re: Greatest Lavell Edwards BYU line

I suggest you take a closer look at Mormonism. It is NOT Christianity. I respect the hell out of Mormons for carrying their faith and generally being hardworking, industrious, polite folks but they aren't Christians.

I've known a great deal of Mormons over the years and they always try to stress the similarities between the LDS faith and Christianity. But dig deeper and start exploring some enormous differences:

1) You, as a person of earth, can one day be a God over your own planet of followers.

2) God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are three separate entities. In short, they don't believe in the Trinity.

3) There is no hell.

4) Proxy baptism after death will get you to Heaven.

5) The whole rest of the ridiculousness that states that Native Americans are descendants of the Middle East and that Jesus had a visitation with American Indians, the translation of the Gold Plates with no witnesses or proof, etc.

Thank goodness you're here, ClientNumber9. Nothing like the ignorant and incorrect outsider to state in no uncertain terms what I believe.

You're an LSU fan, right? I guess I should be calling you a "corndog" just because that's what the 'Bama fans do, right?

You couldn't pay me to have any urge to argue over Mormonism and Chrisitianity

Fella, you can believe what you want but if it is the Bible in any book then what is your point? In your mind do some some books carry more weight than others? Just because a statement is in the Bible in a few places does not diminish its' importance.

I personally don't care what you believe but Mormonism is not Christianity no matter what you or anybody else wants to believe. Jesus Christ didn't need Joseph Smith to come along 1800 years after his crucifiction to clarify things for him. Joseph Smith declares himself a prophet and wrote a book called the Book of Mormon. They use this book as a guide for their religion. It's funny how quick some of you are to embrace a book written by a self-proclaimed prophet while discounting what is clear in the Bible. Then the Mormons want to act as if they embrace the Bible and tell Christians where they are right and Christians are wrong. They are not Christians and the Bible is not nonsense.

Also, regardless of which Bible you subscribe to, I know one book which is in NONE of them.

It is the Book of Mormon.

Once again, a Mormon is willing to refute the Bible to ellevate his religion which is based on NON BIBLICAL DOCTRINE. Then they will say they are Christians. That my friend is impossible.

If you dont care then you leave.

I just thought it was a clever line
I didn't t want to open a can of theology.....hey look
think i saw a scientologist over there....go chase Tom down.

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You can't read Galatians, then believe anything Jospeh Smith says. You can believe both. Sorry. Mormons are not Christians.

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and here we go...

If you truly care to know our response to the adding to the Bible issue (which I suspect you don't care to) you can see it here.

LINK

In response to your list of things I supposedly believe as a Mormon or member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, here they are....

1) we do believethat God truly made us in his image and that like any parent he wants for us the best and that we can progress to be like our father.

2) We believe that God the Father, his son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost are 3 entities that make up the Godhead not one entity in 3 forms

3) Don't know where you got this one. Of course we believe in a "hell". Many times you'll hear Mormons refer to it as outer darkness.

4) we do believe in what Paul preached and supported the practice of baptism for the dead in I Corinthians 15:29, "Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?"

5) it does seem silly that a loving God would share his gospel with his people on the the other side of the world. And to the witnesses, there were 11 that wrote of their witness to the Book of Mormon at the time it was translated (there were more but those 11 wrote of their accounts and you can easily find them)

Do I care if you believe what I believe? No. I love having theological discussions with friends of different faiths.

What I dislike is people telling me what I personally believe based off of their interpretation of something they read.

I'm always shocked by those claiming to be Christian who are so quick to attack others in very un-Jesus like ways.

Again, if you care to read what we as mormons truly believe about Jesus and living a Christ centered life, here is a link. But I suspect you'll not care to hear it from an actual Mormon.

LINK


BYU in an upset, 17-14. And religion will have nothing to do with any of it.

Cheers

I'm not sure how I can make it any clearer that I'm not arguing in favor of Mormonism because I'M NOT A BELIEVING MORMON. I'm simply pointing out that your arguments against Mormonism on the basis of Revelation are illogical nonsense. Furthermore, I'm not sure why you felt the need to bring them up given that, as far as I can tell, none of the BYU fans that stopped by seemed eager to get in a debate about religion.

Can we get back to football now please?