@KasimirUrbanski@EWErickson Well you should be since it was a Catholic ecumenical council that sourced your Trinitarian canon. It’s certainly not Biblical.
@ShinarSquirrel In the Ohio Valley alone, estimates suggest there were about 10,000 mounds once dotting the landscape — though many have been destroyed over time.
Not that it has even been identified as the Book of Mormon’s setting.
@MikeWingerii Rejection of a misaligned creedal system isn’t a rejection of a sincere adherent. That’s the difference. God cannot accept imperfect teaching of His very nature but he does accept imperfect followers.
@EWErickson What of the thousands of peaceable followers of Christ who for hundreds of years prior to Nicea had no Trinitarian acceptance or framework, including the Lord’s apostles?
@BenZeisloft Sure thing.
“My sheep hear my voice and I know them”
“….the keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived”
@LizzieMarbach Easily interpreted as Jesus Christ condescended to become a mortal man and ascended to Heaven. Similarly we mortals can ascend to become “joint heirs with Christ” and “partakers of the divine nature”
@LizzieMarbach Little has been revealed about the first half of this couplet, and consequently little is taught. When asked about this topic, Church President Gordon B. Hinckley told a reporter in 1997, “That gets into some pretty deep theology that we don’t know very much about.”
@j_divis He loves us so much that He made us susceptible to sin and eternally punishes nearly all of His children for never having heard of His gospel to appease His wrath over the sinfulness He created in us.
I could NEVER accept being a credial Christian.
@RevHansen1563 Creeds that teach falsities regarding God’s nature must be an abomination to Him. We don’t claim their adherents aren’t Christian or that we are the only ones who are.