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1 | Issues with LDS religion | Gal 5:7 | Chochma | 107676 | ||
While the Bible is the Standard for Salvation, it is not common to discard inspirational literature. As a LDS she is required to accept the BOM as the word of God, you are not. Yet would it offend God for you to respect the truths which are found in it's pages? The Book Of Mormon relates many moral lessons to the reader. To reject uplifting and supporting words as those in this book would sinful in my opinion. My advice would be to take what will benefit you in your walk with God and leave the rest. There are many paths, many roads to Christ. The road of service, the path of reflection, the road of knowledge, the journey of contemplation; they all lead to the Christ conciousness which brings peace. Many in this forum would have you be seperate from others saying Bible,Bible! it is the only way. I would ask you to consider one thing before you heed those voices with a spirit of contention. Before this Bible came to be as it is today(1500's), do you suppose all who believed were condemned. I would say no, that the true test of truth is not the words of any book but rather the spirit behind the truth. The Book Of Mormon has changed lives, healed families, brought hope to over 14 million people...Is that the spirit of Christ?...Yes it is Blessed Be, Chochma Kodesh |
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2 | Issues with LDS religion | Gal 5:7 | stjones | 107712 | ||
Hi, Chochma; Based on your profile, you seem to believe in almost everything. That is the logical equivalent of believing in nothing. The problem with alleged sequels to the Bible (the most famous being the Qur'an and the Book of Mormon) is that to believe them is to disbelieve the Bible they claim as their basis. Both of these books say, in effect, "my foundation is the Bible; however, the Bible is wrong". What kind of doublespeak is that? If the Bible is true, the sequels are false; if a sequel is true, the Bible and the other sequels are false. Belief in what these books say is akin to a famous logical conundrum: "The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false." If the first is true, the second is also true; but if the second is true, then the first is false. If the first is false, then so is the second and if it's false then the first is true. And so it goes. Perhaps you can make sense of these sentences. I can't. Likewise, I can't make sense of a book that says the Bible is true and then contradicts it. Peace and grace, Steve aka Indiana Jones |
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3 | Issues with LDS religion | Gal 5:7 | Chochma | 107792 | ||
You said:" I can't make sense of a book that says the Bible is true and then contradicts it." I would have to agree with you on this issue however since you have crossed this bridge let us walk together down the road of contradictions. Deuterononomy ch 4 tells us to not accept additions to what Moses has given. Did not Joshua even Jesus add to this law? So based upon our agreed method we must strike Deuteronomy or eveything there after as contradiction..You choose Romans tells us the story of Grace and just how amazing it is. Let us continue this journey to James who contradicts word for word "salvation by faith alone" with his exhortation of "faith without works is dead" . Thus we strike James or is it Romans..you choose Revelations warns us again against adding to...Shall we strike Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, perhaps we should even strike this forum. This merely brings me to my point yet again. Let the spirit guide and not the letter of your law. The Bible is the greatest idol there is. How idolotrous it truly is to say that God is contained in a book, how easy and subtly the followers of Christ slip into idolatry. Bible, Bible. Who will stand up and say No! It is Jesus, Jesus Jesus not Bible that should be on the lips of the true child of God. If it be the Book Of Mormon, If it be Science and Health, If it be the Hindu Vedas that bring a man to the knees of repentance, the life of reformation and the joy of release than so be it and praise the name of Jesus for it. Blessed Be |
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4 | Issues with LDS religion | Gal 5:7 | CDBJ | 107804 | ||
Hello Chochma, You stated, bring a man to the knees of repentance, the life of reformation and the joy of release. What are you talking about? What reformation, and what kind of repentance is it, and what is the joy of release, release from what? That all sounds real sanctimonious, but what are you talking about? CDBJ |
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