Some evil apostates have threatened to post 95 lies about our church on the doors of our buidings.
I have been told they are just haters for mormonism exposure but I think they just want to sin
What do you think ?
Posted on 02/12/2013 11:52:32 AM PST by Alex Murphy
American Fork, UT (PRWEB) February 12, 2013
A group of over 260 active and disaffected Mormons will be posting a copy of 95 LDS Theses onto the doors of their local churches around the world between the hours of 9:00 p.m. Saturday, February 16th, and 9:00 a.m. Sunday, February 17, 2013.
The project is organized by Mormon Reformation, a protest movement which aims to follow protestant reformer Martin Luther, who in 1517 posted a list of grievances on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg. Within two weeks, it was distributed by the press throughout Germany, exposed the corruption of the Catholic Church, and started what came to be known as the Protestant Reformation. Now, protesters claim, it is time for a Mormon Reformation.
Why Do Concerned Mormons Feel a Protest Is Necessary?
The protest is intended to be a peaceful, non-confrontational, and anonymous way to achieve the following two objectives:
1) Educating the membership of the church on controversial, revised, and hidden aspects of church doctrine, history, and fundamental claims, and
2) Influencing church leaders to officially address topics that they have dodged, dismissed, and covered up for too long.
The 95 LDS theses include grievances concerning the church’s whitewashing & suppressing of documented history, such as:
• Joseph Smith illegally marrying at least 33 women, some of whom were as young as 14 years old. Some of Joseph's marriages were secured by promising salvation or threatening damnation.
• Joseph Smith married at least 11 women who were already married to other men. In some cases, Joseph married the wives of men whom he had sent away on missions. Brigham Young also married other men's wives.
• Boyd K. Packer and other church leaders have openly advocated obscuring and editing history by teaching us that "some things that are true are not very useful."
• The LDS Church stifles honest scholarship of Mormonism, going as far as excommunicating people who find and publish history that contradicts the Church's narrative.
• The LDS Church’s refusal to disclose its finances, even to its tithe-paying members, despite former President Hinckley stating to Larry King that financial "information belongs to those who made the contribution."
“To make this event successful, I am enlisting the help of a wide variety of people,” says the protest’s organizer, Luther-day Saint.“ The group of protesters consists mainly of progressive, temple recommend-carrying members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as less active members and some members who have recently left the church.
There are now over 1,000 discussion forums, podcasts, and blogs in what is called the Exmormon community, which vary in focus and style from gently discussing pertinent issues to openly satirizing covered-up Mormon beliefs as well as the church's inauthenticity and institutionalized behavioral and information control.
In January, 2012, a Reuters article announced a statement by church historian & recorder Marlin K. Jensen’s that the church has never experienced such a profound loss of its membership since the Kirtland, Ohio, banking scandal in 1837.
According to Mormon Luther-day Saint, “Some people wish for nothing short of the complete destruction of the church. For them, my efforts don't go far enough. Others just want to tweak a thing or two about the church. Whatever your personal desires for the church, I hope that I can count on your support to achieve the above two objectives by sharing the 95 theses and our event through social media.”
The event and printable copy of the 95 theses can be found on MormonReformation.blogspot.com as well as its Facebook event.
Mormon Reformation is a group of active and disaffected Mormons who seek to create change within the church--not by attacking its beliefs or lay members, but by petitioning LDS leadership to openly address its covered-up history and dishonest claims.
A group of over 260 active and disaffected Mormons will be posting a copy of 95 LDS Theses onto the doors of their local churches around the world between the hours of 9:00 p.m. Saturday, February 16th, and 9:00 a.m. Sunday, February 17, 2013. The project is organized by Mormon Reformation....The 95 LDS theses include grievances concerning the church’s whitewashing & suppressing of documented history, such as:
• Joseph Smith illegally marrying at least 33 women, some of whom were as young as 14 years old. Some of Joseph's marriages were secured by promising salvation or threatening damnation.
• Joseph Smith married at least 11 women who were already married to other men. In some cases, Joseph married the wives of men whom he had sent away on missions. Brigham Young also married other men's wives.
• Boyd K. Packer and other church leaders have openly advocated obscuring and editing history by teaching us that "some things that are true are not very useful."
• The LDS Church stifles honest scholarship of Mormonism, going as far as excommunicating people who find and publish history that contradicts the Church's narrative.
• The LDS Church’s refusal to disclose its finances, even to its tithe-paying members, despite former President Hinckley stating to Larry King that financial "information belongs to those who made the contribution"....
....The event and printable copy of the 95 theses can be found on MormonReformation.blogspot.com as well as its Facebook event.
*Ping*
Wish them well, they will need it.
There are people on FR claiming they are just haters for mormonism exposure.
uh Oh
Ive been reading about this the last few days...
fresh air into a stinky religion...
However Mormonism ism not a Protestant denomination...
Mormoinism is anti-Christianity...
It was intended to be when founder Joey Smith first invented it...
Each of the 10 Commandments are corrupted and rejectede in the doctrines of Mormonism...
Don’t they already have an outlet in the RLDS, the ones who chose not to follow Brigham Young into the wilderness, choosing instead to stay in Independence, MO?
Did “Mormon Luther” pull all of this out of hat?
If you don't like the church you are in, find one you do like. Seriously, who cares?
I split the Catholic church years before the homosexual and rape scandals. I don't come here and post anti-anything.
Why not just point to a better organization?
