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Well Colo, you've left me in somewhat of a quandary, that being that I'm not sure whether your post was misleading, incomplete, & disingenuous due to your lack of knowledge about out beliefs, or that perhaps there was a more nefarious motive to ascribe to your actions. I would tend to hope & believe the former.

As Anti’s are want to do, you quote Joseph Fielding Smith in Answers to Gospel Questions, vol. 3, p. 26, 27, & yet only give a snippet to make your case & leave out some of the most important parts of explanation, in other words, your snippet was taken out of context. Surprise surprise.

Why is it that you left out the 2 scriptures he quotes?

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. (”Matt. 5:48 Matthew 5:48.)

And no unclean thing can enter into his kingdom; therefore nothing entereth into his rest save it be those who have washed their garments in my blood, because of their faith, and the repentance of all their sins, and their faithfulness unto the end. (”3 Ne. 27:19 III Nephi 27:19.)

These 2 scriptures tie in the rest of his thoughts on the snippets you presented. Do we believe that one must become perfect? Yes. That accords w/ Matt. 5:48Matthew 5:48. And that's where you left it? As someone who proports to know a lot about our beliefs, why did you leave out the part that we believe that no one will live perfect lives here on earth, but that we may become perfect by the grace of God through the atoning sacrifice of our Savior? In other words, through repentance made possible by the atonement.

When we sincerely repent, we are for forgiven & thus made whole again. So, even though we will all fall short of 100% on our own, we can reach 100% by repentance through the atonement. Why did you leave that part out Colo? What were your motives? Surely you know these things. Why would you take those things out of context like that? Was this just something you took from an anti site & just took for truth? Or did you really know & just not share the whole picture?

That's the beef we have w/ you anti’s. It's not that you're fellow Christians that happen to have a different point of view. We respect that. What we don't respect are those that purposely or otherwise, take our beliefs & contort, misrepresent, misquote, lie, & often take out of context, our writings & the beliefs therein.

It's a shame that “Christians” would do that to fellow Christians in the name of Christianity to simply prove they are right. If one stops & thinks about it, it's not very Christian at all imho. Your motives are between you & the Lord so I'll not lay charge to that part. But really, you do need to stop & think about what you're doing. You folks get caught in these activities all the time. Do you really feel it furthers your cause?

Listen, I've got a Sabbath to attend to in which I will turn my full attention to the Lord. I'll not interrupt that w/ further banter here that would do nothing but take away from the spirit of the day. Have a great Sabbath my FRiend, & as always, my best to you & yours on this sacred day & season.