Benjamin Tanner

Latter Day Saint who loves history, music, sports, and the outdoors.

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@Apologetics941 Did you know that the South did call on other countries and so did the north? This all littrally happened. War has been all over the world since that time. Read a history book

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@Apologetics941 It just says the civil war was the start, the world has been in continual war since that time. WWI, WW2 etc. you have to be blind to not see this.

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@mormons_speak It’s possible to love more than one person with your whole soul. I love my wife, my kids, my parents, siblings etc with my whole soul. Love isn’t finite.

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@Faustzme You must not know that many Christians then

[James Divis @j_divis]

God has a prophet on earth today.

[Dallin H. Oaks @OaksDallinH]

Missionary work is soaring to new heights. We are days away from the opening of 55 new missions. This brings the total number of missions to 506. There is a total of over 87,000 full-time missionaries. And we are currently being reinforced by the first wave of 18-year-old sisters beginning their service. 

In coming weeks, we will have the largest number of full-time missionaries in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

These missionaries’ first responsibility is to testify of Jesus Christ to a world that suffers without knowledge of His divine mission. They invite people across the globe to become part of His true and living Church.

I affirm my testimony of Jesus Christ and the truth of His gospel. The Holy Ghost has given me a witness of its truthfulness, and I rejoice that I can spend my life in proclaiming it.

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@DanielAllred @OaksDallinH You are insane. Missionary work did more to bring peace in the Book of Mormon than any war did.

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@chekdawg @OaksDallinH Read the Book of Mormon, it’s definitely needed. You’re theology is proof

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@BenBird53920553 Poor guy.

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@ryanswalters73 No one needs to stop you. The more you post the more rediculous you sound.

[LEGO Joseph Smith @Mormonger]

Evangelical: Mormons aren't Christians.

LDS: Why not?

Evangelical: Because you reject essential Christian beliefs.

LDS: Essential according to whom?

Evangelical: According to historic Christianity.

LDS: By "historic Christianity," do you mean the theology that emerged from the fourth and fifth century creeds?

Evangelical: Yes.

LDS: Then you've already assumed your conclusion. You're defining Christianity as agreement with your interpretation of Christianity.

Evangelical: No, I'm defining it by orthodox doctrine.

LDS: But that's the question under debate. Latter-day Saints agree that Jesus is the divine Son of God, Savior of the world, Lord, Messiah, crucified and resurrected Redeemer. We worship Him, pray in His name, covenant to follow Him, and believe salvation comes only through Him. Why doesn't that qualify as Christian?

Evangelical: Because your Jesus is different.

LDS: Different from whose understanding? Catholics, Orthodox, Calvinists, Lutherans, and Baptists all disagree with one another on important doctrines about Christ, grace, authority, and salvation. Yet you still call them Christian.

Evangelical: They agree on the essentials.

LDS: And who gets to decide which doctrines are essential?

Evangelical: The historic Church.

LDS: The same historic Church that Protestants say fell into serious corruption and had to be reformed?

Evangelical: Not completely corrupted.

LDS: That's a difference of degree, not kind. Protestants say Christianity required reform. Latter-day Saints say Christianity required restoration. Both claim that errors entered the Church.

Evangelical: Joseph Smith said all the creeds were an abomination.

LDS: He criticized creeds because he believed they misrepresented God. Criticizing existing theology doesn't make someone non-Christian. Martin Luther criticized much of medieval Christianity. Was he non-Christian?

Evangelical: You believe God was once a man.

LDS: And you believe God is 3 persons but 1 being. The question is which interpretation better reflects revelation.

Evangelical: You believe you can become gods.

LDS: We believe God's children can become heirs with Christ and partake of the divine nature through Christ's grace. The early Christian concept of theosis taught something similar, though not identical.

Evangelical: You teach works-based salvation.

LDS: No. We know that it is by grace that we are saved, despite all we can do.

Evangelical: But Mormonism teaches a different gospel.

LDS: Every Christian group says some other Christian groups teach a different gospel. Catholics say Protestants removed essential elements. Protestants say Catholics added essential elements. Calvinists and Arminians accuse each other of undermining the gospel. Simply asserting "different gospel" doesn't prove anything.

Evangelical: Christianity has always taught the Trinity.

LDS: That's historically inaccurate. The earliest centuries contained significant debates about God's nature. The Nicene settlement was the outcome of those debates, not their starting point.

Evangelical: Then are you saying we're not Christians?

LDS: No. I think many evangelicals are sincere Christians trying to follow Jesus. I simply disagree with some of their doctrines.

Evangelical: Then why should I consider Mormonism Christian?

LDS: Because Christianity should be defined primarily by devotion to and faith in Jesus Christ, not by conformity to philosophical creeds written centuries after the New Testament.

Evangelical: So the real disagreement isn't whether you believe in Jesus.

LDS: Exactly. The real disagreement is which understanding of Jesus is true.

Evangelical: And you think Joseph Smith restored that truth?

LDS: Yes.

[LEGO Joseph Smith @Mormonger]

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions."

- Me, greeting my children in the morning

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@JPuncut The Bible has errors, contradictions, and most definitely fallible.

[LEGO Joseph Smith @Mormonger]

There is one reason, and one reason only, a man emphasizes being related to church leaders

And that is to distract you from the fact that he is retarded

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@Thatbrian You are listening to your tribal fears and not the Holy Ghost

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@EvidenceOfFaith Posting John Delhin is like posting a 🤡

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@ryanswalters73 @sola_chad One of your relatives will do your temple work. Hopefully you will soften your heart on the other side.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

Everyone wants to “explain”
Mormon beliefs.

But nobody wants to “explain” these Mormon outcomes:

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@blatant_sock @ThoughtfulSaint I just watched a so called “christian” say he was a “Mormon Bishop for 30 years” this is not even a thing. Bishops serve around 5 years. You guys lie so much you can’t even walk anymore.

[Benjamin Tanner @AManLeftHanded]

@DFPSAC @ImKingGinger What a terrible trade. You traded true faith, true living religion, for a dead one. It’s not too late, you can come back. Well welcome you with open arms. You can have the fullness of the Gospel in your life again. Come back.