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To: T. P. Pole
Is one of the qualifications to being a "true" Christian the attendance at an Easter sunrise service?

Sigh. The mindset of your question is blindly Mormon: true qualifications, testing and works. It is possible for Christians to do something, even at church, simply for the joy of doing it - not because it is commanded, not to show a testimony, not because there will be a test later, but a consequence of joy.

P.S. Don't respond with a one-up claiming that Mormons do things out of joy, and look at our wonderful pageants, and our work in Haiti, and blah, blah better than thou; it will just prove that you misunderstand completely.

208 posted on 03/07/2010 2:57:18 PM PST by mrreaganaut (Battlestar Galactica: Another Testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
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211 posted on 03/07/2010 3:12:52 PM PST by greyfoxx39 ("The Economy Is So Bad, Even 'Rosy Scenario' Lost Her Job"-Jim Geraghty)
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To: mrreaganaut; reaganaut; greyfoxx39
Tadpole: Is one of the qualifications to being a "true" Christian the attendance at an Easter sunrise service?

MrReaganaut: Sigh. The mindset of your question is blindly Mormon: true qualifications, testing and works.


It is regrettable that a forum like this does not allow for full communications to take place. My question was somewhat joking, much like my occasional "lies for Jesus" comment, and somewhat a stunned shock.

I fully recognize the difference between orthodox Christianity and mormonism in regards to faith vs works. The problem is that sometimes, from a mormon viewpoint, a "works" type qualifier is place upon us as a reason for us not being Christian. Hence my question. If I was going to an Easter sunrise service or not was being presented as if I was not a Christian if I didn't. That seemed rather strange a conflict in our normal claim of differences.

But in the end what differentiates us is who we say Christ is and our relationship to Him. Not the manner of our worship. While we have clear difference in both Christ and our worship methods, it is the Christ part that (accurately) makes many say we are not (orthodox) Christian.

218 posted on 03/07/2010 4:35:31 PM PST by T. P. Pole
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