Donald Shaw, why are u so against the LDS religion?
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amorgan4ou Why would you ask that question about someone elses religion? is this person blasting you for being christen no so instead of criticizing people for believing there own thing why dont you follow your own bible and not judge people. If i remember right it is not mans job to judge but god's. Jesus said let him who has not sinned throw the first stone, however there is no man or woman alive that has not partaken in sin. before you start bashing other relgions try to follow your own. love thy neighbor as ye would love yourself. \n\nAnd to you who asked the question i have no idea why people are not more accepting i am not a LDS but experience on a daily basis the harmful remarks of other people ignorance.
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I thought Joseph Smith fell and bumped his head and came up with all that nonsense. If I fell and hit my head and said I've got news for everyone from God, I'd be sent to an asylum, but this guy's a prophet. I'm being serious. "Mormo" is the god of the dead in the Satanic bible.
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reap what you sow...isn't this right?I can care less about religion...but why be called mormonism while raggin on the church?If you feel betrayed by the church & what not don't worry...God(if there is one)doesn't sleep.All wrongdoings will have it's toll...
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I used to be anti Mormon but guess what ! I'm not anymore.... guess what Religion I belong to now come on guess! it's the same one as you!\n\njust remember\nTop 10 Reasons to Love the Anti-Mormons \n\n\n1. "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself"(Mt 22:39), and "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." (Mt 5:44) \n\n2. Their efforts tend to generate interest in the Church, and keep our faith frequently in the public eye, which helps our missionary work prosper when they are around.\n\n3. They provide us with a unique insight into the life of the Savior by demonstrating what it must have been like for him to deal with the Scribes and Pharisees.\n\n4. Who else is going to motivate us to study the peripheral, obscure, and unimportant aspects of our religion.\n\n5. They make us laugh with their insane, absurd, contradictory, and spiteful antics.\n\n6. We get to dust off our Logic 101 books, and find reasons to study the Scriptures.\n\n7. They give religious bigotry a bad name.\n\n8. Their "cottage" industry is a boost to local economies--particularly paper and print businesses; and their tracts provide a cheap source of fuel for wood stoves and fireplaces.\n\n9. We are no longer left to wonder: "how many times can the same weak and well-refuted claims be made against our faith?" (Infinity!); and, "to what extent will the anti-Mormons go in forwarding their un-Christ-like agendas?" (Anything goes--including "lying for the Lord?".) \n\n10. They provide a loving "home" for the chronic discontents, and they help make even the most misinformed and unscholarly writers of religion feel important.
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Hmm, the match is interesting, maybe we should all become Mormons, the only trouble is, I keep mis-reading it as morons, sorry, I don't want to upset anyone, it's just that my word eyes aren't too good.\n\nYes, I could, but no, I wouldn't want to.
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OK, I'm a Mormon (convert of ten years) and am amazed at the level of ignorance shown here. Here's how it really is:\n\nWe DO NOT believe that God had sex with Mary. (Pernicious falsehood started by anti-Mormons)\n\nWe DO believe "that Jesus is Lord and that He died on the cross and he rose from the dead on the third day". [c.f. "Jesus_is_awesome"]\n\nWe believe that Jesus and satan are spirit brothers ONLY IN THE SENSE that everyone and everything, even satan, are created by God. People created by the same father are brothers.\n\nWe DO believe in salvation by grace, and we DO NOT believe that our good works save us. However, when we confess faith in Jesus Christ we promise to follow him. "If ye love me, keep my commandments". Our works are what show that He is Lord of our lives. If we deliberately fail to live according to his will we cannot really have meant that prayer. (But we know we can repent when we make a mistake.)\n\nI recently asked "What must I do to be saved?" I had 33 answrs, all of which said something along the lines of "Accept Jesus Christ and repent of your sins." I have done that, therefore I am saved and going to heaven. I also happen to be a Mormon.
