Posted on 12/20/2011 7:38:01 AM PST by Colofornian
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You I think are right, but, I think it is because they don't believe it.
Mary was a virgin when approached by the angel Gabriel. I don't know what it meant when the Holy Bible says that Gabriel said that “The Holy Ghost will come upon you”.
Because of the science and medical advancements I have seen in my life and because of artificial insemination, because of cloning and countless other miraculous medical procedures I don't believe that Mary had “sex” with anybody. That having been said, something did happen to her. She was impregnated and she did not have sex with her then betrothed, Joseph until after the birth of Jesus.
For anyone to think they knew how this happened is silly, no matter who it is that says it, it is conjecture. It is silly, meaningless conjecture at that. When Mary became pregnant with The Christ Child in her womb she had never known a man. The Holy Ghost is not a man. Mormons teach that in some plane of existance that The Holy Ghost was indeed a man but that now he is Glorified, a God, a member of Godhead which is the ruling body of the universe. It is impossible for people to understand that there was no beginning, that God has never been anything but God. The question always remains how did that start? The questions of how it started is one with no answer. If there is an answer we will not know it in this life. It is not important to know it in this life, it changes nothing. God is God.
We can tell them, they don’t have to listen.
The Mormons deny that Jesus Christ is God, the only God there is. They deny the Word of God and his revelation and the exact nature of his manifestation in the flesh. They worship a "creature" (just another god in an endless cycle of gods), not the Creator, the only God there is, without beginning, without end. It's idolatry.
Nowhere did I insist they had to listen or read what I had to say - but it is a rather salient and amusing point as to their congruence with Christianity that they have major points of divergence with the very first passages of the very first book of the New Testament.
It is also amusing and a salient point that their ‘prophet’ invented a history that has no basis in reality as far as genetics, linguistics, archeology or elsewhere.
I mean it is exactly what you would expect if their religious texts, rather than being revelations from God, were a shoddy half asses badly written invented history and bizarre theology written by an ignorant conman.
History is filled with theological con-men.
beats working for a living.
Ask Jesse or Al Or Jeremiah Wright.
Ask Jimmy Swaggart.Benny Hinn.
“Mormons aren’t trying to kill me behead me or enslave me.”
... they are doing two out of three, but of course, not physically.
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