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To: Colofornian

Ex-Mormons, ex-Baptists, ex-Catholics, ex-Presbyterians, ex-Pentecostals, ex-Episcopalians, ex-whatevers - people are free to leave a denomination and seek a Church where they are more comfortable. The LDS Church has converts from all persuasions and your church has ex-Mormons. So what’s your point?


15 posted on 04/09/2013 7:13:47 PM PDT by District13 (Obama scares me)
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To: District13
Ex-Mormons, ex-Baptists, ex-Catholics, ex-Presbyterians, ex-Pentecostals, ex-Episcopalians, ex-whatevers - people are free to leave a denomination and seek a Church where they are more comfortable. The LDS Church has converts from all persuasions and your church has ex-Mormons. So what’s your point?

My point is that we don't usually reference ex-Evangelicals as "bottom of the barrel" people -- like you referenced ex-Mormon Grant Palmer in your post.

Besides, your post here implies some level of "interchangeable" church membership.

Yet I was looking just yesterday at an LDS Relief Society Manual revised by the Lds church in the year 2000. They were citing Lds "apostle" Bruce McConkie's 1966 Mormon Doctrine book, who claimed that a "valid LDS testimony" MUST have three elements...one of those being a quotation of D&C 1:30 -- that the Mormon Church "is the only true & living church on the face of the whole earth."

SO...per the official Mormon church curricula...no Mormon testimony is valid unless it acknowledges that all other churches are false & dead!

That's hardly something that's "interchangeable" church membership-wise based upon sheer "comfort" level!!!

You've said, District, you are ex-Baptist...Therefore, we'd like to hear per your own keyboard convey...

Per D&C 1:30, we assume you believe that the LDS church is the ONLY true & Living church on the face of the whole earth? Correct?
And, if so, the flip side of that "valid...LDS testimony" is that ALL OTHER churches -- including the various Baptist churches -- are false & dead...Correct?

18 posted on 04/09/2013 7:28:50 PM PDT by Colofornian (If BoM is everlasting gospel, why no god as exalted man, 3 glorious degrees, men becoming gods, etc?)
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To: District13
So what’s your point?

The LDS religious organization is based on lies from hell.

33 posted on 04/10/2013 4:34:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: District13
Ex-Mormons, ex-Baptists, ex-Catholics, ex-Presbyterians, ex-Pentecostals, ex-Episcopalians, ex-whatevers - people are free to leave a denomination and seek a Church where they are more comfortable. The LDS Church has converts from all persuasions and your church has ex-Mormons. So what’s your point?

There is only freedom in the real Jesus Christ and only He can set you "free"! You can belong to every church in the world and not know Jesus.

Church should never "comfortable" to sinners! I know because I'm a sinner in need of a savior.
48 posted on 04/10/2013 1:20:17 PM PDT by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian Black Man!)
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To: District13

In what universe are lds free to leave.
I have cousins who “left” 20 years ago who still get billed for tithes.
The ONLY way to leave if formally request to be removed from the rolls, and even then the request is not always granted.
It is NOT possible to just walk away, and have your name removed from the “count”.


51 posted on 04/10/2013 2:12:12 PM PDT by svcw (If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
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