Posted on 12/29/2007 8:34:35 AM PST by greyfoxx39
Ping
With enough gullibility, anything can be explained.
That explains why some think that Romney is a conservative.
“Consider the source” ping.
Yeah, and some thought that Jim Jones , David Koresh were truly men and prophets from GOD. Joe Smith was a false man of GOD and Prophet.
I don’t even know where to start.....so I won’t.
But I found this concerning LDS apologists.
” They is paid indirectly by the Mormon Church to publish articles and reviews on the Brigham Young University Website called “FARMS”. Many LDS Apologists are professors at the Mormon owned Brigham Young University. They spend countless hours writing apologetic material for the LDS Corporation and posting on the apologetic FAIR boards.
The job as a Mopologist (Mormon Apologist) is to contradict, counteract, suppress, withhold and dismiss any claims made by persons outside the LDS Church (read: Anti-Mormon). They do this by discrediting authors, creating answers to Mormon questions (such as horses in the Book of Mormon were really tapirs) and dismissing any Anti-Mormon claims in any way they can. Often, the apologist uses his “professor” status and his knowledge of the English language to write works that impress and convince Mormons that his answers are all that is required.
Experience shows that there is nothing, and I mean nothing, in the Mormon past or present, in its history, or in its culture that apologists will not excuse, rationalize, downplay, explain away, dismiss, or ignore, as a means to support pre-determined conclusions that the Mormon Church is the ONLY “true and living church” (common Mormon phraseology) on the earth. This includes, among other things, Joseph Smiths’ lying and philandering, murder of innocents, Gordon Hinkley’s repudiation of long-held “divine” teachings, racism, sexism, homophobia, anachronisms and blatant errors in divine texts, wholesale plagiarism in divine texts, uncharitable practices and statements of “divinely inspired” men, personality cults, etc., etc. In short, many, many things that decent and moral people (including Mormons in other contexts) find objectionable.”
Correction: They are
Now that we have DNA research, a Mormon DNA researcher did investigate the origin of ancient inhabitants of the Americas and find ...... that they are NOT of any Semitic tribe but rather Oriental (the Mormon research, has, of course, been silenced)!
So much for Joseph's "prophecy."
For those of use who have been invoved in the debate here at FR, this is an opportunity to look at the LDS-approved answers and compare them to the answers we have found through our own research of LDS and other sources. It further is interesting that the LDS church is mobilizing a cadre of apologists for "internet duty" and incidentally to provide the "milk before meat" message.
From FAIR's website:
FAIR is not owned, controlled by or affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All research and opinions provided on this site are the sole responsibility of FAIR, and should not be interpreted as official statements of LDS doctrine, belief or practice.
Click here and go to the very bottom of the page.
If you want official LDS doctrine, you go to the source: LDS.org
Apologists are individual members who interpret doctrine according to their own intellectual backgrounds and upbringing. Prophets and apostles, as was the case in the Old and New Testaments, receive revelation from God. These revelations are doctrine, not the interpretations of individual members. LDS.org is official. FAIR is not by their own admission.
Individual members cannot receive revelation for the church, so, I suggest you read from the source of this doctrine and then make your comparisons. Asking God for his direction in this search would also be helpful. "If any of ye lack wisdom, let him ask of God..." "Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you..." etc., etc...
Tag here, digesting
FAIR, CAIR. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
However, it's remarkably like the "Odin father/god" dichotomy unraveled several years back by Thor Hyerdahl.
Turns out "Odin" was a real man about 2000 years ago, possibly living in Azerbaijan, who took his tribe and fled to the far North to escape Roman conscription. No doubt at all about the "father/god" situation for Odin.
The Apostolic Charismatic Church of the First Born had members well versed in the old time religion of the far North (in the Sapmai) and they would have brought that belief with them in the early 1700s when they came to cut down trees in what is now Vermont and New Hampshire. Young could have been doing nothing more than discussing his neighbors' religious beliefs ~
Now, when do I expect the LDS to look into that possibility? Never, actually, there being a general inclination at the top to avoid the COTFB guys like the plague!
Both groups have prior entanglements with LDS.
Is there something wrong with “homophobia”? This is not DU~~~!!!!
Elaborate on your comment, please.
This all happened about 14,000 years ago though.
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