Bashing the Mormons

how to live better, kinder, happier, service-oriented Christ-filled lives may be what LDS is all about, but my religion is all about The Great Commission, spreading the Gospel about the real, eternal, Christ, and bringing souls to Him.

I don't bash LDS members, I pray for them.

Jim

Good attitude Jim!

My guess is that the Mormons are praying for you too. And hopefully the Methodists for the Presbyterians and vice versa, etc.

Letting others know the truth about one's own beliefs is commendable, the Mormons do a lot of that too. It's the negative bashing of other people's beliefs that is so wrong and comes across as so unAmerican.

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I have to say that I agree with Jimbo - and I see no political distinction between an Evangelical Christian and a Mormon.

The fact that Romney's LDS faith became such an issue illustrates the hypocricy of the media who didn't care that Lieberman was Jewish just a few years ago.

er, the southern muscle?

It is my understanding that Huckabee's strength is not necessarily the evangelicals as a whole, but more so the Southern Baptists. I think Huckabee is or was a pastor in that church.

And Huckabee did well in the southern states.

Perhaps it's weak, but thus the play on "Southern".

Groups of voters exercise strength ("muscle") by casting a lot of ballots for the same person.

But if you have a sincere beef about my choice of words let me know and I'll consider changing directions. :-)

explaining all this. The problem here is that when we attack Mitt Romney on his extremely liberal record he cowers behind is NEW FOUND conservative principals. Then his campaign runs the wagons in a circle and starts throwing the LDS card. It has NOTHING to do with his religion and everything to do with his PRO-choice, PRO-gay, and PRO-amnesty record which is crystal clear. He like McCain will now say whatever they have to say to get elected. To the best of my knowledge those of us who exposed unsavory truths about LDS were the ones called names like BIGOT. I never made any claim that could not be back by 100% FACT in response to the LDS card

sham, I agree that the church a presidential candidate chooses to join should not play a significant role in considering him or her for temporal office. But you write about "exposing" the "unsavory" Mormons. I could be wrong but my guess is that you are a supporter of Baptist pastor Huckabee and that your agenda is to throw your religion card at the readers of my blog.

Have you ever read any of the Early Church writings: what is usually called the Ante-Nicene Fathers? If you would like to read some of their works or at least the works of someone who has read them for himself and actually tries to live by the teachings of Christ and not just giving lip service to them, then I highly recommend the works of David W. Bercot out of Amberson, PA. You can review and order his materials from http://www.scrollpublishing.com. I have stopped going to Evangelical Churches because I am a strong believer in the Bible, and I could never reconcile their teachings with my own understanding of it. II Peter 1: 3 reads, "His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us," and Jude 3 reads "the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints." To me these passages suggest that no teachers that came hundreds, even thousands of years later could have anything to add to a faith once for all delivered or which was complete already long before. Martin Luther, John Calvin, or Joseph Smith have nothing to add to the truth, and what they do add corrupts and takes away from the purity of the Gospel. The Early Church considered the faith closed: there was no more revelation to be added beyond the New Testament writings. For example, Irenaeus, a disciple of Polycarp, a disciple of the apostle John wrote, "It is unlawful to assert that the Apostles preached before they possessed "perfect knowledge," as some do even venture to say, boasting themselves as being improvers of the Apostles." "True knowledge is that which consists in the doctrine of the Apostles and the ancient constitution of the Church throughout the world." "She is guarded and preserved without any forging of Scripture, by a very complete system of doctrine. She neither receives any addition to, nor does she allow any diminishing of, the truths which she believes."

If you are interested in what I said, please read my blog, "Faith Is As Faith Does."