Originally Posted by
Decalogue
Billyray --- Glad to read that you are not L.D.S.. Obviously you and I think differently. Rather than ask a Mormon something that they do not know and cannot fathom... because they may be "warm-hearted" , but are Biblically unaware people.... IMO , you should have TOLD them the differences of what the Bible says about Christianity and what the L.D.S. system says.
Mormons are taught that Jesus is the spirit-brother of Lucifer and was produced by a daddy-god in times past. Nobody that buys into that kinda thinking is going to have a clue as to what real Biblical Christianity is.
I guess that your Thread was started by you to make a point ,,, but after reading the whole 20 pages now...
{ minus most of the posts by the LDS folks on here ... because they simply are clueless as to the thread ***le / question. }
... I agree with what poster/member BrianH said on page 19 ; This whole Thread should have been placed over in the Christianity section of this website . It should NOT be in the "Mormonism" section. I realize that this website is lightly moderated because the founder has other duties and "many fish to fry" , so people sometimes get a little carried-away with certain issues.
Your replies to several people on this Thread (IMO) have not been helpful to getting the true Gospel message out to the LDS folks who may visit W.M. Ministries Forum.
On this Thread , at least one member is a well meaning Christian - but , alas he wears Arminian gl***es , and can only see scripture verses that go along with John 3:16 and the Finney/Moody/Sunday/Graham "sawdust trail" evangelical/evangelistic method.
{That member replied to one of my posts and for some "knee-****" anti-John Calvin reason , needlessly bad-mouthed "Calvinism" in a thread which had nothing to do with the Genevan Reformer. I would betcha he has never even read one page of The Ins***utes of the Christian Religion ...! }
That member ( and yourself ) need to move this whole Thread over to the "Christian" section and not confuse the LDS and other curious visitors to the website.
Another member on this Thread ( who is probably a Christian ) is another part of the problem. That poster insulted the Creeds that have historically been the succinct , re****al / refutation of wrong and wicked doctrines of the gnostics and pagans. They ( The Creeds of Early Christianity )are in paragraph/page long form and have great explanations of what real Christians have held to since the earliest days of Christianity... !!
Those are The Apostles Creed ; The Nicene Creed ; and the Athasian Creed ; and the Formula of Chalcedon. These are the things which SHOULD be read and understood and will answer in a memorable form that the average Joe or Jane human can understand. Please do NOT throw out the good Theology/ Christology of the 4 main Creeds just because they are older than you are.
Do a search engine and look up any of those Creeds and read them for yourself. If you have a 1940 Episcopal Hymnal at home or a 1941 Lutheran Hymnal , you have some great Theology / Christology within reach. Open up and read the Nicene Creed --- ..." Very God of very God ..." " Begotten not made"... Oh folks , that is rich ! Only cultists and the devil hisself hate the Creeds. Read the Creeds and decide for yourself.
Those creeds which have stood the test of time against the forerunners of the J.W.s and the oneness pentecostal nutcases and the sexually obsessed mormon founders of the L.D.S. , will be around long after you and I are gone.
Christianity is Deep ! Christianity is also simple enough that children can understand it. Seems it is the adults that get all wobbly-bobbly in the head and can't seem to understand the black and white of scripture.
The basic - simple answer to your Thread question is simply this: Read what the Lord Jesus said as recorded for us in the Gospels and Acts and Revelation. Follow Him !
Read what the Apostles of The Lord Jesus said as recorded for us in the Acts and Epistles and Revelation. Do them !
Read all of God's written word starting at Genesis 1:1 and read the whole Older Testament , then you can understand what you/me/we are guilty of and why you/me/we need a Saviour.
If anyone reading this Thread needs more details on the Christian Faith and how to be a Biblical Christian then read / look-up ( Search Engine ) The 3 main Creeds that I mentioned above.
For more in-depth Theology/Christology / Soteriology / Pneumatology ? Ecclesiology , read the : The 39 Articles of Religion ; The 2nd London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 ; The Three Forms of Unity ; and if you have a copy of The Open Bible ( Nelson Publishers ) , read and study "The Christian-Life Study Outlines" .
