Posted on 02/24/2014 7:28:13 PM PST by restornu
Miraculous claims surrounding the coming forth of the Book of Mormon are an evidence of the prophetic calling of Joseph Smith. Critics intent on discrediting the Restoration point to DNA studies on indigenous American peoples in an attempt to expose Joseph, the Book of Mormon, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as frauds. Claiming that scientific evidence excludes any possibility that Middle Eastern or ancient Jewish travelers came to the Americas in antiquity, such critics attempt to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of Latter-day Saints and those of other faiths concerning the authenticity of the Book of Mormon as an ancient religious text.
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this nation was set up so men could have sovereignty.
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No Resty, in 1789, the Founding Fathers recognized that God was in charge...
Show me in the Bible where Jesus ever silent another voice?
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Resty why do you make it so easy for Bible readers ???
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. Matthew 22:34
as for those Pharisees ???
No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions. Matthew 22:46
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That wasn’t silent that was confounding them, there is a big different, he did not take away their right to speak or to believe what they want too, if he did that would be to silent them.
Instead they tried to silent Jesus on the Cross.
The Cross?
For lds it would be the Garden.
this nation was set up so men could have sovereignty.
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No Resty, in 1789, the Founding Fathers recognized that God was in charge...
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Sorry you can not connect the dots
this nation was set up by “God” so men could have sovereignty.
Resty your request in #218 was “Show me in the Bible where Jesus ever silent another voice?”
The Bible states that Jesus “silenced” them...
so I answered what you asked..
If you want the King James Version it reads the same...
But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Matthew 22:34
The word “silence” used in Matthew 22:34 in the Greek means to Muzzle..just what you are complaining to say happened to you...
The LORD Jesus Christ muzzled them.. made them shut up and cease their attempt at preaching unBiblical theories...
Just the thing that happened to you yesterday...
this nation was set up so men could have sovereignty.
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No Resty, in 1789, the Founding Fathers recognized that God was in charge
Anyhoo meanwhile God has always been in charge and this has always been a Christian nation...
for 500 hundred years so far...
It appears that the boil festered for so long, it got lanced. (#127)
WHAT???
There is more than ONE Victim Card in this deck??
I'll bet!
Thou spanketh thy self??
Like a lamb, before the shearers...
Peace, be still...
Is THIS what you think JIM told you?
Sorryt your 'understanding' of history is LACKING:
Mayflower CompactIn the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.
...the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
I kinda like where the LORD Jesus Christ said “Hold your peace and come out of her” Luke 4:35
If that is truly your stance, then there should be NO problem for you and your fellow mormons that the verifiable information regarding mormonism and Joseph Smith (from mostly mormon sources) is being broadcast on these threads on FR, right? It's up to the individual to "discern" the facts?
It appears that mormon definition of "discernment" is limited to only that which fits the mormon template, and even when proof is provided of lies and distortions of this template are provided, mormons cry "foul".
In other words, "when the prophet speaks, the thinking has been done", and it is no longer "up to man to discern which one is correct among the many voices!"
BTW, the "discernment" of Mitt Romney that he was foreordained to "save" the nation has resulted in the state the nation finds itself in now....he "discerned" that his primary opponents were weak, yet he was the weakest of them all!
he did not take away their right to speak or to believe what they want too,
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and nobody here has done that to you...
You are free to believe any falsity you want to...
1/3 da number
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