The Symbolic Universe of Latter-day Saints: Do We Believe The Wealthy Are More Righteous?

AMCAP ^ | 2004 | John M. Rector

[MHGinTN]

If you would read the Bible, you would see what James really said in this regard. Go to the Book of Acts, chapter fifteen, anout verse 7 through 21. I don't trouble me with any further posts from you. When you learn to rightly divide the Word, then get back to me.

[MHGinTN]

If you would read the Bible, you would see what James really said in this regard. Go to the Book of Acts, chapter fifteen, about verse 7 through 21. I don't trouble me with any further posts from you. When you learn to rightly divide the Word, then get back to me.

[Elsie]

It is beyond comprehension the legalism that lingers after 2000 years.

We humans do not want to think it is that simple.

Nah; not us; but SATAN doesn't want us to think it is!

When you DO something; THEN you'll be like GOD.

[Borges]

Didn’t Calvinists teach something like this?

[Elsie]

Didn’t Calvinists teach something like this?

Google® and find out!

[Elsie]

The sample was drawn from residences included in the 1997 phone book for Utah County, Utah (Utah County has the highest percentage of Mormons per capita of any comparable county in the United States).

Most denominations are represented in Utah Valley and a complete list can be had by contacting the Utah Valley Visitor Information Center. The predominate religion in Utah is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) which accounts for approximately 60 percent of Utah's population.

[Saundra Duffy]

” . . . quid pro quo “

What? I thought that was from the evangelical “blab it and grab it” bunch or the “name it and claim it” crowd.

Don’t you ever tire of trying to discredit Mormons and the LDS Church.

[Colofornian]

...quid pro quo? What? I thought that was from the evangelical “blab it and grab it” bunch or the “name it and claim it” crowd.

No. Mormonism was apparently the American religious originators of this practice. They were practicing it in the 1830s well ahead of anybody else.

The "name it and claim it" bunch came more into fruition in the early 1980s...150 years after Mormonism's introduction of quid pro quo as the foundation of its relationship with the Mormon god. (BTW, the quid pro quo description as foundational to Mormonism was this Mormon author's conclusion -- I didn't come up with it).

But "name it and claim it" -- although theologically off-base & leads to selfish grab-bagging -- at least it doesn't tend to reduce a relationship with God to a sheer religio-business transaction...like Mormonism does.