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Why do you think that a person who believes what the church teaches but loves their money more than they love God, and who lacks the faith to obey a very simple commandment (which actually promises that those who keep it will be blessed for it) should be entitled to the greatest blessings available through the church?

My blessings come through CHRIST. This is the second time there has been a post putting the mormon church above HIM.

Nothing new in that. Just substitute "Joseph Smith" for "church".

Expecting a devout Mormon to comprehend the notion of God's Grace is doomed to fail. The teaching of MormonISM makes God a debtor to reward the works of the mormonism adherent. That is the opposite of Salvation by God's Grace in Christ Jesus. Mormonism teaches that the god of this Earth worked his way to the attributes of godhood and was appionted to be the god over the human race by a council of gods. That they teach a council of gods appointed God The Father means immediately that the god of mormonism is inferiror to the other gods who appoint. But to expect a devout Mormon to comprehend this heresy they endorse is folly. After all, they too are 'earning the attributes of godhood' don'tchaknow. I don't want Mitt Romney using our tax dollars to earn his godhood.

Below are but a few documentation references from Mormonism sources showing this heresy:

Those who gain exaltation, having thus enjoyed the fullness of eternal progression, become like God. It should be realized that God is not progressing in knowledge, truth, virtue, wisdom, or any of the attributes of godliness. He has already gained these things in their fullness. But he is progressing in the sense that his creations increase, his dominions expand, his spirit offspring multiply, and more kingdoms are added to his domains. (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp. 5-10.)
"We were begotten by our Father in Heaven; the person of our Father in Heaven was begotten on a previous heavenly world by His Father; and again, He was begotten by a still more ancient Father; and so on, from generation to generation, ... we wonder in our minds, how far back the genealogy extends, and how the first world was formed, and the first father was begotten" (Orson Pratt, The Seer, p.132).
"Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith.... The matter that seems such a mystery is the statement that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man. This is one of the mysteries.... The Prophet taught that our Father had a Father and so on. Is not this a reasonable thought, especially when we remember that the promises are made to us that we may become like him?" (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp.10, 12).
In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it. (Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 5, 1844)

Smith's worldview of time as it pertains to the gods: Smith believed in a "beginning" that was operative before the Mormon plan to the create this world. The question becomes, who is the head of the Gods as pertains to this ‘council of gods?

In the very beginning the Bible shows there is a plurality of Gods beyond the power of refutation. It is a great subject I am dwelling on. The word Eloheim ought to be in the plural all the way through--Gods. The heads of the Gods appointed ONE God for us... (Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 372)

According to Smith's worldview, "the heads of the Gods appointed one God for us." Smith and LDS inc teach 'eternal progression', in direct contradiction to what the Bible teaches. Mormonism is not even close to Christianity though it is framed in our day as a christianity lookalike. In fact if one delves into the heretical teachings of that religion, Mormonism is actually anathema to Biblical Christianity.

Why do you think that a person who believes what the church teaches but loves their money more than they love God, and who lacks the faith to obey a very simple commandment (which actually promises that those who keep it will be blessed for it) should be entitled to the greatest blessings available through the church?
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Will be blessed

Aint yet

Here again Joey Smith and his cohorts has corrupted the Word of God

As I recall the Christian Bible has something to say about that “person” also

Something about it being a curse to try to buy the power of God (blessing)

Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God. Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.” Acts 8:20-23

And what did the LORD Jesus Chr4ist say about the love of money and trying to bribe god with it...

“No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”

The Pharisees ande the Mormon CEOs, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.

He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God’s sight.Luke 16:13-15

And Isaiah said that the blessings of God are FREE.

In the Book of Isaiah God said

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David. Isaiah 55:1-3

Consider the difference between the phrases:
“through the church”
and
“from the church”

I deliberately said “through the church” because those blessings come FROM God. The church is just the means of delivering them as God directs. Since when is the servant greater than the master?