Posted on 02/24/2014 7:28:13 PM PST by restornu
Miraculous claims surrounding the coming forth of the Book of Mormon are an evidence of the prophetic calling of Joseph Smith. Critics intent on discrediting the Restoration point to DNA studies on indigenous American peoples in an attempt to expose Joseph, the Book of Mormon, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as frauds. Claiming that scientific evidence excludes any possibility that Middle Eastern or ancient Jewish travelers came to the Americas in antiquity, such critics attempt to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of Latter-day Saints and those of other faiths concerning the authenticity of the Book of Mormon as an ancient religious text.
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A silent ZOT?
An invisible one??
A self induced one???
JESUS: Hmmmm. According to my Heavenly FAITHbook, you didn't sign in as one of my friends - sorry, I never knew you.
JOSEPH SMITH: But....
...and this is how FR now refers to restornu:
Nobody by that name.
Make SURE that your name REMAINS in the Lamb's Book of LIFE!
Explain the Trinity to me in less than 250 words and please don’t use the word “mystery”.
Resty is gone? wow, gonna miss her. Silent Zot
Not hard and I never use the word mystery because most people do not understand what the word really means. They assume it means something hidden or not understandable when in reality (and in the Greek) is it something that was ONCE hidden but is now revealed (like the Trinity).
how many suns are in the sky if you look up during the day? one
Yet we cannot look directly at the sun because it is too bright. That is the ‘shekina’ or glory of God
Yet we can see the light that proceeds from the sun
and we can close our eyes and feel the warmth that proceeds from the sun
yet light and warmth do not change - they are still the sun
the sun is God, the light is Christ and warmth is the Holy Spirit
The doctrine of the Trinity is simply that there is one eternal being of God - indivisible, infinite. This one being of God is shared by three co-equal, co-eternal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Three persons, or aspects, not 3 beings.
not self induced or they wouldn’t have the error.
Just wanted to give you a heads up. Not sure if she was zotted her or elsewhere (you may want to check).
Unless her posts were deleted, looks like this is the last thread she posted on. Sorry to bother you OL.
Her last post was on March 1. Her posting history is in my “stealth zot” post.
It is no bother. Sad, but no bother.
Yes, mystery refers to something that is known via revelation, something that an initiate would know, not an outsider.
I’ve heard that explanation utilizing the Sun time and again. Catholics, EOs, Lutherans, everybody uses it, but it doesn’t make sense.
We know that the light is the Sun’s light and the heat the Sun’s heat. When a sun burns out and dies, the light stops along with the heat.
The Trinity breeds heresy because it doesn’t make logical or even theological sense. Worse, the Bible itself doesn’t support the Trinitarian approach.
Do you have a better analogy or metaphor?
Yet; you can POST to her.
I could, I suppose, use HTML commands on their homepage to LOOK like No one by that name
Where is your post trumpeting the win in the UK?
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