Posted on 02/23/2013 1:20:54 PM PST by District13
SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday the creation of 58 new missions, including one in Utah.
The announcement came after the LDS church saw a drastic increase in members interested in serving missions following LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson's October announcement that the church would lower the age of mission eligibility to 18 for men and 19 for women.
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The pearls of propaganda know no bounds and elitism reigns among the chosen.
Are you saying posting the words of mormon leaders through the years is smearing mormonism?
Are you saying that posting the words directly from mormon literature is smearing mormonism?
huh? Who would have thunk that?
So only people married in the temple can go to level one of celestial being......ok
So the lds jesus was married.......ok
So the lds jesus had children........ok
Wonder what all those other mormons who are not temple worthy going to do?
Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers?
mormon rule of government and this world.
That’s what mormonism teaches.
RE POST:
mormon rule of government and this world.
“[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a POLITICAL INSTITUTION THAT SHALL HOLD SWAY OVER ALL THE EARTH; TO WHICH ALL OTHER GOVERNMENTS WILL BE SUBORDINATE AND BY WHICH THEY WILL BE DOMINATED.”
The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo, 1900, p. 180
“The Almighty has established this kingdom with order and laws and every thing pertaining thereto…[so] that when the nations shall be convulsed, we may stand forth as saviours…and finally redeem a ruined world, not only in a religious but in a political point of view.”
(Journal of Discourses, vol. 9, p. 342, April 13, 1862)
“What the world calls ‘Mormonism’ will rule every nation...God has decreed it, and his own right arm will accomplish it. This will make the heathen rage.”
(Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p. 53)
When you say “Jesus is your Savior”, did you know this?
“What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world”
- Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 270
So according to Smith Salvation is of the devil.
That’s one of the strangest things I’ve ever heard.
I'm looking forward to seeing your skill with the Bible. I have been interacting with Mormons for almost 30 years now and I have yet to find one that has anything more than a superficial understanding of the Bible. I shouldn't be surprised since the Bible and Mormonism are mutually exclusive - anyone who understands the Bible would easily spot the errors of Mormonism.
I'm sure in your reading of the Bible, you noticed that Jesus (and the Apostles) frequently used God's Word to correct doctrinal error. Were they "beating the people over the head, condemning, or trying to hurt or wound people's hearts" or do you just reserve those terms for when it is Mormon doctrine that is being corrected?
(Campion, I briefly, too had thought Resty had left the "wild side" of Mormonism and perhaps was drifting a bit back toward Biblical positioning...but the phrase there from Resty's post was actually her citing a phrase by SVCW...Resty just didn't highlight it in some way to set it apart as a phrase she was responding to vs. something she was stating herself)
“Intelligent beings are organized to become Gods, even the sons of God, to dwell in the presence of the Gods, and become associated with the highest intelligencies [sic] that dwell in eternity.”
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 8, p. 160, September 2, 1860
LDS Sunday School manual for children ages 8-11:
Jesus was the firstborn spirit child of Heavenly Father (D&C 93:21) and is the older brother of our spirits.
Lucifer, who became Satan, was also a spirit child of Heavenly Father.
On first hearing, the doctrine that Lucifer and our Lord, Jesus Christ, are brothers may seem surprising to some — especially to those unacquainted with latter-day revelations. But both the scriptures and the prophets affirm that Jesus Christ and Lucifer are indeed offspring of our Heavenly Father and, therefore, spirit brothers. Jesus Christ was with the Father from the beginning. Lucifer, too, was an angel who was in authority in the presence of God, a son of the morning.
(D&C 76:25-27.)
Both Jesus and Lucifer were strong leaders with great knowledge and influence. But as the Firstborn of the Father, Jesus was Lucifer’s older brother.
(D&C 93:21.)
Now there is another personality of which I desire to speak, that person is Satan, the Devil. But according to our understanding and teaching, Satan is a person with a spirit body, in form like that of all other men. He is a spirit brother of ours and of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our Elder Brother in the spirit world. The earth was in course of development for the abode of man in mortality. A Redeemer was to be sent down and make it possible for the Father’s children to return to him.
(LDS Conference Report, April 1949, p. 27)
** Just didn’t want you to think I made it all up.
How hateful of you to publish what mormons preach. /s
Well......mirrors are dangerous items. ;-)
Nice try, but it is a old deflection. No one is judging a heart, they are judging the religion and its teachings. Something not only are we allowed to do but commanded to,do as well by the words of Christ and the Apostles...
I have never seen scvw smear or distort other Christians.
Q: Who created Satan?
Their words do line up with the Bible. Christianity is not polytheistic.
Well, you tell me?
lds teach that the lds god was busy having sex with everything that moved and satan was one of his off spring, tell me what you think.
Say E, one day we really need together for a picnic or something...........how about ribs/corn/BBQ beans/beer.......(anyone of course is invited)
I love your replies, straight and to the point!
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