“keeping the commandments is impossible.”
Are you saying that, therefore, we can do anything we want, and it doesn’t really matter, if there is “deathbed repentance”?
“Really I thought we were talking about if a man who cheated to be trusted to keep his promises? I guess if were going to pull the ‘will it hurt with the electorate’ Mitts Mormonism is back on the table no?”
We are talking about basic integrity, which I think is an issue with more people than just me. Maybe I’m wrong.
Maybe Mitt’s Mormonism will turn off more people than Fred’s, and Mrs. Fred’s, amorality. I don’t know the answer to that question. Interesting turn of events, if true, for a number of reasons.
I have refrained from supporting Mitt because I was watching him in the early 90’s, and didn’t like his positions. But, you have to admit that regardless of his political positions, he has lived the most “conservative” life of any of the front runners.
(LUKE 18) "{10} Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. {11} The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men--robbers, evildoers, adulterers--or even like this tax collector. {12} I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' {13} "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' {14} "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
What I am saying is before God all of our good works are like filthy rags, and its even worse when we hang our hat on them. I don't know if Fred will or has fallen before God and confessed himself a sinner but I do know I see Mitt and his supporters playing the Pharisee here. Oh Thank goodness Mitt is not like Fred he is a great husband!
We are talking about basic integrity
You mean the integrity of flip flopping on every issue he needs in order to get elected?
But, you have to admit that regardless of his political positions, he has lived the most “conservative” life of any of the front runners.
Sure you can be a nice person and a flip flopper at the same time..