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To: wildlybamboozled
 
I’m very happy with my religion and feel very strongly it is the true one.
 
Then perhaps YOU are the person who can finally answer the question that has bugged for for a LONG time:
 
"Just what did Joseph 'learn' to be UNTRUE about PRESBYTERIANism?"
 



http://scriptures.lds.org/en/js_h/1/17#17

  17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
  18 My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.
  19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”
  20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother,
“I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.”

18 posted on 07/11/2009 4:33:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Well, I haven’t ever been presented with that question before- in fact I’ve never had to answer questions about my Church before- but I know the answer, luckily. The Lord and Heavenly Father told him it wasn’t, and the reason he only mentions that one church at this moment is because his mother was a Presbyterian. He was breaking it to her that her church wasn’t the true one.


20 posted on 07/11/2009 11:57:22 AM PDT by wildlybamboozled (I'm a pro-life, religious, Mormon, and conservative nutcase. You going to say anything?)
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