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To: restornu

You say this in the “name” of Jesus, yet I don’t see you reverencing or even referencing Jesus, more like you are reverencing the “church”...

Why do mormons have to pay an entrance fee to return to Jesus and God?

Why do mormons have to engage in unBiblical practices in temples all in the name of returning to said Jesus and God?

Why do mormons misrepresent the function of certain items in OT temples to justify the unBiblical practices occurring in LDS temples?


731 posted on 03/01/2014 9:36:03 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: SZonian

When there’s no mention of the Cross its not the Jesus of the Bible..

The New Agers often use a spirit guide they call jesus ..


732 posted on 03/01/2014 9:48:12 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: SZonian

Mar 1, 1842 - For the first time an account of Joseph Smith’s first vision is published, appearing in the TIMES AND SEASONS which publishes his official account April 1. This account is in a letter to John Wentworth: “I retired to a secret place in a grove and began to call upon the Lord, while fervently engaged in supplication my mind was taken away from the objects with which I was surrounded and I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision and saw two glorious personages who exactly resembled each other in features, and likeness, surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noon-day. They told me that all religious denominations were believing in incorrect doctrines, . . .” Joseph later tells of the September 21, 1823 visit of “a personage [who] stood before me surrounded with a glory . . .I was informed that I was chosen to be an instrument in the hands of God to bring about some of his purposes in this glorious dispensation. I was also informed concerning the aboriginal inhabitants of this country and shown who they were, and from whence they came, a brief sketch of their origin, progress, civilization, laws, governments, of their righteousness and iniquity, and the blessings of God being finally withdrawn from them as a people was made known unto me . . .” In spite of this some LDS apologists dealing with Native American DNA studies later claim that all of Joseph Smith’s statements concerning the origin and ancestry of Native Americans are only his “opinion.”


733 posted on 03/01/2014 10:11:58 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: SZonian; ejonesie22

Why???


Why haven't YOU looked at all of those 'official' MORMON links that PD so carefully compiled?

Or, perhaps you have, and now have an appetite for the Meat OF Mormonism.

Good luck on your search; for it seems that information is a bit rationed...




Where can we find an 'OFFICIAL MORMON' teaching website??
Official sites are sites supported by LDS officials unless said official sites are considered unofficial by said officials.
 
At that point such sites are unofficial unless officially referenced for official purposes by officials who can do so officially.
 
This should not be misconstrued as an indication that official sites can be unofficially recognized as official nor should it be implied that unofficial sites cannot contain official information, but are not officially allowed to be offical despite their official contents due the their unofficialness.
 
Official sites will be official and recognized as official by officials of the LDS unless there is an official reason to mark them as unofficial either temporally or permanently, which would make the official content officially unofficial.
 
This is also not to imply that recognized sites, often used on FR by haters and bigots cannot contain official information, it just means that content, despite its official status, is no longer official and should be consider unofficial despite the same information being official on an official site elsewhere.
 
Even then the officialness my be amended due to the use of the unofficial information which may determine the officialness of anything be it official or unofficial depending on how and where it is used officially or unofficially.
I hope this clear things up for the lurkers out there.
The haters tend to make things complicated and confusing when it is all really quite crystal clear.
--Ejonesie22

747 posted on 03/02/2014 3:47:56 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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