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.
Are these studies credible? Do the data actually show what the critics claim? Do they discredit the Book of Mormon, or is there biological and other scientific evidence that supports the claims that it is indeed an ancient record of a people that once inhabited the Americas?
The Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR) interviews scholars and scientists to answer these important questions and reveals the faith-affirming truth that not only are the critics' conclusions and methods flawed, but that there is credible scientific evidence in favor of the Book of Mormon as an ancient religious text.
Do not use the nickname “resty” - it is a pejorative. It is “making it personal.”
the Book of Mormon is the word of God,
Also that my family and husband, we will be together for ever for all eternity
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but Resty as a Mormon you believe that your husband will have many other wives in the Mormon forever and if he chooses to he can just not call out your new temple name and you would just have to stay in your grave and not get to “be together for ever for all eternity”
Whereas in the Bible we are taught that the LORD Jesus Christ died for all...male, female, black, white,, colored, all the nations...
a woman doesn’t have to have a husband to on a whim call her or not call her..
Women who are Christians just go at the same time as the men...
why chance it ???
Mormon men are so fickle ...
Plus all this depends on your husband staying in favor with the Mormon gods...
if he messes up you will be given to another Mormon male ...
OK I wont...
Resty don’t you keep up with changes to your own religion ???
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No the lofty things I don’t keep up with...
I stay focus on the things that are important the doctrine of Jesus Christ keeping my covenants and doing the will of the Lord.
Matthew 6:33
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
stay focus on the things that are important the doctrine of Jesus Christ keeping my covenants and doing the will of the Lord.
Matthew 6:33
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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Those scriptures are not in the book of Mormon...
they are tin the Christian Bible...
they do not pertain to Mormonism...
If Mormons really believed they should
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow” (Matthew 6:34a)
they wouldn’t dead dunk anyone...
So was Joseph Smith - claimed to be a PROPHET of GOD by restornu.
His LAST work was a masterpiece: a re-translation of the KJV of the bible.
His GOD ordered him to do it - the JST.
restornu never mentions it.
She has the Spirit of Apostacy about her.
You; however; have proven in these threads that you will avoid, at ALL costs, discussing ANYTHING your past leaders have said or taught.
You are a poor excuse for a Mormon.
It's no WONDER that your spirit child in Heaven was NOT inserted into a BIC body here on Earth!
Then you are, by admission, a LAZY 'truth seeker'.
You have NO excuse.
What will you tell GOD when you see Him; you were AFRAID to look at the material the ANTIs so lovingly provided?
Matthew 25:24-28
24 “Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’
26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.
28 “‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags.
Yup; stuck forever with ME on the Telestial Level!
Ha ha HA!
She said we could.
What they say call me anything you want just don’t call me late for dinner...
You KNOW this is secondary!!!
In conclusion let us summarize this grand key, these “Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet”, for our salvation depends on them.
1. The prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything.
2. The living prophet is more vital to us than the standard works.
3. The living prophet is more important to us than a dead prophet.
4. The prophet will never lead the church astray.
5. The prophet is not required to have any particular earthly training or credentials to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time.
6. The prophet does not have to say “Thus Saith the Lord,” to give us scripture.
7. The prophet tells us what we need to know, not always what we want to know.
8. The prophet is not limited by men’s reasoning.
9. The prophet can receive revelation on any matter, temporal or spiritual.
10. The prophet may advise on civic matters.
11. The two groups who have the greatest difficulty in following the prophet are the proud who are learned and the proud who are rich.
12. The prophet will not necessarily be popular with the world or the worldly.
13. The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidency—the highest quorum in the Church.
14. The prophet and the presidency—the living prophet and the First Presidency—follow them and be blessed—reject them and suffer.
I testify that these fourteen fundamentals in following the living prophet are true. If we want to know how well we stand with the Lord then let us ask ourselves how well we stand with His mortal captain—how close do our lives harmonize with the Lord’s anointed—the living Prophet—President of the Church, and with the Quorum of the First Presidency.
Ezra Taft Benson
(Address given Tuesday, February 26, 1980 at Brigham Young University) http://www.lds.org/liahona/1981/06/fourteen-fundamentals-in-following-the-prophet?lang=eng
I stay focus on the things that are important the doctrine of Jesus Christ keeping my covenants and doing the will of the Lord.
How sad that there are millions of mormons who are going to have to accept the changes that the mormon leaders are making to the bedrock doctrine without even suggesting that the members should pray about these changes.
First, the leaders tell the world that after nearly 200 years of mormon doctrine proclaiming "As man is, God once was, as God is man may become"...OOPSY....that's not what was meant....and now changes to the first vision....OOPSY...that's not the way it happened.
It is evident that some mormon choose to hide their head in a hat rather than to recognize that these changes are coming from the 15 prophets of the mormon church and are now doctrine!
Zilla the Mormons are in major panic mode...
They’ve had to back pedal on a lot of their carved-in-stone beliefs because of the court case coming up next month...
Their latest un der the bus exploit has been the Mormon idea of becoming gods with their own plants full of young concubines..
Mormon Church reveals people do NOT get their own planets in the afterlife... despite what The Book of Mormon claims
Mormons: People don’t get own planets in afterlife
Thomas S Monson has been charged with criminal financial fraud..the fraud being the lies that the Mormon liars and deceivers have told people to get them to cough up money to fill the Mormon Mafia coffers...
On March 14, Monson is suppose to be in England to answer those charges, and if hes not the English take such a dim view of fraud on such a grand scale as the Mormons have swindled from gullible people that they could have the US government extradite him to England for trial..
Mormonism is based on lies and was intended from the first to be an excuse for Joey Smith and his cohorts to get women, riches and power over other people..
There are no amendments to the Christian Bible but Mormonism changes with “every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming” (Ephesians 4:14)
Those scriptures are not in the book of Mormon...
they are tin the Christian Bible...
they do not pertain to Mormonism...
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You are so wrong the word of God belongs to all of His children, as well as the Christian which is only mention 3 times in the NT and also the Saints aka LDS which is mention many times in the OT as NT!:)
and I have charge of the big TEA Pot
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and UB is supplying the coffee !!!
and a special delivery every week from Earth of Tiramisu with its yummy coffee for Reaganaut !!!
and coffee cake and Tea sandwiches, and meat Hors d’oeuvres in hot weather..
Girls rule !!!
Too bad you cant attend our forever and eternal TEA Party in the kitchen...
It will be on the Telestial Level but your religion doesn’t allow you to imbibe..
I have read many of those I think it is great to have them in a collection now and the tools to do it with, and all the wonderful information which is coming from the Joseph Smith papers project it is a marvelous time.
So dream on foxies.....
Christian which is only mention 3 times in the NT
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while the term mormon is never mentioned...
nor is the name Joseph Smith...
Nor are the latter day saints based in the United States..
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