” They have everything to do with it, and you know it. Of course the apologist in you cannot acknowledge it but it is fact all the same.”
-Are we still talking about surveys? Try not read into what I “ought to know.” I am no apologist but a believer in Jesus Christ’s Restored Gospel and know the truth through the power of The Holy Spirit “...who will teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance.”
“Sing it from the highest mountain for all I care.”
-We do and have a very active proselytizing program that doesn’t just cover the mountains but the whole earth. you should know that.
“It won’t make the BOM real...”
-I can send you a real copy for you to read and PRAY about... Not that I am putting stock in your desire to do so.
“...it won’t make Smith a prophet...”
-There are alot of Smiths out there but we will assume you reference Joseph Smith so, You are right! A survey’s results very rarely influence a person’s divine calling. let’s stick to the subject of the thread... that being the survey results.
“BTW the whole “pill, medical help”, whatever thing is really played out, you guys really are playing the lower denominator. I would expect better from those who belong to the “true church” on their way to exaltation...”
-what guys? it was just me and if someone else noticed potential emotional instability of your posts then maybe you need to face those facts. I find the derision in your post comical as a “true christian” pointing out the behaviors of a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, i.e. The True Church.... my my how “christian” (not Christian) of you and all the other Anti-Mormon Freepers who act so “christian” by demeaning everything about another’s beliefs. Isn’t it just a tad hypocritical to be trying to sway the argument in that way when really there is only a survey in which Mormons demonstrated a greater knowledge of things Christian than the self-named “christians did. Those are the facts that you need to deal with.
I really don't know how praying can all of the sudden make tangible the non existent. Will my prayers bring the charaters and worlds of the Lord of the Rings come to life as well? God (the real one and only one) deals in reality not myth and fiction something for which I am thankful.
That is why I trust the Bible for prayer AND reason support it. I can go to Rome or Jerusalem or talk to the descendants of the Israelites or Greeks and such...
As for the rest of your post well at least you acknowledged the sales for is doing exactly what I said.
I'll ignore the rest of the standard LDS apologist bilge...
The whole earth? (Not really)
Absent from communist & almost all Muslim countries. Mormon temples don't exist in the overwhelming vast majority of most countries. And even in Africa, due to a lack of history there (missionaries surprisingly missing there until 30 years ago), gaping gaps exist in Mormon missions.
And yes, the Mormons are in India, but not very prominent in most places.
Of course, with Mormon "prophets" and other general authorities on record saying what they said about blacks and black skin, of course, that's all "understandable."
Dang!
Did I miss the good stuff? AGAIN???
Is that magically going to put Nephite ruins in Central America (or Baja Californian, or Peru, or N. America, or the Malaysian Pennisula)
my my how “christian” (not Christian) of you and all the other Anti-Mormon Freepers who act so “christian” by demeaning everything about another’s beliefs.
Care to comment on what your MORMON leaders say about Christians -
"...all the priests who adhere to the sectarian religions of the day with all their followers, without one exception, receive their portion with the devil and his angels."
- Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. , The Elders Journal, v. 1, no. 4, p. 60
"With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world."
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 8, p. 199
"What! Are Christians ignorant? Yes, as ignorant of the things of God as the brute beast."
- Prophet John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, v. 13, p. 225
“... all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ.... in large part the worship of apostate Christendom is performed in ignorance, as much so as was the worship of the Athenians who bowed the Unknown Gods.”
- Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pp. 269, 374-375
Yep killer, tell me about the how 'christian' the mormon church is in demeaning another's belief eh?