Sounds like someone speaking who thinks they are above everyone else!
Posted on 08/23/2010 3:19:13 AM PDT by markomalley
The ads are catchy. Upbeat music plays as the surfer, the artist or the skateboarder states his or her beliefs about life.
They all end with, "And I'm a Mormon."
On July 26, Pittsburgh became one of nine test markets for the advertising campaign that cheerfully counters stereotypes of Mormons as straight-laced, white, humorless and sexist. The campaign from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints includes a revamped website at www.mormon.org.
The ads arrived on the heels of an anti-Mormon backlash by some gay rights activists on the West Coast. But the campaign's designers said it responds only to numerous survey findings that half of Americans don't know a Mormon.
"It's time to reintroduce ourselves," said Scott Swofford, the director of mormon.org.
"We hope the spots portray Mormons as diverse people who are united in their belief in Jesus Christ. ... We hope [Americans] see that Mormons are friendly, charitable, giving to others. We aren't perfect, but our behavior ought to reflect our beliefs."
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that it is the true church, which God restored in the 19th century, long after other churches had lost the complete message of Jesus. The Book of Mormon, considered by the church to be an equal companion to the Bible, says that ancient Israelites came to the Americas around 600 BC and that the resurrected Jesus visited their descendents in America.
The Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches don't recognize the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as Christian because it rejects the doctrine of the Trinity. It teaches that God is the father of the spirits of all people born on the earth. Jesus is considered the first of God's spirit children and also God's physical son.
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Question: I read recently that the Catholic Church had rejected Mormon baptism, since their view of Christ and the Trinity is so unusual. But I have to ask: Are Mormons considered separated brothers and sisters? While their views are strange to say the least, they are still separated, and we should reach out to them. If we view them as something other than separated, doesn't that exclude ecumenism? I know that many view them as a cult, but aren't cult members separated as well?
Answer: The reason Mormons are not considered separated brethren is not because they aren't "separated" from the Church-they are-but they aren't "brethren" in the sense required.
The phrase separated brethren refers to those who, though separated from full communion with the Catholic Church, have been justified through baptism and are thus brethren in Christ. The Decree on Ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio) of Vatican II teaches that "all who have been justified by faith in baptism are members of Christ's body, and have a right to be called Christian, and so are correctly accepted as brothers by the children of the Catholic Church."
Because Mormonism is polytheistic and rejects the Trinity, Mormon baptism is not valid, and Mormons are not considered separated brethren. For the same reason, outreach to them, while certainly a good thing, is not ecumenism, though it can include dialogue and social cooperation as well as efforts to evangelize them.
I am unsure what part of my post that you corrected??
At least the pre 1950’s LDS church proudly proclaimed what they believed. Now it seems to all be a cover and a ruse to seem like they belong to the Christian body. Stand out and tell us all how we are all wrong and that the LDS church is the only true Christian Church.
When we were a lot younger
The one explained about God the Father being depicted as an older man, with a long white beard.
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You are funny LOL
I let it be you were young and misunderstood LOL
At no time have I ever heard of a verbal detailed of what God looked like...
We do not have an exact picture of even the Lord everyone gives an impression of what they think he looks like.
Now I have seen am impression of the Father and the Son but no one know for sure.
Do you know the history of each of these prophets?
I knew tons of negatives before I was baptized becasue I did my homework I read the History of the Church warts and all and even Walter Martin stuff.
But I had a witness from the Holy Spirit i also learn..
Luke 12: 12
12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
John 14: 26
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Yet the world will contend and many will add themselves to this camp when they deny the power of the Holy Ghost!!
2 Nephi 28
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/2_ne/28/4#4
4 And they shall contend one with another; and their priests shall contend one with another, and they shall teach with their learning, and deny the Holy Ghost, which giveth utterance.
5 And they deny the power of God, the Holy One of Israel; and they say unto the people: Hearken unto us, and hear ye our precept; for behold there is no God today, for the Lord and the Redeemer hath done his work, and he hath given his power unto men;
Had a mormon tell me...I shouldn't get all wrapped up in Jesus..as He wasn't all that important.
Had a bishop of LDS, Inc....tell me he had been working in his yard digging out "nigger heads"...his name for rocks.
I can give you many other examples...if you want.
LDS, Inc is about $$$ plain and simple. Started with J. Smith...and continues today.
Oh boy! Yet another Mormon-bashing thread! YIPPEE !!!
Glad to hear you made eagle. However, facts are that in 1974 a black boy was denied the position of senior patrol leader solely because he was black. The ombudsman for the state said Mormon "troop policy is that in order for a scout to become a patrol leader, he must be a deacon's quorum president in the LDS Church. Since the boy cannot hold the priesthood, he cannot become a patrol leader." (July 18, 1974, the Salt Lake Tribune). In fact, further investigation at the time showed that all non-mormon boys were barred from lds sponsored troops as well ( (Dialogue, Autumn 1981, vol. 14, no. 3, p. 20).
The NAACP took the mormon church and BSA to court - but the mormon church quickly reversed its policy. All because the mormon church had effectively intergrated its troops with Aaronic Priesthood groups.
So before you toot the horn too loudly, lds troops have a history of racial discrimination. So the instance of racial discrimination described by Caipirabob is not out of the realm. I certainly hope it is an outlier Rip, but you can't deny the past.
You are going to find all kinds of flaws if you look for them.
