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_bcspace
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by _bcspace » Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:29 pm
Buffalo wrote: That is not the scriptural definition of faith. The notion that God doesn't believe in a higher power is a dilemma only for nonLDS christians.
_Buffalo
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by _Buffalo » Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:40 pm
Parley P. Pratt wrote: We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote: There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
_keithb
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by _keithb » Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:40 pm
bcspace wrote: Buffalo wrote: That is not the scriptural definition of faith. The notion that God doesn't believe in a higher power is a dilemma only for nonLDS christians.
So, by your estimation, God believes in a higher power ... making him not the highest God?
"Joseph Smith was called as a prophet, dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb" -South Park
_Buffalo
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by _Buffalo » Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:41 pm
bcspace wrote: That is not the scriptural definition of faith. The notion that God doesn't believe in a higher power is a dilemma only for nonLDS christians.
"I don't know that we teach that."
Parley P. Pratt wrote: We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote: There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
_bcspace
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by _bcspace » Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:48 pm
"I don't know that we teach that."
Wasn't the end result of the entire statement.
_bcspace
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by _bcspace » Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:50 pm
So, by your estimation, God believes in a higher power
His own Father, yes.
... making him not the highest God?
Since He is the only God with which we have anything to do, He is the highest God relative to us.
_Buffalo
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by _Buffalo » Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:01 pm
bcspace wrote: "I don't know that we teach that."
Wasn't the end result of the entire statement.
Are you calling GBH a liar?
Parley P. Pratt wrote: We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote: There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
_DarkHelmet
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by _DarkHelmet » Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:09 pm
Buffalo wrote: That sounds like something Joseph Smith would have said and apologists would defend it. After all, back in those days 10 feet was a much bigger distance than it is today.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775