Posted on 09/02/2010 6:59:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Most everyone there was not there as a pastor or politician.
I responded to something someone posted in the thread itself.
Freegards
Then I don't know why you mentioned Governor Palin.
Erm..... I posted #207. It says nothing about Mr. Beck's supposed pretensions of religious leadership.
I suppose you meant a different post, to which I did not pay attention. It's hard to "avoid" something unless you've seen it first.... But hey: anything to change the subject, right?
I suppose it's possible that Mr. Beck has such pretensions. So, for that matter, do some of those garden variety Evangelical leaders. But they're doomed to failure in any case so I'm not going to worry about it.
But back to baptism, and the question you're avoiding.
Does the efficacy of baptism depend on the church under whose authority it is practiced, or does God care more about the intent of the individual who is being baptized?
I didn’t get the impression that it was about the Christian (true) God or the Mormon faith or anyone but “whatever your beliefe system, if it is good and loving and helpful, then practice it like you mean it.”
This was not a “Christians only” event.
"Erm..... I posted #207. It says nothing about Mr. Beck's supposed pretensions of religious leadership. I suppose you meant a different post, to which I did not pay attention. It's hard to "avoid" something unless you've seen it first.... But hey: anything to change the subject, right?"
Weird, why waste all that time and effort when you knew that it was a simple mistake of me saying your post 207 instead of my post to you that was 208?
It is you that is trying to get off the subject of this thread by getting into personal religious beliefs, see post 208 on why Christians would be concerned about Beck becoming America's biggest religious leader.
Because it's better not to guess at your intentions, when I can ask you to clarify instead.
Not that guessing would have helped in this case: ironically, post #208 does not discuss Mr. Beck's supposed pretentions to religious leadership, either.
Post 208 addresses the subject of this thread, and "Mr. Beck's supposed pretentions to religious leadership".
Post 208
"It is the universality that makes this unique. “Mormonism is something that Christianity agrees on. Greek Orthodox, the Vatican, Protestant churches, as diverse as we think they are, they do agree that Mormonism isn’t Christian, but is a different religion of it’s own.”
Christians all have a shared interest in Mormonism whether you do or not."
hear this video and see the tears on the death of the Mormon prophet
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Glenn beck cried over Joey Smith getting his adulterous conman false prophet self killed ???
Did he also cry over the death that Jesus suffered on the Cross for him ???
The utube was the death of the last “president” of the LDS
Oh that one...
oh thats right
there was more than one “mormon prophet”
I always think of the lord Joey Smith...
John MacArthur did? I don’t listen to him that often but now I’ll have to research that. Where should I look?
Funny, you've posted that three times now, and it still says nothing about Mr. Beck's supposed attempt to become a religious leader.
Perhaps it's there in secret code, but I just can't quite spot it.
Or perhaps you're just trying to avoid the question I asked you.
It sure fits the subject of this thread, which is about Christian concerns as it relates to Mormonism and Glenn Beck.
That looks like Glenn Beck making a big Mormon moment on his national radio show, is that what it was?
I would try doing a search on his Grace to You website. I know I read his article on this on Ingrid Schleuter's "Crosstalk" Blog, so you may want to try a search there too.
I guess you can't have a proper debate on the subject without must first nail down the definitions of the words "grace" "faith" and "works."
Regardless of the whole faith, grace, and works business, I suspect that anyone who dies knowing God and truly loving Him will be saved. (When you realize who He is and what He has done/suffered for you, then it is hard not to love Him back). That seems to be the key. I would propose to you that it is impossible to be saved without loving God, but you have to know who He is before you can truly begin to do that. You can't love what you don't know.
Yes, you are quite correct. It is difficult to discuss the Biblical terms, ‘grace,’ ‘faith’ and ‘belief’ with someone not familiar with the Biblical understanding of those words.
The poster I was responding to in that post seemed not to be familiar with those Biblical concepts so I limited my discussion to the difference between belief (even the demons believe) and faith.
No that was a private interview I think
It looks like he is doing his show, not an interview.
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