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You have a long history of bearing false witness against us, telling us what we believe, holding up caricatures and parodies of what we supposedly believe for public ridicule and mockery. Stop it with disingenuous "the bots are attacking" and "I actually love Mormons" nonsense. I don't care that you don't like our religion. I don't even care that you hate us. But I can't get over the ick of your pandering and disassembling to win our votes. Man up.
This helps. But I'm still not clear on how your methodology is constrained. Guadard, in the paragraph before the "rules" states, "As unpredictable as such a system may seem at first sight, it was nonetheless logical and followed precise rules." I guess my main thought is iff the same rules produce Abrahamic correlations everywhere, the rules are not really rules but simply tools in a toolbox that can be used to construct a desired meaning. But if they uniquely or disproportionately produce Abrahamic results in the Hor papyrus, that would be much more significant. Have you tested this?
Extreme caution. A claim like this, if methodologically proven and reproducible, would not be a small apologetic win. It would be category-shifting. It would mean Joseph somehow produced an Abrahamic text from a papyrus whose conventional surface reading appears to be something else, and that the Abrahamic layer was sitting there in a way modern tools or deeper Egyptological methods could later uncover. If true, the hour is very late. God has a tendency to remove gracious ambiguity right before severe judgements fall.
No such thing? You sure about that? The old testament certainly hints of a heavenly mother. Search the Ethiopian bible with its additional books and there is a whole lot more support for the concept. Ancient Israel certainly worshipped a heavenly mother, even if they were blasphemous for doing so. In LDS theology God is very protective of whoever this being is and while we reverence her, we do not worship her as ancient Israel did. Your point is to cast ridicule and scorn on the LDS for believing such a thing, yet its is not nearly as weird as you are trying to paint it. Father is a strange thing for God to claim as his title. The very existence of the word implies a mother. "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God." Where has there ever been a child without a mother? God's choice to use the term Heavenly Father, begs the question of whether we also have a Heavenly Mother regardless of how clear scripture is on the subject.
@JasontheLayman@RigdonNancy3 So what is your method for dismissing Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ
@MormonsDoBetter @OchoZaco Not saying he is making stuff up, but I also know that in complex tax, financial and other legal regulations one can, to paraphrase an old quote, "take six lines written by the most honest man and hang him in two."
@MormonsDoBetter @OchoZaco How much is your anti speaking? The church relies heavily on specialized legal and accounting expertise for its investment operations. Its Philanthropies department collaborates with top tax advisors to maximize donor tax benefits and compliance. I'll stick with them.
@MormonsDoBetter @OchoZaco Sympathetic narratives often win, especially in complex financial situations. Believing financial motive "doesn't make any sense" is pretty disingenuous. I'll keep paying my tithing, thank you. #make_it_a_trillion
@MormonsDoBetter @OchoZaco Certainly not the whole story. Here is a tidbit: "If the IRS decides Nielsen is right, he could be rewarded with up to 30% of what's collected." I can think of several million reasons not to trust anything Brother Nielsen says while trying to collect his 30 pieces of silver.