Grig, I’m with you. There are many threads here that don’t interest me. And? So what? I just don’t look at them.
I do not demand orthodoxy of others, and after the tremendous outpouring of support, money, moral support, feet on the ground, and general goodwill of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City for Prop 8 here in California, I embrace Mormons as righteous citizens of the first order.
None is righteous: no, not one.
****I embrace Mormons as righteous citizens of the first order.****
That may work in the Political world but not in true Christianity.
When Christian believer get together, there is common religious beliefs and ground they can work with. Not so when Mormons want to join.
Case in Point...
When Cyrus wanted to rebuild the temple of Jerusalem he sent the Heberew People back into the land to do the job. The STRANGERS occupieing the land wanted to help with this rebuilding as they claimed to worship the same God. They were rebuffed.
Ezr 4:1 ¶ Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;
Ezr 4:2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye [do]; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
Ezr 4:3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
As you can see, Mormons can not claim to be Christian either.
I embrace Mormons as righteous citizens of the first order.
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WOW
Well since you introduced politics into a religious thread...
Whats the chance that those same mormons will vote for the female Sarah Palin for president when she beats their boy, Williard Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination ???