re: This isn’t a great look for the pentagon. They appear to claim Mormons aren’t Christians

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some random dude made it up 200 years ago

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Bingo! It flies in the face of established Christianity. They have their own alternative gospel based upon a widely held belief in the 1800's that the Native American populations were descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. That postulate is fully rejected by all natural historians today, yet it is fundamental to the Mormon scriptural canon, replete with its own list of prophets and saints. The "Book Of Mormon" has no scriptural validity whatsoever

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The book of Mormon is not meant for a history lesson you dumb Mormon. It's the new way of life..the addendum some nut job and his followers wrote. Joseph Smiths rich educated wife is the one that actually wrote the text.. proven facts jack

You blame everything on BYU, definitely a psychopath. However, why did Joseph keep getting kicked out of towns across the north, then Midwest? Chased out of towns...he was a NUT job.

BTW, you said Jesus had 3 wives and children...that's not Biblical. That's Mormon BS.

Use The Google, read up on the all eyewitness testimonials about Joseph banging local teens as he was kicked out of every town.

Alcoholism? You don't dispute that because witnesses and newspapers would write accounts of the Mormon leader being an alcoholic and causing chaos in taverns

Joseph was a uneducated nut Job who swindled his wife, rich and connected to write the insane Mormon text.

Mormons are so brainwashed that if they claim they are Christians we will believe them.

You think God was a human- check

You think God is currently married and lives with his wife on a planet - check

You think having to EARN your way into heaven is a prerequisite to get to your 3 heavens (kind of different than the New Testament) -check

You think MAN can become a God on earth in human form , as in walking around the earth today - check

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#1 I'm not a mormon.

#2 The book of mormon is the history of people in this hemisphere. In what way is it a "new way of life"? Brigham did change a lot of the text but I haven't read all that he wrote. Care to quote what you're talking about?

#3 Emma was not rich nor was she highly educated...she had no part in writing any of the text. You have no facts other than your unfounded opinion.

#4 Joseph was not kicked out of any town and was against drinking alcoholic beverages as well as coffee and tea and tobacco.

#5 The utah mormons believe that Jesus had 3 wives...not me.

#6 "Use The Google, read up on the all eyewitness testimonials" ??? no thanks.

#7 What I posted was utah mormon beliefs...not mine. No where was it said that God had wives or was human. His son Jesus was born in the flesh.

#8 The rest is mormon belief...again...not mine...nor did the original teach any of those things.

The mormon people have been raised to believe some false doctrines...just like any other religion.

Do you believe in Jesus Christ?

This is the Dept of War manual on the various Faiths that the agency will recognize. If the Mormons say that they want to be listed as a Christian Faith, then the DoW should honor that request in the manual.

Whether or not the Mormons are really Christians is a Theological issue. The DoW manual is not a Theological document.

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I can assure you that no sane person in the USA today is serving and worshipping pagan god statues.

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Catholics stand in front of the statue of mary and make the sign of the cross...that is a form of worship.

Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

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I can assure you that no sane person in the USA today is serving and worshipping pagan god statues.

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Champagne, I think you might be implying that there may be persons elsewhere or in history that worshipped pagan god statues.

If you are talking about the Ancient Greeks or Assyrians or Egyptians or Canaanites or similar, they didn’t actually worship statues. They had divine imagines, including figurines and statues and totems (you might call them idols) that they used to invoke the presence of their deities. They believed they could channel their deity into the divine image to manifest the presence of the god. They weren’t worshipping the statues, but the gods that the statues represented.

In the exact same way, the Israelites worshipped Nehushtan the snake deity of healing and channeled him through the image (the bronze serpent in the temple). They worshipped Yahweh’s mother Asherah, the Holy Spirit, using wooden totems and almond trees (the menorah represents the tree of Asherah, and remember the time Moses’ staff sprouted almost branches and leaves). And they had divine images of Yahweh too. They had the golden bulls and they had the ark of the covenant and they had standing stones. They didn’t worship the statue of the golden bulls, rather they worshipped Yahweh and believed the statue or the ark could manifest the presence.

The Jewish God is the Christian God! Surely you know that much.

I have, and I also have collected & read various other books

there is some interesting historical stuff

I also have read a lot about the indian nations there at the time

i think we are not correctl told what the great burning really was either.

heck I have even read the book of urantia

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Catholics stand in front of the statue of mary and make the sign of the cross...that is a form of worship.

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It is not and we have had this debate many time around here. You do not get to define the meaning of the word "Worship", for your own selfish theological reasons.

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The Jewish God is the Christian God! Surely you know that much.

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That makes no sense.

You said Islam is not "Abrahamic" because their god does not have a son.

The Jewish god does not have a son, either, but somehow you give them a pass.

You do realize that the Jews consider Jesus to be a heretic, and that he is boiling in excrement in Hell, right?