Buffalo wrote:were stolen from the pagans. Doesn't that ring any alarm bells for you TBMs and Christians? Not even a little?
Why should that raise alarm bells? Pagan gods rule.
And goddesses! You best not be forgetting them!
Actually, it really isn't a problem for Mormons, Buff. See, we are taught that God has revealed the truth in every dispensation from Adam. It just makes sense that "truth" would be found everywhere, albeit a little corrupted. ;)
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
just me wrote: And goddesses! You best not be forgetting them!
Actually, it really isn't a problem for Mormons, Buff. See, we are taught that God has revealed the truth in every dispensation from Adam. It just makes sense that "truth" would be found everywhere, albeit a little corrupted. ;)
I figure it's appropriate for the word God to refer to either gender. Although, having a gender associated with the supernatural superpower does bring it all closer to home so, okay, goddess it is!
So if truth is everywhere with a little corruption, that would mean Mormonism is uncorrupted. I wonder if that also means incorruptible?
Would that sell? "We have the uncorrupted religion!"
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
just me wrote: And goddesses! You best not be forgetting them!
Actually, it really isn't a problem for Mormons, Buff. See, we are taught that God has revealed the truth in every dispensation from Adam. It just makes sense that "truth" would be found everywhere, albeit a little corrupted. ;)
Oh yes, I'm aware of that, but the evolution of these characters doesn't bear that theory out. Jehovah's first "incarnation" on planet earth was that of a minor war god, like Ares. If we want to restore all things, we need to take away Jehovah's creator abilities and give him a helmet and a sword.
Of course, that fits in with many Mormons' concept of God, too.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
I wrote this on Buffalo's other epic thread. Did not want any posters here to miss this point:
Awe gee, this is the crap you have to put up with when you have the blind leading the blind. Always got to pull their ox out of the ditch.
BIG CLUE science brats, ah, ahem, you know, like after Noah, everybody was Christian, as it were, they all knew the same things.
But then Nimrod and his Satanists decided to slice and dice and serve the devil and chopped up the truth into the many little bits and pieces strewn about history that you can now pick up and mock religion like you know so much about it.
SO, bottom line is when stories go around that OTHER guys were crucified, did miracles, walked on water, had disciples and raised the dead and came back from the tomb, those are all tellings of the story of redemption from all those hacked up 'likening them to their own apostasy' legends which renamed Christ and God and were all about the same thing. Think ye humans, what more can I say?
Moses actually LEARNED from a Bedouin sheep herder out in the Sinai. The world knew the truth and, just like today, everyone wanted to make it conform to themselves. I bet Sodom and Gomorrah thought themselves righteous, some how. Politically correct after their fashion.
Nightlion wrote:I wrote this on Buffalo's other epic thread. Did not want any posters here to miss this point:
Awe gee, this is the crap you have to put up with when you have the blind leading the blind. Always got to pull their ox out of the ditch.
BIG CLUE science brats, ah, ahem, you know, like after Noah, everybody was Christian, as it were, they all knew the same things.
But then Nimrod and his Satanists decided to slice and dice and serve the devil and chopped up the truth into the many little bits and pieces strewn about history that you can now pick up and mock religion like you know so much about it.
SO, bottom line is when stories go around that OTHER guys were crucified, did miracles, walked on water, had disciples and raised the dead and came back from the tomb, those are all tellings of the story of redemption from all those hacked up 'likening them to their own apostasy' legends which renamed Christ and God and were all about the same thing. Think ye humans, what more can I say?
Moses actually LEARNED from a Bedouin sheep herder out in the Sinai. The world knew the truth and, just like today, everyone wanted to make it conform to themselves. I bet Sodom and Gomorrah thought themselves righteous, some how. Politically correct after their fashion.
You didn't really touch on what I was talking about, but this idea you have about anachronistically projecting your faith further back than when it originated is an idea Joseph Smith stole from George Oliver.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.