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To: Stourme
The apostles were dead well before the fourth Century, otherwise they would have been 400 hundred years old.

The light of Christ cannot be extinguished by the acts of mortal man no matter how brutal times may have been. Men of Christ carried on, endured through the mayhem foist upon the rapidly growing faith by the evil one.

The word has never left us, Paul's lessons are what has built the modern church.

Seeking to take Amos and apply it to fit some prophecy in reverse, while an interesting aside, does not make it so.

When indeed there are none left who call themselves Christian, a day that may come, then Amos will have been fulfilled. The word still lives among the faithful, it has gone no where, and God did not turn his back and disappeard from this Earth.

An interesting contradiction for you. A few weeks ago on this very board, a July Fourth article by I believe your current LDS president, sung the virtues of the Founding Fathers, and discussed how inspired by God the Constitution was.

If what you say is true, that God abandoned us and we abandoned his word, and continued to do so, and that the Word was not restored until it was given back to J. Smith, then how can the Constitution be divinely inspired, some 40-50 years before the Word came back to man in the hands of the “prophet” Smith, before God came back to us?

That makes little sense, and it is from “the horses mouth” so to speak....

144 posted on 07/22/2008 12:28:54 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery.)
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To: ejonesie22
The light of Christ cannot be extinguished by the acts of mortal man no matter how brutal times may have been. Men of Christ carried on, endured through the mayhem foist upon the rapidly growing faith by the evil one.

You seem stuck on the concept that anyone calling themselves Christian is accepted by God and that's completely false.

And you completely missed the point of Amos 8. Amos doesn't refer to a time when no one will call themselves Christians. On the contrary he describes people actively searching the world for the (true) word of God and not finding it.

Amos describes it as a famine. And like any famine it has a start and an ending. Meaning that the true gospel would be brought back to the earth.

Revelation 11 discusses two prophets that will come before the second coming and be killed in Jerusalem. Modern churches teach their followers that there are no more prophets. Just like you do.

They will not have just sprung up out of no where. They will have been teaching for awhile. And if they are on the earth now, you're actively teaching people that these two prophets are false prophets...right? You're fighting against true prophets of God...
Man...that's not a place I'd want to be.

Kinda like laughing at Noah right before the rain starts ...ya know? Just a thought...
156 posted on 07/22/2008 1:49:08 PM PDT by Stourme
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