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To: XeniaSt
Romney has more Christian family values that either Mcshame or the huckster.

"Value" is also a term related to "worship" as "worship" is tied to the Old English word, "worth-ship"--meaning the worth or value placed upon something.

The God in Heaven isn't the only "God" who has such "value" to folks like Romney, his ancestors, and true believing Mormons.

In 1978, an LDS Church copyrighted book said: The Father has promised us that through our faithfulness we shall be blessed with the fulness of his kingdom. In other words we will have the privilege of becoming like him. To become like him we must have all the powers of godhood...We will become gods and have jurisdiction over worlds, and these worlds will be peopled by our own offspring." [The original Source was an LDS "prophet"--a descendent of Joseph Smith named Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation 2:48]

Go back 6 generations in Romney's family & you have Parley Pratt, an LDS "apostle" who was converted the same year the Book of Mormon was published--converted by his brother Orson, also an LDS "apostle" who drafted "one of the first LDS statements that humans could become gods" (according to Signature Books).

According to Pratt, each exalted man who becomes a god is so "valued" by their "own offspring" (JFSmith's quote above) who will "reverence, adore, and worship" these hundreds, thousands or millions of other gods.

"In the Heaven where our spirits were born, there are many gods, each one of whom has his own wife or wives which were given to him previous to his redemption, while yet in his mortal state. Each God, through his wife or wives, raises up a numerous family of sons and daughters; ...for each father and mother will be in a condition to multiply forever and ever. As soon as each god has begotten many millions of male and female spirits ...he, in connection with his sons, organizes a new world, ...where he sends both the male and female spirits to inhabit tabernacles of flesh and bones. Thus each God forms a world for the accommodation of his own sons and daughters...The inhabitants of each world are required to reverence, adore, and worship their own personal father who dwells in the heaven which they formerly inhabited." [Source: LDS Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 37. ]

Who was Orson Pratt according to Signature Books, publisher of The Essential Orson Pratt? He was the first to write and publish an account of Smith's famous "first vision," and he authored one of the earliest confessions of Mormon doctrine, which Smith later used in composing his own "Articles of Faith." ...edited the Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, The New York Messenger, The Seer, and The Prophetic Almanac, the latter consisting of astrological observations, folk wisdom, theological essays, and one of the first LDS statements that humans could become gods.

If polytheism is a "Christian" value, then you don't know what Christianity is. If our God was once a man, then you don't know what Christianity is. Here we have a man who if he's a true believing Mormon, thinks the White House is just a career stop on his way to running his own planet after his death. So if you think becoming a god is a Christian value, then you don't know what Christianity is.

60 posted on 02/02/2008 9:35:28 AM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

Mormonism is not Christian. However the Bible does play into their beliefs. The Book or Moromon supercedes the Bible. Having said that,

I see MORE BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES in Mitt Romney

than Mc Shamnest and the Huckster combined and they

CLAIM to be Christians.

We will proudly cast our vote for Mitt Romney.

As a Christain, unlike Mike Huckabee, we believe prayer has power and that even MORMON, Mitt can turn around and be a Christian by label and REALLY MEAN IT. Mitt certainly LIVES Biblical Principles, now we want him to turn ONLY to the Bible.


86 posted on 02/02/2008 10:09:48 AM PST by nmh (Mike Huckabee the "religious" humanist that pushes socialism! (Clinton/Carter combo))
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To: Colofornian
then you don't know what Christianity is.

You are putting words into my mouth.

You did not read my statement

Romney has more Christian family values that either Mcshame or the huckster.

Mcshame and the huckster are not followers of the Christ!

I know the creator of the universe: YHvH.

I call on the NAME of YHvH for salvation Yah'shua.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua
90 posted on 02/02/2008 10:24:26 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redheemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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