Your post encourages the Flying Inmans in their mission against false prophets and cultic practices. Thank you.
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Posted on 06/29/2013 5:44:06 PM PDT by Colofornian
June 29, 2013.
7:00 pm – open to the public.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
In June 2012, around over a hundred people showed up to support resignation from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (also known as the Mormon or LDS church). This year, they are doing it again. Former and current members of the LDS church will be marching on Ensign Peak at 7pm on June 29, 2013, in a mass resignation event from the LDS church.
This event means a lot to the people who are involved. Resigning from the church is a milestone for some, showing that they no longer want to be associated with the LDS church or its practices. Many people never resign who no longer believe. Those who do resign do it to make a statement, either to the church, themselves, or their families. For some, that statement is simply to stop the church from contacting them to return. For others, that statement is for themselves, marking that they have moved beyond church culture and church beliefs. And still, for others, that statement is about disagreement with church history or practices, such as the Evergreen rehabilitation program, the polygamous nature of both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and changing church doctrines.
For many who resign, Mormonism has been a culture and way of life. Leaving the church can be a traumatic experience for some, as those people adjust to a world “outside the church”. As an example, people who leave the LDS church may not experience their first coffee, tea, or alcoholic drink until they have left the church, which could be in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. Many people who stop believing in the church feel that they have to learn to live a new life.
Members can resign from the LDS church by sending an email to msr-confrec@ldschurch.org with their full name, date of birth, and membership number. Other information such as baptism date and their ward or branch can also be supplied. A letter can also be sent to Member Records, 50 E North Temple, Room 1372, SLC UT 84150-5310.
If there's one message in this, it's that there is no such thing as a perfect human.
Been there, done that, and still shaking my head over it.
Have a great day.
I am always forgetting to look a people's pages when this sort of, well whatever it is starts.
After your reply, I took a look (has one of the same items as Resty, curious) and this as a statement:
If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. - Sun Tuz
All I ask is for an honest advantage.
So apparently, an honest debate is not possible, just attempts to irritate and the obligatory.....it's not fair, when you are called on it.
It all makes sense. I wise person replied to me once "do not feed the beast", they were right.
I am always forgetting to look a people's pages when this sort of, well whatever it is starts.
After your reply, I took a look (has one of the same items as Resty, curious) and this as a statement:
If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. - Sun Tuz
All I ask is for an honest advantage.
So apparently, an honest debate is not possible, just attempts to irritate and the obligatory.....it's not fair, when you are called on it.
It all makes sense. I wise person replied to me once "do not feed the beast", they were right.
Off topic, but I am looking for an article posted here. It was about a female journalist that had converted to Christianity. I think she even wrote a book?
I am always curious about people who for no apprent reaso become Christians.
Any help would be appreciated!!
Seriously, that’s all the person does is attack the Mormon religion. Have an opinion, but to make it one’s life’s work is mental.
That is a fact.
Praise God!
Truth is one of those insistent things that tends not to like being ignored.
And God the Holy Spirit illuminates our hearts -- and doesn't bypass our minds in the process.
Amen!
Sigh... Yet another "Mormons are good people" poster that says NOTHING about the false religion those 'good people' are deceived by! [Elsie]
We know that Jesus was pretty "down on" the legalistic Pharisees. But...we know of one great compliment He gave to the outward "assets" of legalistic Pharisees, saying to others that unless your righteousness exceeded that of the Pharisees & the teachers of the law, "you will certainly NOT enter the kingdom of heaven." (Matt. 5:20).
IOW, Jesus can still use the legalistic Mormons as an object lesson for all of us -- just like He did legalistic Pharisees -- to remind us that our faith shouldn't be privately tucked away...
...that zeal is to be displayed outwardly...
...and that righteousness was never meant to be hid in a corner.
But...
...Jesus...
...later...(Matthew 23)...
...outlined the true internal vs. external "scorecard" of the Pharisees:
25"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. 27 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
Cherry, if Jesus only looked upon outward assets, then the Pharisees & the teachers of the law...
...and perhaps SOME Mormons, too...
...passed -- or would pass -- your standards w/flying colors...
...and, by implication...Jesus was mistaken to "diss" them.
Bottom line: Hey, if you're auditioning for godhood, which temple Mormons are, you better be on your best outward behavior.
But since there's only one God...
...and will only ever be one God...
...what does this kind of Mormoneering inward power grab say about such power-mongers in God's eyes...
...for them to not only postulate
-- but to redefine Jesus' Gospel --
-- to tell the world with vast missionary zeal that hundreds, thousands, millions, & billions gods and/or potential new gods exist or will exist...
...and to openly claim they will such "new gods" on the universal block???
All this is such a contradiction to the foundational principles of our free republic (and to this site, Free Republic)!
I mean c'mon...we properly lambast Obama's utopianistic socialism as an overreach of power-mongering...and yet temple Mormons think they will be new gods creating their own new worlds -- the ultimate power-mongering!
Praise God!!
Your post encourages the Flying Inmans in their mission against false prophets and cultic practices. Thank you.
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You have some proof to post regarding that statement, I suppose?
Amen!
(Yes, Amen!)
My old geometry teacher would say, "That's a given."
It sure illustrates what a FALSE prophet is; too.
I'd be curious about that myself!
I don't think I've ever read a testimony that did NOT include just WHY the person came to the Lord.
Praise GOD!
By the humility and gentleness of Christ,
I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am “timid” when face to face with you, but “bold” toward you when away!
2 I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world.
3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
5 We DEMOLISH arguments and EVERY PRETENSION that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
My “master”? Who, pray tell, do you imagine is my master?
I guess I was a little too loose with my wording. But there are people who go along and feel life is ok. But when exposed to the Scripture realize somoething was missing in their life.
You hear stories of people who hit rock bottom and turn the Christ and they have incredible stirring testimonies. But the quick read I did on the headlines, there wasn’t anything like this in this woman’s life. I wanted to read her testimony.
So, next time, try not to be so snarky with your comment?
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