Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
...and The Beatitudes fit nicely at this juncture.
In summary: arrogance, belligerence, and intolerance are very unlike Christ. If Christ walked among us today, I don't believe for a moment he would be throwing flame torches and spears via keyboard to Mormons as so many here do in the name of Jesus.
Of course with that you are missing one little issue and the equally important directives of Christ that pertain as well...
If Christ walked among us today, I don’t believe for a moment he would be throwing flame torches and spears via keyboard to Mormons as so many here do in the name of Jesus.
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Nor do I...
Jesus in His day had invitations as keynote speaker at conferences...
Thousands came to hear Him speak...
He wouldnt need to stay at home behind a keyboard..
When He got to the conference He said...
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation. “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’” Matthew 23:27-39
(And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’)
Hmmm...Boy my plank-meter detector sure just went off with these descriptors you gave...did you find that arrogant, belligerant, intolerant sawdust you were looking for in TN's eyes? Wasn't it kind of hard with such limited visibility?
[See anybody can play that one-upsmanship game -- including me...In fact, we could go round & round on that one...another poster could join us and ask me, "C, did you find that sawdust you were looking for in NN's eyes?"...and then where would it stop?]
And speaking of intolerance, why have you been so intolerant of comments by TN and myself & a few others on this thread? I mean, tolerance isn't one of my highest virtues...but apparently is yours. But that then means, if you're going to export that as a standard you expect others to uphold, I'd suggest you'd better start practicing it yourself. (Otherwise, what are we supposed to do? Believe what you say -- "be tolerant" -- or follow your actions -- your religious intolerance toward us.)
(I tell you once you play high & mighty on the tolerance card, 'tis a slippery slope unless you're a consistent social/spiritual libertarian across the board)
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
(Boy, I guess whatever your perception of what TN did was tied to your above comment, Well, you sure tried to do it back "unto her," that's for sure!)
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
The NIV...
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? Matthew 7:3
This would pertain to the mormon’s obsession with deviant sex practices of others while their own religious doctrine is based on the need for a lifestyle of polygamy in order to get into their mormon heaven...
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. John 8:7
Ditto.. Joey Smith was a sinner and a hypocrite..Self righteousness is written into the mormon doctrines..
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Matthew 7:12
Again Joey Smith practiced this one...Do unto others before they do it to you...Joey Smith sinned against others but accused his victims of doing the same to him..Smoke screens..
“and The Beatitudes fit nicely at this juncture.”
If they fit then where are they ???
“arrogance, belligerence, and intolerance are very unlike Christ.”
Do mormons get addressed with these same words ???
arrogance, belligerence, and intolerance are very much the mainstay of the mormon god...Read some of Joey Smith’s teachings...and the teachings of his later “prophets”...
mormons follow these “prophets”
They have to say everything Joey Smith and the prophets said or wrote is “true”
Christians believe Jesus and the Bible...
Mormons teach against Christians and the Bible...
and instead say that Joey Smith and the book of mormon are “true”
BTW do you ever read some of the comments by mormons ???
I want to know about the plank of PRESBYTERIANism, but no MORMONs seem to know what it is.
You are right.
HE's personally be at SLC's Temple saying...
"See these stones?
Nary a one will be left standing..."