Posted on 03/29/2009 2:35:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I understand there is a new anti-freeper site started by disgruntled former and present Mormon FReepers and it is their intention of bankrupting FR during the coming Freepathon by withholding their donations and disrupting our activities. Well, all I can say is, if they feel that badly against FR, by all means they should withhold their donations and drop out of FR. But it they attempt to disrupt our operations I will guarantee they will no longer be members of FR. If that is their wish, so be it.
I'm not going to try to defend FR from their claims of religious persecution, but I will say that Mormons have and always have had free reign to post their threads on FR just as all other religious groups have enjoyed. Free Republic defends the right to freedom of religion and has always welcomed religious discussion and always will. And Mormons have always been welcome here. I have absolutely nothing against Mormons.
If you are one who has left or is leaving, I wish you well, but disruption of FR is not welcome and will not be tolerated.
And this is not the first time such activity has been attempted by groups of disgruntled former FReepers. Good luck with that. There is always some group that feels FR should be bent to their way of thinking and end up saying my way or the highway. Well, I don't know about you, but I'm not changing so I guess it's the highway. Is it Feb 8 yet?
God bless.
You’d think they would see the falseness and go to the Savior instead of a man made god.
To be fair, leaving the LDS can be quite scary. For some, if not many, they risk losing everything if they leave and embrace Christianity. They risk losing their marriages, children, relationships with parents and siblings, friends, even jobs and housing.
For those who do take the risk, they find a joy in Christ that is unsurpassed by anything they can lose. Ch
Hopefully you will come back into the fold, but I’m not sure if you ever were a Christian from your post.
I did notice that you were a member of several churches
I have a hard time believing that ANYONE who truly accepted Christ’s sacrifice for their sins and believed in the Gospel of Grace could turn their back on Christ and embrace the heresy of the LDS.
I had a “head” knowledge of Christ, but not “heart” one, which is how I was deceived by Mormonism. I thought I was a Christian, but I really wasn’t. Only after I left the LDS did I come to a “heart” knowledge of Jesus Christ and accepted HIM ALONE as my Savior.
Parable of the sower. Rocky ground. I will pray for you my FRiend.
I no longer was reliant on the “arm of the flesh”. With nobody around, I received answers of my Father. I suspect you will castigate that or poo-poo it. That’s your issue, not mine. Try it sometime w/ sincerity.
And BTW, I AM (and was then) sincere.
I always wondered about my temple name....Samuel.
Don’t forget that everyone who went through for themselves that day got the same name. That always bugged me.
“First of all the husband also has to be worthy and with the attitude described here he is far from being worthy”
1) I understand that the husband is supposed to be worthy - as I stated in that post I did not go into depth on all details. Indirectly you have confirmed that I was correct about the rest of what I wrote (more accurately, that my LDS ex GF, and my current LDS wife are correct)
Thank you for that.
2) In my post, I actually did not describe any particular man, nor attribute an attitude to any particular man.
Re-read my post in its entirety and show me anything which either states outright, or infers otherwise if you please.
3) I did not confirm, nor deny what you disclosed about a “worthy woman” entering the “celestial kingdom.
Again, the issue of leaving out details for the sake of brevity - which I mentioned.
But it is (again) nice to have you confirm indirectly that something that I was previously told directly was accurate.
Guess that stuff is just not-so-secret anymore - especially now that I have further confirmation of specifics. Thanks for your confirmations.
I’m sure they are unintentional, to some extent.
People have told me I have a knack for getting information out of others that they did not mean to disclose, whether by asking the right questions, “playing friendly”, or feigning some knowledge in order to elicit their sputtering corrections.
That is not what I was trying for here, with the post you responded to - at least not from you.
But I guess it is difficult for me to suppress my own natural talents - so I thank you for your good spirit in volunteering those additional details and confirming information for me.
I actually wish those things were not true, not part of any of the LDS ceremonies.
As I am married to a “lifelong LDS” gal, I do not despise LDS people in general. I have meals, play board games, spend holidays, and enjoy jovial conversation with them often.
I do, however, disagree with the truth and validity of LDS doctrines, and the theology, and many of the “Articles of faith” in the strongest possible terms; my wife is aware of that, and I was fully honest with her about it well before we married - even in the earliest days of our dating relationship.
I will avowedly NEVER be a “worthy” mormon man, myself. But I will seek all the days of my life to be a good and faithful husband, a loving father, and a man after the heart of G_d as David was (without any of the concubines and stuff though - LOL!) and will enter Heaven as one of many redeemed by the grace of Christ alone, through His death on the Cross. While I was yet a sinner, He died for me, and I am saved. Hallelujah!
That is more than good enough for my wife, and her mother, her father, her four older brothers, and wives of the three who are married - all feel she and I are well-suited (I agree), and that I am a good husband for, and good to her. It is my goal to continue to be such.
Peace
A.A.C.
Well I was once mainstream and there was pleanty of fighting among faiths.
you must have over look IRELAND years of green vs orange wars?
Sorry, not rocky ground, good ground.
“And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundred. And he said unto them, He that has ears to hear, let him hear”
you know and i know you were!
I’m kind of proud of my new title.
Congrats.
kettle calling the pot black!
LOL
Looks like you been doing a little googling er stalking your self!
LOL
“Amazing Grace..... I once was blind, but now I see.”I love that song.
The Lord probably told him to knock off being a lecherous charlatan.
I don’t know how I made the list except I’ve posted about the cult of Mormonism a couple times.
I always hoped I’d be put on the “awesome stud with big biceps” ping list.
Really? Why would you say that. I am a registered poster at mormonapologetics.org.
You still haven't told us why you were at Clown Posse.
That makes at least TWO things you think you know are true but they are both a lie that originated from Satan himself.
Then I don't have an answer.
Don’t you get it humblegunner, resty doesn’t think your WORTHY!
Just like a typical Mormon.
Ireland is a political war that the leftist wish to blame on religion.
You aren’t a leftist are you?
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