Book of Jeremiah
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And another!
A hallucination is when one perceives something that isn't there (positive), or doesn't perceive something that is there (negative). The problem: if one is alone, it is impossible to know it is a hallucination.
This makes hallucinations totally democratic; i.e., a majority decides.
Yet we have seen historically that mass hallucinations can occur.
Those who did or did not perceive what the group did or didn't were 'heretics', etc.
Experiencing God is like a hallucination, either positive or negative. The individual cannot rely on anyone else to decide.
A person can only 'know' through perception.
Perception happens one hundred percent in the interior of a person. Perception is one hundred percent relative.
What one holds to be true is essentially a choice.
What I hold to be true and important I realize is only necessary to be true for me, and even then I allow for doubt and error.
If God exists, I know
that any concept, image or idea I have of God must be metaphorical at best.
We cannot escape from the subjectivity of our consciousness
and that it occurs entirely within us. If there is any objective truth, it is this.
That's right. Believers are to expose false teachers/prophets so others are not deceived by them. Constantine,Ignatius Loyola, Ellen G. White, Joseph Smith, Mohammad, Russell (founder of JW) L.Ron Hubbard, Ghandi, all false teachers - there was last I heard over 1,000 cults in America. The harvest field is great!the gospel of jesus says not to follow false prophets
That's right. Believers are to expose false teachers/prophets so others are not deceived by them. Constantine,Ignatius Loyola, Ellen G. White, Joseph Smith, Mohammad, Russell (founder of JW) L.Ron Hubbard, Ghandi, all false teachers - there was last I heard over 1,000 cults in America. The harvest field is great!the gospel of jesus says not to follow false prophets
Speaking of salvation. Today is the day of Salvation! ...
That's right. Believers are to expose false teachers/prophets so others are not deceived by them. Constantine,Ignatius Loyola, Ellen G. White, Joseph Smith, Mohammad, Russell (founder of JW) L.Ron Hubbard, Ghandi, all false teachers - there was last I heard over 1,000 cults in America. The harvest field is great!the gospel of jesus says not to follow false prophets
The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
“Human nature can be changed, here and now,” said President McKay, and then he quoted the following:
“‘You can change human nature. No man who has felt in him the Spirit of Christ even for half a minute can deny this truth. …
“‘You do change human nature, your own human nature, if you surrender it to Christ. Human nature can be changed here and now. Human nature has been changed in the past. Human nature must be changed on an enormous scale in the future, unless the world is to be drowned in its own blood. And only Christ can change it.
“‘Twelve men did quite a lot to change the world [nineteen hundred] years ago. Twelve simple men.’” (Quoting Beverly Nichols, in Stepping Stones to an Abundant Life, comp. Llewelyn R. McKay, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1971, pp. 23, 127.)
Yes, Christ changes men, and changed men can change the world. - Born of God, Ezra Taft Benson)
When the Gospel is preached - false teachers and their lies are exposed - Joseph Smith was a false prophet.That's right. Believers are to expose false teachers/prophets so others are not deceived by them. Constantine,Ignatius Loyola, Ellen G. White, Joseph Smith, Mohammad, Russell (founder of JW) L.Ron Hubbard, Ghandi, all false teachers - there was last I heard over 1,000 cults in America. The harvest field is great!the gospel of jesus says not to follow false prophets
Silly me, I thought we were supposed to preach the gospel.
If you knew anything about Mormonism, you'd realize that Joseph Smith, much like you, believed that he was in direct communion with Jesus Christ, and preached of him constantly.