Posted on 11/10/2012 7:59:09 AM PST by Colofornian
MessageToEagle.com - Normally, as a matter of personal preference I dont get into politics, but when we have a presidential campaign that begins to cross over into the strange twilight zone of religious weirdness that centers on the one person whos going to control the most powerful government and army on the face of the earth, well, it brings up some unusual scenarios to wonder about.
It is being reported in the media today that former presidential candidate Mitt Romney only wrote a victory speech for Election Day; presumably a harried, last minute scramble to revise his speech was being suggested as the reason behind the Romney-Ryan campaigns sluggish reluctance to concede their partys unthinkable defeat.
Electoral Votes:
Barack Obama: 303 Mitt Romney: 206
Curiously, one has to wonder whether it was Romneys obsession with polls and tracking data that lead to this overextension of hubris; his unshakable faith that he would be the next president of the United Statesor could it have been Romneys Mormon faith itself that lead him to believe victory was all but assured by some divine mandate?
Ascending to the office of the presidency has always been a coveted part of the mission of the Mormon Church, which began with its founder Joseph Smith, who as a young man experienced a close encounter with a being from another planet named Moroni, who descended from the heavens and instructed Smith to found a new religion (as seen on History Channels Ancient Aliens, S3E01)today, in Ufology, such a happenstance would likely be classified as a contactee CE5 level event.
I saw a pillar of light . . . which descended gradually until it fell upon me Joseph Smith.
In 1844 Joseph Smith, an apparent UFO contactee and the founder of the Mormon Church, brazenly launched his own political campaign for President of the United States. His stated goal was to overthrow the U.S. Constitution, and bring about a Mormon theocracy to the Nation.
Smiths candidacy was always long shot, but that didnt stop him from rallying his people to help clinch his destiny to be an independent commander in chief of the army of God.
Smith prophesied that if the U.S. Congress did not bow to his demands that they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them. He foresaw the emergence of the one Mighty and Stronga leader who would set in order the house of God.
Smiths call for a theodemocracy where God and his people hold the power to conduct the affairs of men in righteous matters evidently did not sit well with the majority of voters in the United States, and brought down a lot of bad press and hostility upon the Mormons. Smiths presidential campaign was cut short while he was sitting in jail facing charges of treason and inciting a riot; an angry mob broke into the jailhouse and brought him to justice by shooting him to death.
Out of this early chapter of U.S. history developed what has became known in the Mormon Church as the White Horse Prophecya controversial prediction that someday a great Mormon leader, who, at a time when the U.S. Constitution hangs like a thread as fine as a silk fiber, would be elected President.
I know a little bit about Mormonism and their beliefs. I grew up and lived in Salt Lake City most all my life, I sat through many days of LDS seminary at public schools, and I also attended a private Mormon school as a teenager.
My family has roots in the Mormon pioneer heritage and early history. My ancestors, the Neffs, came to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. My great-great-great-grandfather John Neff, Sr. settled Neffs canyon in East Millcreek, Utah. He was also a close friend of Brigham Young and accompanied him into Northern Utah to proselyte amongst the Native Americans there. His daughter, Mary Ann Neff, married the notorious Mormon gunslinger and Utah folkhero Orrin Porter Rockwell.
Orrin Porter Rockwell was one scary-looking son of a bitch . . .
Rockwell served as a loyal henchman to Church founders Joseph Smith Jr. and Brigham Youngand was affectionately nick-named Ol Port the Destroying Angel of Mormondom.
In his despicable and sordid history, Ol Port was intimately connected to political assassinations, revenge-killings, and gruesome Indian massacres. Hes praised for having avenged the Prophet Joseph Smiths murder by shooting one of the conspirators with his musket while riding astride a horse.
There have been a few failed attempts in various movies and books to elevate the psychopath to the status of a gritty American hero of the old west fortunately, none of them have really stuck.
A few of the many curious tenants of Mormonism I heard growing up in Salt Lake City were as follows . . .
*Cain, the killer of his brother Abel, is alive and wanders the earth, wearing no clothing but being covered by hair, and that LDS Church apostle David W. Patten encountered him once; and that reported sightings of Bigfoot can be explained by this story.
*Blacks were neutral in the War in Heaven, and that is why they were not allowed to hold the Mormon priesthood before 1978.
*Albert Einstein supposedly once said that LDS Church apostle James E. Talmage was the smartest man he had ever met.
*The Second Coming was imminent, and when I was age 25 I would be living in the Last Days (Im in my 40s now).
And heres where Mitt Romneys presidential candidacy enters the picture
I remember my 7th grade LDS seminary teacher sermonizing about the signs of the Last Days.
One of his favorite signs that he liked to talk about was that a great Mormon leader would be elected President of the United States, and this would be a major indication that the Last Days were imminent, e.g. the White Horse Prophecy.
