Posted on 11/10/2012 7:59:09 AM PST by Colofornian
(I'm not sure it does any good to cite the book of Acts as authoritative to Dave; if he believes Swedenborg, then he doesn't deem it as "inspired")
Christians are not to act like those unsaved on the left.
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You want they should act like the unsaved on the right ???
He doesn’t have to like and and he’s not obligated to believe it.
God isn’t going to force Himself on anyone who doesn’t want Him.
Sounds somewhat like "hose the pigs".
Sounds somewhat like "hose the pigs".
No I think this religion is an off shoot of Pelosism...
The headquarters are in DC
Exactly who do you think He is? Swedenborg is no less a Christian heretic than Joseph Smith or Muhammad. 'Drain the swamp'? There have been better than Swedenborgians that have been expelled from here.
When Swedenborg stated in "Earths in the Universe" that he conversed with spirits from the planets Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, the Moon, as well as spirits from planets beyond our solar system, he indicated not only the state of his sanity, but also the quality of his theology.
Swedenborg was also a modalist, which is another Christian heresy. He believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as the repository of the Trinity, as we humans would understand it.
No, my friend, before you would 'drain the swamp', you might consider the contents - versus what you would propose to replace them with. Nicea is a requirement of Christianity. You might enquire of yourself how closely you align.
There was clear attempts at voter fraud in Philly and in other spots, why doesn’t our side of the media fight that instead of pretending that it never happen? I don’t know what the heck happen to Rush Limbaugh but he was poo pooing the idea last Thursday. And now some of the GOP want to blame the tea party for the loss.
Still with the accusations I see. Good for you.
You mean THIS place is like entering a lions den? First it's a swamp. Now it's full of lions. Maybe the lions will eat the alligators and peace will break out like a hockey game at a boxing match.
otherwise, this particular forum looks like
more than
much less deadly combat. Ever been shot at, buddy? Try to keep things in perspective.
Well said. Victimization is also a form of bitterness and an unforgiving heart.
Every Mormon I know - to the one - is pro life. In my 12 years in the Church, I have never heard one pro choice statement. Not one. I don’t know what you are talking about. And we all hate Harry Reid with a passion!
That is creepy that you make negative statements about the Rev. Billy Graham. I never thought I would live to see the day when he would be criticized by so-called Christians. to me, it proves that the holier-than-thou crowd is alive and well.
Giving away our secret decoder rings to the riffraff? ... And what did you do to conjure up S Duffy. I thought she was hanging out at TBL under a different name now.
Got banned for being a Mormon and/or being for Mitt.
Anyway, here is what my Church believes about Jesus Christ:
1. Jesus created this earth.
2. Jesus created worlds without number.
3. Jesus was the firstborn spirit of our Father in Heaven.
4. Jesus was a God before He was born on this earth.
5. Jesus was the one who established the covenant with Abraham.
6. Jesus was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
7. Jesus appeared to Moses in the burning bush.
8. Jesus helped the children of Israel escape from Egypt and parted the Red Sea.
9. Jesus gave the Ten Commandments to Moses.
10. Jesus is Jehovah, the God of the Old Testament.
And what do you believe about Jesus? Jesus is my Savior. Amen and good night.
Got banned for being a Mormon and/or being for Mitt.
Anyway, here is what my Church believes about Jesus Christ:
1. Jesus created this earth.
2. Jesus created worlds without number.
3. Jesus was the firstborn spirit of our Father in Heaven.
4. Jesus was a God before He was born on this earth.
5. Jesus was the one who established the covenant with Abraham.
6. Jesus was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
7. Jesus appeared to Moses in the burning bush.
8. Jesus helped the children of Israel escape from Egypt and parted the Red Sea.
9. Jesus gave the Ten Commandments to Moses.
10. Jesus is Jehovah, the God of the Old Testament.
And what do you believe about Jesus? Jesus is my Savior. Amen and good night.
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)
“I will go back to the beginning, before the world was, to show what kind of a being God is. What sort of a being was God in the beginning? Open your ears and hear, all ye ends of the earth; for I am going to prove it to you by the Bible, and to tell you the designs of God in relation to the human race, and why he interferes with the affairs of man. God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted Man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens. That is the great secret. (Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 3, 1844)
But wait! There's more!!
“I learned a testimony concerning Abraham, and he reasoned concerning the Gods of heaven. '...Intelligences exist one above another, so that there is no end to them.' If Abraham reasoned thus--If Jesus Christ was the Son of God, and John discovered that God the Father of Jesus Christ had a Father, you may suppose that He had a Father also. Where was there ever a son without a father? And where was there ever a father without first being a son? Whenever did a tree or anything spring into existence without a progenitor? And everything comes in this way. Paul says that which is earthly is in the likeness of that which is heavenly. Hence if Jesus had a Father, can we not believe that He had a Father also? I despise the idea of being scared to death at such a doctrine, for the Bible is full of it. I want you to pay particular attention to what I am saying. Jesus said that the Father wrought precisely in the same way as His Father had done before Him. As the Father had done before? He laid down His life, and took it up the same as His Father had done before. (Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 373)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, from one heavenly world to another still more ancient, until our minds are wearied and lost in the multiplicity of generations and successive worlds, … and as a last resort, we wonder in our minds, how far back the genealogy extends, and how the first world was formed, and the first father was begotten. But why does man seek for a first, when revelation informs him that God's works are without beginning? (Lds apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 132, 1853)
hahahahah
mormonISM is not prolife.
My uncle the bishop, says the best mormonISM is, is anti-abortion.
When the offical list has qualifiers then ends with, if god says its ok its ok - sorry sweetie mormonISM is not pro-life.
Individuals maybe anti-abortion but in and of itself mormonISM is not.
You left off a few things. Like you always do. Not that I blame you...
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