(shrugs and walks away)
hum?
This is the Religion Forum posting an article about a religious issue, “if you don’t like the forum you are in, find one you do like”.
Some evil apostates have threatened to post 95 lies about our church on the doors of our buidings.
I have been told they are just haters for mormonism exposure but I think they just want to sin
What do you think ?
At first I thought these were homosexual liberals doing the protesting, demanding a more “inclusive” church.
But maybe I was right.
Ping for later.
“Mormons will be posting a copy of 95 LDS Theses onto the doors of their local churches around the world between the hours of 9:00 p.m. Saturday, February 16th, and 9:00 a.m. Sunday, February 17, 2013. “
Always trying to copy Christians!
Watch, they will even pervert this...
This is the Religion Forum posting an article about a religious issue, “if you don’t like the forum you are in, find one you do like”. [SVCW]
Actually, SVCW...after reading of a few of the "theses" to be published -- this group posting these is standing in sharp contrast to the compartmentalism reflected in both ASOC's and your comments...
Note this from the article: Joseph Smith illegally marrying at least 33 women, some of whom were as young as 14 years old. Some of Joseph's marriages were secured by promising salvation or threatening damnation. • Joseph Smith married at least 11 women who were already married to other men...
This was bigamy...already against the law in the 19th century...bigamy is not "just" a "religious" issue.
ASOC asks "what difference does it make?" as if Muslim or Mormon polygamy doesn't matter...
If a Mormon "prophet" could implement polygamy; and then temporarily set it aside; then he could also bring it back.
If a Mormon "prophet" could take it upon himself to marry 11 wives already married to other men...If recent fLDS "prophets" can take a wife and give her to another man...which has happened more than people care to concede in Hildale, UT and Colorado City, AZ...then these aren't simply "tucked-away-in-a-corner 'religious' activities..." Hence the raid on the fLDS compound in 2008 was justified.
ASOC treats all this in typical amoral/immoral libertarian style...
When this worldview is applied to abortion, it comes out as, "Don't like abortion? Don't have one."
Applied to the abolitionist movement it was, "Don't like slavery? Don't own one."
When applied to environmental issues or moral sewage coming into homes, it sounds like, "Don't like polluted water coming in thru your pipes at home? Buy bottled water."
When applied to cults, it's "Don't like laced koolaid? Don't drink it or join cults that do. Don't like religious groups acting as pied pipers to hell? Don't follow them. But otherwise, keep your mouth shut."
This line of reasoning is essentially concluding, "The hell with looking out for your neighbor who might unknowingly be drinking polluted water; or to hell with the gullible youngster falling for a cult."
'Tis the EXACT opposite ethic of loving your neighbor as yourself...
Anonymous?
This group is announcing that it's going to tape something on Lds doors Sunday...and, having announced it in advance, they somehow think they can do that anonymously?
Won't the Lds church dispatch its door-protecting goons(its equivalency of modern-day avenging 'angels'...the Danites) starting Saturday at o-dark hundred? Do you think they will either allow ANYTHING to be posted; or if successfully posted, stay there for very long?
If there's one thing that the Lds church has consistently proven, the Mormon hierarchy isn't very pro-"let's hear other viewpoints"...
As one Lds leader announced in a message in the 1940s, "When the prophet has spoken, the thinking's been done."
It has ALL the marks of a cult.
Yep, you are correct.
The goons will be out in force.
There are several hundred breakaway sects that stem in one way or another from the original Mormon church founded by Joseph Smith, some are defunct and new ones seem to spring up regularly. When doctrine is whatever you say it is, I guess this sort of thing is not unexpected.
“(shrugs and walks away)”
(also shrugs and follows you out the door)
"It" used to be called the Reorganized Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now they refer to themselves as the Commu itu of Christ.
"It" used to be called the Reorganized Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now they refer to themselves as the Community of Christ.
NOTE: ALL Mormons are in reality "disaffected"...the problem is those who have discovered it too late and who will discover it upon death.
Here's a test for Lds to discover their disaffection:
Have you been told that "eternal life" is eventual life in the extra-"goody" heaven -- the third heaven -- called the "Celestial Kingdom?" And that it's part of "eternal progression" and that it will take a "while" to reach it? And that it's ONLY available for married Mormons? And that it's ONLY available for temple Mormons?
IOW, have you been told that "eternal life" takes place either at death -- or, for the Mormon, much, much beyond that?
Well, that's a lie. Plain and simple.
How do we know that?
Compare that "line" to what Jesus repeatedly said about "eternal life"...read the passages below and then ask, "Is eternal life something available on this earth BEFORE we die?" The final verse below gives the best brief definitional understanding of eternal life...'tis a relationship with the ONLY TRUE God...a relationship that can start right NOW!
* 36 Whoever believes in the Son HAS eternal life... (Jesus, John 3:36)
* 24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me HAS eternal life and will not be judged but HAS CROSSED OVER from death to life. (Jesus, John 5:24)
* 47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes HAS eternal life. (Jesus, John 6:47)
* 11 And this is the testimony: God HAS GIVEN us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever HAS the Son HAS life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may KNOW that you HAVE eternal life. (1 John 5:11-13)
3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. (Jesus, John 17:3)
Mormons, yield the lies your leaders have told you. Realize how disaffected you have done. Come to the true God....the ONLY ONE...embrace eternal life NOW thru a relationship with the True Christ!!!! Believe!!!
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