As for me:
The mountain meadows massacre displayed an ‘infidelic’ attitude to anyone passing through their territory.
To actually amass a separate standing army, and in effect, threaten war with the U.S. government, again, displays their ‘infidelic’ attitude.
Since the last written passages in the bible are from John’s hand, warning that no editing or redacting occur, i consider both the Jehovah’s Witless AND the mormons to be doggerel aberrations and cults.
The mountain meadows massacre displayed an ‘infidelic’ attitude to anyone passing through their territory.
To actually amass a separate standing army, and in effect, threaten war with the U.S. government, again, displays their ‘infidelic’ attitude.
Since the last written passages in the bible are from John’s hand, warning that no editing or redacting occur, i consider both the Jehovah’s Witless AND the mormons to be doggerel aberrations and cults.
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I don't have a horse in this race so I am very reluctant to chime in but when a person displays such gross ignorance of the facts I have to make a statement.
The mountain meadows massacre was indeed a massacre. The wagon trains were poisoning the wells and ponds and any water they came across out of spite for the Mormons. Out west water is everything, when you poisoned a source of water it killed the livestock and people, what the Mormons did may not have been right but I understand their anger. There was never much proof that this wagon train did any of the poisoning and a trial would have been nice but it wasn’t the first time lives were lost without a trial. The Mormons had plenty of innocent lives lost at the barrel of a gun well before this.
Since at them time you refer to a standing army the Mormons had been raided driven off the land they owned, had their homes and property burned to the ground and murdered many times and since they were not in the United States it seems only logical that they would have an army. Militias were popular then and still are.
There is likely no Biblical scholar that believes that The Book of Revelations was the last book written in the Bible. The Holy Bible was compiled as a volume hundreds of years after John. Interestingly the Book of Deuteronomy makes the same statement. Both of those books being written prior to the compilation of the Bible in your words would preclude all the other books. They referred to themselves. The Bible is a compilation of books, a group of books put together. Revelations is a Book. Anyone who adds to or takes away from the Book of Revelations is condemned to suffer the plagues mentioned in that book.
Mormons and JW’s may well be cults, I personally don't think so but what I think has little to do with whether they are or aren't but the reasons listed above are certainly not reason to believe Mormons are a cult.
Jesus says in Matthew 7:20 “that by their fruits ye shall know them”. They got a lot of good fruits. One of their prophets said “you can't have the fruits without the roots.
If you want to say something bad about a group at least try to make it truthful. When people say stupid stuff about others it only lends legitimacy to the group they are speaking about.
“Since the last written passages in the bible are from John’s hand, warning that no editing or redacting occur, i consider both the Jehovah’s Witless AND the mormons to be doggerel aberrations and cults.”
are you a biblical scholar? i believe there may be some question regarding the order of the books in the Bible. i don’t believe that mormons have edited or redacted anything in the Bible. however, they do believe in modern day prophetic revelation, as they claim is the case with their Book of Mormon.