It's ME I tell ya!
No, you Bozo. It's gonna be ME!
I'm with you fellas...
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.
So; who's your choice for '16?
As I have predicted, the long slow circular path to mainstreaming Mormonism has begun....
Out there some where is some psychologically challenged 18 year old “missionary” who will assume the role of the next Joe Smith... Under the watchful control of the Quorum of 12 of course.
Sounds more like willful ignorance...
Um...
Ok.
“And that’s how we got stuck with you-know-who. Hope you are happy.”
I’m not. But at least when the country collapses, the angry mobs will hopefully blame Obama over the gutless RINOs of the GOPe, who surely around this time would have been purging what was left of the conservative movement, just like they began to do at the convention. We also don’t have to deal with the Mormons crowing about their Mormon moment, as Christians fall over themselves to mainstream their religion. The LDS, especially, is no friend of Christianity. I don’t think it’s any accident that Romney’s supporters within the McCain camp, and elsewhere, were the first to start working on discrediting Palin, a Christian. Pick your poison, I guess. This is what it’s like to live in a Godless time.
“(On the other hand...in reviewing your nametag...Greetings_Puny_Humans...you don’t happen to claim to be extant from some pre-existent source from a competitive planetary race from Mormons arrived here on Planet Earth which might be somehow antithetical toward Kolobian-born “spirits” within that same galactical neck of the woods, do you? :) )”
Gah! You caught me! I’m a Cylon advance scout sent to reconnoiter the defenses of the LDS Temple in Salt Lake City. We’ve been chasing these dang Mormons across the universe ever since Joseph Smith, in the pre-existence, scammed our boss Xenu with the old “I’ll help you find the dilithium deposits on your property using this Seer Stone if you only pay me a small fee” trick.
No that would be the Mormon church. Christians believe death bed repentance is possible. Mormons believe that after death you can receive salvation (celestial kingdom?) if you are baptized by proxy by someone on earth.
Your scenario takes place after death.
“I doubt you would care who wrote it as long as it puts the LDS Church in a bad light. I know members of the church personally, that lean left politically, so it doesn’t mean anything to me. So, other churches in America do not have racist pasts. The Southern Baptist Convention did not condem their racist past until 1995. Give it a rest! I am more worried about the communists destroying this country, no matter what their so called religious beliefs are.”
The Baptists don’t send their followers to hell by deceiving them to swear fealty to an alleged representative of God on Earth so that they can, if they are worthy enough, ascend to the Celestial heaven and become a polygamous God just like the Mormon Jesus.
One more thing. You have broken all of God’s laws if you have broken just one of them. Jesus also said if you get angry with someone you have committed murder in your heart, if you look at someone with lust then you have committed adultery.
I am literally guilty of at least 8 commandments and guilty of all 10 in my heart. So where do you stand with your sin? Still working to make them right? I already know that I can’t pay for my own sins with anything less than my own death. But Jesus has already paid the price. He covered it all, I can’t add anything to it. My works are filthy rags they don’t amount to a hill of beans.
LOL
I started to type ROTFL...etc... :)
(But then I realized, well, at least knowin' Joey Smith's character, that you're prolly soberly serious!!! ... Well, at least more sober than Smith was with the bar he had @ his place...that "WoW" -- Word of Wisdom -- somehow escaped Smith's PERSONAL wrist-tipping)
Actually, Joseph Smith had TWO loaded weapons in jail [imagine today, an accused criminal -- an inmate -- being killed in a shootout...how would it come across for such an inmate's family to portray him as a "martyr"???]
While Smith didn't shoot the second weapon, he fired ALL the rounds from the first weapon.
Is that the version where Joseph mentions himself in the book of Genesis?
Even as "good" as John the Baptist was, he didn't make the cut either:
For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
Oops, I should have cited chapter and verse.
Luke Chapter 7, verse 28, K.J.V.
Sisyphean task, as the Mormon leaders will find out. Some things are unpurgeable. Yeah , I know "unpurgeable" is not a real word but if they can make up stuff as they go along, so can I. It's my word and unlike the Mormons, I'm sticking to it.
I'm completely "enjoying" not having Romney, that doesn't mean that I am enjoying Obama. I'm not responsible for those two evils being put before the American people.
In 2016 when the G.O.P.E. puts forth another completely unacceptable liberal, Republicans will lose yet again. I don't enjoy that, it's just a fact of life.
No more Doles, no more McCains and especially no more Romneys. He was the absolute worse candidate ever to represent republicans in a presidential election.
Is Obama "more evil" than Romney? Is Romney "more evil" than Obama? When given a choice between two evils, I will always choose, "none of the above".
It's ME I tell ya!
No, you Bozo. It's gonna be ME!
I'm with you fellas...
Those who do not learn from history...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
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