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Thanks, if any church deviates from Jesus's teachings they should go sit on the naughty step, and that includes the polygamous offshoots of the LDS and the extremist beliefs of the Westboros..
Well, what do you know. We actually found something to agree on! (Also, I just looked at your profile. I will be 73 next Monday and about 90% of my ancestors are from England, so we also have that in common. Are you from anywhere near Bath? My husband and I took at 30-day road trip to England, Scotland and Wales a few years ago, and absolutely LOVED it!)
Well, what do you know. We actually found something to agree on! (Also, I just looked at your profile. I will be 73 next Monday and about 90% of my ancestors are from England, so we also have that in common. Are you from anywhere near Bath? My husband and I took at 30-day road trip to England, Scotland and Wales a few years ago, and absolutely LOVED it!)
I'm in Plymouth about 100 miles southwest of Bath..
PS- two mormon chaps were stopping passersby in Plymouth city centre a few years ago, their badges said "Elder" even though they only looked to be in their 20's.
"What do you know about the Lord Jesus Christ?" one of them asked me and I replied "I think I heard somewhere that he's the son of God"
"That's exactly right" they said with big smiles, can we invite you to a cafe to discuss it some more?"
Sorry I replied, "I've got to get to the computer shop before it closes"
Mind you if they'd been female mormons I daresay I'd have gone with them..
So you've got British blood like Trump, and Churchill had an American mother.
When Brits and Americans get together, magic happens..
Ah, that's a sweet story. Looks fishy, as though someone has been recruited to specifically support this thread.
What? Is it really so inconceivable that something like that could have happened? For crying out loud, do you distrust everybody, everywhere, all of the time?
It's time for PoorOldSpike to now respond, on cue (unless told not to of course).
You are SO funny! Did you even read PoorOldSpike's first few posts? They were hardly flattering of Mormonism. And if you think I recruited him, you are even more deluded than I first thought. What must it be like having such an exalted opinion of oneself and such a derogatory opinion of everybody else?
Okay, let's just back up a bit here. Here's the quote that started the whole thing...
You weighed in by saying...
I responded...
You failed to address my challenge. Instead you said...
A few posts later, you continued by posting two direct quotes from LDS scripture...
And guess what? I responded by saying (with respect to the last two quotes you posted)...
So just what is it we're arguing about? Just like numerous other highly-regarded (even if not by you) other Christians from Irenaeus to Clement to Justin Martyr to Athanasius to Augustine to C.S. Lewis, Mormons believe that we have been given the divine potential to become like our Father in Heaven, through His grace and with His blessing.
I'm NOT hesitant to say anything that's true. What is not true and what I won't "admit" to is that Mormons believe that "men will be getting their own planet when they did." That's a disrespectful caricature that you and others have bought into, and it is NOT what we teach or believe.
He was too willing to condemn and lost perspective by not addressing the statement that he originally supported about planets. Instead, he merely misdirected things, as he usually does with his lack of reading comprehension or following the conversation. It does get tiresome dealing with this type of person. I've got some Ocean front property in Arizona - if he is interested?
He was too willing to condemn and lost perspective by not addressing the statement that he originally supported about planets. Instead, he merely misdirected things, as he usually does with his lack of reading comprehension or following the conversation. It does get tiresome dealing with this type of person.
It does, but I've come to more or less expect it. If it's not one annoying type, it's another.
Has anybody besides me noticed that the OP has never been back to comment on the thread he started? Wouldn't you think that if you care enough to start a thread, you'd have something to say on the subject?
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What? Is it really so inconceivable that something like that could have happened? For crying out loud, do you distrust everybody, everywhere, all of the time?