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This is not a prophecy for one, matts got that right.  And God never told Joseph he would live to be 85, He said, if thou.  In v16, this leads me to believe that the Lord is telling Joseph not to be concerned with such things, that he will see Christ regardless of when the second coming is.\n\nI am wondering if these are even your own thoughts, because this stuff looks like it came from www.exmormon.org.  Do you know anything about these people who write this stuff?  For all you know they are apostates that have been excommunicated for being an adulterer and become imbittered over it, or something else, and instead of repenting and working to be reinstated into the church, they live their life trying to justify their actions by claiming the church isn't true.  It is all biased.  It is worse than mainstream news.  How can you actually read this stuff and feel fulfilled?  What happened with you Brandon, that you feel you have to destroy the faith of others?  Isn't the faith you have good enough; you have to try to discredit others faith for what?  To strengthen yours?  That is not how to develop faith.  If you were content with your beliefs that would be enough for you.  What is this enfatuation with the LDS church?  It sounds like you might read this anti-mormon trash more than you study to develop your personal beliefs, I hope I am wrong, but is that what God wants?
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Hey, I take offense to this!\n\nI don't know if I'm truly an athesist or not, what I do know is I don't believe in the "gods" that any organized religion attempts to sheepwash me with.  I believe in powers greater than myself, and other humans, I just don't believe that the King James Bible is the word of God, I believe that it is a compiled history of written stories, some true, some embellished and some out and out lies written to control the sheep...errr, followers.\n\nWhy is it that your religion allows you to be judgmental and bigoted against those that disagree with your opinion?   Do you have any actual scripture that backs your attitude and states that this is your way into heaven?\n\nI attempt to answer questions honestly and politely, but I do have to admit my smart alec self rears its ugly head occassionally, just like yours just did.
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Hey, I'm a Mormon too! I think people hate us because they don't have a life. They have nothing better to do so they chose to take something or someone that they don't agree with and chose to loath them with a Passion. There are people that hate G.W.Bush with a Passion, others hate Muslims the list goes on! basically all you Mormon haters need to get a life!! Maybe you should take up painting.
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I'm kind of flaky with my actual faith, but I've been an active Mormon for a while now.\n\nI have to say that we believe in a pre-mortal existence. That we were all present at the Council of Heaevn when God was establishing his plan of salvation. Satan and Jesus both had ideas about how to do it. Essentially, Satan wanted glory for himself and Jesus wanted to give Glory to God. In order to actually believe this though you have to have a better understanding of the basic principles that under lie the LDS Church.\n\nAnd to say, out right, that the Church is wrong or that the book of mormon is bogus is really childish. There are millions of LDS people in the world today, I find it hard to believe that all of them are wrong.\n\nAnd the Bible says that the Father and the Son are One. This doesn't mean LITERALLY, look at the gospels, Jesus approaches the Father as his Father. They are One in purpose - To bring to pass the immortal life of man, but they are two seperate beings. Even if you look at Hebrew texts they use to words for God - elohim and yahweh. The reason for this is because God is no one being. But like I said, you have to have at least an undersatnding of where the book of mormon came from.\n\nI don't bash other religions. There are so many times I want to say, "No, you've got it all wrong" but I don't because I understand that every person has every right to be what they are.\n\n-------------\nTo Asker:\nI don't believe in one religion. When I say "we believe" in the Mormon church I should have been saying "they believe" My whole philosophy on life is that every religion is right... for someone. That doesn't mean is right or wrong. My friend and I have discussed religion at length and I've come to my own conclusions regarding it. She's Muslim and I am whatever I am. I used to say this to my brother, "Belief in something is better then belief in nothing." That something specific of course referred to God. But anywho, not sure if that answered your question. I'm not totally with it. Perpetually tired.\n\n-------------\nTo Asker:\nMy brother is an atheist and I find it hard to believe in nothing. I think to know that this is all we have and after this is only death is a really hard thing to cope with. Maybe it's what really is, but I think it's better to believe that there is some greater purpose for this life. The Book of Mormon has it's own set of doctrine and beliefs set out. The purpose of it is to testify that Christ is the Savior and help us understand how to live righteously. I'd strongly encourage everyone to read it. My faith is unique. I believe the teachings of the LDS church are correct in some sense. I just have too many things I'm questioning in my life. I'm working on resolving them and I don't know where it is going. Sorry for the confusion. don't base your views on the LDS Church on me because I'm far from the best person. If a person wants to know more I'd suggest lds.org and you can actually read the conference talks etc. Or even talking to missionaries. Anywho, sorry.
