Posted on 06/30/2011 12:33:48 PM PDT by Colofornian
This is just an extension of the various non-Catholic movements
First Luther says that the fall away happened in the late 1400s, then Baptist push it back to the 300s, then Seventh Day Adventists to the 1st century. And finally Mormons to the time of the Apostles itself. The Jehovah's Witnesses did the same as the Mormons
I know Catholics don't like hearing it, but the only true guide is the Word of God. It is the measuring stick by which one can understand if a person is truly following what God commanded. I can tell Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are way off base simply because they do not accept the points made in Colossians 1 about Christ. (I know because I've asked them.) I know my Sunday School teacher (long ago) was off base when she said the virgin birth was a myth. My argument was she was wrong because it's in the scriptures. On more finer points, when Catholics tell me Mary was sinless and know that can't be because the scriptures tell us (in more than one place) all have sinned.
BTW-That is precisely why people attack the inerrancy and infallibility of the scriptures. They need something to justify their positions.
Jude makes it very clear we are not pronounce judgement on apostates (which is what the Catholic did to poor Luther) but we are only to correct (rebuke) people who are in error. The rest is up to God to deal with them.
Jude 1:9 But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
That’s the trouble with a works-based salvation type religion. The rules get so convoluted, the commandments of the law crush the adherer. Christ took that crushing blow and offers salvation to us freely as a gift. Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Dang!
The dead CAN be resurrected!
What wild search brought THIS thread back into play??
I thought all this discussion happened a few days ago. I missed the 2011 part. Ha!
It easily could have been; since NOTHING ever changes in MORMONland!
Wait!
Should that have been ‘ALWAYS changes’?
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