@LandonManwaring@YeFutureSaint@FreedomMomUSA Both ‘models’ say they are in some ways three and in some ways one, and both say God is beyond our understanding. In our model, the Father can (and has) appeared and spoken, and many Bible passages make more sense. Everyone has divine potential. Our Father is our Father.
@LandonManwaring@YeFutureSaint@FreedomMomUSA The "essence" part from Trinitarians confuses me. People are not of a single "essence" or "substance" and if two people are of the same will it's voluntary. And some deny the Father has a body. To me, this seems to make God alien and remote rather than a loving Father in Heaven.
@LandonManwaring@YeFutureSaint@FreedomMomUSA As I read John 17 it includes perfect unity of purpose, but is more than that. It includes shared nature, glory, doctrine, and power.
We become like God by following Jesus and receiving His grace. It’s a multi-step process that includes resurrection.
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@LandonManwaring@YeFutureSaint@FreedomMomUSA The Church of Jesus Christ is monotheistic because the Godhead is united. Jesus clearly taught others can unite with them and become like them.
@bryce_tatroe@readthebooks22@YeFutureSaint@FreedomMomUSA Unlike the Arians, I affirm the divinity and eternal nature of Christ and His role as creator of heaven and earth. I don’t admire the persecution of ‘heretics’; Jesus didn’t teach that. It is un-American.
The Godhead are one in perfect unity and harmony of purpose and doctrine.
@readthebooks22@YeFutureSaint@FreedomMomUSA My answer is ‘no’ to both suggestions.
1. Unity of essence contradicts the Bible (‘my Father is greater than I’, ‘The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do’)
2. The Godhead is united by more than just unity of purpose. See John 17 for details.
@ztrussell@GuyInco15542744 I think "special pleading" is when you apply a general rule to others while granting yourself an unwarranted exception.
I think the Church of Jesus Christ is not part of the Great Apostasy because of the Restoration, so "special pleading" does not apply.
Do you understand?
@aidannonx You've got this all wrong; it's just a list of religious hatred toward the Church of Jesus Christ. I can't understand why a good person would decide to make it their target.
None of these "points" relate to life in the Church. I can explain any of these if you want.
Try love.
@mckaycoppins The mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is to help all of God’s children come to Jesus Christ through learning about His gospel, making and keeping promises with God (covenants), and practicing Christlike love and service.
We can't shrug off this issue.
@Fair_and_Biased A person can either believe the Bible or the Trinity, not both. They are incompatible.
The process and people who first asserted the Trinity, and the reasons people demand we accept it now make no sense. It’s just old oppression to preempt the return of any Biblical prophet.
Pastor, receive the parable of the sheep and the goats.
Matthew 25:
31 ¶ When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
@BenMcAdams In one sentence you say, "no spin here" and in the next you are rotating 'radically pro-abortion' into a positive and putting it next to an endorsement.
I think it takes a pretty malevolent person to be 'radically pro-abortion'. It's like the polar opposite of kissing a baby.
So … according to James Talarico, you’re not a Christian if you produce or use fossil fuels?
Does he not realize he’s running for the U.S. Senate in Texas?
Christians and fossil fuels are of course compatible, and Talarico’s unwillingness to recognize that is disqualifying.