No, you aren’t getting it. You are the pretender. The pretender church. Read what I posted, study on it. Pray with real intent without a double mind and you will find out. This, instead of repeating what the Pope makes you say and think.
Your focus seems wrong to me. Is attacking other churches the glue that binds LDS?
No, saving people is the goal.
So practice your faith and quit attacking Catholics and Protestants.
convincing your church is wrong is saving you.
Nope I joined in 79
Not really. Since the vision of 1820 that Joseph Smith had in which he communicated directly with the Father and the Son through the power of the Holy Ghost, he was told not to join any of the churches on the earth because they were all wrong with doctrine, commandments and authority. The latter the biggest because of a great apostasy that happened in which the RCC had control over most Christians during the middle ages and beyond. They still do. There are 3 main missions of the Church with respect to saving and exaltation:
You know a "little" about the Holy Bible too. If God doesn't reveal Himself to you because of your closed mind, you will never understand the Scriptures. Understanding comes with REPENTANCE, and repentance is an ongoing process
Who said there was a "great apostasy"?
Meriweather
Paul predicted it and it became obvious. Then, Jesus Christ himself told Joseph Smith that none of the churches were true. APOSTASY!
That was Jesus speaking, not Jehovah.
Your last paragraph is full of the example of taking what Daniel said out of context. Daniel wasn't talking about his time, Jesus on earth time or anytime soon time after the Apostles. He was specifically talking about the Church restored in the last or latter days that will not be destroyed.Meriweather
Are Mormons (And Protestants) Right about the “Great Apostasy”?
If LDS are right about the Great Apostasy, it disproves the Catholic Church. But if Catholics are right about it, it disproves the LDS church.www.catholic.com
Excerpt:
That as friendly as Mormons are, you have to grapple with the fact that the claim about The Great Apostasy is Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, Coptic Christianity, you name it. Every form of Christianity on earth between pretty much the death of the apostles and the time of Joseph Smith, all of them are evil and abominable.
Those early Christians being martyred by the Romans for being Christians, those guys were only pretending to be Christians. They only thought they were. They weren’t true Christians. That’s the heart of Joseph Smith’s claim.
Now, on the LDS website, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they have a topics in questions section, which is very helpful. In their section on apostasy, they give the basic argument.
They say, we live in a time when the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored. Excuse me. But unlike the church in times past, the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will not be overcome by general apostasy. The scriptures teach that the church will never again be destroyed. Now, they point to two sources here. One of those is doctrines and covenants, which only they have.
You are certainly welcome to your opinion but people have been 'repentant' for millennia and look how many Christian churches/theologies there are.
There were many Jesus type people parading around calling themselves the Messiah. That never ended and is still a reason for many churches and false doctrines. It's why a church of restoration was needed when the Godhead said it is time to do so. In 1820, they appeared to someone who was not a member of any of the churches to begin the process of restoring the Lord's Church to the world again in these the Latter-days. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Today, there are 40,000 different churches/sects of Christianity. But, only one Church that has been entrusted with the Godhead's authority, the Priesthood. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I certainly can't argue theology with you but I wonder how many of the billion or so Christians would agree with you?
Try to understand. I have studied all sides, yes, including yours. And, no, this is not about studying popes, but studying histories from primary sources. I have prayed about the LDS faith and was told decades ago, it was not for me. That message has not changed an iota. I was laughing at your earlier post about sending LDS missionaries to me. The older Missionary always hustles the younger one away, and I've heard at least two advise the younger, "Don't pay any attention to what she said--especially about the Trinity."
That's not what Jesus taught. He said take his gospel to the 4 corners of the earth. So, I'm doing the same thing today. You live in the past, why? Jesus is alive today and giving us more and more precepts, line upon line. Today, the good news is, Jesus speaks to us again through Prophets and Apostles. There is more that he has brought back to us. 1Corinthians 15:29, why are you not baptizing for the dead because they will again rise up at the resurrection. They deserve properly authorized baptisms. Nothing con about that. It's in your bible too!
Really? Once again you tell me what I am doing? Try to understand. I live in the present. I study the past, and this past starts with Genesis, travels closely through the Old Testament, into the New Testament, into the histories of early churches right up to the present. History is an interest, but it is not where I live.
