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Are Mormons Christian? Inquiry into the Church of Latter Day Saints, a peculiarly American Religion
Bible Probe ^

Posted on 05/10/2010 7:41:06 PM PDT by delacoert

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To: restornu

It is sad you never tasted the sweetness of the Holy Spirit in your life
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Back in the 1980s I was told ny the mormons there was no such thing as the Holy Spirit...

When did that change ???


321 posted on 05/12/2010 1:32:25 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: restornu

It is sad you never tasted the sweetness of the Holy Spirit in your life Which no living man can imitate.
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THere’s nothing sweet about the lies of mormonism...

Nobody gives credance to the King Follet funeral sermon by Joey Smith...

“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret.”

“Intelligence is eternal and exists upon a self-existent principle. It is a spirit from age to age and there is no creation about it. All the minds and spirits that God ever sent into the world are susceptible of enlargement.

The first principles of man are self-existent with God. God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation to advance in knowledge. He has power to institute laws to instruct the weaker intelligences, that they may be exalted with Himself, so that they might have one glory upon another, and all that knowledge, power, glory, and intelligence, which is requisite in order to save them in the world of spirits.

This is good doctrine. It tastes good. I can taste the principles of eternal life, and so can you. They are given to me by the revelations of Jesus Christ; and I know that when I tell you these words of eternal life as they are given to me, you taste them, and I know that you believe them. You say honey is sweet, and so do I. I can also taste the spirit of eternal life. I know that it is good; and when I tell you of these things which were given me by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, you are bound to receive them as sweet, and rejoice more and more.”

(Joey Smith, King Follet Sermon, Sunday, April 7, 1844 (As printed in History of the Church, Vol. 6, p. 302-317)[This sermon was also reprinted in the April and May issues of the 1971 Ensign.]


322 posted on 05/12/2010 1:48:20 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

Oh, I thought it was holly spirits that was sweet.


323 posted on 05/12/2010 1:54:36 PM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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To: svcw

Its Christmas already ???

:)


324 posted on 05/12/2010 1:56:10 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

I am ready this year, almost down with my shopping. (Ok, easy taking the grandkids to Disneyland for several days).


325 posted on 05/12/2010 1:58:57 PM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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To: svcw

we still havent been told if the mormon holy spirit is a it, It, he, He, she, She, them, Them...

Animal, vegetable, metal, chemical ???

Living or animate object or ornament ???

able to speak, read, write English or reformed Egyptian ???

Dug up with the bom ??? or flew down outa tha mormon afterlife ??? beforelife ???

a god or a toy ???

sugar, honey, artificial sweetener, or other ???

and most important...

Where did Joey Smith meet (it) ???

(If it werent in tha grove, its not docktrin)


326 posted on 05/12/2010 2:06:20 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: svcw

Disneyland...thats great !!!

Hey, todays my sons birthday...(36)

he asked me this morning about Robin Hood :)

He and I go to the Indy and Pirates of the Caribean type flicks..

We’re going to see it on Saturday...

:)


327 posted on 05/12/2010 2:09:51 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

Happy Birthday Buddy of TN. May is a good month to be born.


328 posted on 05/12/2010 2:18:54 PM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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To: Tennessee Nana

I choose artificial.


329 posted on 05/12/2010 2:19:48 PM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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To: svcw

He was born on Mothers Day

It will be his birthday on Mothers Day again in 2013

:)


330 posted on 05/12/2010 2:22:34 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: svcw

Which a living woman can use to imitate the mormon holy spirit..


331 posted on 05/12/2010 2:25:08 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Elsie
That is the precurser for MAD cow disease!

Oh yeah, pilgrim?

You want mad cow? You can't handle mad cow!!!!


332 posted on 05/12/2010 4:08:51 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: Elsie
Did you say hose or hoser?


333 posted on 05/12/2010 4:11:56 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: restornu

Resty; what in the world is the Spirit of the Holy Ghost? Although I have to admit that Alberta Premium Rye Whisky is pretty heavenly...


334 posted on 05/12/2010 4:13:58 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: Osage Orange
Can you read the dead mind of J. Smith?

Only as a phrenologist.

He seemed to think he was at least equal to Jesus.

I'm sure that Joseph Smith had enough time to think up an even better planet than Earth, with more willing females, horses, sheep, and gerbils.

You know that part in mormon lore that says ya gotta walk past ol' J. Smith to get to heaven??????

Joseph Smith is the shoeshine boy for those entering Heaven? Interesting; the shoeshine boys don't normally get to fly...

335 posted on 05/12/2010 4:17:27 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: Elsie
Remote TONGUE tasting perhaps??

Digusting. Please remove your tales of tonsil hockey to the Penthouse forums... :)

336 posted on 05/12/2010 4:18:28 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

LOL, you are a total riot. Your ignorance is a great source of entertainment.

I don’t know how to tell ya this, but the words fair, white, dark, black, etc all used to mean something else in old fashioned british english. Here’s a hint, it had NOTHING to do with race. Fair meant fine or unblemished. white meant good or godly. dark and black meant ungodly or sinister.


337 posted on 05/12/2010 4:27:15 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: Elsie

That’s what I’ve been told....


339 posted on 05/12/2010 4:47:00 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: mamelukesabre
Ok, just giving you more information. That's all. You asked for it, so I supplied it. I'll repost so you wont have to search the previous posts. It started when you implied that LDS do not use the JoD and the JoD was less than worthy. All the references are from LDS sites where the JoD is praised, plus one from a previous FR post where the JoD is praised by LDS.

1. “The Journal of Discourses deservedly ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every rightminded Saint will certainly welcome with joy every number (issue) as it comes forth.“ (President George Q. Cannon)

http://www.journalofdiscourses.org

2. Annotations: A remarkably complete record of sermons by Church leaders from 1853 to 1886 collected into 26 printed volumes.

http://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_work.php?w_id=8000

3. The Journal of Discourses - Mere Opinions or Eternal Truth?

http://mrm.org/journal-of-discourses

4. The Journal of Discourses (often abbreviated JOD, or sometimes as J.D.) is a 26-volume collection of public sermons by early leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first editions of the Journal were published in England by George D. Watt, the stenographer of Brigham Young. Publication began in 1854, with the endorsement of the church’s First Presidency, and ended in 1886.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Journal_of_Discourses

5. Then this from an LDS caucus on FR. Where LDS praise the J o D.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2503911/posts

340 posted on 05/12/2010 4:49:59 PM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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