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Originally posted by 00nunya00
See, this is why I keep saying the folks who don't want Obama re-elected need to quit posting stupid BS half-baked weakly supported conspiracy theories like the birth certificate, Muslim claims, and blatantly spun interpretations of his words.
YOU HAVE PLENTY OF *CREDIBLE* EXAMPLES OF WHY HE SUCKS! When you come at people with facts like this and leave out the high-fives and chest-thumping, people who support Obama will actually listen to you and maybe change their minds. They are never, ever going to change their minds when it feels like you're picking on Obama unfairly. People like myself, who used to be head-over-heels for him in 2008, are only going to wake up when they are shown respect and are given a sincere and genuine argument free from unnecessary snark and partisanship. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
The reason Mormonism is not Christian is because it denies one or more of the essential doctrines of Christianity. Here is a basic list.
There is only one God in all existence (Exodus 20:1-4; Isaiah 43:10; 44:6,8; 45:5).
Jesus is divine (John 1:1;14; 8:24; Col. 2:9)
Forgiveness of sins is by grace alone without works (Eph. 2:8-9; Rom. 3:28; 4:1-5)
Jesus rose from the dead physically (John 2:19-21; Luke 24:39)
The gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus (1 Cor. 15:1-4)
Mormonism denies that there is only one God in all existence and also denies the forgiveness of sins alone in Christ alone.
The Central Question: Who is God? What Mormons will say they believe about God: We believe in God the Father who is the Father of Jesus Christ. We worship God the Father and pray to him in Jesus’ name. Jesus is our Savior. Why the Mormon God the Father is not the Christian God the Father: “God the Father” to a Mormon is not God the Father, first Person of the Holy Trinity, Whom Christians confess. He is one of many gods (D&C 130: 22-23). The Mormon worships God the Father because He is the god of this planet, but other planets have other gods equal to or even greater than God the Father. (Joseph Smith King Follett Discourse, 1844). The Mormon “God the Father” had a father and was once a man on a planet who worshiped his own Father God. He was subsequently exalted to godhood. He has a physical, human body (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 345). It is the hope of the male Mormon to progress to the point where he too will be a god like God the Father and be ruling over his own planet (Ibid, p. 346,7) The Mormons have a saying: “What man is, God once was; what God is, man may be” (LDS Church President Lorenzo Snow’s summation). This is polytheism.
Historically, only until recently have Mormons wanted to be called Christians, preferring not to be included with Christian denominations which Joseph Smith said were, ". . .all wrong...all their creeds were an abomination in his sight, and that those professors (Christians) were all corrupt." (Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith, 2:18-19)
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
See you are another one that is denying reality so you can feel good about supporting a non christian.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by jibeho
Doesn't matter. If you want to deny that the US gave them weapons go ahead all you want (it only makes Obama look better), but they did in fact give them weapons as well has help them with bombing runs via the UN.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
NO I am not. It is not my opinion I am sharing with you.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
Mormons are not considered Christians by any Christian organization.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
You guys are seriously deluding yourselves so you can feel ok about voting for a non christian it is seriously that simple.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
Again, i will post this link for YOU TO READ
link
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
It explains why fundamentally Mormons are not Christians. It isn't something you can argue. You are just wrong there are things that make you a Christian and Mormons do not fit in with those beliefs.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
So again I say once and for all, it is very progressive of you guys to be supporting a non christian candidate, you are, sorry, get over it and accept it.
Historically, only until recently have Mormons wanted to be called Christians, preferring not to be included with Christian denominations which Joseph Smith said were, ". . .all wrong...all their creeds were an abomination in his sight, and that those professors (Christians) were all corrupt." (Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith, 2:18-19)
I am out guys, have fun patting each other on the back, I can't handle the absurdity any longer.
MORMONS BELIEVE IN
JESUS CHRIST
Mormons believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and Savior of the world. Through his grace
all can return to live with God.
Jay Carney still a no-show for WH press conference...wonder what stalled that spin-o-rama show...
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by macman
It didn't have anything to do with it, and it would have died if he didn't bring up that one facet of that posters post rather than ignoring everything else he said.
Then while briefly on that subject I pointed out that he is not a Christian as he is a Mormon which are 100 percent not Christians.
Domestically, President Barack Obama’s speech at Notre Dame has to be understood in the context of his hiring and training by Jerry Kellman, an apostle of Saul
Alinsky at the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). Kellman “led a group, the Calumet
Community Religious Conference, that had been created by several local Catholic
churches,” noted National Review writer Byron York. Tyson had noted that Saul Alinsky,
an organizer and socialist, originally had the support of Catholic Bishop Bernard J. Sheil
and was facilitated in the San Antonio, Texas, area by the Catholic Diocese there. It
became a center for support for Liberation Theology and opposition to the Reagan
policy in Central America. A documentary, “The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and
His Legacy,” noted that, “Alinsky envisioned an ‘organization of organizations,’
comprised of all sectors of the community — youth committees, small businesses, labor
unions, and, most influential of all, the Catholic Church.” The Citizen’s Handbook notes
that, “Much of IAF organizing occurs through Christian churches particularly the Catholic
church.”
What lies behind this confrontation is a decades-long assault on the Christian religion, the
Catholic Church and its “Culture of Life” in particular,
which are regarded by modern-day Marxists as a major
impediment to their plans for a complete takeover of
American – and global – institutions. These Marxists
are guided by Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci,
whose writings were introduced to the United States
in the mid-1950s by Carl Marzani, a publisher and
Soviet KGB agent whose publishing house was
subsidized by the KGB. Marzani published The Open
Marxism of Antonio Gramsci in 1957. 2
Gramsci’s Marxist theory of cultural revolution stressed that dominance over the
existing order in the West, including religion, was rooted in education, the media, law,
and a mass culture of beliefs, values, and traditions. He said that it was through these
elements that the “ruling class” exercised mind-control or “hegemony” over ordinary
people. Hence, to overturn the existing order and “Marxize the inner man,” one must
create a subversive program of “counter-hegemony” against its supporting culture. The
war against the existing culture would leave nothing outside of the struggle, especially
Christianity, to negate the established modes of thought and ways of doing things.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
As I have said so many damn times Mormons do NOT believe that Christ is the one true saviour or God whatever you like and therefore they are not Christians as that is the entire BASIS for Christianity.
Originally posted by butcherguy
reply to post by Destinyone
Jay Carney still a no-show for WH press conference...wonder what stalled that spin-o-rama show...
Probably having a 'strategy session'.
That must be a hard task today.... trying to figure out how to deal with this 'bump in the road'.