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To: la$tminutepardon
Your #1757: After all, do you believe that your flesh inherits heaven? This would be contrary to God's word, now wouldn't it?

1 Corinthians 15:50
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Flesh and blood = corruption = our current fallen and mortal state.

When we are resurrected = incorruption, there will be no blood.

Our Savior took His physical body up again that first Easter morning, resurrected, glorified, immortal, holy, pure, no blood, and showed Himself to His apostles that evening. He later ascended to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Eternal Father, as His heir.

I emphasize these things because we agree on the heart and mind stuff, and these things are also important to understand in order to know the nature of God. To me, a correct understanding of the nature of God is critical.


Regarding the rest of your post, I do not agree with the reading backwards part, nor with substituting man-made texts for the Word of God.

The Bible is the Word of God and we study it as such. We use the KJV. I have quoted from it as much or more than anyone here. The Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price are also the Word of God, and we study them as such. They came to us the way the Bible did, through true and living apostles and prophets.

1,758 posted on 02/05/2002 11:50:05 AM PST by White Mountain
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To: White Mountain
They came to us the way the Bible did, through true and living apostles and prophets.

If this were true, they could not then, contradict the previously complete Word, now could they? Tell me this: Why are the bodies of believers in the graves where we lay them? Why haven't they gone up to heaven like Christ's? After all, God is the God of the living and not of the dead. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.

How do you explain the warning in the book of Revelation, wherein Christ says, and Christ is the One giving the Revelation, isn't He, not to add to words of this book or all the plagues will be added to you? As a believer, don't you have nightmares of what's going to eventually happen to all of you?

I still think that you read the completed Word backwards through Mormon tinted glasses, and you want all of us to agree with your view. Mormonism is the same as gnosticism in that it is new revelation and man-centered, not God centered. Like the charismatics you want a new experience, and you have a Jesus that the true apostles did not preach. When your texts clearly conflict with what God said and revealed, and then closed the books, you have error, for God is holy and cannot lie. You still haven't told me why it's so important to prove that God has a fleshly body. You bring God down to man's level when you preach this and that is a sin. It's Humanism, true Greek philosophy and you are the one viewing the True Word through Greek glasses.

1,761 posted on 02/05/2002 2:12:30 PM PST by la$tminutepardon
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