@MargoinWNC They started building these down in Sarasota, FL several years ago. I hated the idea at first, but it actually did ease traffic at several busy intersections once people learned how to use them.
Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!
The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.
LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.
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.
@BasedMikeLee Because you serve a different (false) Jesus. You do not serve the Jesus of Christianity. I pray that you repent and follow the one true Christ.
On the issue of women pastors, I have many dear friends in other denominations who I love though they believe women can wield pastoral authority and preach to the gathered body.
Obviously, I think they’re wrong. But I also believe that this is a secondary issue and these are true brothers and sisters.
But one reason the Bashams are Southern Baptists is because we believe that the SBC is doctrinally faithful in this matter. If the day should come when the SBC capitulates to those who are trying to slowly move the convention to accept female pastors, we will no longer be Southern Baptists.
Which I’m sure would make some former presidents of the SBC very happy. Their problem is, there are a lot of other Southern Baptists who would go with us.
The list of 90s era Christian artists cheering on Avalon's "Testify to Love" as a gay anthem include:
• Kim Hill
• Amy Grant
• Crystal Lewis
• Susan Ashton
• Rachel Lampa
• Point of Grace
• Nichole Nordeman
• Tiffany Arbuckle (Plumb)
• Scott Dente (Out of the Grey)
"They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out that it might become plain that they all are not of us" (1 John 2:19).