[teppe]

Californian, you are a Religious Bigot (Latter-Day Pharasee).

You should remove that 2x4 in your own eye, before you try to remove the sliver in mine.

First purge your own religion of your non-scriptural reliance on the Nicene, Apostolic and Athenasian Creeds for your own definition of the Godhead, before you worry about our doctrine.

Then if you are a true Christian, you will seek truth rather than distortion.

[The_Reader_David]

Okay, teppe, your post is a cause of offense.

I serve the Patriarchate of Antioch (you may recall Antioch, where the disciples were first called ‘Christians’) as a lowly subdeacon.

If anyone has dibs on who gets to be called “Christians” it’s us Antiochian Orthodox. The Nicene Creed has been the normative statement of the Christian faith from before the Scriptures were collected and canonized, and was set forth by the same authority that fixed the canon of Scripture: an Ecumenical Council of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. If you deny its contents, it is you who are not a Christian, however fond you are of your on interpretation of the Church’s books.

When I read stuff like yours, I come more and more to the view of Tertullian, that heretics have no right to cite the Scriptures, which are the Church’s books, against the Church’s teachings.

[Godzilla]

Then if you are a true Christian, you will seek truth rather than distortion.

Yep, seek out the truth tepid

The bom lies about the history of the western hemisphere
Smith lies about his ability to 'translate'
smith lied about his practice of polygamy
smith lied about the source of his 'revelation'

seek the truth tepid.

[reaganaut]

...you are a Religious Bigot Latter-Day Pharasee [teppe]

First, learn to spell. It is P-h-a-r-i-s-e-e.

Second, your post shows quite well how the LDS misunderstand Jesus' problem with the Pharisees.

The Pharisees were not necessarily "bigots", they were LEGALISTS. They placed their trust in rules and rituals (sound familiar?) rather than seeking a relationship with God.

The LDS are today's "Latter Day Pharisees", they place their trust in the LDS church, in their membership of it, the "good works" they do, and in their Masonic temple rituals, rather than surrendering to Jesus Christ alone (outside of a Church) and His sacrifice (shedding of His innocent blood) on the Cross (not the Garden) as atonement for ALL SIN.

The LDS have so completely distorted the Bible and the Jesus of the Bible that they really believe that Black is White. Sad, truly.

IOW...

[reaganaut]

Never mind "tepid"....

[reaganaut]

Then if you are a true Christian, you will seek truth rather than distortion.

Teppe, I was seeking the truth, which is how I discovered the fraud of the LDS church and exactly WHY I finally became a Christian as opposed to a Mormon. The LDS Church is the distortion.

[Elsie]

Then if you are a true Christian, you will seek truth rather than distortion.

If you were a 'true' MORMON; I suspect you'd follow D&C 132 instead of what the US Government told you to do.