Posted on 10/15/2010 5:39:02 PM PDT by delacoert
Evidently you pay remarkably little attention to the Religion Forum of Free Republic at all - not to I agree with the spirit of your anti-Catholicism at all.
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Are you a Universalist? Or a Mason?No, I am Jew.
>> Yeah, well, unlike you, I don’t sit on Mormon threads bashing other’s beliefs or judge them in every post.<<
Are you so cold as to not care about their eternal future? Do you hate them so bad that you would let them spend eternity in hell rather then try to help them see their error?
>>And loving thy neighbor also means respecting thy neighbor and thus not trying to convert him.<<
So loving our neighbor is to allow them to continue in error and be condemned to hell?
Jewish. That explains it.
And only Mormon companies make the garments.
Seven-Up’s new ad line:
Seven-Up. The un-cola made especially for Mormons and blessed by Joseph Smith.
That is correct. You also have to have and show a special ID card (Temple Recommend) in order to buy them.
I was one of those people. I was thinking of having the family join until I did some further research about Mormonism. The best help I received was coming to Free Republic. I've learned so much thanks to the dedication of the many Freepers here that are committed to the truth. God bless you all!!
Esther 8 v 17:
And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
LOL, I suppose it is two LDS missionaries going door to door.What is your point? I have a "No Soliciting " sign on my door and they skip my house. Maybe they see the mezzusah and don't knock.
Whoop-de-do.
The reward for your lack of spine, discernment, circumspection and prudence in exerting weak‑kneed compromise in casting your ballet will be the continuing knowledge that you betrayed your children and country instead of courageously and stoically voting for a bold‑spirited, conservative, third‑party candidate.
Don't expect the appreciation of history, more likely something like the revolted silence of the world at the silent majority of World War 2 Germans.
Thank you. I think it was around the first century that Jews got into so much trouble proselytizing that they decided the best policy would be “ Live And Let Live”
If Mitt Romney had actually followed the precepts of his own religion while Governor of Massachussetts and as a Republican Presidential candidate, instead of perpetually putting his finger to the wind and periodically embracing political and social schemes completely at odds with his professed Mormonism, perhaps we wouldn't have a light-in-the-loafers crypto-Muslim Marxist in the White House today.
But no, he had to be the stereotypical weathervane politician, shifting with the winds. He has no core values at all, and that even extends to his faith, which is not much faith at all, otherwise he wouldn't have sought to remake it for public consumption. for political purposes.
That's the problem with the bash LDS threads. The bashers generally don't really espouse any kind of doctrine.
1Pe 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
1Pe 3:16 having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.
Rarely have I seen good conduct on these threads. And barely any meekness or fear. I'm not saying that these people in real life aren't like that...they may appear to their friends, neighbors and fellow church goers as great people. But their internet presence is that of a gang of bullies.
They rarely display any fruits of the spirit:
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Gal 5:23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
These threads generally are full of people high fiving each other over who can slam LDS the most...and often individual LDS.
One of the biblical requirements for being an elder in the God's church is:
1Ti 3:7 Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
I think it's clear that most of the hardcore group of LDS bashers believe that the LDS are "outside". I'm also equally sure that the LDS do NOT have good testimony about them.
Tit 3:1 Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, Tit 3:2 to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.
Tit 3:3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.
Tit 3:4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
Tit 3:5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
Tit 3:6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
They seem not to understand that yelling and screaming that someone is a sinner/wrong/goingtohell isn't the biblically prescribed way to talk to those they consider to be outside the faith:
2Ti 2:24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,
2Ti 2:25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,
The thing is that it's possible to be kind to anyone...even if we don't believe what they believe.
According to the story line it was real fear, because of the edict that went out from Mordecai in the name of the king, that all enemies of the Jews be destroyed.
Many decided to become Jews rather than face destruction.
Where do you fall on the spectrum of Judaism? You don’t really sound Orthodox, no offense intended if you actually are.
I have longtime close friends, a married couple, who attend a Reform Temple, one more of a lapsed Catholic who goes because of his wife, with the wife being the daughter of devout Orthodox Russian immigrants. He’s always been politically conservative, she’s never been hostile but hasn’t realy been conservative. She’s slowly returning to the faith of her parents and her politics are likewise shifting.
How a faith grounded in what we know as the Old Testament ever became so ... what, watered down?, as some Temples are, is beyond me. I suspect they as a group don’t really believe deep down, but Temple rather serves as a touchstone for ethnic identity.
Is this anywhere near actuality or am I wide of the mark?
Just ask them where the historical archeological evidence for Joseph Smith’s prophecies actually are?
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