Posted on 04/23/2010 8:46:44 PM PDT by Colofornian
Before I knew that Beck was a Mormon, I had concluded he was an intellectual lightweight. If what you state above is true, it just confirms my initial judgment.
How is tauntingly withholding documentation consistent with Proverbs 15:1-4? It seems to do nothing but stir up anger. Proverbs 3:27 seems to speak directly to this issue:
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
Elsie and everyone else in this discussion has the perfect right to ask you for documentation and you have no right to withhold it if you are taking part in this discussion.
As a member of the mormon group, I’m saddened to see
Liberty, a Christian University, invite him to speak.
Mormonism is not Christian.
If you are (somehow) a Christian and involved with
mormonism, “come out from among them and be holy”.
Um. You think that Falwell was a “pretty boy” with a phony testimony, who could “cry on command”? Huh? You’re thinking of someone else.
Pentagrams have the point of the star pointing down. These are just stars.
Some of those *do* appear to be pentagrams. The thing is, the Roman Catholic Church has a long tradition of incorporating pagan symbols. Consider the statue of Saturn inside St. Peter’s Cathedral, or the obelisks outside. They’re more of an incrimination against Roman Catholicism in particular than Christianity in general.
There is no salvation in believing any false doctrine, particularly a false or unwise view about the Godhead or any of its members.
LOL! That doesn’t have anything to with ones salvation. In fact, a person may not even understand the Trinity and still be found more perfected in God’s eyes, with their salvation intact.
We can disagree on the Godhead but, to run around proclaiming all of “Christendom” in league or being led by Lucifer is very creative.
It is just laughable that a person who does not have a perfect understanding of their religion, creed, Godhead, Trinity is unsaved.
There are plenty of illiterates who have come to know God and I don’t think God minds if they are illiterate.
Perhaps God condemns them that have not a perfect understanding of all things or whatever thing man has decided? /S
“Just becuase he converted doesn’t mean he researched it thoroughly.”
That could be true. I’ve heard him say he researched it. He also said he only joined because of his wife. Doesn’t mean he did. Or didn’t.
“The LDS missionaries place an emphasis on feelings not facts.”
That could be true. The only ones I ever encountered seemed pretty cool, we actually talked about Glenn!
“I wonder how much Beck knows about the Kinderhook plates, or the Book of Abraham papyrus?
I have no clue. I never heard him get into any of the LDS details on air.
“His faith in Mormonism shows he isn’t at all the researcher he claims to be.”
He’s a radio DJ. I think his radio show has suffered since the TV shows, they don’t seem to be as funny to me. The TV show seems to have a different fan base. I think the TV show is good for conservatism, the libs hate it.
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Even if you were in a position to evaluate & judge this in people's hearts (which you've never been)...
Even if it could be humanly determined as remotely true of anyone (which I doubt you'd claim you've garnered such a position)...
...how dare any spiritual underling of an apostle like Bruce R. McConkie, who taught BYU students in the early 1980s that they shouldn't seek a "special relationship" with Jesus Christ...
...would then bring this back up this as some "accusation" when in fact their spiritual authorities chased all kinds of Mormons from seeking such a relationship 28 years ago last March!!!
(I expect an apology to Reaganaut, and I expect a profuse "sorry" that you now accuse others of something that if it had ever was of Mormon BYU students...it could conceivably had been linked to a Mormon apostle's teaching that tried to chase away Mormons from relating to Christ!!!)
Thank you Colo. I do not see an apology by Rip coming since the LDS never admit they are wrong.
And you are very correct. The LDS PUSH people away from thinking they can even have a personal relationship with Jesus. What they call a ‘relationship’ is flat, distant, and cold under the guise of being ‘respect’. It isn’t a relationship at all and it isn’t love.
What it is, is very sad.
When i was LDS, I was a good, faithful, ‘worthy’ Mormon. I loved the LDS church, but I quickly outgrew it spiritually. The LDS Church just wasn’t enough, it couldn’t be, because there was no REAL relationship with Christ, just a fake one that they tell themselves they have.
That is not judging anothers heart, that is judging their doctrine and practice which cannot produce a personal relationship much like an lemon tree will not produce an apple.
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