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Posted on 10/03/2011 10:07:33 AM PDT by 47samurai
You can not subscribe to the Religious posts...I steer clear of em for the most part
Its still good
Maybe you (we) did. Maybe this is the tribulation. It sure feels like it. Just read the news.
All our money goes to our enemies. Our Leaders are all perverts.
Hmmmm.... Guess you won't like heaven very much.
Don’t worry. It will be unmistakable. It really is one of those “You’ll know it when you see it” events.
Your post points out why the seemingly intentionally ambiguous descriptions of his faith. One can infer something he is not really saying, as in the example you give.
“Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble...”
One God! True God to true God only! Seek and you will find!
John3:
3:16 For God so loved the world, as to give his Only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting.
3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him.
3:18 He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
1 John 4
4:1 Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 4:2 By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 4:3 And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God. And this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh: and he is now already in the world.
I’m humble.
Ask me.
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Consubstantialis Patri? (Consubstantial with the Father?) That is a rather important point.
but in the eyes of some of my more dogmatic brethren
The LDS church doesn't have dogma? There's nothing wrong with dogma; I don't know why so many believers go along with the secular world's successful efforts to make it a perjorative word. I don't see the point of confessing a religion if there is no dogma. Otherwise you end up with the Church Of Nice Socialism.
I am a heretic
You're only a heretic if you were baptized in or professed belief in one of the traditional branches of Christianity and then rejected those beliefs. So if you grew up LDS you don't qualify. :-)
Strictly speaking, you're more likely to termed a "pagan" (if that makes you feel any better :-)) since most Christian religions do not recognize LDS baptism as valid since it is not done according to the Trinitarian formula.
You should know that they consider the Bible corrupt and untrustworthy and that the book of Mormon as the only trustworthy scriptures.
You should know that Mormon doctrine teaches that Jesus died only for the sins of Adam ("Original Sin") and for the rest he only shows the "Way of Salvation". You should know that Mormon doctrine is that in order to be saved you must believe upon Joseph Smith and Jesus. Not upon the Lord Jesus Christ alone.
Women should know that they will be Eternally Pregnant under Mormon doctrine and that their husbands have to call them to heaven or they will not be saved.
Just so you will know the Gospel is different; here is a quote from the Mormon "Journal of Discourses":
"Now, we will take the case of an individual who has broken all the laws of God and perhaps all the laws of man, and finally has shed the blood of a fellow-creature, and is condemned by the laws of man to die... A minister will come a preach to him, and tell him that all he has to do is to cast his soul on Jesus; that he has just to believe that Christ died for him ..so that he will have the fruits of righteousness and peace. ...the man [the criminal] believes this, he confesses Christ with his lips and acknowledges him with his tongue, and straightway is strung up between the heavens and the earth, and choked to death; his spirit is forced out of his body, and ushered into the presence of the eternal Father to stand before his spotless throne, and is deemed fit to dwell in the society of the pure and holy ones on high. That is according to the modern Gospel [the Bible], but not according to the ancient Gospel of Jesus Christ [Mormonism]..." LDS Prophet and President Charles W. Penrose, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 21, p. 84, 1880.
It may be better for everyone if we define our salvation as something between us and God and not what others think. It is usually best to not even give the self-proclaimed judges of who is or isn’t a Christian a second thought. It usually reflects more of themselves as it does who you are.
Take it up with Mr Robinson. His site, and part of its purpose is religious discussion.
Case and point, eh?
I post this ONLY for 1 reason....We MUST stop this sniping and fighting and realize we have far more in common that what separates us and we MUST work together to accomplish what we ALL want to do....and if you are saying, “I will never vote for so-and-so because I don’t believe in their religious doctrines,” means we will lose in 2012. Lets pull together.
I have just one question. Is Jesus the one true and only God who created the world or is He a brother of Lucifer? It makes a difference on who your Jesus is.
Can do, thanks for the heads up. I just always click “latest posts” because it is convenient.
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