We need that other feller who keeps hollerin' about posting sources to tell Sandy to source that "testing God" thingy.
I think that may be in the same verse where it tells about the Holy Spirit gettin' its feelings hurt....
a) THIS IS NOT A GAME. Your eternal salvation is at stake and that is something I take seriously.
b) Not everyone who says ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus is either LORD OF ALL, or He is not LORD AT ALL. Just because you say Jesus is Lord, doesn’t mean He is to you. Where is He in relation to the Church? Who do you choose? Smith or Christ? Jesus or Joseph? The Messiah or Monson? If you put the Church ANYWHERE in the equation, then Jesus is not your Lord at all. And saying the words won’t make it true.
Are you willing to give up ‘the Church’ for Jesus? Seriously? Because that is what He WILL ask of you, of all of us.
c)Tithing is an OLD TESTAMENT law, not a NEW TESTAMENT ONE. GIVE ME ONE (ONE!) VERSE in the NT where tithing is required. It isn’t.
d) I have never heard, seen, or been to any Christian churches that where you have to go to an annual ‘tithing settlement’, and declare you pay a full tithe. NONE!!!!!! It is between you and God, not you, God and your bishop. God doesn’t care the PERCENTAGE of what we give, He cares about our hearts and motivations in giving.
Yet, the LDS make it a requirement, you may CLAIM you give because you want to, but if you didn’t then you would lose your precious TR, it would be all around the ward, and you would not be ‘worthy’. That is coercion, not giving cheerfully. And that ‘requirement’ is what bugs me about LDS tithing.
e)I quit ‘tithing’ when I left Mormonism, because I am under the NEW COVENANT, not the OT law. I don’t stop at 10%, I give as I am led and where I am led and that is far more than the LDS required.
AFA, ‘testing God’. Wow. YOU ADMIT TO ‘testing God’???!?! THAT takes guts. I love my God too much to ‘seek after a sign’ or to ‘test Him’.
I don’t TEST God, I TRUST Him. Apparently you don’t since you rely on Mormonism to save you.
We need that other feller who keeps hollerin' about posting sources to tell Sandy to source that "testing God" thingy.
I think that may be in the same verse where it tells about the Holy Spirit gettin' its feelings hurt....
So how is it the LDS don’t make it into Heaven? Don’t they just do what minimum Christians do, only more?