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To: CubicleGuy
Point of the 2 Nephi 5 quote>>>>>

Joseph Smith's god reflects his racism.

I do believe the Reformation was a return to the Pauline doctrine of Justification found in the NT not a "lost gospel" found in some golden tablets on Culmorah or a spurious papyri purporting to be the Book of Abraham describing God's residence near unto the planet Kolob.

To compare Luther and Calvin to Joseph and Bringem Young is laughable. Or, with Brigham, do you believe the Sun and Moon are inhabited?

105 posted on 06/18/2002 8:02:02 PM PDT by drstevej
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To: drstevej
Joseph Smith's god reflects his racism.

Oh, you mean like the racism displayed by Christ when he told the woman of Canaan that He was "not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel", and that when she begged His help, He responded that "it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs" (which might cause us to take a second look at Matthew 7:6 and Philippians 3:2)?

I do believe the Reformation was a return to the Pauline doctrine of Justification found in the NT...

Why would a Church, against which the gates of hell would supposedly not prevail, need to return to a doctrine? Does this not tell us that the Church left the doctrine at some point? What other doctrines were left behind somewhere?

... not a "lost gospel" found in some golden tablets on Culmorah or a spurious papyri purporting to be the Book of Abraham describing God's residence near unto the planet Kolob.

I presume then that you find the Dead Sea Scrolls to be utterly worthless (unlike the author of the article at the top of the thread who seems to find value in searching ancient documents and treatises).

To compare Luther and Calvin to Joseph and Bringem Young is laughable.

I agree, but probably not the way you mean it.

Or, with Brigham, do you believe the Sun and Moon are inhabited?

I can't prove that they're not inhabited by celestial beings. As if believing one way or the other affects my eternal salvation.

110 posted on 06/18/2002 8:21:38 PM PDT by CubicleGuy
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