While it is common knowledge that Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, few know of his attempt to found a bank in Kirtland, Ohio.
Posted on 11/14/2007 8:28:07 AM PST by fortcollins
The Catholic Church does not consider Mormon baptisms to be valid due to their difference in understanding the Trinity.
I do not think the Catholic Church throws around the term "cult" as it comes from the Latin "cultus" which means religion. Of course in English the word cult has its own connotations.
Well, scripture is pretty clear about what true Christianity is all about and since MOST Christians read and study the Bible, they should be able to see what’s true and what’s false. The Holy Spirit teaches us as well.
And we also testify that we have seen the engravings which are upon the plates; and they have been shown unto us by the power of God, and not of man
Yes, they are. God changed his name from Abram to Abraham.
But they also use the Book of Mormon, which is ‘their’ bible.
America needs to return to "Federalism" as its rightful form of Government. Fred Thompson promotes Federalism as his platform.
Same argument could be made of the Bible as well. Just saying.
Yup. Trusting their very spiritual lives to the vision of a 14-year-old, who on his word alone, concludes that every single creed of non-LDS churches are "an abomination before the Lord." (Not to mention concluding that all Christian "professors" of their faith are "corrupt." )
The RM said on that thread:"The thread should be treated as if it were an LDS church meeting behind closed doors.
So, are you trying to open to door, to circumvent the RM, while avoiding the fact that mormonism does not have its faith rooted in the biblcal God, or are you just trying to be sneaky?
Yes, they are a cult because they don’t follow the true Christian faith, but their people are good people and usually moral and upright. Their teachings are just off the wall.
This is where you lose them. They want to hijack Christian terminology so they can confuse you when you try and confront them so they can say “we believe the same thing”. No we do not.
I agree! Good insight.
They really don’t like blacks very much either.
While it is common knowledge that Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, few know of his attempt to found a bank in Kirtland, Ohio.
The infallible Bible is the original text taught and preserved. The "versions" come about through changes in language and translation (or outright heresy as in the case of the "homosexual" bible et al). It's not that the old text changes, rather our modern language is evolving and it can take different words to express the same thought. Unfortunately, some times these different words are then interpreted differently...
It was actually an “anti-bank”, because Old Joe could not get authority to set up his bank to comply with contemporary banking regulations.
Lots of people lost lots of money.
Joseph Smith was also a defrocked Freemason who was thrown out for trying to make Freemasonry into a religion. Many of the secret Mormon rituals parrot the Masonic rituals, so I have been told.
I thought Maroni was a kind of spaghetti.
Seriously, I don’t give a tinker’s damn if Romney believes all this stuff or not. All I care about is his ability to serve as an effective leader and his personal morality and his views on the issues. I think he is a capable leader with a proven track record as such and a man of outstanding personal morality.
Although he is not my first choice on the issues as I support Hunter and Thompson, I would most vigorously campaign for him gainst any of the fruitcakes sitting in the Mad Baker’s Shop called the Democrat Party.
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