The following are the LYING images that MORMONism has produced, KNOWING that they represent something FALSE!!
Posted on 03/10/2013 4:30:37 PM PDT by greyfoxx39
A newly released digital edition of the four books of LDS or Mormon scripture—the Holy Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price—includes editorial changes that reflect a shifting official view on issues like polygamy, the Church’s history of racism, and the historicity of LDS scripture.
Perhaps the most significant is the inclusion of a new heading to precede the now-canonized 1978 announcement of the end of the LDS Church’s ban on black priesthood ordination:
The Book of Mormon teaches that “all are alike unto God,” including “black and white, bond and free, male and female” (2 Nephi 26:33). Throughout the history of the Church, people of every race and ethnicity in many countries have been baptized and have lived as faithful members of the Church. During Joseph Smith’s lifetime, a few black male members of the Church were ordained to the priesthood. Early in its history, Church leaders stopped conferring the priesthood on black males of African descent. Church records offer no clear insights into the origins of this practice. Church leaders believed that a revelation from God was needed to alter this practice and prayerfully sought guidance. The revelation came to Church President Spencer W. Kimball and was affirmed to other Church leaders in the Salt Lake Temple on June 1, 1978. The revelation removed all restrictions with regard to race that once applied to the priesthood.
Church leaders have long maintained public ambiguity about the history of the ban and its end; they have rarely acknowledged the ordination of early African-American Mormons nor have they cited anti-racist teaching in the Book of Mormon in connection with the Church’s own troubled history on race. The new heading historicizes the ban (suggesting the influence of a robust Church History department) and depicts it as a contradiction to the original impulses of the faith, not corrected until 1978. The heading does, some commentators have noted, offer continuing cover to Brigham Young, whose on-the-record racist statements to the Utah legislature suggest his influence in the evolution of a non-ordination policy. Commentators also note the absence of reference to the fact that black women were not historically admitted to LDS temple worship until the 1978 announcement.
>”I refused to support Romney, even to the very end...no sense in selling my soul just to elect another liar...The wrath of God is much more fearful.”<
Do you believe that persons who voted for Romney to try to prevent four more years of Obama will be tormented in hell? Eternally or just for a few thousand years?
Or are you referring to wrath in this world? If so, you’d think it would be especially directed at the Mormons themselves. Yet on the whole they appear to be doing rather well. (Not that I myself believe that while in New York, Joseph Smith found golden plates with Egyptian writing on them, which just happened to be taken back later by the angel Moroni — I don’t believe it, but see no signs that Mormons are being punished for that belief, not since the mobs stopped attacking them.)
Hey bring in the Gang!
Colofornian; Elsie; svcw; Zakeet; Tennessee Nana;
aMorePerfectUnion; Godzilla; fishtank; metmom:
greyfoxx39
All Hail ... the Non-Denominational Ingquisitors are summoned!
Warning, only fabrication, distotion, smears and character assasination are allowed ..... since tar/feathering, imprisonment, mob violence and murder has not been effective in elimintating those pesky Mormons, and makes us look rather .... umm,
unChristian!
There...we can CLEARLY see how the Lds church...
Unveils its...
...duplicious reasoning as to why it took "this opportunity" to make some editorial changes in its "sacred" docs...(as if we are somehow to believe that we don't live in a digital age)...
...openly racist past from the top-down -- from men who were supposedly THE very vocal chords of God on earth...
...conclusion from the Mormon church that, "Hey, I guess our 'prophets' can lead the Mormon church astray, after all"
yep Salon is a left wing bastion of truth.
yep Salon is a left wing bastion of truth.
Joanna Brooks, the author of this piece, is an active Mormon.
Go ahead & castigate Salon...most of what they publish is so deserving...
But the least you could is also conduct just a wee bit of checking to see who wrote the piece.
So, let's hear it from your lips: You would like to castigate this active Mormon, Joanna Brooks, too, alongside Salon, right?
I mean, I'm not sure Salon would have just published anything on this particular subject...
They needed an active Mormon who "knew the Mormon ropes" well to pinpoint details.
Since you've commented on this publishing angle, too late to back down, now: Tell us what you think of Joanna Brooks writing this piece?
No, I don’t believe anyone is going to hell for supporting Romney over Obozo. Salvation is by grace, after all, and there isn’t a perfect man in this world. If anyone was apologizing for Mormonism, on the other hand, for political purposes, that is something that I would frown upon and make me wonder about their salvation.
But, quite frankly, I think the nation was/is already under judgment, and that is the reason why we found ourselves choosing between either Obozo or Mittens. It was a choice between two evils. And, to be honest, I’d rather not play in such a rigged game to begin with. So I chose not to. Hopefully that’s the real reason why Romney lost, and not just because there are more people who prefer Obama’s lies over the GOPe’s.
When it comes down to it, I think a lot of Christians sold themselves out to support Romney. It wasn’t just people grudgingly going out there to back up Romney because they had no choice and felt death was on the line. There were “Christians” going around and actively apologizing for Mitt Romney’s Mormon religion, telling us that the LDS was a “god-fearing” organization with “good people,” despite the fact that their religion is utterly opposed to Christianity, and the lesser known fact that there is no such thing as a “good person” in this entire world. (For there is no one righteous, no not one.) This election was opening up a doorway for Mormonism to become mainstream, to stand side by side with the alleged ministers of Christ, and that’s not something I ever want to be a part of.
2 Corinthians 11:12
And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.
2Jn 1:9-11 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. (10) If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: (11) For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Here is how he is redrawn by the cult to be more appealing... the whole cult is a whitewash.
“only fabrication, distotion, smears and character assasination are allowed”
And yet you can never point to a single instance of any of those on any thread. Why?
Excellent discernment shown in this post...and in walking a fine-line on a review of distinguishing between Romney voters and Romney supporters...a similar distinction I made on a few Spring threads last year.
(Would be good to hear more from you on Lds threads on FR)
Thanks again
“This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.”
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Wow, I am a honky, but I definitely do not agree with that stupid statement. Anyone who believes that crap certainly does not deserve to be POTUS.
Hey GOP, you’d better get yourselves a better candidate next time if you want to win the WH.
“Racism” obsessed much?
Mormonism defending obsessed much?
I believe the LDS leaders had the same "feeling"
[Teppe, please remind us all...which galaxy is Kolob based in, again?]
“Indications are that this, along with the lowering of the missionary age to 18 was planned with the expectation that we would now have a mormon POTUS.”
Oh, how I wish we had a Mormon POTUS!
“That’s one of the reasons I refused to support Romney. . .”
And that’s how we got stuck with you-know-who. Hope you are happy.
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