Mormons

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
=darkblue]Just as a person's exprience, skill, or ability qualifies them for a particular job, one's spiritual gift (or gifts) qualify them to stand in a specific ministry office.

Just as you do not have to teach a rooster to crow, you do not have to teach a preacher to preach. If the preach or teach is in them it will come out. But the ability to teach or preach is a manifestation of the Spirit (i.e. the Holy Spirit).

Joseph Smith's teachings showed him to be a cult leader and not a true minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

You don't have any authority to say who is a cult leader or not.

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Just as a person's exprience, skill, or ability qualifies them for a particular job, one's spiritual gift (or gifts) qualify them to stand in a specific ministry office.

Hmm.

I do not think that is doctrinal.

Are you familiar with Mark 2:21 and 22?

"No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles."

God does not call an old man who has been a TV preacher for decades, to take up a calling in the gospel (at least, not usually). That would be putting new wine into old bottles.

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Just as you do not have to teach a rooster to crow, you do not have to teach a preacher to preach. If the preach or teach is in them it will come out. But the ability to teach or preach is a manifestation of the Spirit (i.e. the Holy Spirit).

The parable of the talents was lost on you, apparently. 🙁

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Joseph Smith's teachings showed him to be a cult leader and not a true minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

How so? Because we have higher education levels than the US average? Because we donate more to charity than any other religion? Because our "in-faith" marriages are less likely to end in divorce than the US Average? Because Mormons are the second happiest demographic in the US (behind Jews...which I find awesome)?

So it seems that 'by their fruits shall ye know them' is quite realized in Mormonism. Seems your logic for why Mormonism is "of the devil" is the same exact reason it is not: you just don't know enough about Mormonism to make any sort of reasonable or qualified statements about it.

That's okay: Mormons are a widely misunderstood people mostly due to the anti-Mormon rhetoric that is almost 200 years old.

mormons believe black people (or whatever politically correct euphemism you refer to this group of people as) are cursed.... that's all it take for me to never even thinking about subscribing to it.

I love mormons in their uniforms...they can come right over to my place and ill do my best to try to convert them ahahahaha

We don't have Mormons in Canada. They went extinct during the last Hunt.

Originally posted by ilikecomics
mormons believe black people (or whatever politically correct euphemism you refer to this group of people as) are cursed.... that's all it take for me to never even thinking about subscribing to it.

Some Mormons believed (past tense) that people of Subsaharan African decent were cursed with the Mark of Cain (the mark was not their appearance: it was spiritual). If you run across any Mormon that still believes that, it is not a LDS doctrine: it is their own personal belief and does not reflect the belief of the LDS Church.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
We don't have Mormons in Canada. They went extinct during the last Hunt.

With almost 200,000 Mormon Canadian's and 7 temples, the 34 million people in Canada still have to put up with .5% of their population being Mormons. Mwhahahaha. We'll have you in special underwear in no time..................we'll pounce on you when your car breaks down or your lawn needs mowed: then we'll trick you into joining with seeming altruistic deeds. *rubs hands together, menacingly*

Well if you'd just bring back the polygyny... We Canadians love the b*tches.

Mormons are just the Ordos Militant arm of the Jehovah's Witnesses. They do all the dirty stuff that the JW's don't want to stain their hands.

http://www.advocate.com/politics/religion/2012/06/29/mormons-plan-mass-resignation-church

This flashed across my facebook feed today. Figured I'd post it here.

Originally posted by Digi
http://www.advocate.com/politics/religion/2012/06/29/mormons-plan-mass-resignation-church

This flashed across my facebook feed today. Figured I'd post it here.

I find this news story to be more noteworthy:

http://leanforward.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/25/12373191-lgbt-straight-mormons-come-out-for-new-york-pride-march?lite