The Persian emperor Cyrus is the only foreigner in the Bible to be identified as the messiah or anointed one of Yahweh, the Israelite God.
I can call myself king of the universe but I have no authority to control anything in the universe. You can’t call yourself a priest and then can’t be one. The false doctrine is such hypocrisy. Why try to defend this hypocrisy?
I have zero faith in your unholy baptism of the sinless infants. I noticed you have no answer to why you call yourself a priest but are not allowed to be an ordained priest in your church. No logic and this is proof of apostasy.
Does LDS baptism anoint people king of the universe? Note, "priest, prophet, king" came with parameters centered on God's kingdom, which I already listed. They have nothing to do with the physical realm.
I'm sorry you do not understand the post. No worries.
Correct. I won't go into details here and won't even call it an "authority" out of humility and respect for God. But I assure you, when the time comes - the gifts that have been given to me will manifest themselves and will coincide with any "authority" that understands and speaks of the "Truth".
Baptism is for the remission of sins either committed ones or those in the future for those who are just reaching the age of accountability. It’s that simple. That’s all Christ ever said. Your apostasy priests made up the rest.
You are claiming to supercede God. Again, you have to receive authority by the laying of on of hand.
You’re not even willing to acknowledge the problem with saying you are a priest and yet you can’t be ordained a priest. Total doctrinal hypocrisy. Same with baptism equating it to receiving keys of the Priesthood. Bizarre.
Probably means that there is no belief the Holy Spirit is received in an LDS baptism. In the early Church and thus down through the years, the Holy Spirit is received by those baptized into the Catholic faith. It is through the Holy Spirit we pursue our missions of priest, prophet, and king.
I can't help that you have no understanding of the difference between laity who are indeed priest, prophet, and king in the lives of the laity--and between Holy Orders and an ordained priesthood whose mission is to devote their entire daily life/career in the service of God, Church, and Laity.
Exactly! The gift of the Holy Ghost to be a constant companion is given by the laying on of hands after the baptism. Jesus was first baptized and after coming up out of the water he received the Holy Ghost by his Father in Heaven. The Holy Ghost does influence people when they have an honest reason to know the truth. That’s how we gain a testimony of the restored gospel so we desire and know to be baptized by those who have authority do so.
Hahaha!!! We are a lay church with power and authority of the Priesthood of God. You do know that the apostles of Christ were married. So we’re priests and popes before the decree that they could not marry anymore. That did not come from God through a prophet since your popes claim they are not prophets. And they were baptized. I think the words you use like priest, king, prophet are simply misused as do Protestants do likewise. You are obviously not a priest. You are a follower or disciple of the Catholic Church. You are kings of yourself or have free will to choose good or evil. And, as I said before, you can receive direction for your own lives and others through righteous prayers and desires. That’s what I think you mean by priest, king and prophet.
Show us all then Cyrus being called the Messiah.
The word Messiah is NOT in Isaiah--you are adding it.
Isaiah 9 contains a well-known prophecy about the coming of Jesus Christ. Verse 1 describes the northern part of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, which was the first area attacked when nations like Assyria came from the north. Isaiah prophesied that this area—known as “the Galilee”—would not always be so troubled. Isaiah promised that God would send them light and joy through the birth of a child who would break the “yoke of [their] burden” (Isaiah 9:4) and be called “Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (v. 6). All of these names refer to the Messiah—the King of Kings—and this prophecy was most completely fulfilled when Jesus spent most of His mortal ministry in this Galilee area (see Matthew 4:12–16). The prophecy continues to be fulfilled as the government, or rule, of Jesus Christ continues to eternally expand when individuals accept Him as their king and become eligible for the blessings of eternal life (see Isaiah 9:7).
You do not understand Catholicism and seem to be arguing for LDS beliefs. Since you do not understand Catholic beliefs, I am fine with you holding your LDS beliefs. I've told you once about the baptism with the duties of being priest, prophet, and king and explained the ordination of the special priesthood. Once is enough.
Once again, your understanding is not Catholic understanding. You are fine with LDS understanding so no reason to continue.
