Why Dont Christians Accept the Book of Mormon as Valid? (Jesus, Earth)

[Scott C.]

Originally Posted by uss_bigd

Christians of the bible does not consider the book of mormons valid because God said to John:

Revelation 22:18
"Here is my warning for everyone who hears the prophecies in this book: If you add anything to them, God will make you suffer all the terrible troubles written in this book'.

That is what is written.

Please see this thread for a detailed response to your comment on Rev. 22:18:

The meaning of Revelation 22: 18,19

[DeepShadow]

Do I keep stealing your thunder, Katz? You do a great job, maybe I should back off certain threads...

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by DeepShadow

Do I keep stealing your thunder, Katz? You do a great job, maybe I should back off certain threads...

LOL! Please don't ever do that. Even if we pretty much give the same answers, you know how much I learn from your style of debate. I hang on every word and you know that. So keep talking!

[Starfish]

Is there some sort of party when a thread reaches Page 100? Let me know, I'll bring the ice cream.

(Sorry, back to discussion.)

[Scott C.]

Originally Posted by Starfish

Is there some sort of party when a thread reaches Page 100? Let me know, I'll bring the ice cream.

(Sorry, back to discussion.)

We should celebrate the popularity of LDS threads on RF. Neopolitan (sp?) please.

[Sola'lor]

Only four more posts until 1,000!

[Bathsheba]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

Well, I haven't read the book, but I do have a transcript of the movie version. If you want to discuss it, you could start a new thread and I'd be happy to touch on each point that it covers. At least in terms of the movie, it's the way in which the doctrines were presented that is so offensive. They take a basic doctrine and either embellish it or even parody it to the point where it's hardly recognizable to members of the Church. Let's say someone wanted to produce an anti-Catholic movie. Consider the doctrine of transsubstantiation or "real presence" which is that the bread/wafer and wine, when presented to Catholics as the eucharist, is literally transformed into the body and blood of Christ. If this doctrine were being portrayed in a movie by the producers of the Godmakers, we'd see a bunch of people sitting around a table eating the corpse of Jesus Christ. The actually doctrine would be portrayed as cannibalism. See what I mean?

I googled "The God Makers" and watched most of it. WOW! What a piece of work, it really is over the top. I loved (snark!) the music they used while filming the re-enactment of a Mormon temple ceremony, nice. There was no shortage of the words "cult" and "cultic" practice. Man, you guys really have the traditional christians freaked out, huh.

I looked for parallels between your catholic distortion and an equivalent Mormon distortion. I suppose the best example (imho) was the bit about how Mormons have endless sex in heaven. You guys don't come right out and say that you will be having endless sex in heaven; I think you are probably much more discrete about that by referencing the creation of worlds without end. Either that, or you really don't have much information on how these things work and sex (to make spirit babies) is beside the point because you are just trying to get to the Celestial Kingdom at this point. Hell if I know, it's all speculation (becoming a God yourself and creating a world per your belief of how God created this world), right? G. Hinckley said y'all didn't really teach that anymore.

Yeah, the producers of that sensational masterpiece took a few (understatement) liberties; love the fear mongering.

[rasor]

How do you lds's know that Jo Smith wasn't just another con man like Ron L Hubbard ?

[Sola'lor]

I've never seen God Makers.

[Sola'lor]

Originally Posted by rasor

How do you lds's know that Jo Smith wasn't just another con man like Ron L Hubbard ?

because I read the Book of Mormon, prayed about it and recieved a witness from the Holy ghost that it's true.


Oh btw,

1000!