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To: teppe

Where you err, is that when God created man, he created him as a living soul. Angels do not have souls, therefore, we are not like them. If you get into the Word, you will find that angels have no part in redemption. They worship God, but when you read in Revelation about the saints worshiping Jesus for His salvation - the angels have to step back - they can’t partake in that particular part of our worship.

There is definitely a difference between angels and man because the Bible says that we were created a little lower than the angels. That doesn’t make us equal.

You seem to be coming down hard on Catholics which teach the Trinity. The term trinity isn’t in the Bible, but the word Godhead is - and it says that in Him (Jesus) dwelt the fullness of the Godhead -this is where we get the term trinity. The Catholics are correct in this belief.


54 posted on 11/22/2012 9:28:26 AM PST by Catsrus
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To: Catsrus

LDS doctrine believe in the Godhead; which includes God the Father, his son-Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost.

Yes God created mankind, just below the Angels. That is our position in intelligence and ability of reason. Angels are a spiritual creation, mankind is the secondary mortal creation. The soul of man is a combination of the spirit and body of man.

This doctrine is perfectly taught by the example of Jesus Christ. Christ lived in the pre-existence, recieved a body through birth, his body died, and his spirit re-united with a glorified immortally ressurected body.

One of the main teachings of the New Testament which has completely missed you, is the example of the physical ressurection of Jesus Christ.

Christ’s ressurection is indisputable, and that it was an example for all mankind to also be likewise ressurected is scriptually sound.

Your problem, is that when Roman Emperors dictated christian doctrine, Christ’s ressurection didn’t fit in the Nicene Creed. The Creed and Christ’s physical ressurection where completely incompatable.

Consequently, main-stream Christianity solved that problem by re-interpreting Christ’s physical ressurection to subordinate it to the Nicene Creed.

Dont’t you know this stuff? It’s pretty basic.

Christ had, and currently has a ressurected body, nowhere in the New Testament does is say that Christ used his ressurected body to fake us out ... nor does it say that he ever ditched it when he got to heaven. Instead two angels standing by at the final assencion stated that Christ in a similar way would return. Which I assume means with his ressurected body.

Sorry that New Testament teaching didn’t make the Emperors edits.


62 posted on 11/22/2012 9:50:02 AM PST by teppe (... for my God ... for my Family ... for my Country)
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