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Hall of Famers Rickey Henderson, Willie McCovey and Ted Williams have hit MLB HR in 4 decades.
Which player with fewer than 100 career HR joined this exclusive group on this date in 2010❓
@SleeperBlazers Lakers, for sure. Since the Sonics had Gary Payton from OSU I always thought of them as my second team. (I guess the Lakers had Payton later too, but it wasn’t the same)
LASIK isn’t covered by insurance. Neither is most cosmetic surgery.
Both got cheaper and better every single year for two decades.
The one corner of medicine where patients pay cash and see prices.
Funny how the “market failure” vanishes the second the market’s allowed to exist.
Friedman called this in 1980. The tape doesn’t lie.
Mormons are often very personally offended when Christians say that Mormonism isn’t Christian. This is dumb.
Joseph Smith’s first “encounter” with God involves God telling Smith that every creed Christians profess is an abomination to God.
Every creed.
That includes the Nicene Creed. They reject who God is, who Jesus is, the nature of salvation, the nature of exaltation, the clear teaching of Scripture, etc..
Mormonism rejects the very core of the Christian faith in all its essentials. Joseph Smith knew this but nowadays they are playing mind games with their own people and with real Christians.
Either THEY are Christians or WE are. It’s one or the other. Not both.
When asked “Will all be damned but Mormons?” Smith replied, “Yes, and a great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 119)
The Doctrine and Covenants (1:30) leaves no doubt to the Mormon teaching of exclusivity when it says the LDS Church is “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased ….”
Brigham Young, second only to Joseph Smith in Mormonism said…
“Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity” (Journal of Discourses 10:230).
“The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God” (Journal of Discourses 8:171).
I could easily give you pages of them saying they are the only true Christians and how we are all ignorant beasts and our doctrines are wrong. They knew at the time they had a different God, gospel, Scripture, and system of belief. But now it has become expedient to pretend otherwise while still preaching all those false and unchristian things.
Mormons, your leaders are gaslighting you and you are gaslighting us. You aren’t Christian but we want you to be. Flee from Mormonism. Flee from Joseph Smith.
I did. It was a horrible experience.
Full of factual errors (Jesus being born in Jerusalem, horses in America before the Spanish brought them, etc.), poorly written, hundreds of "and it came to pass" and other statements making it obvious that it is the same writer in each book,tells of a group being cursed with being black, Jesus telling the Nephites he is the "Alpha and Omega" when they would never have known Greek, quoting Latin words from the King James and other Biblical passages (which were the best parts of the reading), describing places and people that do not reflect the archeological and DNA evidence at all...and that's just the highlights and doesn't include the theoligical statements that directly contradict the Bible....
It's an absolute mess.
But lastly...it promises another testament, which demonstrates it to be a different religion than Christianity. If it's just a different denomination, no new scriptures would be needed. You would never become LDS from reading the Bible alone.
As a historian, here are just a few issues I have with the Book of Mormon and the whole tale:
National Geographic Society has stated that they’ve never found any evidence from the Book of Mormon. The cities Joseph Smith names have never been found. He mentions writing systems; none have been found. He mentions coinage; none have ever been found. He talks of great battles being fought, yet no graves, no weapons, nothing has been found. He mentions horses and steel, which didn’t exist in the ancient Americas. He mentions a temple like Solomon’s built be the Nephites. It has never been found. In fact, he claims they are lost tribes of Israel, Jewish people. Jews can’t have a temple anywhere on earth but the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The whole tale is fanciful! Why anyone believes it is a great mystery to me.