Submitted by Boris (not verified) on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 10:37am.
I mean no disrespect either Steve, but I have some degrees I received from a pretty conservative private Christian college that say that I do in fact know what I’m talking about and actually HAVE done my homework on Mormonism. Do you? You know Christians like to tell me I just need to read the Bible too, and then get back to them. Then I point out all sorts of internal inconsistencies and insurmountable problems in the text of the Bible the Christian had no idea even existed. I can easily prove who has done their homework and who has not when it comes to the subject of religion. I’m the former and you people are the latter and as latter day and just as badly misinformed as the Latter Day Saints themselves.
As far as the weird beliefs about an afterlife, the Bible really never gives any indication that there even is an afterlife for humans and certainly doesn’t describe what such an existence after death would be like. Belief in an afterlife isn’t biblical anyway, so who cares what some Christian sect believes about it? I mean show me a Bible passage that guarantees believers a one-way ticket to an eternal magic happy land. Anyone who thinks they are going to live forever in some disembodied state is in deep denial of their own humanity and instead fancies them self as a god or god-man of some sort. And they haven’t read the Bible carefully either.
The Christian Trinity was formulated by councils of men, amid hot debate centuries after the canonization of the Bible. The doctrine of the trinity is defined in a variety of creeds and statements such as the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed. The doctrine of the trinity is an invention of the Church and can in no way be supported by anything in the text of the Bible. So again who cares what Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Unitarians, the Pope or any other Christian thinks about the trinity? Mormons are Christian because they look to Christ for salvation and worship Him and the Father. They do not believe they are saved by their works, but through the grace of Christ alone. That’s what it takes to be defined as a Christian. What ever else they believe is beside the point. I’ve met a lot of Christians who swear their dead relatives, former residents of their houses, spirits from the local graveyard or whatever, are haunting them. Are they not Christians because they believe in ghosts? I mean for many Christians their religious beliefs are just the tip of iceberg when it comes to superstitions.
So unless you can show how someone who accepts Jesus as their only source of salvation and relies on the grace of God alone for it, is not a Christian, you have no case. Once you do that the concept of being Christian is meaningless. Ironically you creationists have the nerve to call yourselves Christian while denying that Mormons are. Your cult is much newer than theirs. I don’t see a bunch of lies and propaganda made up to mislead people and get them to disbelieve the facts of science coming from the Mormons. It certainly isn’t very Christian to spread lies and distortions about science, the history of our nation or anything else for that matter. Or is it?
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I mean no disrespect either
I mean no disrespect either Steve, but I have some degrees I received from a pretty conservative private Christian college that say that I do in fact know what I’m talking about and actually HAVE done my homework on Mormonism. Do you? You know Christians like to tell me I just need to read the Bible too, and then get back to them. Then I point out all sorts of internal inconsistencies and insurmountable problems in the text of the Bible the Christian had no idea even existed. I can easily prove who has done their homework and who has not when it comes to the subject of religion. I’m the former and you people are the latter and as latter day and just as badly misinformed as the Latter Day Saints themselves.
As far as the weird beliefs about an afterlife, the Bible really never gives any indication that there even is an afterlife for humans and certainly doesn’t describe what such an existence after death would be like. Belief in an afterlife isn’t biblical anyway, so who cares what some Christian sect believes about it? I mean show me a Bible passage that guarantees believers a one-way ticket to an eternal magic happy land. Anyone who thinks they are going to live forever in some disembodied state is in deep denial of their own humanity and instead fancies them self as a god or god-man of some sort. And they haven’t read the Bible carefully either.
The Christian Trinity was formulated by councils of men, amid hot debate centuries after the canonization of the Bible. The doctrine of the trinity is defined in a variety of creeds and statements such as the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed. The doctrine of the trinity is an invention of the Church and can in no way be supported by anything in the text of the Bible. So again who cares what Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Unitarians, the Pope or any other Christian thinks about the trinity? Mormons are Christian because they look to Christ for salvation and worship Him and the Father. They do not believe they are saved by their works, but through the grace of Christ alone. That’s what it takes to be defined as a Christian. What ever else they believe is beside the point. I’ve met a lot of Christians who swear their dead relatives, former residents of their houses, spirits from the local graveyard or whatever, are haunting them. Are they not Christians because they believe in ghosts? I mean for many Christians their religious beliefs are just the tip of iceberg when it comes to superstitions.
So unless you can show how someone who accepts Jesus as their only source of salvation and relies on the grace of God alone for it, is not a Christian, you have no case. Once you do that the concept of being Christian is meaningless. Ironically you creationists have the nerve to call yourselves Christian while denying that Mormons are. Your cult is much newer than theirs. I don’t see a bunch of lies and propaganda made up to mislead people and get them to disbelieve the facts of science coming from the Mormons. It certainly isn’t very Christian to spread lies and distortions about science, the history of our nation or anything else for that matter. Or is it?