Posted on 10/23/2011 4:28:28 PM PDT by Ripliancum
Yup; and THEN what!!??
How do you think Jesus is going to judge folks who are MORMON then?
JESUS: Hey Smith! Remember that boast you made about doing more than even I had done to hold the 'church' together?
JOSEPH SMITH: Where am I?
JESUS: Don't you remember? A few seconds ago you were in that jail.
JOSEPH SMITH: Oh; yeah; but where am I NOW?
JESUS: Don't you remember? Does bang - bang ring a bell?
JOSEPH SMITH: Oh; yeah - that crummy gun I had was about USELESS!
JESUS: I hope you left instructions on how to hold your church together.
JOSEPH SMITH: Dang! I knew there was SOMETHING I was forgetting!
JESUS: Looks like there's a power struggle going on down there.
JOSEPH SMITH: Yeah; there was always SOMEone who wanted the power that I held - especially over the LADIES - wink wink.
JESUS: No need to worry about that now; remember what my friend Matthew wrote down?
JOSEPH SMITH: This? “At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven” (Matthew 22:30)
JESUS: That's it.
JOSEPH SMITH: I thought that was mistranslated.
JESUS: Nah - it was right.
JOSEPH SMITH: Oh well; it was fun while it lasted. My buds will still get it on with the girls.
JESUS: Uh; I'm sorry; in just a few more years; your followers will cavein to the United States government and abandon the 'Eternal Covenant' that you came up with.
JOSEPH SMITH: ME!? YOU are the one that told me to do that!
JESUS: Sorry; but you must have mistranslated what I told you. What part of Do NOT commit ADULTERY did you not understand?
JOSEPH SMITH: mumble....
JESUS: What did you say?
JOSEPH SMITH: Oh, nothing.
JESUS: Well; it was interesting talking to you; but now I must get back to perparing a place for those who believe in Me.
JOSEPH SMITH: Oh, yeah; the Celestial Kingdom.
JESUS: No...
JOSEPH SMITH: The Telestial one?
JESUS: Nope.
JOSEPH SMITH: SUREly not the TERRESTRIAL one!!
JESUS: Nope. Didn't you read that the mind of man had NOT conceived of it? Paul wrote it down in 1 Corinthians 2:9.
JOSEPH SMITH: I thought that was mistranslated.
JESUS: No; it wasn't.
JOSEPH SMITH: You SURE?
JESUS: Yes. Now I must be going: what did you say your name was again?
JOSEPH SMITH: Joseph Smith.
JESUS: Hmmmm. According to my Heavenly FAITHbook, you didn't sign in as one of my friends - sorry, I never knew you.
JOSEPH SMITH: But....
Hey, T apparently livius knows more about mormonISM than you do.
Being a god of your own plant is a big deal to lds teachings.
Have a LAUGH ON ME!
What?
Not the LABEL the person wears?
T you need to stop posting it is really sad how little you know about mormonISM, which is evident by your posts and being a mormon and all..
Um, hate each other? they are in the same boat!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126090/posts
Obviously by what you DIDN't post...
You ARE?
Let's see:
First; Do you have a Temple Recommend®?
Ok; you've posted the curriculum for MORMON Apologetics 101.
Is there any OTHER MORMON debating methods we should be aware of?
Don’t you get sick of Beck whining and crying about everything. Really, shouldn’t he just man up?
Oooops. I think the word I wanted was INCREDULOUS.
DANG!
I left out DELIGHTSOME again!
Pretty much the press attacks the top three candidates for the Republican nomination and to a lesser extent any possible Republican candidate.
Note that the further up the polls Cain moved the more negative press he got.
The press is digging for any possible negative for Romney and slapping it on the newsprint. Which I find repugnant but for the moment it is fine for me. Romney is too much of a socialist for me. The country can not afford a Rockefeller Republican in the White House at the moment.
Why am I here?
Cause I think Glenn Beck is way cool even if he is a Mormon!
O...
K...
There were some here that used to claim that this board had been infiltrated by lib organizations bent on turning conservatives against each other. The more & more I read these kind of threads, the more & more I’m becoming convinced of the truthfulness of such a claim.
Glen is correct. Right now it’s the Mormons & Jews. Anyone think they’ll stop there? We either stand together now, or divided we will fall. Check the religious ego’s at the door & let’s work together. After all, this is a conservative site, right? Can Mormons, Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals, etc. not all be conservatives? How about we start acting like it?
To say that you love the person but not his religious beliefs is like saying I love the outside shell of the computer but not the hard drive or embedded software.
Chew on that a little bit. And....I am referring to all religions and even those who claim to be atheists and agnostics. Atheism and agnosticism are religious beliefs as well.
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)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 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)
Endowed with agency and subject to eternal laws, man began his progression and advancement in pre-existence, his ultimate goal being to attain a state of glory, honor, and exaltation like the Father of spirits. During his earth life he gains a mortal body, receives experience in earthly things, and prepares for a future eternity after the resurrection when he will continue to gain knowledge and intelligence. (D. & C. 130:18-19.)
Those who gain exaltation, having thus enjoyed the fullness of eternal progression, become like God. It should be realized that God is not progressing in knowledge, truth, virtue, wisdom, or any of the attributes of godliness. He has already gained these things in their fullness. But he is progressing in the sense that his creations increase, his dominions expand, his spirit offspring multiply, and more kingdoms are added to his domains. (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp. 5-10.)
"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, ... we wonder in our minds, how far back the genealogy extends, and how the first world was formed, and the first father was begotten" (Orson Pratt, The Seer, p.132).
"Jesus was the bridegroom at the marriage of Cana of Galilee...We say it was Jesus Christ who was married, to be brought into relation whereby he could see his seed [children] before he was crucified (Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p. 82).
"There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and on a careful reading of that transaction, it will be discovered that non less a person that Jesus Christ was married on that occasion. If he was never married, his intimacy with Mary and Martha an the other Mary also whom Jesus loved, must have been highly unbecoming and improper to say the best of it." (Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses, vol. 4, p. 259)
"The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy, according to the testimony of the philosophers who rose in that age. A belief in doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers. We might almost think they were Mormons (Jedediah Grant, Journal of Discourses, vol. 1, p. 346).
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)
So, are you more familiar now with the blasphemous (to Christianity, it's blasphemy) teachings of your founders on the notion of 'eternal progression'? After all that you can do, in mormonISM perhaps you could be appointed a god by the 'council of gods', so you could have your own earth and sire billions and billions of spirit children.
As a Christian, I'm counting on God being able to keep His Spiritual Church just fine until he takes it away. No one will succeed in 'coming after' His Church, and that Church is definitely not LDS inc or The Church in Rome, for as Jesus said, 'My kingdom is not of this world'. When Glenn warns that they came after the Jews and now Mormons, do you not see the contradiction in believing 'they could succeed' if God is for them?
Mormonism is a man-made/demon spawned religion. It does not have God's Holy Spirit in it so it can be swept away, but standing in such heretical contrast to Biblical Christianity, it serves a unique purpose in these latter days. [Sadly, the Germans learned the hard way that God holds Israel in the Palm of His Hand, and to try and annihilate them is to set up ones own failure for no man can defeat God.]
Two last thoughts for you to consider/chew on:
Do you not realize that Jesus has told us 'they will be coming after us' in the end times, for Christ and His Bride are the most hated by the father of lies a murderer from the start.The thread is directly addressing the religions in question, Christianity and MormonISM, and as such Glenn's pronouncement invites the discussion of the tenets of these religions, so it is silly to insist the very purpose of the Beck assertions should be now set aside so 'we can all just try to get along'.
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