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As a Catholic living in Utah for all these years I have found the LDS to be great neighbors. They have excellent family values and great families. I have seen nothing that would lead me to the word ‘cult’...and the LDS Church is about as far from that as you can get what with all the semi-autonomous powers the local Bishops and Stake Presidents have.
Cults need to have ALL of the power, for the big decisions as well as the day-to-day decisions, given to 1 person. That just doesn’t happen in the LDS Church.
What you have on these threads is a small group of people who have always (down thru history you can spot them a mile away) tried to re-invent God thru their own hatred. They are on these threads trying to pass of their hatred as something from God. It isn’t. When I read the New Testament I have always been amazed at how many times, and in how many ways, Jesus talks about LOVE. About loving your enemies....about loving those that speak ill of you. Those on these threads who offer nothing but hate obviously do not have the Spirit of Christ within them.
Ignore them. Feel sorry for them. Pray for them.
But you will not get them to change their minds....and they will continue to spout out hate against the LDS.
I’m proud of the LDS friends and neighbors. I’m going thru some major medical problems right now....and my LDS friends and neighbors are helping every single day to cope with the problems. I never asked...they just acted. They are acting more Christ-like than any ‘Mormon Hater’ on these threads.
I’m proud of my LDS friends and neighbors.
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” I have seen nothing that would lead me to the word ‘cult’...and the LDS Church is about as far from that as you can get what with all the semi-autonomous powers the local Bishops and Stake Presidents have.”
“What you have on these threads is a small group of people who have always (down thru history you can spot them a mile away) tried to re-invent God thru their own hatred. They are on these threads trying to pass of their hatred as something from God. It isn’t. When I read the New Testament I have always been amazed at how many times, and in how many ways, Jesus talks about LOVE. About loving your enemies....about loving those that speak ill of you. Those on these threads who offer nothing but hate obviously do not have the Spirit of Christ within them.
Ignore them. Feel sorry for them. Pray for them.
But you will not get them to change their minds....and they will continue to spout out hate against the LDS.
I’m proud of the LDS friends and neighbors. I’m going thru some major medical problems right now....and my LDS friends and neighbors are helping every single day to cope with the problems. I never asked...they just acted. They are acting more Christ-like than any ‘Mormon Hater’ on these threads.”
If you are interested any longer, your Catholic faith has a different position on Mormonism than you do, even with the label of cult.
Baptism not accepted:
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20010605_battesimo_mormoni_en.html
Non Christian:
http://www.catholic.com/library/noncatholic_groups.asp
Cult:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10570c.htm
Catholic bishops told to withhold parish information from Mormons:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9151351?source=rss
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In explaining a passage from the Book of Mormon, late LDS Apostle Bruce McConkie wrote,
It is also to the Book of Mormon to which we turn for the plainest description of the Catholic Church as the great and abominable church. Nephi saw this “church which is most abominable above all other churches” in vision. He “saw the devil that he was the foundation of it” and also the murders, wealth, harlotry, persecutions, and evil desires that historically have been a part of this satanic organization. (1 Ne. 13:1-10)He saw that this most abominable of all churches was founded after the day of Christ and his apostles; that it took away from the gospel of the lamb many covenants and many plain and precious parts; that it perverted the right ways of the Lord; that it deleted many teachings from the Bible; that this church was the “mother of harlots;”… (1 Ne. 13:24-42)
Nephi beheld further that this church was the “mother of abominations,” and “the whore of all the earth”… (Mormon Doctrine, 1958 edition, page 130)
Later in the same book Apostle McConkie expanded on the doctrine a bit:
…speaking of harlots in the figurative sense, [Nephi] designated the Catholic Church as “the mother of harlots” (1 Nephi 13:34; 14:15-17), a title which means that the protestant churches, the harlot daughters which broke off from the great and abominable church, would themselves be apostate churches.” (ibid., page 315)