“Again, you know little to nothing about mormonISM. mormons are not who they appear to be, they have a wonderful SLC PR machine however.
(As a side note I do not consider either Romney or Reid fine upstanding members of their communities, and they BOTH are temple worthy mormons, which are only the highest of the high - 15% only make it there.)
The best thing for you to do is find out about mormonISM since you apparently are comfortable defending mormonISM.”
So . . . . this ISN’T a Mormon bashing thread.
Ah. Glad I got that straight.
I would submit that every Church in every nation on any given Sundary (or Saturday if you are an Adventist) is full to the rafters with broken, hypocritical people.
I would submit that each and every single one fall short of the Salvation that comes through, and only through Jesus Christ.
As such, I know enough about every single one of the Christian religions out there. We are a fallen and corrupt people, completely unworthy of the glory of God.
As to the individual status of any one of those churchgoers, I would like to be placed at the end of the list of people we examine in public next, if you please.
However, Mormons are not Christians - their theology prevents them from being so. That is a simple fact I would gladly back up biblically and based upon my expereience (see tagline). Mormons need our prayers that their eyes will be opened and they will leave Mormonism for a relationship with the Real Jesus, not the false one Mormonism teaches.
Regarding tithing - my gripe with Mormon tithing is that it is coerced, not joyfully given, it is spiritual blackmail and used to line the coffers and business interests of the LDS organization. My gripe is that people are lied to by their own church, give over 10% as required to get to heaven and the money is used to make the leadership wealthier. My problem is it further a cult, not a legitimate church.
I would submit that each and every single one fall short of the Salvation that comes through, and only through Jesus Christ.
Not me.
HE made the offer: I accepted.
What's so hard about that?
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
1 John 3:21-24
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
You are correct we are all sinners.
You are correct flawed people go to church, however I do not know Christian churches that give these people awards for being a prime example of what it means to be a Christian, as SLC lds have given to Reid and Romney for being mormon.
Reid and Romney are temple worthy mormons, which means in mormonISM that they will be gods of their own planets, if they keep tithing.
Again, you should learn about mormonISM before you defend them.
As far as mormon bashing because I say Romney and Reid are not fine upstanding citizens as mormon bashing, well then that is correct (eye roll)