Posted on 08/24/2013 11:24:16 PM PDT by reaganaut
Part of Beck’s problem is he joined for his now wife. The other part gets back to they don’t check facts or care about facts.
A couple of years ago, Beck went on this whole thing about the Dead Sea Scrolls and Constantine and it was pure Mormon church teaching and lies, he didn’t check his facts, just repeated what he was told.
http://schleitheim.com/blog/2010/05/29/in-defense-of-glenn-becks-beliefs-about-the-dead-sea-scrolls/
Well, some of us still care if they go to Hell or not.
BTW, those ‘nice’ Mormon neighbors are laughing at you behind your back and consider you to be a lesser being. That is their theology.
See my post and link above.
You have to understand that Mormons base their view of truth on feelings, not facts.
See post #38
//We should pray that Gods grace may enter their hearts.//
Amen. Mormonism has a scorched earth view.
So you are not a Christian?
Oh don’t confuse him with the facts, SV
She admits she is newly out and when this happened she was JUST coming out of Mormonism. It takes some time to get out of the Mormon mindset. I know Lynn, not well, but we cross paths often in ministry and she is definitely not the prosperity gospel type. In context, this part of her testimony is that when she was fired (for leaving the Mormon church) God provided. What isn’t in the quote is that the college is a few miles away from where her 3 children and their spouses live in Florida and the dean does not know the children either.
Because of the local uproar over them leaving, they were completely shunned and had been looking at a way to leave the area.
Also, selling houses in the exclusive town of Alpine, Utah in this market isn’t easy. I have a friend in Alpine who has had their house on the market for well over a year now.
All of that taken with the timing, it is reasonable for someone with her background, and even those who are not, to see the hand of God in these things.
To me, this is the strangest of all Mormon beliefs (OK, becoming the ruler of your own planet is up there as well), because the pagans, beginning with Aristotle, had a much better understanding of God ("the unknown God"). They even developed proofs for God's existence through unaided Reason.
Not at all unless you are separating ‘religion’ from Christianity.
I am an apologist. I can rationally and logically defend my faith, and my epistemology is based upon facts, not feelings, in large part because I have been down this same road. I am an exmormon as well.
When I was at BYU, I took an entire semester seminar on how “Heavenly Father” was not omniscient, omnipotent, or omnipresent. It affected me greatly, because I started researching and it made me question Mormon theology in light of their own sacred works. I still kept the paper I wrote for that class that started out with “Your god may not be omniscient, omnipotent, or omnipresent but the one in the Bible and the Book of Mormon is”
Mormon theology is all about bringing God down to man’s level, and exalting man to the level of becoming God. It is a very anthropocentric theology.
Yes, I’m a Christian.
You didn’t vote last Nov? Happy with the results?
“...one can argue a Mormon out of Mormonism but never into Christianity.
That could explain why most ex-mo’s self-describe as atheists.
If you were a Christian you would be concerned about the salvation of those trapped in Mormonism rather than indifferent.
And I voted last November. What makes you think I didn’t?
It is about 50% sadly that become athiests, however with the creation of a couple of transition ministries, we are making inroads. It is also more likely that those born and raised in Mormonism become atheists rather than those who converted.
Also, the Mormon mindset is they are told their whole lives that “if Mormonism isn’t true, nothing is” and often don’t see that the Mormon God is very different from the Christian God and it take time and patience to get them to see that. Also, by far, most Christians are not at all equipped to deal with exMormons or understand where they are coming from. Some of the most damage I have seen, to the cause of getting people out of the LDS church and into Christianity, are by some newer never mormon run ministries who just will never get it and do more harm than good often.
Isn't that kind of what we read all the time on this humble web site?
It is about 50% sadly that become athiests, however with the creation of a couple of transition ministries, we are making inroads.
So i think it best to make sure the Church we belong to is culled of the doctrine which is not scriptural that has become tradition in many Churches.
Jesus said if you have broken one law you have broken them all, or rather words to that effect.
So in the same sense a little false doctrine would be the same as a whole lot of false doctrine.
It is not what we do in Church that counts so much as what we do in our every day living.
“Yes, Im a Christian.”
What kind of a Christian isn’t bothered by the blasphemies of the Mormon religion and what happens to LDS members after death?
“Wilder testified that a buyer showed up at her house the day after she and her husband had decided to withdraw from the Mormon Church, and a college dean offered her a job for which she had never applied. “
Santa God. If you are good, Santa God brings you presents.
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