Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.”? (Luke 9:50)
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Nice try...
But the discipiles were complaining that the others from another congregation were casing devils out in the name of Jesus ...
Not putting up basphemeous billboards about His mother and His birth...
Mormonism teaches that “god” came down and had sex with Mary...
But not Christianity...
> But the discipiles were complaining that the others from another congregation were casing devils out in the name of Jesus ...
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> Not putting up basphemeous billboards about His mother and His birth...
Rather than using sophistry, why not point out the blasphemies in the billboard for me?
A literal reading of the billboard renders Truth: Joseph (and indeed all Christians) *would* find God a hard act to follow. No blasphemy here: following God is a difficult thing to do. It is, by way of contrast, easy to sin.
So is the blasphemy in the picture of Joseph and Mary in the bed? How do you suppose they did sleep — I mean, after Jesus was born? We know that they slept together, because Jesus had a brother. So no blasphemy there, either.
Is the blasphemy in the double-entendre? Only if one has a dirty mind. Which we, as Christians, naturally should not have.
So, if you find blasphemy in the double-entendre, and imagine the literally-true text in the billboard to mean other than what it literally means, perhaps this indicates that you have something important to do on Sunday before you take communion.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
> Mormonism teaches that “god” came down and had sex with Mary...
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> But not Christianity...
It is clearly your opinion that Mormons are not Christian -- that's fine, you're entitled to that. Mormons believe that they *are* Christian. I believe that they are, too.
As to how Mary became impregnated, how do you suppose it happened? I suppose it happened precisely the way the Bible said it did in Luke 1:35
"The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."
Pretty straightforward, I should have thought, without being overly graphic. The Holy Ghost made Mary pregnant. *How* this happened, in graphic detail, is left to our fertile (and sometimes filthy) imaginations because it is unimportant.
*That* it happened is what is important.