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Mormon heresy? OK c'mon now trask, y'know you'll full of it! someone, especially Mormon missionaries, listening to you?\nmy advise, avoid the queen of hearts\n(i.e. brainwashing=bad mojo man)
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Lots and lots of them.  As a matter of fact, true believers in the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka LDS or Mormons) believe in All of the Gods that will be made Gods of their very own planets some day (just regular Mormon folks, now...but...) by living the doctrines set forth in the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenents and the Pearl of Great Price - baptizing dead relatives, by getting married in the temple, keeping their "temple recommends card" up to date, paying their tithes to the local Ward, refraining from drinking Coke and coffee ("Gods forbid" that there should be Coca Cola in one of the three levels of Heaven they believe in....become a God just like Adam, "who is (their) Lord and their God, and the only God with whom (they) have to do" (that was "Brother Brigham" Young that said that gem)....just like "the God of this world" (Mormons can sound very 'monotheistic' when they need to, but they believe in many gods, just ask an elder!) came to this planet from the planet Kolob.  They have another Jesus, too....the "spirit brother of Lucifer"....who, with his "brother" each presented a plan of salvation for the new world...to a council of Gods (yes, Gods!) - and their Jesus won!!  Woo hooo!!  \n\nAfter they get themselves "sealed" in the Temple, in a cermony that is almost word-for-word out of the Masonic ritual (Jos. Smith was a Mason, you know...)....they can go on to become gods, too....and practice polygamy....because, after all - once the husbands call their wives out of the grave with the secret password given to them at the "sealing ceremony" (uh oh, wives - if they forget the password....you are doomed!) - they need  as many wives as possible to keep eternally pregnant so they can populate the new planet that they are now the "only god" of.\n\nGreat stuff....for a science fiction novel.  \n\nToo bad so many folks don't know the truth.
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sadly, many naive people will follow false leaders like this.we have too many cults like this,going on in our country.how many people have been led to their death, because some radical, sees it fit to take money from his flock, and return swine for his money.whenever we have a man,proclaim he is God,we will have a cult.how many cults,such as Mormons,use this logic to fleece the flock.people are free to worship as they please, but someone must be held accountable for this travesty.\n                                 God Bless
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Nope.  Mormonism is a religion for dirty minded old men.\nWomen are its primary victim.
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I am LDS as well. First, soul, for us, usually refers to the united entity of both body and spirit. Since we believe that all living things were created spiritually before they were created physically, we therefore believe that all living things  have "souls. " (Doctrine and Covenants 72:2)\nWe also believe that, during Christ's millenial reign, we will live in peace with the animals (Isa. 11:6-9). Since animals are subject to mortal death and fulfil the measure of their creation, we also believe that they will be in heaven by the grace of Christ's atonement for all living beings. Hence, many prophets have spoken out against killing for sport or abusing animals in any manner.  Despite this, we also believe that meat was given to us for our sustinance (Gen 9:3) but that it should be used sparingly (D & C 89:12). President Joseph F. Smith said, "I do not believe any man should kill animals or birds unless he needs them for food, and then he should not kill innocent little birds that are not intended for food for man. I think it is wicked for men to thirst in their souls to kill almost everything which possesses animal life. It is wrong."\nThat said, we are not anti-hunting. I fish, spearfish, and hunt lobster regularly. I do not waste anything that I legally catch. While I could go to the store, my family and I prefer fresh sea food with all those rich omega three fatty acids!
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Well it is interesting that you ask that. My brother who is not mormon recently married a mormon. They were married in the temple and we were not alowed to attend because we are not mormon. We asked what the big deal was and we were told that the temple is considered a sacred ground for the worship of mormons to their god and that non mormons entering this temple curses the belief of the church. I know it sounds ridiculous but that is part of there religion and so be it I guess. I sure am glad I am not mormon.
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Fanatics of any faith does not like liberal logical thinking.\nThey just want blinkered faith to fulfill their vested interest.