"Well, I don't know if I believe they're wrong."How can you not know what you believe?
Huh?
Maybe believing is just that, a belief and not actual knowledge of something. I think the 2 are different.
“Joel Osteen”
Didn’t his Dad used to pitch for the Dodgers?
What a putz and embarrassment JO is.
It is not really what LDS believes, he apparently does not know what he believes.
I think Osteen was just “playing it safe”.
It’s hard to tell if he was following the Biblical advice to generally
try not to “give offense”.
Or he was just being “politically correct”, which of course is the
much less palatable explanation.
Folks, save the flames...I Do NOT carry water for the Mormon Church
or for Joel Osteen.
This is something that pisses me off quite a bit.
First, I agree that Osteen is “softer” than I’d like him to be.
However, he is stating that Mormons believe that Jesus Christ is their “personal savior”, correct?
Are Mormons not allowed to have faith in Christ as God’s son through which they gain atonement for their sins due to the fact that they’re Mormons?
An Osteen endorsement means nothing to the serious theologian.
Thank goodness!
Is that the way all the mainstream denominations are headed?
Smilin’ Joel.
Ignorance, maybe?
Although I am Catholic so I don’t believe in Joel Osteen’s religon, I can say that if more people were like him it would be a much better place. It stuns me that he gets bashed so much. He is living a very God like life. Obviously if God did not want him to live the way he does, he would not have been given the gifts he has to run his religion. Is he going to Heaven? I have no idea and would not be arrogant enough to say one way or the other. I wish other FREEPERS would be the same.
11 We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
Maybe he believes in our 11th Article of Faith.
The whole lot is available here: http://scriptures.lds.org/en/a_of_f/1
Personally, I agree with my dad, who happens to be Roman Catholic. We all agree there was only one hill, with three crosses, two of which held thieves. HOW IN HECK do you fit so many other people on that one last cross?
Obviously, there are differences in doctrine between the many Christian churches, and those differences are based in differences in beliefs about the nature of God and his son. Far as I’m concerned, He’s led me where he wants me. If he wants you someplace else, who am I to tell you you’re wrong to be there? And when did He tell you to tell me I was wrong to be where he told me to go?
If a person is involved in the post-modern relativism of the “emerging church movement” it would make sense. It’s a heretical cancer spreading throughout the church:
http://www.svchapel.org/Resources/Articles/read_articles.asp?ID=122
(Links to Part 2 and Part 3 at the bottom.)
Wake up sheeple!
I kinda like Joel Osteen, but he shouldn’t really call himself a preacher. He’s more like a financial and spiritual Tony Robbins. In case it’s unclear, I mean that in a good way.
***He even fesses up to it by saying he hadn’t “studied it carefully.***
Considering he didn’t attend seminary, I reckon there are quite a few doctrinal issues he hasn’t studied carefully.
A psstor’s main job is to be a shepherd and protect the sheep...
Nuff said...