Posted on 06/30/2011 12:33:48 PM PDT by Colofornian
...The church's assets are thought to be worth more than $30 billion.
...The church reportedly receives more than $5 billion in tithes every year.
The church also has substantial real estate and for-profit business investments, managed by Deseret Management Corp. The company is one of the largest owners of farm and ranch land in the U.S. It owns the country's largest nut producer, AgReserves, Inc., the 14th largest radio chain, Bonneville International Corp...
Economic entrepreneurialism is...part of Mormon doctrine — 88 of...112 revelations received by... founder Joseph Smith deal with fiscal matters.
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The Twilight saga is actually about the Mormon belief in eternal marriage.
The Twilight series, by Mormon author Stephanie Meyers, is an allegory for the Mormon concept of "celestial marriage" - the belief that a couple that is "sealed" in a Mormon temple will stay bound together forever...
Edward and Bella's bond is sealed when Edward bites Bella. As with a Mormon marriage, there's no turning back for Bella, who is transformed into a vampire for eternity.
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The Mormon church thinks polygamy might be okay in the afterlife.
...(the official Mormon church)...still believes...the divine principle of plural marriage may apply in heaven. In the case of death or divorce, Mormon men can be sealed to another wife and all of their celestial marriages will be honored in eternity.
The LDS...tried to distance itself from...40,000 fundamentalist Mormons who still practice polygamy...
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Mormons wear special undergarments called a "temple garment"...designed to give "protection against temptation and evil."
Many Mormons believe the underwear provides spiritual protection.
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Mormons believe that when Jesus returns, he's coming to the U.S.
Mormons believe...all the...Christian churches fell into apostasy...
...Jesus will personally return to reign over a paradisaical Kingdom on earth. His headquarters will be at the...temple in Jackson County, Missouri...
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I feel sorry for you.”
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Actually he or she doesnt but it does sound so “sweet” for her little girlfriends and any lurkers...
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Very Christlike. Applause.
HUGE difference there Benny boy. There is plenty of evidence for the names, places and events in the Bible and NOTHING, not a SINGLE thing has turned up to prove the BoM.
The purpose of Biblical Archeology (if you knew anything about the subject) is to show that there was a material culture that supports the Bible and it does that quite well. No archeologist expects to locate the Ark, probably because most know it was likely destroyed. There is great evidence for the material culture and even for specific people like Kind David, in the Bible.
But again, NOT A SINGLE THING to support even the idea of a Nephite or Lamanite material culture. So there again, you fail.
Godzilla is well verse in Mormonism and isn’t deranged at all. He knows Mormonism better than many LDS as you have so easily proven.
Hate to burst your bubble (no I don’t) but Nana’s facts are well known about Smith’s polygamy. Even your own scholars admit to them.
Excellent. I hope lurkers are reading these.
Best of luck to you. Carry on! I respect you so much.
You dont have to be jealous little girl
Just open the Christian Bible and read it...
all you ever need to know about my salvation, my life and success and my certain future in Heaven with God worshipping the LORD Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God forever is in there
As for you kid you too will prosper and be in good health if you prosper in your soul by reading the Word of God, the Bible 3 John 1:2
That diet of mormon doctrine sans the Word of God will just kill you spiritually
The Mormons still pursue my wife and I twenty years after we walked out.
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Sounds about right. I had some come to our house in San Diego and when they found out I was an exmo brought the Bishop by and sent the Visiting teachers over claiming that I was still on the records, even after I showed them my exit letter. They didn’t even have my last name but kept insisting I was still on the records at that address (I had left several years and addresses before).
Finally had to threaten legal action to stop the harassment (which was handy since hubby was in law school at the time).
I read from the New Testament every day and so my faith grows daily.
God bless you peanut!
And he acts like we haven’t heard this before.
In the end, mormons have feelings, but no facts, evidence or logical argument
to support their wild claims. That leaves lying.
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Bingo.
And glad to be back.
I find it appalling there are people like you who claim to be Christian but act nothing like it.
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And how is that? Do tell. Because it isn’t very Christian to let someone go on believing a lie that will lead them to Hell.
And before you give me the “Jesus never tore down other peoples religions”, we can prove from the Bible that He did and that we are commanded to fight false teachings wherever we find them and that includes Mormonism.
What wouldn’t be Christian of us, would be to adopt a live and let live policy with the LDS and other non Christians.
This kid doesnt know much about his “chosen” religion...
He or she probavbly hasnt even been through the temple
hasnt been dead dunked for any long dead strangers...
no temple recommend etc
He or she hasnt got up to the “meat” of the religion
That milk teeth stuff is all over this thread
in just about every post...
Well he or she did say that he or she has only had a sunday school teaching job
A helping of follow the profit sung by deceived children every week is not much to go on...
No meat there...
Not trusted yet with anything stronger...
I couldn’t be more happy with my life.
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Yeah, I used to tell myself that lie too when I was LDS.
Truth is, I thought I was happy, but I had no idea what being happy really was until I was saved by Grace.
Now, I really am happy and at peace. What I thought was happiness when I was LDS was only an illusion.
I read from the New Testament every day
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Try reading the scriptures your visiting home teacher didnt assign you...
You know this very well could be PD retread. Same yawn.
Goodbye dear friend.
Good luck with your ministry. You wouldn’t give me an address. Cowardly.
Do you realize that John 1:1 counters LDS theology?
Try NOT being an idiot.
I start at the beginning of Matthew and read all the way to the of Acts and start over.
It proves it. And that’s all there is to it.
I’m done talking to you. You are full of rage. It was funny at first. Now I think you are mentally ill.
PD used that little jib, but so did ramiumpton, Delph, andseveral shorter lived LDS apologists. It would appear it is somethign they’re taught to use as a means to divert from the issue at hand or from answering a question they cannot answer or don’t want to face. Lying to ones self is always present in those who use lying as a means to avoid things.
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