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To: RussellStevens
I guess the LDS Church must be doing something really right if the adversary must work so hard to persecute it.

Either that, or it's doing something really wrong when so many complete strangers keep trying to get its members' attention to say the history and doctrines don't check out.

311 posted on 04/19/2003 5:41:58 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (Athanasius contra mundum!)
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To: Alex Murphy; RussellStevens
RussellStevens wrote:

"I guess the LDS Church must be doing something really right if the adversary must work so hard to persecute it."

You replied:

"Either that, or it's doing something really wrong when so many complete strangers keep trying to get its members' attention to say the history and doctrines don't check out."

The very truth of the matter, as you someday will discover, is that things "check out" only when the whole picture has been proclaimed and taught by those having proper authority and then confirmed to the prayerful listener by the Holy Ghost.

The Lord's promise and assurance that you rightly should seek concerning such matters can be found in James 1:5.

You surely will not learn the truth about any church -- or individual, for that matter -- by feasting on the words of those who are the enemies thereof.

With respect to the fact that "complete strangers keep trying to get its members' attention," you or anyone else have no chance of doing any such thing by hurling lies, falsehoods, inaccuracies, legends, apocrypha, hearsay, and venom at those who have not done such unto you.

I cannot fathom how it is that you are so confident that you are exceedingly "right" and that the some 12 million (and exponentially growing -- while so much of the rest of Christendom sadly is dwindling) members of the Church worldwide are ignorantly or knowingly living an evil lie?

Finally, it is only fair that you state the priesthood authority by which you deliver your exhortations and proclamations to so many. According to the Bible (in Hebrews and elsewhere), such must be either that of Aaron or Melchizedek....

326 posted on 04/21/2003 10:12:47 AM PDT by tracer (/b>)
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