FLDS Parents Could Face Charges for Abandoning their "Lost Boys"

...you believe in a Tradition of Men which happens to use the Bible!

While others believe...

...in a Tradition of Men which happens to use the Bible, the Book of Mormon, The Doctrines & Covenants, The Pearl of Great Price, the Book of Abraham, Declaration #1, and a bunch of stuff that is NOT found any where in ANY of the other 'scriptures', their highly SACRED Temple Rites®!

1,621 posted on 03/01/2008 4:35:40 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Old Mountain man

Well, if the shoe fits, wear it.

1,622 posted on 03/01/2008 4:39:59 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Old Mountain man

At least when I write something here, it isn’t twisting some other poster’s words into a smarmy attack.

This is true.

You use your own words.

1,623 posted on 03/01/2008 4:40:57 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Old Mountain man

The truth of the restored gospel stands on its own.

1,624 posted on 03/01/2008 4:43:03 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

OMM is back, reality spill in the produce section.

1,625 posted on 03/01/2008 4:45:05 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Old Mountain man

I urge you to repent lest ye be judged.

Too late: seems like this has already happened...

1,626 posted on 03/01/2008 4:45:54 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Old Mountain man

Plural marriage to teenage girls is illegal. I do not condone violations of the law.

1,627 posted on 03/01/2008 4:47:07 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Old Mountain man

I preach the gospel of repentence.

Your Organization preachs the gospel of obedience.

1,628 posted on 03/01/2008 4:49:07 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Old Mountain man

I preach the gospel of repentence.

Your Organization preachs the gospel of obedience.

AoF #3

We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

1,629 posted on 03/01/2008 4:50:27 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Old Mountain man

. I neither subscribe to your opinions nor tolerate your false doctrine.

Your Organization does:

AoF #11:

We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.

1,630 posted on 03/01/2008 4:52:03 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Old Mountain man

I have searched my heart. I would urge you to repent of your sins.

Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

1,631 posted on 03/01/2008 5:03:49 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Old Mountain man

I understand where you are trying to go and I choose not to comment further.

I understand just WHY you are reluctant to 'go there'.

Dallin H. Oaks, Mormon Apostle

1,632 posted on 03/01/2008 5:06:16 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Lied to his own wife, first wife Emma

Surely NOT!!!

Joe: Hey Emma! Guess what!?

Emma: You KNOW I hate these guessing games! What is it, Dear?

Joe: I heard a voice, probably the Lord, tell me I must take other wives.

Emma: WHAT!? You ding bat! Don't you KNOW what our precious BOOK says? After all; YOU are the one that translated it!

Joe: Books; schmooks. All I know is I've been COMMANDED to take other wives and you are to OBEY ME!!!

Emma: "Though shalt NOT commit ADULTERY!!!"

Joe: Silly Woman! You KNOW better than to take things out of CONTEXT!!!

...and the rest is HISTORY...

THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI

CHAPTER 2

24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.

Or even HERE:

1 Timothy 3:2-3
2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.

Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.

Emma: That's IT! I'm LEAVING your sorry *!!!

Joe: DARN you Emma; you were TOLD to accept this!! Wait!!! I hear a voice again!!!

THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

SECTION 132

  51–57, Emma Smith is counseled (commanded) to be faithful and true; 58–66, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.

  51 Verily, I say unto you: A commandment I give unto mine handmaid, Emma Smith, your wife, whom I have given unto you, that she stay herself and partake not of that which I commanded you to offer unto her; for I did it, saith the Lord, to ^aprove you all, as I did Abraham, and that I might require an offering at your hand, by covenant and sacrifice.

  52 And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith, ^areceive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and have said they were pure, shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God.

  53 For I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things; for he hath been ^afaithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.

  54 And I command mine handmaid, Emma Smith, to abide and ^acleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none else. But if she will not abide this commandment she shall be ^bdestroyed, saith the Lord; for I am the Lord thy God, and will destroy her if she abide not in my law.

  55 But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an ^ahundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of ^beternal lives in the eternal worlds.

  56 And again, verily I say, let mine handmaid ^aforgive my servant Joseph his trespasses; and then shall she be forgiven her trespasses, wherein she has trespassed against me; and I, the Lord thy God, will bless her, and multiply her, and make her heart to ^brejoice.

1,633 posted on 03/01/2008 5:10:09 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

You can deny it...but your words are posted for all to see.

For now...

1,634 posted on 03/01/2008 5:11:25 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Tell you what, I'll be the Mormon and you can ask me questions.

HEY!!!

--MormonDude(Accept NO subsitutes!)

1,635 posted on 03/01/2008 5:13:28 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

1,636 posted on 03/01/2008 5:15:39 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Invincibly Ignorant

Are you perchance Christian?

You are, perchance, Ignorant: Invincibly so.

1,637 posted on 03/01/2008 5:17:15 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

1,638 posted on 03/01/2008 5:20:14 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Plural marriage that is an ordinance of the Lord does not bother me how many times do I have to say it!

It SURE bothered EMMA SMITH!!

(Do you know she did NOT go to Utah, but stayed behind with the TRUE LDS faith and then proceded to prosper and grow into the RLDS and now the Community of Christ?)

That group is the one that OWNS all the good property in Nauvoo.

1,639 posted on 03/01/2008 5:23:00 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

It is so clear these men here dwell on this because their minds are fixesated in their own experiences in life...

HelLO!

You are the one who constantly brings up just what the LDS Organization saved her from!

1,640 posted on 03/01/2008 5:24:38 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

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