VBC-Apologetics

Apologetics Content.

Note: It's likely that I was reading philosophy before your parents knew how to make you, so let's dispense with "LeArN sOmE LoGiK!!"

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You don't have to accept it. I had no idea what was in it until I was an adult, and only carefully read any creed beginning a few years ago.

But the truths contained in it do not come from the creed, but vice versa. Reject those truths and you reject Christianity, regardless where or how it is written down.

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@ShamashAran @sparkly_jules1 Or they were ships passing in the night; an ephemeral relationship that was always only temporary. Like a schoolteacher, a therapist, or a bartender.

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@jesse_k_fox Muslims believe in Jesus. Are they Christians?

They say that He did miracles, was born from a virgin, is the Word of God and the Messiah, and will judge the living and the dead on the last day.

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@JasonGao263812 @Latterdaytruth They could not accept the Nicene Creed. It postdates them by several centuries.

Since it is based on their doctrines and teachings, they certainly would not reject it.

Yes, they were all Christians.

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What obsession? I've been watching Reckless Ben videos since his Scientology series.

Which was not nearly as intriguing a story as this. No one in that series tried to have him arrested.

He also did a series involving a restaurant in LA that was using false claims of ownership to keep from paying people who worked there.

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So, is the current rehashed "Mormons are too Christians!" dialog simply a distraction from the Bricks-n-Minifigs debacle?

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@sillygooseyman It is curious timing, and it seems to be focussed on giving one particular demographic something to enrage them. Or it could be pure coincidence.

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@EMI_Black_Ace In a non-statistically-significant poll I conducted (n=2), the LDS thought AF police were primarily at fault; The non-LDS thought Ben was primarily at fault.

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@TravelbytheCoin Persecution complex much?

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Technically, if a crime is ever proved, it will be conversion - taking something that is entrusted to you and making it your own.

Allegedly: A man entrusted a lego collection to a store, as a consignment. The store franchise was taken over by the franchisor, who franchised it to another party. The new franchisee allegedly converted the collection or a portion thereof (the amount is in dispute). The lego owner sued the store, which promptly closed.

A default judgement was allegedly filed, b/c the store failed to respond.

The franchisor and the new franchisee are both from American Fork, Utah. In order to obtain the judgement, the owner must file a new suit on the new franchisees, which requires a good faith conversation to resolve. A journalist undertook to assist in this.

And that is allegedly the backstory to Reckless Ben and the Legos, a new soap opera.

Oh, and American Fork is 93% LDS.

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@Lady_of_Paradox This whole question is a shambles.

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@pimomormon I can understand that.

May I ask: Do you believe there was such a man? If so, do you think He claimed deity?

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@pimomormon My point is that if, unlikely as it seems to you, the incarnation is true, then you can't say God isn't trying.

So it would behoove you to examine the incarnation claim more closely.

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It should not be either a compliment or a curse to say that someone is a Christian, any more than it should be to say that he's a mechanic or a bimetallist.

I would not be insulted either way, though calling me a Christian does place a burden on me not to defame Christ.

C.S. Lewis objected to "Christian" being used as a title to mean good - I think it's in Abolition of Man -b/c this waters down the meaning.

Thank you, I try to engage people's points and speak to their actual positions. It does me no good to speak against false constructs.

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@mostpeacefulco The Deutsche Demokratik Republik was not a republik, not demokratik, and not particularly Deutsche.

So I guess you have a point...

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We don't regard anything about baptism to be secret, or even particularly obscure.

A believer presents himself for baptism. On the appointed day, he is lowered into the water and raised out of it again. The officiant says, "I baptize you now in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."

The act symbolizes three events: Past, present, and future.

Past - That Jesus died, and was buried (the water symbolizing the grave), and rose again on the third day
Present - That the believer has died to self, and now lives as a new creature in Christ
Future - That the believer's body will one day perish and be buried, but that the believer shall rise to be with Christ.

Which of these was a mystery to you? What more do you need to know?

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@spencerpratt Occult math-magic is involved, or else they just make stuff up.

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No process server is an "Officer of the court."

No one in this video CLAIMS she is an officer of the court. Johnson conflates process server w/ officer of the court, but that's his confusion.

Look up "Utah Process Server Requirements."
Also look up, "Is a process server an officer of the court?"

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@LDSLaw Yes, Christians who are not trying to sell you underwear are telling you that the True Church doesn't sell underwear.

Why is that a problem?

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@plasmarob And that is why the 2d Personage said, "their creedalism is an abomination" -- oh, wait.

Yeah, that's not what the 2d p. said, was it?