sock puppet wrote:Simon, your religio-centricity is well-established and known far and wide. We all understand why you pedantically claim 'there is only Jesus.
Perhaps you could understand that the term "Mormon Jesus" is used to denote the specific Mormon teachings about Jesus, as compared to what other groups and peoples understand and teach about Jesus. There is no reason to have your Mormon defensive hackles up. It sort of makes you look like an uptight ninny that you don't get it.
Sort of?
Well, I did not want to go upstream against all those reports that Simon is the life of the parties he attends. I've even heard that there are, on the 'net, pictures circulating of Simon up on a table, wearing nothing but a grass skirt and a lamp shade.
The Mighty Builder wrote:Wish I had time for such an enterprise Quasimodo. But between the new Mormon temples, City Creek Center and other projects I am too busy serving Mormon Jesus to get in on his racket.
There is no "Mormon Jesus." There is only Jesus.
SSsshhhhhh, not so loud, Hinkley might hear you...
President Gordon B. Hinckley, responding to a question regarding whether Latter-day Saints believe in the “traditional Christ,” stated: No I don't. The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak. For the Christ of whom I speak has been revealed in this the dispensation of the fullness of times.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
Simon Belmont wrote:There is no "Mormon Jesus." There is only Jesus.
SSsshhhhhh, not so loud, Hinkley might hear you...
President Gordon B. Hinckley, responding to a question regarding whether Latter-day Saints believe in the “traditional Christ,” stated: No I don't. The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak. For the Christ of whom I speak has been revealed in this the dispensation of the fullness of times.
Thanks, Drifting, for pointing that out.
GBH is just... the gift that keeps on giving...to the critics. There seems to be no end to the treasure trove that is the GBH legacy.
sock puppet wrote:Well, I did not want to go upstream against all those reports that Simon is the life of the parties he attends. I've even heard that there are, on the 'net, pictures circulating of Simon up on a table, wearing nothing but a grass skirt and a lamp shade.
That's cliché, though, don't you think?
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
sock puppet wrote:Well, I did not want to go upstream against all those reports that Simon is the life of the parties he attends. I've even heard that there are, on the 'net, pictures circulating of Simon up on a table, wearing nothing but a grass skirt and a lamp shade.