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To: BlueMoose

He should take more than a minute to answer the point. You should be reading what the ‘question’ was - it is not referring to Jesus being married (as your link woefully attempts to ‘answer’).

All he does is typical mormon apologetic - throw the guy under the bus.

The article admits that Pratt was a false teacher, teaching false doctrine. The question then becomes - why didn’t they remove him from his position as an Apostle?

Then again, your link’s objection is only valid IF what I cited wasn’t church doctrine to begin with. “containing” false doctrine is not the same as it is ALL false doctrine.

“Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the ‘whore of Babylon’ whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. . . . . “
Is mormon doctrine saying that other Churches contain the fullness of the gospel as well? NO BM in all truth mormonism teaches just what Pratt stated.

Since your ‘link’ pointed out that Young didn’t like Pratt’s teaching - what did Young say in regards to this specific quote?????

“...The Christian religion was so perverted that the people received it with open hands, arms, mouth and heart. It was adulterated until it was congenial to the wicked heart, and they received the Gospel as they supposed. But that was the time they commenced little by little to transgress the laws, change the ordinances, and break the everlasting covenant, and the Gospel of the kingdom that Jesus undertook to establish in his day and the Priesthood were taken from the earth.” (5 John A. Widtsoe comp., Discourses of Brigham Young, (SLC: Deseret Book Co., 1954) 107).

Finally BM, lds inc. is careful NOT to rebuke Pratt’s work “the seer” Infact, the lds inc includes “the seer” as among “other important works “ he did.
http://lds.org/ensign/1984/04/orson-pratt-early-advocate-of-the-book-of-mormon?lang=eng

So really BM, believe a website that is not authorized to speak for the church, or believe the church website that equates “The Seer” with other important apologetic works he wrote.

Mormons always tell me to look to lds inc.


73 posted on 04/01/2011 7:37:17 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: Godzilla

http://en.fairmormon.org/Did_early_LDS_leaders_denounce_Christianity


76 posted on 04/01/2011 8:52:50 PM PDT by BlueMoose
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