I admit, I only skimmed the article. Having read the article after your admonition, I agree with you. This “church is among the lost.
HOWEVER, forget about the story for a minute, and just look at the picture; the message is: No man can equal GOD! and Jesus is from God!
Maybe I just have a dirty mind, but the message I get from that picture us “God f’d Mary good, didn’t he!”
And that just seems disrespectful.
and just look at the picture; the message is: No man can equal GOD! and Jesus is from God!
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And that is NOT what I see at all. My first response is a reference to the LDS doctrine that Mary was one of God’s wives and that God had sex with Mary to conceive Jesus.
Now, granted, my perspective is different than most Christians (having been Mormon before I became a Christian), but nevertheless I found it offensive at first glance.