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"Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father" (Jesus of Nazareth, John 14:21).

[Benjamin @BeHumbleWithGod]

@Jtipp21a @japhethlurking @5SolasMissy The Council of Trent is not wrong.

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@Jtipp21a @5SolasMissy After a person is reconciled with God, they must live as an adopted child of God. Those who persevere to the end will be rewarded with eternal life.

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@Jtipp21a @5SolasMissy "Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father."

Jesus, Matthew 5:16

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@rickbrennanjr Apple is on iPhone 17

Protestants are on Luther 41,000

"The fellowship of error" (St. Augustine, The City of God).

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@JohanniChristi @TheBasedTrinity If Jesus was an ordinary man, his flesh and blood would have no salvific power: "the flesh is of no avail."

Jesus is not a ordinary man; he is the eternal Son of God: "it is the Spirit that gives life."

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@rickbrennanjr Rick, you spend all your time opposing Jesus and his Church.

Don't be surprised when Catholic Christians highlight your errors.

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@JohanniChristi @TheBasedTrinity Jesus said on the Cross, "It is finished."

Now we don't have to do anything, except believe.

Jesus:

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@CatholicSat The Bishop of Rome is the successor of Peter.

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Here are three compelling reasons to think the Book of Mormon is not a historical work:

1. Lack of archaeological confirmation

Most Bibles contain maps that describe where important biblical events took place. You can visit the ruins of cities described in the Bible. The same is not true for the Book of Mormon. The book itself contains no maps; moreover, there are no references to where the events it describes took place. None of the sites described in the Book of Mormon have ever been found, and even LDS scholars don’t agree on the general location of where the events in the book took place.

According to the National Geographic Society, “Archaeologists and other scholars have long probed the hemisphere’s past, and the society does not know of anything found so far that has substantiated the Book of Mormon.” (https://t.co/zeYOJ8I9R4)

Although it is possible that evidence for the events in the Book of Mormon lies deep underground waiting to be discovered, this lack of evidence does not bode well for the book’s claims to being historical.

2. The existence of anachronisms

The Book of Mormon describes many things that did not exist in the Americas during the time when the events in the Book of Mormon allegedly took place. These include animals (dogs, horses, cows, elephants), plants (barley and wheat), fabrics (silk), metals (steel and iron), and technologies (swords and chariots).

Although it is possible (in the barest sense of the term) that these items are waiting to be discovered by archaeologists or that these modern words refer to completely different things (such as when Europeans used the term “water horse” to describe a hippopotamus), it’s more likely that these anachronisms are evidence of Joseph Smith’s lack of knowledge about ancient America and more proof that the Book of Mormon is a work of fiction.

3. Evidence of plagiarism

Significant portions of the Book of Mormon consist of a word-for-word copy of the King James Version of the Bible. These include dozens of whole chapters from the prophet Isaiah as well as scores of verses from the New Testament. Especially troubling are passages like Moroni 7:44-47 that copy large portions of the New Testament but do not cite those passages.

Since the New Testament wasn’t available for the Nephites (the people whose history the Book of Mormon allegedly records) to copy and place in their own records, these passages most likely came from Smith’s recollection of the Bible.

For more, see @counseloftrent's video "5 Reasons to Doubt the Book of Mormon" (linked below)

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@pzj1801 @TimThorsby @MrCasey62

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@BishopJaxi I haven't.

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@DrShayPhD Another person who hates Jesus and his Catholic Church.

“If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first."

Jesus, John 15:18

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@pzj1801 @MrCasey62 Have you ever met a Calvinist who claims to be predestined to Hell?

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@JoanOfArc287 The #1 reason Mormons are not Christians is Christianity is not polytheistic.

Mormons believe people can become gods. This is what they believe about the Father and Jesus.

There is only one God.

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@dumbsushi @Cath_SteelMan "But I would not believe in the Gospel, had not the authority of the Catholic Church already moved me" (St. Augustine, Catechism of the Catholic Church, 119).

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@5SolasMissy "By faith man completely submits his intellect and his will to God. With his whole being man gives his assent to God the revealer. Sacred Scripture call this human response to God, the author of revelation, 'the obedience of faith'" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 143).

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@HwsEleutheroi Anyone who wants to learn what the Christian Church believes, how we worship, how we live, and how we pray, can read the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

https://t.co/9JFkn1UNwc