Did you ever have any positive impressions dealing with LDS members?
So you had a friend that was Mormon and so you actually had heard about the Mormon Church?
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No I had not heard about the Church he just gave me the book and said read it he was new and said little just to read the mark passages, in the mean time we had a fallen out!
It was about a year later and I was going to throw the book out when I stood over the wastepaper basket and a small voice prompted told me to read the mark passage in the back of the Book
Moroni 10
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moro/10
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.
Stand out and tell us all how we are all wrong and that the LDS church is the only true Christian Church.
....don’t need to for Jesus Christ is at the head, nuff Said!:)
How many ways has it been done already in LDS, Inc's past? Thousands?
I figure they have teams of re-writer's and shredders.....
But since the internet...they have had a tougher time of it. Members are questioning and prospective recruits are researching LDS, Inc...and learning the truth.
Like their main prophets revelations, prophesy, "scripture" whatever you prefer to call it...about American Indians, and American blacks.
They are in a bind here...and they have to know it. On one hand they have stuff named after a BIG prophet named Young...but on the other hand they have to spin like tops and make excuses..day after day, year after year...for one of their MAIN LEADERS.
It's got to grind on the money dudes inside LDS, Inc. I bet in private they cuss his name...and wish he had not said what he believed....
It's sad actually..........
such is the nature of shake and bake revelation as well as the easy way of discarding formerly popular revelation that has fallen to disrepute in the modern era.
I am very serious here.
Hmmm...in MY experience of living around and among mormons for years, mormons don't live any better lives than any other group of people. There are frauds aplenty, liars, thieves, drunks, pedophiles and just plain, ordinary fallible and troubled folks among mormons.
The doctrine is so unbelievable unBiblical and non-Christian that the mormon public relations team has decided to emphasize the manufactured false image that the general public including the folks at FR has, in large part, bought into for years.
From Every Member Online a Cyber Missionary
"No doubt the senior brethren are aware of the enormous potential of hundreds of thousands of Latter-day Saint volunteers of all ages serving with their home computers, tithing a portion of their online time to cyber missionary work, eventually touching the lives of perhaps millions of non-members all over the world, in many different languages. My personal opinion is that LDS cyber missionaries have done their job if all they do is encourage people to visit http://www.mormon.org. There in that quiet inspired place, safe from the virtual turmoil almost everywhere else, the Holy Spirit can reach and teach those who share our precious days on earth. Should we labor all our years crying repentance all over CyberSpace and help bring only one soul unto Christ, we are promised much joy in heaven.
LDS1.org has dozens of prepared responses for inexperienced missionaries to copy and paste elsewhere until their confidence is sure that the Spirit will guide their fingertips on the keyboard if they will only keep calm in the face of sometimes vicious attacks as the war of words rages on towards its post-Millennial climax. I have found that every hostile comment is an opportunity for seasoned teachers of righteousness to calmly teach a gospel principle, and leave a hyperlink to mormon.org that may remain visible for many months. The Spirit can guide truth seekers to those links long after the poster has moved on to other fields.
Hugely encouraged by Elder Ballard, today's LDS Cyber Missionaries in my opinion are pioneers, exploring new territory, finding new places to reach and teach God's children. I sometimes think of Cyber Missionary work as crossing the bridge to some dark corner of the Spirit Prison, doing our very best there, gaining some souls, losing others, then going home for a while to rest and recreate in the Paradise Father has made for those who love Him. Then going back again time after time as we do our part to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ on our watch…"
Sounds like someone speaking who thinks they are above everyone else!
LDS, Inc is about $$$ plain and simple.
I disagree here. Certainly there are plenty of funds required to support the church’s worldwide mission, but those funds are a means to an end.
The church does have employees, of course, but I don’t think you will find individuals getting exorbitantly rich from church funds.
Like 4 Billion for a downtown shopping district in SLC? The apostles and president - all sit on various boards of businesses (owned and operated by mormons) and receive 6 figure salaries. How many boards did the apostle Peter sit on Norm? If this is the model of the early church, why did it get left out? How many tents has Monson sewn lately?
Can you also explain the giving in the low millions...when LDS, Inc has reportedly in the range of 30-60 BILLION in assets....?
May I remind you that....ONE BILLION is 1,000 MILLION!!....So that extrapolates to 30,000 to 60,000 MILLION dollars.
You throw out that your church has employee's? Do you realize how much your church taps their members to do free work?
Do YOU realize....the people in LDS, Inc...that ARE making large amounts of money...based on the LDS, Inc....businesses?
Do you realize that certain bishops are listed as owners of LARGE tracts of land?
Normandy.....do some research with an open mind, my FRiend.
Having been deeply involved with the LdS Scouting program for quite sometime, IMO, your son will be better off if the leadership behaved as you described. They don’t “get it”.
The LdS Scouting program is an ancillary program designed to support their priesthood program. The priesthood program has ultimate priority over Scouting.
“Of course LDS are Christians LDS are followers Jesus Christ as well as servants of Jesus Christ!.”
Do Mormons believe that Jesus is truly God?
Would you not like a true accounting of what actually....LDS, Inc owns and runs.
IOW, are you not interested in the books.
And if you aren't, why not?
And why aren't the books an open book....to members?
I stand by my statement.....J. Smith was about $$..and it's always been that way.
The bible..isn't wrong FRiend...when it spoke about $$. The love of "it"...is the ROOT of all EVIL!
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