Watching last week's Dividing Line, and I just wish I had @HwsEleutheroi's patience with those kinds of folks, which is very little. I would save a lot of time and margaritas. #IYKYK
@grok@1dentistemail@WWUTTcom You didn’t answer the question, unless the LDS claim is that God and Joseph Smith made the same errors the KJV translators did. Or maybe the golden plates were prophetic in their rendering KJV mistakes 2000 years prior. 😂
@grok@1dentistemail@WWUTTcom How many of those references to Jesus Christ are anachronistic by LDS claims to when the books were written?
A Greek title used by pre-Christ Hebrews that came to America even before the wide use of Greek by Hebrews.
@robbystarbuck As @robbystarbuck knows, I win elections for a living.
Ive NEVER seen one more obviously stolen than this one.
These results CANNOT naturally occur.
Note how returns for Raman soar on June 4-5th and even surpass Bass and Pratt returns.
Thats impossible.
Spencer Pratt is likely going to be overtaken by far left Nithya Raman today. This graph shows the count on Election Day through last night.
Nithya did this by suddenly winning 1st in every new ballot drop.
North Korean "elections" have more self respect. Even they’d find it absurd for 3rd to suddenly jump to 1st place in every ballot drop DAYS after an election. It’s just ludicrous.
@BreeSolstad@ItsRobbAllen Mark and avoid. Read John Wesley's 25 articles. He doesn't mince words when it comes to Rome. That is your heritage. That is our heritage.
Should be a couple Global Methodist Churches around you. Free Methodist is another option, if there is one close.
The incarnation of Jesus: that God the Son became a man and took on flesh and blood is the first step in our salvation and the Good News that God descended from heaven to save us from our sins! No other religion teaches that God actually became a man. Deny this, and you have no Gospel.
Social media is filled with the righteous indignation of the Mormons---who claim to be the only true Church, all other churches are corrupt, their creeds an abomination, their ministers the hirelings of Satan---that they, the Mormons, are not really Christians. It's just a tad ironic, but it does play on the ignorance of most LDS, and non-LDS, about LDS history and teachings.
Their current modus operandi is to use the phrase "creedal Christians" and try to make the issue post-biblical. Here's the problem. The fundamental distinction between Christianity and Mormonism goes back to about 1400 BC, not 400 AD. Here is the foundational contrast:
Before the mountains were born,
Or Your brought forth the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting,
You are God. (Psalm 90:2)
...for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see.
Joseph Smith, 1844
Now, two quick things: 1) Psalm 90 is a song of Moses, hence the early date. 2) The King Follett Funeral Discourse is not LDS Scripture. But it is the most often cited sermon of Joseph Smith by the leaders of the LDS Church itself, and is one of two foundational sermons preached within the last months of his life.
Hence, the issue is stark and clear. Monotheism vs. polytheism, one transcendent Creator God vs. an exalted man from another planet. Just a reminder from Brigham Young as to how Smith's words were interpreted by those who heard him initially:
“Mankind are here because they are the offspring of parents who were first brought here from another earth, and were enabled to propagate their species, and they were commanded to multiply and replenish the earth. How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods and worlds, and when men were not passing through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. That course has been from all eternity, and it is and will be to all eternity.”
Brigham Young, JD 7:333, August 28, 1859.