Some say that the White Horse Prophecy was written by Joseph Smith himself, while others dispute that claim. According to the Salt Lake City Tribune:
The disputed prophecy was recorded in a diary entry of a Mormon who had heard the tale from two men who were with Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, Ill. when he supposedly declared the prophecy. You will see the Constitution of the United States almost destroyed, the diary entry quotes Smith as saying. It will hang like a thread as fine as a silk fiber.
Not only will the Mormons save the Constitution, under the prediction, but the prophecy goes further, insinuating that Mormons will control the government.
Power will be given to the White Horse to rebuke the nations afar off, and you obey it, for the laws go forth from Zion, the prophecy says.
Publicly, the Mormon Church doesnt officially endorse the White Horse Prophecy as doctrine, and will deny anything to do with it (just as Romney has whenever its been brought up)however, theres a telling piece of Mormon dogma that people may find disturbing. It was set in place by Joseph Smith himself, and is referred to as lying for the Lord.
As an act of self preservation or to protect the Mormon Church, it is doctrinally permissive to lie about your beliefs or intentions. In other words the ends justify the means. Smith did it with regard to his polygamous lifestyle. Brigham Young did it when he claimed that only Paiute Indians were responsible for the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Over and over again, Mitt Romney marginalized his devout Mormon background, and downplayed its significance throughout his entire campaign. But in the 1970s the Cougar Club at Brigham Young University declared their admiration of Mitt and predicted that hed be the president of the United States one day. According to an article on Salon.com:
the Cougar Club the all male, all white social club at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City (blacks were excluded from full membership in the Mormon church until 1978) was humming with talk that its president, Mitt Romney, would become the first Mormon president of the United States. If not Mitt, then who? was the ubiquitous slogan within the elite organization. The pious world of BYU was expected to spawn the man who would lead the Mormons into the White House and fulfill the prophecies of the churchs founder, Joseph Smith Jr., which Romney has avidly sought to realize.
With all this in mind, its hard not to look back and wonder . . .
Could Mitt Romney have been intending to run the United States as a Mormon theocratic state, as fortold by his Churchs prophet Joseph Smith?
Would a President Romney have executed the will of the people of the United States, and answered to the peopleor would he only answer to God via the hierarchy of the Mormon Church?
What if a revelation or vision was received by the current President of the LDS Church (or Prophet), and passed on to President Romney as a directive from God?would Romney have executed that directive, even if it had gone against the will of the U.S. people, or the World?
Thankfully, this is probably one mystery well never know the answer to . . .
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And, after each one of these answers I gave you was one of my own.
Am I to be denied answers from you?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1841913/posts?page=109#109
“Henceforth, you and your co-FR-theologians shall be known as the FR Flying Inmans, because in a secular setting you make a big fuss out of religion, and are a threat to hijack.”
Stipulate all you want. Build your strawnman as tall as you'd like.
You not intimidate me, shame me, or scare me.
You want a MORMON to win?
Simple: put up a better one than Mitt.
Feel all you want, but I doubt that completing Psyche 101 entitles you to make such a precise diagnosis without a lot more session hours of study.
Sometimes a cigar really is a cigar.
Dave, you earlier said there were many paths - Jesus said only one - him and that path was narrow - not broad like you appear to subscribe to. BTW, your description above is not scriptural, but confused.
BOING!!!
Leap right over and IGNORE what B.Y. said about YOU; Sandy!
Whistling past the MORMON graveyard is NOT going to help when you stand before Joseph Smith and give answer to HIS questions!
Well; many of your ilk have indicated they'd rather DIE than have them be MUSLIM!!!
If you think it'll help; then state it.
Until then; we have your WORDS which you've written for ALL to see.
So you don’t judge, funny thing is that God said we are to judge everything against His Word.
I can not condemn you to hell - heaven or hell its your choice and your’s alone. We go to heave or hell of our own free will.
Jesus spoke truth - He said the was only one way.
psst, Have you ever read what Jesus said? If He wasn’t ‘harassing people” they wouldn’t have crucified Him.
Really, now look at the disciples, they preached and people rioted - I’d call that big time harassment.
Actually about a month ago I sat next to 2 of them in McDonalds...
we had quite a chat ..
I told them about Joseph Smith and his adultry and his lies and they told me I was right...
They hadnt known long about the treuth but I knew way too much for them to deny it...
some of the things I said didnt go over too well but they promised to look up what I said in the internet...
they were strangers to one another having only just got together 2 days before...
One was finishing his ordeal the other was had 6 months time in...
they told me the companions and “mission” places are changed every 6 weeks right now...
its something new
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
I said that they wouldnt get to know their companion very well before theyhad to move on...
They admitted it was lonely not being able to make vlose friends and then always having a stranger every 6 weeks...
