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Originally Posted by Fish-Hunter

Please see post 633. Thank you!

This is post 633:

Originally Posted by Fish-Hunter

I am not talking about all of the various Mormon doctrines and the Pauline Epistles. I have requested that you use the 13 Epistles of Paul to support the Gospel according to the LDS Church. I am only talking about the gospel that Paul is speaking about. Does the Mormon Gospel line-up with Paul's proclamation of the gospel of God's grace?

You have committed a category mistake. You ask Mormons to use the 13 Epistles of Paul to support the Gospel according to the LDS Church and then ask if the Mormon Gospel lines up with Paul's gospel of grace. This statement explains the oddity of the thread. On one hand you want an exegesis by Mormons from the Pauline corpus* on the other you lay down an Evangelical litmus test. Mormons are not Evangelicals. A Mormon exegesis of Paul will not follow Evangelical assumptions.** To expect one faith to follow the theological assumptions of another is to succumb to the theological myopia of one's own tradition and to commit both a category mistake and stymie any interfaith dialogue.

Fish-Hunter my poor fellow, if you wish to argue Mormons are wrong about point X or Y then present your argument. If you ask for a presentation of a Mormon position you cannot set that presentation with foreign and contrived Evangelical parameters. Your stance has no legs to stand on:

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Daniel 5:27


*Three specific Pauline references were provided by myself alone, but this was somehow deemed unacceptable.

**Mormons do not accept sola fides or sola gratia as legitimate principles. Both are absurdities. Both are constructs of the 16th Century: innovations. Both are products of a justification theology unknown to the New Testament authors or the traditions that compiled the New Testament. This is why neither notion has any place in the Greek speaking Christian Traditions.