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#5 While the Bible...
(a)...presents Jesus as fully man -- in fact, a suffering Servant (Isaiah 53);
(b)...presents some of mankind as adopted children of God -- whereas legalists like the Pharisees were labeled by Jesus as children of the devil (John 8)...
...(c)...Mormonism disregards Jesus' teaching in John 8 and attempts to present ALL as automatic children of God...and does this on the basis of its unique teaching that ALL were born as spirits to a God-Mom and God-Dad on a planet near the star "Kolob." Hence, Jesus is presented as the "firstborn" of these spirits "born." Hence, both Lds and Jehovah's Witnesses reduce Jesus to more of a "created" status. What Orson Pratt -- and the Mormon general authorities -- failed to realize is that when the apostle Paul used "firstborn" in Colossians 1:15, he used a Greek word (arche) as a metaphor for rank/sovereignty. Paul echoed one of David's Psalms: "I will also make him My firstborn, greatest of the kings of the earth" (Ps. 89:27). Elsewhere, Israel is labeled God's 'firstborn' (Ex. 4:22)...clearly Israel wasn't first in a series, as Mormons sadly interpreted "firstborn."

#6 The author of this BYU-published study seemed to realize the way non-Mormons would comprehend this unique Lds teaching, saying: The article concedes To those not familiar with the plan of salvation, hearing Jesus Christ called an elder brother might be misunderstood as a diminution of Christ's high status...

But let's face it, if the Mormon pre-existent narrative was historically true --
--if you, I, Lucifer, and Jesus were all siblings to each other, "born" to a Mom-God and a Dad-God near Kolob...
...and Jesus was the first of the "litter" and Lucifer the second of the "litter"...
...then before the Mormon story of how both Jesus and Lucifer presented their "plans of salvation" to Dad-God, there wasn't any significant difference substance-wise between the Son of God, Lucifer, or you and me! The lone distinction was supposedly mere spiritual birth order--The Mormon Jesus supposedly having been birth first in some "pre-existent world!"

Of course, what this does then is to greatly reduce the unique status of the Son of God from eternity past, something Mormonistic theology loves to do! IOW, Jesus wasn't so unique from eternity history past: Lucifer was "spirit-born" just like Jesus! And so were the rest of us, says Mitt Romney's ancestor and says Mormonism!

[NOTE: Mormonism further reduces the uniqueness of Jesus Christ's deity by claiming that ALL of us are "gods-in-embryo" -- and each have the potential to become full-grown-up gods. (You only have to be baptized Mormon; become a member in good standing with a temple recommend; obey all their laws and covenants; etc.)]

2 posted on 07/18/2012 5:10:50 AM PDT by Colofornian (Saying Mitt would keep past political promises is like prophesying that Gumby won't bend anymore)
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To: Colofornian

Let’s put the criminal charlatan playing President in the limelight, shall we?

It Wasn’t Mitt Romney Who:

Apologized for this great nation.
Bowed in submission to the third world dictators.
Wrote his autobiography without a life.
Threw your money at failing fantasies.
Studied under Communists.
Insulted American surgeons, the world’s best.
Prohibited for oil in America.
Condemned, verbally, the rich he was in partnership with (Goldman Sachs, etc.).
Lied about a transparent administration.
Stole GM from its stockholders.
Appointed a tax cheat as secretary of the treasury.
Created death panels.
Attacked Arizona.
Put Cloward-Piven into practice.
Supplied Mexican drug gangs with arms.
Set a record for Boeing 747 mileage by a president.
Played 100 golf games his first three years in office on your tax money.
Used a second jumbo jet for his wife. (Muslims fly separately)
Blamed everything wrong on his predecessor.
Appointed unqualified Supreme Court justices.
Lied about Obamacare (PPACCA).
Insulted and threatened the Supreme Court publicly.
Threatened Congress and anyone who disagreed with him.
Refused to take responsibility for anything, ever.
Posed as an authentic American black person.
Hid behind his race.
Listened to sermons for twenty years and never heard one.
Voted as Illinois Senator to kill live, already born, babies.
Attacked Boeing, pampered and funded unions with billion$.
“Stimulated” wealthy Wall Street banks and unions; (your tax money in action)
Campaigned for re-election 3.5 years on public funds.
Took God out of Thanksgiving.
Cut down our defense forces (START treaty).
Said he wasn’t (ha!) an “ideologue.
Got us into some more wars.
Presided over the doubling of fuel prices.
Promised to bankrupt any new coal-fired generating plants
Inhibited the development of American coal, oil, uranium and timber resources.
Supported the Muslim Brotherhood.
Created many unconstitutional “czars”.
Left out ‘Creator’ from the Declaration of Independence.
Denigrated the United States, its history and it’s founders.
Attacked Rush Limbaugh whenever he remembered him.
Did his utmost to divide Americans.
Used the Gulf oil spill to advance his agenda.
Defended and promoted Islam while neglecting Christianity.
Lied about his birth, his records and practically everything else.
Promised your money to Mexican invaders.
Instituted de-facto amnesty to the invaders.
Who first used the phrase “pull the plug on Grandma.”
Funded slumlords Valerie Jarrett and Tony Rezko.
Got his wife a $316,000 a year nothing job.
Was nominated by illegal contributions and voter fraud.
Was elected the same way.
Targeted American citizens as terrorists without a trial.
Moved census control to the White House.
Lived a king’s life, while asking us to sacrifice.
Cancelled 77 oil field development contracts.
Bypassed Congressional reviews of appointees.
Misplaced 17,000 overseas military votes.
Allowed voter intimidation by Black Panthers for Barack Obama’s election.
Dictatorially set carbon emission standards (Congress’ job)
Bribery: “Cornhusker Kickback” & “Louisiana Purchase” so as to pass PPACCA
Punished Republican car dealers.
Lied about us keeping our doctors and healthcare companies.
Used taxpayers’ money to fund Democrat propaganda and campaign junkets.
Gave $26 billion of food stamp money to teachers’ unions.
Avoided press conferences like the plague.
Switched our allies with our enemies.
Gave Interpol sovereignty over U.S. law enforcement.
Allowed the FCC try to control the internet.
Wanted the U.S. to submit to U.N. laws (Law Of The Sea, gun control, etc.).
Robbed the middle class and gave it to the ruling class - a Communist habit.
Politically exploited environmentalism - another item from the Communist Manifest
Was our first Marxist President.


5 posted on 07/18/2012 5:14:07 AM PDT by RoadTest (There is one god, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.)
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