I told them what I knew of MTC and that got their attention...
they said they were told thaty was secret sacred...
I told them what had happened when they went “through the temple’
They wanted to know how I just a “Gentile” would know what was special and secret and sacred to them only
I suggested they search the Internet at the public library..
they said they would...
I dont think they are not long for the world of Mormonism
especially the one who has finished his mission with no wet ones to his record...
I asked how they could afford to eat at McDonalds
they said they were getting a lot more money right now...
bet that changed at midnight Nov 6-7..
and of course I preached at length about who Jesus is and what He did for us and that they needed to get saved if they wanted to go to Heaven and not Hell..
even bright young Mormon boys have a right to know who Jesus is and Him crucified..
...and I think this was the only time that some silly butt mormon kid wet behind the ears and ignorant of the things of God didnt challenge me and my right to preach because I was a woman and didnt have a pesthood entitlement..
They listened and I prayed a lot silently as I preached..
Now Im an old hand at street preaching ...
Get to the guts of the Bible and dont waste time...
sometimes you only have a moment or 2
but they had just sat down with their food and so had I
God sent those boys into that McDonalds to hear about Him not the weather and not an argument...
each time I got their attention with their doctrines and beliefs I let them know what was true in the Bible that proved that bit wrong...
I showed them that they really had no foundation for their own beliefs...
well what exactly did you say Nana ???
It was one of those times you just open your mouth and let the Holy Spirit of God fill it...
It was one of those God ordained moments that make you go home and cry because God used you to speak His Words...
which I later did just that and prayed for them as I do all the time for all the Mormons trapped in that demonic cult...
They even gave me their first names...
But they told me they were not allowed to talk about Romney or the election or say who they were voting for...
I didnt press them...
But I did tell them that Romney was not the savior of America to which they agreed...
I wanted a good solid lead in to Who was and it was smooth sailing from then on...
They were hungry for God...
If ever there was a time for a mighty harvest of Mormon souls it would be now...
Their house is built on sand and it has fallen from under them
Hateful ???
What would have been hateful would have been to leave those 2 lost boys sinking in their damnable cults beliefs...
Wow!
Now EVERYthing is excluded; except for religion.
Ask them which "translation" is more valid. Feel free to use Elsie's provided material as a starting point.
Tell me, what precisely is "hateful" in posts such as I'm pinging you to here? Elsie provides demonstration of Joseph Smith's tampering with scripture --- which is then passed off as not only "word of God" by Mormons, but attempts to supplant those texts coming many long centuries before their "religion" first arose in NY State.
I see cogent argument or discussion in much of what the "anti's" bring. Documented evidence, no less, much of the time. Where on this thread PRECISELY do you see "hate" aimed at Mormons in general? The mocking photos posted? The context they are used in tells another story.
Simply terming criticisms "hateful" appears to me to be deflection from what issues are actually being discussed, along the lines of shooting clumsily aimed spitwads towards posters whom you've claimed you hold no respect for(?).
Regardless of your own estimation or opinion of others here (whom you do appear to be objecting to them criticizing Mormonism), is there any other objection or question towards the veracity of the information conveyed?
I've followed these types of discussions for some years now. Most of the objections look like just so much hand waving, to me, when they are not of the personalized attack sort, stealthily crafted those attacks at times may be...
Brother; we can help you with that!!
Oh, you don't see US doing anything like that?
It's because you and your buds, apparently, do SO much of it that we feel no need to do so.
Therefore; give the lurkers a few links pointing out where YOU have done what you wish WE had done; ok?
Check the list to see if that is permitted them.
Davy, that Bible your keep referring to has the answers you seek, yet do not seem to understand.
Psalm 19
King James Version (KJV)
19 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
You SPOTTED that?
All this time I thought I was using the InvisibleText font!!!
Now you'll probably post a link pointing to it and I'll be all embarassed!
Actually Jesus condemns them to hell. Billy Graham is simply a pragmatist that likes to see his name in print..his compromise of the gospel is not new. It is his way of life.
I am studying the New Testament. Jesus tells many parables to help us get along better with each other and in life. He came down on the Pharisees for being snooty and creepy. He never condemned the little people like me.
Actually Jesus told parables to confuse people ...To stand silent and not warn those headed to hell that they have a false god, a false jesus is not loving it is hatred..
Ill be lurking.
____________________________
Lurking is good kid...
Meanwhile go to a Christian bookstore and buy yopurself a Bible...
ah to read...
and dont just be reader and hearer but be a doer...
Believe what you read...
where shall I begin Nana...
good question anywhere but why not the begining
wheres the beginning Nana
another good question...
Where it says In the beginning...
study up grasshopper...
there’ll be a pop quiz...
you are one lucky grasshopper
you are now a student in the Flying Inman School for Grasshoppers who never learned about the One True God....
You have several dozen or so professors...
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