Posted on 04/25/2016 5:29:27 PM PDT by reaganaut
Hey trying to be obedient to God is hard, why have distractions?
Pretty soon this church will be 200 years old .... isn’t that a little on the mature side for your Cult theory?
Break out the kool-aid!
LDS all my life, age 55, and I have never heard anyone at church promote open borders! Total BS
That would be Pop-corn ..... who ever breaks out the Kool-Aid?
“Auditioning for Godhood? I’m 55 and have been LDS my whole life and I have no Idea what you are talking about.”
Need to brush up on D&C, maybe?
“19 And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new and everlasting covenant, and it is sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of promise, by him who is anointed, unto whom I have appointed this power and the keys of this priesthood; and it shall be said unto them—Ye shall come forth in the first resurrection; and if it be after the first resurrection, in the next resurrection; and shall inherit thrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depths—then shall it be written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, that he shall commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, and if ye abide in my covenant, and commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, it shall be done unto them in all things whatsoever my servant hath put upon them, in time, and through all eternity; and shall be of full force when they are out of the world; and they shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to their exaltation and glory in all things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fulness and a continuation of the seeds forever and ever.
20 Then shall they be gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from everlasting to everlasting, because they continue; then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be gods, because they have call power, and the angels are subject unto them.” Doctrines & Covenants 132:19-20, Joseph Smith
Need to brush up on the Nicene Creed? or maybe the Apostolic Creed?
If God no longer gives revelation .....why do you believe in the Nicene Creed?
Just give it up! Focus on the Bible, if you believe that God either doesn’t, can’t, or wont talk to man after the New Testament.
You don’t need the Nicene Creed to interpret the Bible .... Just read it and use your brain, and the Holy Ghost!
You realize you’re confirming a prophetic declaration made by Joseph Smith to Isaac Behunin, don’t you?
Sorry, still completely baffled by your “auditioning thing”
but I have to get back to work.
If you looked at your beliefs with half of the critical eye that you look at my religion, you will realize that all the Creeds are a Farce.
As God the Father told Joseph Smith in the Grove in 1820 ...”all of their creeds are an abomination to me.”
Tell you what... when Mormons stop “bashing” every other denomination of Christianity, then I will abide the cease fire:
“18 My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.
19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”” - History of the Church 1:18-19, Joseph Smith
https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/js-h/1?lang=eng
Unfortunately the Jesus you mention is not the Jesus of the Christian church. Gully God and fully human a part of the trinity. That is not the Jesus of the Mormon church
“Sorry, still completely baffled by your “auditioning thing””
Well, “auditioning” was not my phrasing. However, I see you are no longer denying the belief that you can become a god, based on your works here on earth, so I’ll take that as conceding the point.
“If you looked at your beliefs with half of the critical eye that you look at my religion, you will realize that all the Creeds are a Farce.”
Well, of course you believe that all (non-Mormom) creeds are false, because that is your church’s doctrine. No big surprise there. However, that doesn’t make it true.
“As God the Father told Joseph Smith in the Grove in 1820 ...”
Sorry, I don’t believe God the Father chooses con men and fortune tellers for prophets, you’ll have to sell that hokum somewhere else.
Cults are based on false doctrine and psychological manipulation and control. Mormonism is still a cult after almost 200 years.
“... who ever breaks out the Kool-Aid?”
No one. Anymore...
Lol, every self-styled “prophet” predicts that there will be doubters. That’s their insurance policy, so when people call them out on their BS, they can say “I told ya so!”
The REAL tests of a prophet are:
a) whether their message is in line with Scripture without any irreconcilable contradictions
and
b) that NONE of their prophecies can be shown to be false
Joey Smith failed on both counts.
“If God no longer gives revelation ...”
I never said that, now did I? So, nice try, but you’re not going to straw man me.
“Just give it up! Focus on the Bible...”
I DO focus on the Bible. I wish you would do the same, it would be good for your eternal soul.
Inmans on the Trapeze! I is here!
Cults, like Mormons.
Suggest you do some research on Google about cultural references to drinking kool-aid.
“Hey trying to be obedient to God is hard, why have distractions?”
Perhaps because Jesus Christ didn’t send us to the saved, but to the sinners. He also told us to “love our enemies”, not only our friends and fellows.
“Pretty soon this church will be 200 years old .... isn’t that a little on the mature side for your Cult theory?”
Nope. The Muslims still have you beat by centuries, and they are still a cult. A rotten wine doesn’t get any better with age.
I knew one who was a real jerk. But then, he would have been a jerk even if he had been a baptist.
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