Posted on 12/29/2007 8:34:35 AM PST by greyfoxx39
~”It further is interesting that the LDS church is mobilizing a cadre of apologists...”~
You’re being too smart by half, Greyfoxx. I guess I’m still waiting for my call from Salt Lake to “mobilize.” We’re passionate, not organized.
What I have seen is - at the local ward level - discussions of how Romney’s campaign is raising the profile of the Church, and how we should be prepared to answer any questions that come our way. Sinister, no?
So, go take a hike....
Knock some snow around....
Take some deep breaths...go enjoy God's creations.
anybody that reads this punch this name into your engine elijah able this will show you how full of it the mormon church is over the year they seem to have changed there mind
TERMINOLOGY DIFFERENCES: http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/terminologymain.htm#GODHEAD Online resouces(video links at the bottom): http://www.utlm.org/navonlineresources.htm
The article clearly says: Two hundred graduating students at Brigham Young University-Hawaii have been urged to use the Internet - including blogs and other forms of "new media" - to contribute to a national conversation about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Are you seriously trying to tell us, Tantiboh, that this "national conversation" is going to be relegated to only "religious" blogs...to only "religious" "forms of 'new media'? Really? These 200 graduate students, in an election year of all years where a Mormon is running for POTUS, are only going to seek out "religious" online forums?
Got your popcorn popped? :-)
~”It might be kinda cool to rule over your very own planet...”~
You vastly underestimate human potential.
Geez, the Mormons are already lying here in the first question.
QUESTION ONE!
Here is the D and C passage......now, they say this is only a “command,” not a “prophecy.”
Gee, what does this sound like to you???
“Verily this is the word of the Lord, that the city a New Jerusalem shall be built by the gathering of the saints, beginning at this place, even the place of the temple, which temple shall be creared in this generation.
5 For verily this generation shall not all pass away until an house shall be built unto the Lord, and a cloud shall rest upon it, which cloud shall be even the glory of the Lord, which shall fill the house.”
VERILY THIS GENERATION SHALL NOT PASS AWAY UNTIL A HOUSE SHALL BE BUILT UNTO THE LORD....
Verily means truly, truly. That is a prophecy from God saying this WILL happen.
It didn’t.
Therefore, it was a false prophecy.
This was NOT a “command” only. Was it a command? Yes.
But, it was a prophecy also. Like most of the time, the Mormon Church has some truth in their answers.
But, like Satan appears as an angel of light, the truth is mixed with deception and lies.
re - this mormon explanation: prov 18:2 A fool finds no pleasure in understanding
but delights in airing his own opinions.
Golden plates
"Reformed Egyptian"
Roseta Stone
It seems that some people have looked to the past and learned from it. I remember when John Kennedy, a Catholic, was elected president and he and the Pope held power over the country and mandated that the only recognized religion in America was Catholicism.
Do we REALLY want to relive those days? I wouldn’t think so and I think it is preventable by making this crucial election all about the faith of the candidates. We need to stop looking at the qualification such as leadership ability and concentrate on which church he will install as the national religion.
(I’m sorry I have to insert a sarcasm tag but some people don’t recognize it when it should be obvious)
They aren’t innocent......they have original sin like everybody else.
The history of Mormonism is fascinating. It intertwines with the great migration and development of the American west.
~”Are you seriously trying to tell us, Tantiboh, that this “national conversation” is going to be relegated to only “religious” blogs...”~
No. I’m trying to tell you that a strictly religious topic - such as this one - belongs in the Religious category on FR.
The only reason this topic overlaps with politics at all is because the anti-Mormons insist on it. The article does NOT clearly state that the students were urged to use the Internet to advance any particular candidate - just to engage about their faith. If you see that as political, that’s your business. I don’t think such an argument can be rationally made.
This thread is a provocative critique about Mormonism. It will almost certainly become combative. I submit that the Religion section’s particular rules are the most effective way to maintain some level of decorum.
I was a Mormon missionary in Italy. They have an expression:
“E beh?”
Loosely translated, it means, “So, you want a medal or something?”
There’s so much spinning going on in those answers that they could dig their way to China if they called it an earth-boring machine.
~”They aren’t innocent......they have original sin like everybody else.”~
You’d better tell that to your fellow Evangelicals. It seems there’s some confusion amongst you. Are children innocent or not? Are children damned or not?
LDS doctrine teaches that man is punished for his own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression. It teaches that children are innocent, and that they begin to become accountable - hence capable of sin - at the age of eight. Therefore, we don’t baptize children under that age.
“I do, that is why I call on you Anti Mormon Cabal members : )”
Quite amusing project, since Joseph Smith ran a grand Cabal that really did incite people to murder, I think your affections are quite misplaced.
Don’t you think it would be more appropriate for you, an ex-Mormon now professing the religion of atheism, to be calling all the atheists in to defend the cultish assertions of Mormonism?... You who looks into a pencil holder on his desk to look for God, sees a pencil holder and denies the existence of the pencil holder designer. You’re a piece of work you are. Do you ever have an adult discussion or even try to? (sigh)
Thanks for the Pingy ...
Who is in what corner???
:)
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