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To: K-Ben-K; All
The point is that many an Anti-Mormon will state true facts...

Ah, good so far.

... in a way that the thought becomes a lie.

Hmm...(So there's degrees of truth within the "rainbow" of truth...ranging from truly true to truly false...?)

(Interestin' def of "truth" there...but consistent with Mormonism)

BTW...tell us what you think of this Joseph Smithism:

To be damned: ...turn to a modern dictionary, and you will see "damnation" defined as "exclusion from divine mercy; condemnation to eternal punishment." In common usage the word has no other sense. http://www.what-the-hell-is-hell.com/HellEncyclopedia/WordDamn.htm

That site says that originally "damn" as an English word = "Loss, harm" & then came to mean "judgment upon."

Smith came along and took the English word "dam" and then said that "damnation" simply = "dammed up"...in other words, controlled for a period of time prior to release.

IOW, even though the Book of Mormon regularly talked about eternal and everlasting hell...he then in the early 1830s switched it to a temporary state (in the D&C).

So how about taking a true word ("dam") and superimposing it falsely upon another word ("damnation") -- and then claiming that adjectives "everlasting" doesn't mean "everlasting" after all?

(There ya go, all...that's the kind of verbal gymnastics' games that Mormons play)

79 posted on 04/14/2011 1:43:04 PM PDT by Colofornian
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81 posted on 04/14/2011 2:19:54 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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