Jeanie,Russ, at this point, honestly, you seem to think everyone else is wrong and YOU are right.
It's not about me. It's never been about me. I am nothing more than what God allows me to be.
It's about truth. I only do my best to study and reveal truth for the benefit of others. This is my greatest passion in life: Helping others understand truth and to see them grow and flourish as a result.
Honestly, I'm not.
It's just that there is a lot of evil in the world today—as the Bible predicted—and it's our job to expose it.
You see, that's just the way evil works.
God creates one good thing and evil comes along and offers a smörgåsbord of other "truths" to distract, deceive, and mislead people away from truth.
I don't mean to be cynical at all. The unfortunate truth is that deception is everywhere. I want to help people discern it for their own benefit and protection. I believe that to be part of my "job" in my life.
I don't think you have a right to promote something like that on the Pope.
I think free speech gives us the right to point out deception wherever it exists, and many scholars who have done their homework have come to exactly the same conclusions that I have.
I have as much of a right to point it out as someone else does to oppose me, so long as they are sincere in their position.
Nor do you have a right to paint untruths about my church.
I have said nothing untrue about your church.
I studied mormonism for years and have read much of the primary books (Book of Mormon, Peal of Great Price, Doctrine and Covenants, an much mormon literature) and find that mormonism is doing the same thing that many other "religions" do; They put man in the place of God.
Following are Biblical quotes that only a good mormon will recognize the significance of:
# "Yahweh, He is God; there is no other besides Him." Deuteronomy 4:35
# "Yahweh, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other." Deuteronomy 4:39
# "See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me" Deuteronomy 32:39
# "You are great, O Lord God; for there is none like You, and there is no God besides You" 2 Samuel 7:22
# "For who is God, besides Yahweh? And who is a rock, besides our God?" 2 Samuel 22:32
# "Yahweh is God; there is no one else." 1 Kings 8:60
# "O Lord, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You" 1 Chronicles 17:20
# "For who is God, but Yahweh? And who is a rock, except our God" Psalm 18:31
# "Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me." Isaiah 43:10
# "‘I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me." Isaiah 44:6
# "Is there any God besides Me, Or is there any other Rock? I know of none." Isaiah 44:8
# "I am Yahweh, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God." Isaiah 45:5
# "Surely, God is with you, and there is none else, No other God." Isaiah 45:14
# "I am Yahweh, and there is none else." Isaiah 45:18
# "Is it not I, Yahweh? And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior; There is none except Me." Isaiah 45:21
# "I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me" Isaiah 46:9
# "There is one [hen] body and one [hen] Spirit, one [hen] hope, one [hen] Lord, one [hen] faith, one [hen] baptism, one [hen] God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all." Ephesians 4:4-6
You have attacked pretty much everyone on here with your accusations.
No. I have not attacked anyone.
I simply have told the truth as I understand it.
I don't offend anyone. I am only a messenger. I am simply compelled to tell the truth regardless of how it feels. The truth is more important than our feelings. Please don't attack the messenger.
It is possible that the truth has offended some, or at least my understanding of it. The question then becomes, is my understanding correct or not.
If not, tell me how and I will research and respond.
My intentions are good and my research has been pretty intensive in the areas in which I speak. There are many things I do not know, and when encountered with these subjects, I just sit quietly and listen.
I can't believe we're on here to even take it thinking about it.
I commend you for it.
We all should maturely face information that opposes our dearly held beliefs. When we do this, we have the opportunity to deepen our understanding of truth, and then, if we are courageous, to discover and discard our idols that have blinded us.
I encourage all people to explore information that offends us and reap the benefits of the refining process that ensues.
If we find the offending information true, we deepen our understanding and grow. If we find the offending information false, we deepen our understanding and grow.
How can we lose when we study.
Now may I sell you some supplements?
Not sure if you're suggesting that my use of this forum to advertise supplements is immoral, but if so, please say it plainly.
If you do, than I will explain to you, as I have explained several times before, that I make much less selling supplements than I would if I charged $2 per hour (much less) for all of the time I put in helping people and maintaining this forum system on which people are free to levy accusations against me.
Search me. If you find any iniquity in me, reveal it to me that I may either purify myself or reveal to you how you yourself have the same.
I think you are full of ****. And i'm saying that out of love.....because i care for you!!! Now may I sell you some supplements?
You are quite a character. I say that in love.
I've got a question for you. Since you have it all together, know who's right and who's wrong and are always right, are you celibate? You aren't married. Its a valid question. You say evolutionists are that way cause they are immoral. Are you? It sounds to me anymore, that you yourself are fitting your truths to how you personally want to live.
Bex made the point that you cannot judge an organization by the Judas(es) therein. She well says that the integrity of an organization is not dependent on its followers. Therefore, to discredit my ability to know truth based on my moral fortitude is a poor way to judge truth. Nevertheless, the idols we hold to blind us, and so it is important for us to discard our emotional anchors to things of this world.
Nevertheless, if you must know, or if it helps you in some way to have this knowledge, than I will tell you.
Yes, I am celibate. I am a 43 year old virgin, but not without an entourage of lifelong temptation.