Posted on 05/27/2010 6:44:33 AM PDT by Colofornian
In conclusion let us summarize this grand key, these Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet, for our salvation depends on them.
1. The prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything.
2. The living prophet is more vital to us than the standard works.
3. The living prophet is more important to us than a dead prophet.
4. The prophet will never lead the church astray.
5. The prophet is not required to have any particular earthly training or credentials to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time.
6. The prophet does not have to say Thus Saith the Lord, to give us scripture.
7. The prophet tells us what we need to know, not always what we want to know.
8. The prophet is not limited by mens reasoning.
9. The prophet can receive revelation on any matter, temporal or spiritual.
10. The prophet may advise on civic matters.
11. The two groups who have the greatest difficulty in following the prophet are the proud who are learned and the proud who are rich.
12. The prophet will not necessarily be popular with the world or the worldly.
13. The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidencythe highest quorum in the Church.
14. The prophet and the presidencythe living prophet and the First Presidencyfollow them and be blessedreject them and suffer.
I testify that these fourteen fundamentals in following the living prophet are true. If we want to know how well we stand with the Lord then let us ask ourselves how well we stand with His mortal captainhow close do our lives harmonize with the Lords anointedthe living ProphetPresident of the Church, and with the Quorum of the First Presidency.
Ezra Taft Benson
(Address given Tuesday, February 26, 1980 at Brigham Young University)
Noachide actually, living the life of a Righteous Gentile...Orthodox Jews have a sore spot on anything Holocaust/Nazi related...but that is not Torah related, it’s PERSONAL....magritte
As Pete would say:
"That don't make NO sense!"
If we're born SINLESS - WHERE did the imperfectionbs come from?
And DUMB as well!
EVERYone knows that you use an APRICOT!
The Mormon water-boarding necrophiliac contest is frankly more cumbersome and torturous upon the...
....60,000 Lds volunteers who show up in the Wasatch Mountain granite vault all throughout 2010 to enter names for online consumption...
...the photogs who capture church records from centuries past...
...and the researchers who dig & dig & dig & obsess with the dead — versus those still living...
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In the early 1980s the mormons knocked on my door and told me about this...
There must have been a big push to get it started or something...
They started talking to me about ancestors and genealogy and I have always been interested in that ...
I did wonder why they want ed to discuss my dead ancestors and not try shoving the book of mormon down my very live throat as usual...
When I said I could identify my ancestors fdown several lines for several generations they got all excited and asked me for the names...
they said I must come down and get myself dead dunked (baptised) for all my dead relatives si8nce I knew their names dates etc...
Imagine that a non-mormon could go into a freezing cold mormon cattle troff and get baptised for the dead with out kissin Joey Smiths feet or paying the 10% membership fee... (I asked them about that ...they said there was no need)
I said no thanks my ancestors all died happy with their chrsitian religion and if they didnt want to be mormins while they were alive who was I to go against my fore fathers wishes...
Thery announced I was not a good Christian anbd left in a huff...
They did come back the next few months with the same speil but they didnt invite me to get wet myself...they just wanted the names...
BTW when you see “name given in by relative” or some such thing...the name wasnt necessarily given so the person could be dead dunked...
the name was tricked oout of the living through the IGI or somewhere else...
and try correcting the vital info on your dead relative...
Oh no..the mormons know your Mom’s dates and places better than you do...and they refuse to change anything...
Yes in June, 2008...
They did the dead dunking and all the “endowments” etc on her ...
and “sealed” her to her children...
That means they did stuff that was worthy of a prophet of the LDS, all the honors etc...
and she didnt have to read the book of mormon, pay a penny of tithe, attend any services, do any works, or change her Atheist beliefs..
The sealing made Obama a mormon too...
so now we have a bona fide mormon president...
:)
BTW the person who arranged that was probably ex-communicated...
the mormoins claimm they own the Constitution and that there should be a mormon president...
but the bigoted ,mormons sure didnt want a black man with the mark of Cain to be the first ...
LOL
My Dad used to say “We are all born sinners. I have proof. A parent never has to teach their child be naughty.”
"How long will it be before the words of the prophet Joseph will be fulfilled? He said if the Constitution of the United States were saved at all it must be done by this people." (Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 360)
"When the Constitution of the United States hangs, at it were, upon a single thread, they will have to call for the "Mormon" Elders to save it from utter destruction; and they will step forth and do it." (Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 361)
LOL...no wonder ! G-d gave us some good ones, no point ditching them now ... magritte
Does he stare at goats too!?!
Not that I know of. Of course some people it’s just best not to probe too deeply into their minds, never know what bats wil come flying out.
From the free will/choice of mankind, of course...magritte
Indeed LOL
Was smith qualified to be ordained into the aaronic priesthood?
THX1138
Bump this post for Magritte.
I wish you would answer my questions. I am truly interested in what Judaism teaches about sin, the penalty of sin and forgiveness.
It may well be, but as I’m married to a mormon (20+ years), for someone to claim I’m “anti-mormon” is absurd.
I like mormons, there are many good people in the religion. I know and associate with many because of my past involvement as a member and because of my wife’s current activity in the LdS church.
That doesn’t mean I am not allowed to disagree with the theology.
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