Posted on 03/14/2013 10:44:57 AM PDT by Colofornian
Good information
IBHCFC
In before the hateful comments from cultists...
Nice work
Count down..............1-2-3-
I’ll take post ten.
Has any Mormon ever be able to refute anything you have posted?
“Has any Mormon ever be able to refute anything you have posted?”
It is so much easier to call Colofornian names, accuse him of hate, claim he lies, etc.
Plus, they’d have to actually find some facts, evidence or logic, if they were to try to refute postings form their own sources.
Still, they believe. Mormonism is not about facts. It is about feelings. Sincerely held feelings that are based on a falsehood.
“Masonic influences in temple ceremony after Joseph Smith rec’d a Mason’s degree March 16, 1842”
My understanding is he was a clandestinely made mason, not a mason from a recognized lodge. But frankly, if Christian churches in general were more like lodge, they’d be a lot better off.
As a Christian and a non-Mormon, I fail to see what your purpose is in denigrating people of faith whose mode of worship differs from yours...the only Mormons I have ever known were kind, generous people with admirable values who spent more time in church than most of the rest of us spend in bars...what axe do you have to grind here? Is this the California mindset you brought to Colorado? No wonder the Golden State abhors such immigrants.
I just received a book “The American Muhammad” written by Alvin J. Schmidt, professor emeritus at Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL, which outlines 70 parallels between the founder and “prophet” of Islam, Muhammad, and Joseph Smith, the founder and “prophet” of Mormonism. Joseph Smith, on at least one occasion, referred to himself as the “American Mohamet.” The book is available from Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis.
Yep,
“I will be to this generation a second Mohammed, whose motto in treating for peace was ‘the Alcoran [Koran] or the Sword.’ So shall it eventually be with us—‘Joseph Smith or the Sword!’
1838
As a “Christian” then you should know that we are to call out false prophets and teachings.
mormonism isn’t just a different way of worshiping, it is at its very foundation anti-Christian.
“If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.”
- Apostle Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, v. 2, p. 345, February 18, 1855
“It is because the Lord called Joseph Smith that salvation is again available to mortal men.If it had not been for Joseph Smith and the restoration, there would be no salvation,” ( Mormon Doctrine, p. 396, 670)
“Christians—those poor, miserable priests brother Brigham was speaking about—some of them are the biggest whoremasters there are on the earth, and at the same time preaching righteousness to the children of men. The poor devils, they could not get up here and preach an oral discourse, to save themselves from hell; they are preaching their fathers’ sermons —preaching sermons that were written a hundred years before they were born. You may get a Methodist priest to pour water on you, or sprinkle it on you, and baptize you face foremost, or lay you down the other way, and whatever mode you please, and you will be damned with your priest.
- Apostle Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, v. 5, p. 89
“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. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent.”
- Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 255
***As a Christian and a non-Mormon, I fail to see what your purpose is in denigrating people of faith whose mode of worship differs from yours****
It was not a Christian who walked out of the woods in 1820 and claimed to have seen angel and apostles and Jesus, and said we better fall in line to HIS teachings because all churches were wrong and his was right and if we didn’t HE would stand in the doorway to Heaven and keep the non mormons out!
HE threw down the gauntlet, Christians picked it up and ever since then Mormons have been crying that the Christians are mean to them even though it was Mormons who picked this fight!
Whew!
Define “refute”
I mean that how they work, they redefine everything...
Often on the fly...
ooooh...you dun it now
Prove what he posts is wrong, incorrect, or false.
Indignation is a standard argument in the mormon defender's argument toolbox. Often it is the first thing they pull out when challenged.
I have known MANY mormons who don't fit your description "kind, generous people with admirable values". Taken as a group they are no more "admirable" than any other group...just more hypocritical about hiding their faults. And their generosity is nearly always toward their sect and to other mormons. Example, the multi-millions in tithing given by Romney to his church.
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