Posted on 02/24/2014 7:28:13 PM PST by restornu
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As far as I know no one is going to hell no matter how ornery they get
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You might think that but that’s not what God says in His Bible..
It pays to read the Bible for yourself...
there is a Hell and more people will go to Hell than to heaven..
the Lord said in my Father house are many mansions so there must be a place for the ornery...
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it depends on what you mean by ornery..
The LORD Jesus Christ was ornery by your lights..
however there is no place in the Biblical place that Jesus referred to in John 14:2 for the likes of your Joseph Smith or Brigham Young or any Mormon who does not repent of their sins and get saved...
that would by your own words and confession include yourself...
As far as I know no one is going to hell
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You know there are you have been taught that for years in these threads...
and I just taught you again..
As far as I know no one is going to hell
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Would you dare call God a liar ???
I am talking about is group not the whole world why do you have to take everything to extreme...
Meaning they might not like our doctrine, but they would defend the right to our religion.
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No they would not...
no American would..
Mormonism sets itself up against the government, the Constitution and laws of the United States..
Not yell out to the mob to cheer them to hang them!
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Like Mormons do to Christians and have since 1830 ???
after I was cancer free.
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A lot of us have had cancer...
it didn’t cause us to join a cult like Mormonism...
Not all, I have Calvinist friends who are not that judgmental it one is striving to live the 10 commandments they are not going to hell...
Its the Mormons who don’t believe in Hell and don’t believe in the Lake of Fire..
Calvinists have no trouble believing in Hell..
but your Calvinist friends aren’t in these threads...
and if they were really your friends they would tell you to come out of that cult you got yourself tangled up in...
Why are you dragging the RM into this conversation when I never address it to the RM, Elsie I have no clue where you are going with this?
I have Calvinist friends who are not that judgmental
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then whomever they are they are not obeying the Bible...
after I was cancer free.
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A lot of us have had cancer...
it didn’t cause us to join a cult like Mormonism...
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how are you connection the dots here TN I been LDS since 82 got cancer in 97 wow I really do what is going on in that brain...
I have Calvinist friends who are not that judgmental
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and I have Calvinists friends who are..
most FR Calvinist don’t feel that way as you do!
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then they’re not Calvinists...
but all the Calvinists I know do agree that Mormonism is not religious freedom but is cultish slavery..
wow I really do what is going on in that brain...
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mind read much ???
while youre in there say hello to the LORD Jesus Christ...
as I have the mind of Christ..
Not yell out to the mob to cheer them to hang them!
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Like Mormons do to Christians and have since 1830 ???
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This is coo coo it was the Christians who tarred and feathered the saints not the other way around...
Tried to force poison down JS throat. having over 200 trump up charges in a 20 life years span, talk about hateful and than ended up trapping JS and his brother in a Jail, and don’t wait for the Law, just let raging hate take over and murder the prophet and brother. Yeah they had one gun a few bullets among the four of them woopi doo.
It was the Christian mobocracy that drove the Saint out of their home in the dead of winter, and they were the first to massacre the saints at Haun’s mill, way before MMM ever occurred, and this was not sanction by our leaders, but someone who disobey and took things upon themselves.
Out of 184 years just really who are the trouble makers?
mind read much ???
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No that is why I wonder?
after reading your statement earlier how I made you sick to your stomach no wonder you don’t feel love, it was not my soft spot for you that shut this off, seems more like contempt for the other!
most FR Calvinist don’t feel that way as you do!
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then they’re not Calvinists...
but all the Calvinists I know do agree that Mormonism is not religious freedom but is cultish slavery
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There you go judging them because they don’t have a mean streak!
This is coo coo it was the Christians who tarred and feathered the saints
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actually it was the Mormons who tarred and feathered Joey Smith
1. for having sex with the 15 year old Nancy Marinda Johnson ..that’s child rape y’all...
Smith had been stalking the poor girl since the year before 1831 when she was 14 or even as young as 13..
her father and brother and some other Mormon men just didn’t seem to understand Smith was entitled to any woman he pleased to leer at..
and it was a Mormon doctor who was going to castrate the adulterer Smith for his continual sexapades amongst their wives and daughters..
yes youre right its a pity the doctor didn’t go through with it..
If Smith had been castrated in 1832 he wouldn’t have raped children and stolen other men’s wives any more..
2. for his adulterous affair with 16 year old Fanny Alger which started in 1831..eventhough Smith was preaching so called righteousness and virtue to the rest of the men..
3. for fleecing his followers..
this was before they moved to Kirkland where smith really went to town stealing and cheating his Mormons with phony $3 notes and a banking scam....
but he still had an early pyramid scheme going on the smallish side because he didn’t have that many followers at yet..but they still felt the pinch..
4. Smith was demanding that his Mormon followers sign over all their property and money to him and he would control it..he was strong arming them into this “protection money” scheme..
anyhoo the men involved were all Mormons known to Smith and the next day Sunday they all attended the religious services where Smith stared them down, gave them dirty looks and preached at them...
Now that must have been some morning
LOL
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