Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
This eliminates every person ever born, except for those of us who were given the FREE GIFT of salvation in the church age...
There's not been a person born who will exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees...They obviously pick and chose which one of these statements applies to them (and none of them do except in a spiritual sense)...
So it's comical when these people run to Matt. 5 to show us how they got saved...
This is one that they constantly use that I particularly find humorous,,,
Mat 5:25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
Who is the judge??? Who's the officer??? And the prison is purgatory???
1Co_6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1Co_6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
We are the saints...We will do the judging...And we will even judge angels when we are in that realm...
And here's the funny one...
1Co 6:4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
So who's the judge??? No pope, cardinals, bishops, priests, deacons...Get the janitor...
Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
>> “This eliminates every person ever born, except for those of us who were given the FREE GIFT of salvation in the church age.” <<
Nonsense!
Yeshua declared the Pharisees to be the least righteous people on Earth. His entire Earthly ministry was dedicated to demolishing Phariseeism, and their litany of false added commandments.
Each of Yeshua’s miracles was done to demolish one of the Pharisees’ Takanot. If you fail to grasp that very basic point, you will never understand a word that Yeshua uttered.
The Pharisees were the precursor model for the nicolaitans that would create “christianity” in the mid 4th century to replace Yeshua’s Netzerim.
The "Church Age" is a false age that is nowhere to be found in Yehova's word.
There is no "church," it is a mistranslation that should be "assembly," which began with Adam, and will continue to the Last Trump.
There is no New Covenant, but a renewed covenant with his ancient assembly, renewed in the perfect sacrifice to which his believing assembly looked forward for millennia.
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Does anyone else think it strange that Mormons here on FR do NOT seem to want to discuss the MORMON theological attributes that make it so much better than the corrupted Christianity that America is based upon?