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To: AuntB; Marysecretary; All
It’s none of your business what they believe. Are they forcing it on YOU? Doesn’t say much for your religion that you are so willing to bear false witness, does it?

You know, AuntB, by your very own standard, it's none of your business what MS believes about what they believe. (So practice your own standard). Also, is MS forcing her understandings of LDS on YOU? (No) As for your outright slander of MS as bearing false witness, your ignorance slip is showing (read below).

““P.S., do you know how Mormons feel about traditional Christians? Not nice.”” All I asked was an example of your claim. Didn’t give us any proof,did ya?

You want proof? (Here's proof) Read them (don't remain ignorant). Contemporary Mormons revere their "prophets and apostles" -- past and present. They believe they reveal anew God's Word.

LDS Founder Joseph Smith "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).

Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:] 'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).

Brigham Young said that the "Christian God is the Mormon's Devil..." (Journal of Discourses, Volume 5, page 331). • stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230). •

Orson Pratt (LDS apostle) proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255). •

Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses, 18:172). •

LDS President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses, 10:127). •

Bruce R. McConkie (LDS apostle) said, "What is the church of the devil in our day, and where is the seat of her power?.... It is all of the systems, both Christian and non-Christian, that perverted the pure and perfect gospel.... It is communism; it is Islam; it is Buddhism; it is modern Christianity in all its parts. It is Germany under Hitler, Russia under Stalin, and Italy under Mussolini." (The Millennial Messiah, pp. 54-55.)

Joseph Fielding Smith (10th LDS President) -- "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation that was not, in the year 1820, so obscured by false tradition and ceremonies, borrowed from paganism, as to make it unrecognizable; or else it was entirely denied ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the `Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation 3:282).

729 posted on 12/05/2008 1:08:02 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

Listen to me. As I’ve said before I will NOT read all your dogma. This is about Mormon bashing....like they are the scariest people you have to worry about! They are no threat to any of us.

Grow up!


737 posted on 12/05/2008 1:17:33 PM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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To: Colofornian; AuntB

Colo is a former Mormon and knows what they believe. Take it seriously.


829 posted on 12/05/2008 4:10:16 PM PST by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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