New revelation: Mormons can drink Coke or Pepsi

National Post ^ | Sep 4, 2012 | Religion News Service

[freedomlover]

SALT LAKE CITY — Maybe now, reporters, bloggers, outsiders and even many Mormons will accept that the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not forbid drinking cola.

On Aug. 29, the LDS church posted a statement on its website saying that “the church does not prohibit the use of caffeine” and that the faith’s health-code reference to “hot drinks” “does not go beyond (tea and coffee).”

A day later, the website wording was slightly softened, saying only that “the church revelation spelling out health practices … does not mention the use of caffeine.”

The same goes for the church’s two-volume handbook, which LDS leaders use to guide their congregations. It says plainly that “the only official interpretation of ‘hot drinks’ … in the Word of Wisdom is the statement made by early church leaders that the term ‘hot drinks’ means tea and coffee.”

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[ZULU]

I can’t believe the INSANITY appearing here in an otherwise pretty rational forum.

They would rather have the house burn down around them than be rescued by a fireman of another religion.

[ZULU]

I was referring to Paul Ryan, not Joe Biden.

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[ZULU]

O.K.

[panaxanax]

“I’m voting for third party.”

Maybe you should read this and then perhaps re-think your decision:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2920626/posts

[Elsie]

And Romney supports abortion, so what’s your point.

That support for is ok as long as the taxpayers don’t pay?

Well; it WOULD be the LESSER of the two evils; so Mitt's our guy!!

--MormonDupe(Why so may HATERS in the Religion forum? Jim should ZOT them!!)

[Elsie]

I guess he believes religious freedom does not apply to others.

Quit guessing!!

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"As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion."

 

 

 

 http://www.npr.org/2012/08/30/160357612/transcript-mitt-romneys-acceptance-speech

[Elsie]

Your sort of “conservative” is the useful fool of the Democrat propaganda machine.

While...

Your sort of “christian” is the deceived tool of the Demonic lie machine.

[Elsie]

When the purges came your sort of useful idiot were the very 1st they rounded up

Perhaps your Danite wishful thinking will remain exposed a bit longer in THIS thread!

[Elsie]

The other question I want to ask, why is the exposure of mormonism so offensive apparently to you?

Possibly the RABSOLS is wearing off...

[Elsie]

Another question is this, why is it more important for you it seems to avoid eternity and concentrate on the temporal.

Rabid enforcement of the MEMO?

[Utah Binger]

Hot Dr. Pepper? With a touch of brandy? Who’s gonna know?

[Elsie]

Dang!

I’m only a 52% Computer Geek!

[Elsie]

You answered your own question in the second sentence... in short, it’s a cultic heresy.

And... one does NOT have to be a genius to figger that out!

[Elsie]

They would rather have the house burn down around them than be rescued by a fireman of another religion.

Where have I heard this MORMON Savior meme before???

HMMmm...

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"He (Joseph Smith) is the man through whom God has spoken... yet I would not like to call him a savior, though in a certain capacity he was a god to us, and is to the nations of the earth, and will continue to be."

 - Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 8:321

 

 

"You call us fools; but the day will be, gentlemen and ladies, whether you belong to this Church or not, when you will prize brother Joseph Smith as the Prophet of the Living God, and look upon him as a god..."

- Herber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 5:88

 

 

"If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him [Joseph Smith]"

- (as quoted in 1988 Melchizedek Priesthood Study Guide, p. 142)

 

 

There is "no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth...no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God"

- Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, p.190

 

 

"I tell you, Joseph holds the keys, and none of us can get into the celestial kingdom without passing by him. We have not got rid of him, but he stands there as the sentinel, holding the keys of the kingdom of God; and there are many of them beside him. I tell you, if we get past those who have mingled with us, and know us best, and have a right to know us best, probably we can pass all other sentinels as far as it is necessary, or as far as we may desire. But I tell you, the pinch will be with those that have mingled with us, stood next to us, weighed our spirits, tried us, and proven us: there will be a pinch, in my view, to get past them. The others, perhaps, will say, If brother Joseph is satisfied with you, you may pass. If it is all right with him, it is all right with me. Then if Joseph shall say to a man, or if brother Brigham say to a man, I forgive you your sins, "Whosoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them;" if you who have suffered and felt the weight of transgression—if you have generosity enough to forgive the sinner, I will forgive him: you cannot have more generosity than I have. I have given you power to forgive sins, and when the Lord gives a gift, he does not take it back again."

 - Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p.154-155

 

 

 

"It is because the Lord called Joseph Smith that salvation is again available to mortal men.... If it had not been for Joseph Smith and the restoration, there would be no salvation,"

 - Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 396, 670

 

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They succeeded in killing Joseph, but he had finished his work.

He was a servant of God, and gave us the Book of Mormon.

He said the Bible was right in the main, but, through the translators and others, many precious portions were suppressed, and several other portions were wrongly translated; and now his testimony is in force, for he has sealed it with his blood.

As I have frequently told them, no man in this dispensation will enter the courts of heaven, without the approbation of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jun.

Who has made this so?

Have I?

Have this people?

Have the world?

No; but the Lord Jehovah has decreed it.

If I ever pass into the heavenly courts, it will be by the consent of the Prophet Joseph.

If you ever pass through the gates into the Holy City, you will do so upon his certificate that you are worthy to pass.

Can you pass without his inspection?

No; neither can any person in this dispensation, which is the dispensation of the fulness of times.

In this generation, and in all the generations that are to come, everyone will have to undergo the scrutiny of this Prophet.

They say that they killed Joseph, and they will yet come with their hats under their arms and bend to him; but what good will it do them, unless they repent?

They can come in a certain way and find favor, but will they?

 Brigham Young,

--JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, vol. 8, p. 224

[Elsie]

I can’t believe the INSANITY appearing here in an otherwise pretty rational forum.

Perhaps Johnny will straighten up a bit, now that the RM has explained life to him.