simply my wintess and the feelings of my own heart regarding my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The fact that you think you have to tell me what I believe, and then try and define my words to fit that definition, is what is really happening here, and it ios ashame that you feel you have to be so judgemental...but if that is your desire, so be it. I am more than content for others reading to make up their own mind, and as I stated, ready, willing, and comfortable to stand before my Savior when He calls me, for I know He knows my heart and the truth of my convictions to Him. God's best to you and yours.

"Half truth as you define it, AMPU. But that does not make it so, that just makes it your interpretation of what I say."

Let's consider your claim Jeff. Since you seem to be denying the meaning of "half-truth", let's start with a definition:

Definition of HALF-TRUTH

1: a statement that is only partially true
2: a statement that mingles truth and falsehood with deliberate intent to deceive

Please note that Merriam Webster defines it EXACTLY as I used it. It also describes the content of what you posted quite well. As I've pointed out, your posts contain partial truths. Do you carefully choosing words to (perhaps) avoid writing anything that sounds "non-Christian"? I've asked you pointedly about those things several times to get clarification. Each time you do not answer in a forthright way. You apparently obfuscate by posting more half-truths. A half-truth is the same as a falsehood.

... Perhaps this results from mormon-blindness, since you've based your whole life on the mormon falsehood.
... Perhaps you feel you need to do so to communicate and have people think of mormonism as a Christian religion, or yourself as "normal".

I really don't know your motivation. I'm not even sure you know. My focus is only on the readers of your postings here who read what you write and make assumptions that are incomplete, because your posted testimony is not forthright about the totality of what you believe. You post much of what you believe. It is clear to anyone who reads my questions to you though, that you do not want to publicly own up to everything else mormonism believes. I make no claim as to why.

It is a complete mystery to me that you as a leader of this religion won't come right out and say:

"Of course I believe Christ was created, that the Father was created, that the Holy Spirit was created, that Heavenly Mother was created. Of course, I believe God breeds in the heavens! Of course I believe I have to do enough rituals and works to be counted worthy for salvation, or I'll never see the presence of God in the highest mormon heaven. Of course, I believe in thousands or millions of gods! Of course, I believe I have a shot at being a god myself someday! After all, I'm a mormon and we believe all that and more!"

No, what we see you post is all the innocuous, feel good stuff everyone can agree with and sound normal.

"I have sincerely born you my witness and it is up to you to deal with it however you will. But the witness is sincere and it is true."

No one doubts your sincerity. It is the incompleteness of the full truth that makes your representation of mormon faith incomplete and consequently, a half-truth.

"It is not "finely crafted"

Dear FRiend, I don't think anyone who knows what mormonism teaches and compares it to your public statement could possibly conclude your testimony is anything but sincere and carefully crafted. You might as well claim Obama is telling the truth.

"I am more than content for others reading to make up their own mind"

And that is why I am pointing out the totality of what mormonism teaches - using your incomplete post to demonstrate that mormonism is not Biblical or Christian - by posting things you undoubtedly must believe as a mormon leader, but that you left out. Now, indeed, they will have the complete truth and not just a sincere sales pitch. If you really want them to make up their own mind, and you are committed to truth, I'm sure you support revealing what mormonism teaches.

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