I cringe when he mentions God..........because Joe Smith called Christianity an "ABOMINATION".
The mormons are nice folks......but they are not Christian. So that's where it all gets very bizarre.
For Pete’s sake let it go. Becks one of the good guys. You can get your panties in a wad when Beck says that about Christianity.
I don’t remember for sure, but I think it was on Beck’s TV show that I heard him say he became a Mormon when he married his wife. I think he said he was raised as an evangelical Christian, and his “converting” to Mormonism was the only way she would consent to marry him.
Beck’s gathering today was not about Mormonism.
Please don’t dwell on it.
Have some class.
Bizarre is when an , errr, "christian" such as yourself can't support a rally for restoring America's honor and principles. You are part of the problem.
“The mormons are nice folks......but they are not Christian.”
I spend winters in the area with the second largest concentration of Mormons in the world. I know dozens and they all think and consider themselves to be Christians.
I believe many think the MSM to be devils incarnate.
Get over it.
No Mormon here, but I would much prefer to be surrounded by Mormons than muslims or liberals or nobama supporters.
Don’t think Mormons are our enemy. Why would you?
Correction... Joseph Smith called the modern CREEDS of Christianity an abomination.
Really, is it all that different from what Thomas Jefferson called modern Christianity? And he was elected President.
“The religion builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticisms, fancies, and falsehoods, have caricatured them into forms so inconceivable, as to shock reasonable thinkers....Happy in the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity, I must leave to younger persons to encounter and lop off the false branches which have been engrafted into it by the mythologists of the middle and modern ages.”
(Jefferson’s Complete Works, vol 7, pp 210, 257)
I echo your thoughts.
I don't believe in the authenticity The Book Of Mormon, and I even believe it to be blasphemy, but I'm pretty sure Joe Smith had nothing against biblical scripture other than that he perhaps felt it incomplete somehow. Like O'Bunga wanting to flesh out the inadequate Constitution via presidential fiat.
:-)
“....but Beck’s a mormon.”
Don’t you think that Beck speaking, working with and befriending all those dozens of Evangelical pastors just might have an influence on his Biblical and theological understanding - and away from mormonism?
Today’s was not a rally of the National Association of Evangelicals nor a commissioning of the Nicene Council - it was a rally to point people back to Faith, Hope and Charity.
Let’s give credit for what it was!
Way to sow the division amongst fellow believers in and followers of Christ. A well known, popular conservative calls for unity and a rebirth of faith in this country and just a few hours later you?re already shooting holes in it.
Joseph Smith did not call following Christ an abomination. In answer to his prayer and his query of which of the earthly churches to join, God the Father and His son, Jesus Christ, appeared to the 14-year-old Joseph and spoke to him, telling him to join none of them. They told him that the creeds of the churches were an abomination.
For the sake of unity and furthering the conservative cause and saving our nation, we should be focusing on our common ground and our common cause, not fomenting division. Mormons believe in, worship, and follow Jesus of Nazareth, born of the virgin, Mary. Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah and the savior of all mankind. He atoned for and died for our sins. He was crucified, died and then on the third day he rose from the dead. He lives. We read the Holy Bible to learn of him so that we may better follow him and be his disciples.
For the purpose of working together to save this nation from the threats which it faces, both external and domestic, that should be Christian enough. It was for the coalition of groups who united in California to pass Prop. 8. And that should be the example of the kind of success that such unity can bring.
THere’s nothing that Beck said that can’t be embraced by all believers in God. God often uses people in spite of themselves to get His messaasge out. Truth has but IOe source.
Good greif I think this is where the phrase
Cut off you nose to spite your face!
It is a good thing the founding fathers of the 11 different state religions out of 13 states could fine common ground or we would never have a constitution!
no matter who you think you are or know about religion This is a fact Contention does not come from the Lord, nor is the author of it....
It is the devil tha stir the pot the LDS are not the ones who starts these railings...
So? Beck’s a mormon.
He’s also a tolerant, God-fearing,America-loving person who’s making a very important point: We need GOD back in the public square,in the mainstream and in the heart of America. He’s not splitting hairs,and he’s not preaching hate or separatism.
I’d look at that first,if I were you. Just sayin’.