I find your belief system fascinating.
Posted on 12/23/2013 4:02:21 AM PST by Colofornian
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This special season has greater importance for the Latter-day Saints than for others because we not only observe the birthday of the Savior but also the birthday of our Prophet, Joseph Smith.
Joseph Smith, the great Prophet chosen by our Heavenly Father to usher in the last dispensation, was born on December 23, 1805, just two days before December 25, which the world observes as the birthday of Jesus Christ.
December 23 should be a day of great importance in every Latter-day Saint home, a day of remembering and honoring one of the great prophets of God, a day to pay tribute to a man whose life and mission has had a tremendous influence on the lives of every one of us.
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(Excerpt) Read more at lds.org ...
From the article:
"December 23 SHOULD be a day of great importance in every Latter-day Saint home, a day of remembering and honoring one of the great prophets of God, a day to pay tribute to a man whose life and mission has had a tremendous influence on the lives of every one of us."
There ya go, Mormons. The official Mormon Church....In an official Mormon Church publication...telling you yet another "Should": How "December 23 SHOULD be a day of great importance in every Latter-day Saint home..."
No exceptions now! EVERY Latter-day Saint home!
Merry Smithmas! to you!
Hey, after all, it's been Smithmas party time for the past 12-17 years or so at Lds apologist Daniel C. Peterson's home.
He said so himself!
See Joseph Smith 'gave us everything' & XMAS vs. LMOS (Local Manifestations of 'Smithmas') [Vanity]
Read the Bible (Galatians) for advice on following anyone who gets a revelation in a cave from an angel, or anyone else. Sorry.
Yes, this was Muhammad's way of receiving a competitive "revelation" to the Bible.
See this article: Islam & Lds, Muhammad & Joseph Smith: Similarities (+ Lds ecumenical nods toward Islam) [Vanity]
Then a number of Christians obsess over something they don't believe in.
Ironic - no?
Actually, no, and your very post proves you actually don't believe what you say you believe here.
IoW, if you were a true "spiritual libertarian" and advocated such "spiritual libertarianism"
-- a "hands off" approach to what others believe/express/worship
--a true "live and let live" religious attitude
...then you wouldn't mind what others post on FR about Mormonism or Islam or anything
IoW, if you were at all consistent in this philosophy, you yourself "should" simply -- to quote you: "just mind" your "own business instead of getting" your "panties in a bunch over something" you apparently "don't agree with/believe in" that's being expressed in this and other similar threads.
So tell you what: If your philosophy is so great, lead by example. Bug out of this thread -- and bug out not because I told you, but because you say you believe that people "should just mind their own business"...
And we'd like to know if we should believe what you say -- or what you actually practice.
Stop refuting your own beliefs...it doesn't come across as any kind of coherent expression.
I find your belief system fascinating.
How much time do you devote to carrying the message of the Word vs. beating up on Mormons?
None of my business - just curious about the devout Christians who seem to spend more time spewing hate than carrying the Love God and your neighbor message that they seem to consider themselves to be "keepers of".
Jesus told us to "resist not evil" - it's His job. Being Humans, we can't help it, but we can control the hate we put out. Gonna use the "resist not" against me? 'Twould be sweet irony.
Of course, maybe I'm all wet and spewing hate is the way to carry the message of Love and to help folks decide to be saved if they don't already enjoy the mantle of Grace that He gave us - phew, that was sinfully run-on. If you have any data on that approach, that can be used to educate and enlighten me, I promise to study up on it.
Glenn Beck, the famous morman convert from Catholicism (converted because his daughter became a morman and Beck was trying to quit drinking, and he said he liked the morman stance on not drinking alcohol and I guess Catholics can’t quit drinking), was basically broke when Fox News got rid of him a few years ago. He resurfaces not long after being canned by Fox and had bought his own TV station, The Blaze. The famous conspiracy theorist is now worth something in the neighborhood of 100 million dollars. Anybody wanna bet that the Morman Church didn’t bankroll his start in the TV business. You got to have BIG BUCKS to start your own TV station.
I like to watch The Blaze, when Beck is not on it.
Will Santa Claus come to our home planet?
Have no doubt. Christianity is under attack on all fronts, all over the world.
From simple ridicule, to boycotts, to....ultimately, jail & execution.
We should stand guard against those who seek to divide Christian against Christian.
Do not be deceived. All those who believe that Jesus was Christ, and
that he died for our sins, are Christians. They are our brothers in Christ.
Do not be divided against them.
Merry Christmas.
The first “spiritual libertarian” can be found in Genesis 3...
Well said. It is an odd hobby.
Of course, everybody know that most Catholics are hopeless drunks but that pious Mormons never touch the stuff. /s
I don’t understand why Glenn Beck converted to LDS. Their `sacred writings’ are filled with anti-Catholic vitriol and does Glenn really believe that Elohim lives on a planet near star Kolob and that a chieftain named Shiz staggered about after his head was chopped off?
Maybe Glenn just digs the Mormon teachings about our founding documents being as divinely inspired as Scripture, and that the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in Missouri. Wonder what he thinks about polygamy?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Tuesday that the number of full-time missionaries has reached an all-time high of 75,000.
Since President Thomas S. Monson's announcement in October regarding age requirements for missionary service, a surge of young men and women in the LDS church have applied to serve a mission, pushing the numbers from 58,500 in October to the newly announced 75,000.
The Deseret News previously reported that the number of young men and women applying to serve missions jumped nearly 500 percent soon after the change, which led to the opening of 58 new missions, now totaling 405. The growing numbers also prompted the opening of a Missionary Training Center in Mexico.
In May, LDS Church Spokeswoman Ruth Todd said the church estimated more than 85,000 full-time missionaries would be serving by Fall.
Not only do these missionaries "cherry pick", they lie.
(Hey, it wasn't original with me...you can thank the Mormon church issuing another "should" to its members in 1976!)
'Tis good you're a perfectly obedient (to church authorities) Mormon, too, eh Stormprepper?
“Since today is Joseph Smith’s birthday (I honestly hadn’t thought of it before)..you’re right. I think my family will read the account of the first vision tonight where Joseph was visited by God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. Good idea Colofornian. “
WHICH of the MANY versions will you read?
Tell us, Trebb, in light of your post #6...So are you just normally spiritually inconsistent & hypocritical? Or is the "minding your own business" just a convenient "club phrase" you handily carry 'round to beat up people with if they are saying something you deem is somehow "objectionable"?
And, let's see...in your latest post you've used the word "hate" three times -- and "spewing hate" twice [without being specific what you may think is actually "hateful"]...
...so I gotta ask: Is going around makin' generic accusations supposed to be "sharin' the Christmas LUUUUUvvvvv" with other posters?
You see when I tell the truth, I try to be as specific as possible. And I try to let the source do the talking -- allowing others to see that it originally came from the group they identify with (and it's not just me making something up).
What I find with a lot of shotgun accusers -- and so far you seem to fall into that lot -- is they are never specific about what they are objecting to. (That would be like a parent trying to hold a kid accountable -- and yet never being specific about what the discipline is for)
So. Am I supposed to be feelin' the harmonic vibes from you yet? (Or do you have more generic accusations to come where I can get more of that "LUV" message you're preachin'?)
-- I mean since you twice used the word "Love", I think that's the steep Mount Everest message you were attempting to climb, isn't it?...
...And with that, I think I was somehow supposed to understand that you're the self-designated "LUV generator" for this thread. Do I have that right?
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