Are we sure we know who Mary is?

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Re: Are we sure we know who Mary is?

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zeezrom wrote:
Dr. Shades wrote:Heavenly Mother already had a body of flesh and bone from before the pre-existence, like God the Father did, otherwise she couldn't have been the progenitor of our spirit bodies. Therefore, she was unable to "die" (body and spirit separate) so that she could enter into a new mortal body, i.e. Mary. Plus, once Celestialized, beings don't undergo mortality a second time.

Wow, so many rules the Gods must abide by!

Blame Mormon doctrine. They made it up, not me.
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Re: Are we sure we know who Mary is?

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madeleine wrote:How does the Adam-God doctrine of BY fit into that rule?


Well, I would suspect that since God made the rules...
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Re: Are we sure we know who Mary is?

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madeleine wrote:
A mural in Salt Lake City:

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Love it!
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madeleine wrote:How does the Adam-God doctrine of BY fit into that rule?

It doesn't. That's why the leadership wishes it would just go away.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"

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Re: Are we sure we know who Mary is?

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Dr. Shades wrote:
madeleine wrote:How does the Adam-God doctrine of BY fit into that rule?

It doesn't. That's why the leadership wishes it would just go away.

How do you know that is the reason?
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)

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If you can think of another reason, then by all means let us know.
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Re: Are we sure we know who Mary is?

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Dr. Shades wrote:If you can think of another reason, then by all means let us know.

It feels Greek?

Some might say it is very different from mainstream Christianity?

Kooky?
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Re: Are we sure we know who Mary is?

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zeezrom wrote:
Dr. Shades wrote:If you can think of another reason, then by all means let us know.

It feels Greek?

Some might say it is very different from mainstream Christianity?

Kooky?


Ya.
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Re: Are we sure we know who Mary is?

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just me wrote:
madeleine wrote:
A mural in Salt Lake City:

Image


Love it!

Me too.
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
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