Do you not read the scriptures and see that it says there will be "many false prophets?"
False prophets and prophetess' are easy to spot, not so hidden as you would suppose...
"By their fruits ye shall know them"
We can also know the difference by going to the Lord in prayer...
Just as there are false prophets, there are also false prophetess' . Here's an example
www.Sylvia.org
Why would Satan, the deciever and father of all lies, come out and bluntly say that the gospel is false.
He wouldn't, he would mix it up with a few lies, subtly directing followers away from salavation in Christ, who is our advocate/mediator/link with the Father...
He would emphasize himself as the way to the Father... This was Satan's plan in the beginning and he's still trying to pull that fast one on us here on earth, knowing he can still draw away many to himself, into hell where he will be for eternity, but all will eventually be redeemed from that place. Satan may temporarily "drag us down to hell" but all will eventually be redeemed from that aweful place...
Who is the best liar in all the world? someone who ALWAYS tells the truth.
You need to read and ponder what you've just written, I don't really think you realize what you've just written. You've contradicted yourself within one sentence. I've done the same thing..
Satan cannot tell the truth all the time, otherwise his kingdom would not stand, he has to mix it up with lies. He mixes lies with truth, 50/50..
Satan said to Eve, "Ye shall not die, but will become as God, knowing good and evil," when trying to convince Eve to eat the forbidden fruit..
Lie = "Ye shall not die"
Truth = "but will become as God, knowing good and evil"
Nice trick to get someone to do the wrong thing...
Eve then said, "Is there any other way?"
Satan then said, "There is no other way"
Again another lie....
"God will provide a way to accomplish his purposes"..
Satan tells many many truths, all so that once he has your ear he can say anything and you will believe it.
When the lies start, that's when I stop listening.
I plead again with you to talk about it with your bishop,
About what, my healthy conquest for truth/good in all it's forms?
with a church leader of any kind.
Will the nursery leader work? Sorry just a joke..
these things are not true revelations from the Lord.
Yes they are..
Anything that leads people to Jesus Christ is from the Lord...
Do I have to keep posting
Article of Faith number 13 ????????
The "mother mary" does not answer "prayers" you should know this FFH.
Any angel (resurrected exalted being) can answer prayers directly, by appearing to men on earth.
Moroni
Gabriel (Noah)
Mary
Jesus
Enoch
Elijah
etc.
Any resurrected and/or exalted being.
My grandfather appeared to my uncle in answer to his prayer concerning his son who had committed suiced a few days before he was to give his LDS missionary farewell speech...
He (my grandfather) appeared and said to my uncle, after he had prayed by the side of a lake in a secluded spot in the mountains, "Don't worry, he's with me now, he's fine".
My uncle thinking his son, who had committed suicide, might be in hell, as many would suppose and that he had failed as a parent and was sinking into despair..
He later became a bishop of that same ward...
They (suicide victims) get help on the other side, if they need it...
you have done alot of research and are into bible codes and other things of the nature that and that is commendable efforts. while there is alot of truth in them, that is exactly why you have to be careful.
Nothing in the Bible codes I've seen so far has led me away from the truth, but rather has strengthened my faith and understanding of the mysteries of the scriptures and in the goodness of the Lord/
There's much more to the Bible codes than mere predictions. There are modern day teachings warning us of the very things you're talking about and lists several false prophets names, including the one I just listed, Sylvia Browne (
www.Sylvia.org) others such as Benny Hinn, and lists the reasons why he's a false prophet...
Joel Ostein is listed as a true humble follower of Christ, living very meagerly despite having the biggest church in North American..
joelostein.com
I could go on and on about false preachers the Bible codes list as well as true preachers of God...
Brigham Young is even listed in the Bible codes...and of course not as a false prophet...
There is no evil in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
There are evil people in it that i am sure of, but those people, are not our leaders or our prophets
There are evil people in leadership who abuse their powers. My parents live in an area where a bishop was caught molesting a small child...
A horrible tragedy...
The only person we have been promised who will not lead us astray, is the President of the LDS church, of whom all other leaders must submit their authority to..
There is a system of checks and balances which help to root out evil leaders in the LDS faith, but some squeak by and evil is then allowed to prosper...
I know our leaders are inspired, but all fail/are tempted/sin, as they are only men...
Some sin more than others...no one is perfect, not even the President Hinckley and he freely admits that, but he can be perfectly inspired to lead this church in the direction it needs to go.
I was sealed to my wife in the temple, which guarantees my salvation in the highest kingdom, it's just a matter of how well do I want this life to go now...
Do I want to sin and have Satan "buffet" me or do I want to obey and enjoy profound peace and joy in my life...
"In this life our joy is not full" though, as Christ has revealed to Joseph Smith in the Doctrine and Covenants...
Jesus spoke to Joseph Smith in all those revelations of the Doctrine and Covenants, not Heavenly Father...
Jesus is our advocate with the Father...
Heavenly Father uses his spirit, the Holy Ghost, to speak to men in answer to prayer, but in the case of Joseph Smith, Heavenly Father literally appeared and introduced Jesus Christ and said "Here him"...
In other words, Heavenly Father said "hey, here's my right hand man, talk to him and he'll lead you in the right direction...
Jesus Christ appeared in answer to Joseph Smith's prayer, as did Moroni, and so can Mary, if Heavenly Father sees the need to use her for that purpose..
Heavenly Father can use any resurrected exalted being to answer prayers directly, not just the Holy Ghost..
and you know this just as well as i do. there is no evil doctrine in our church whatsoever. You know for a fact that is true just as well as i do.
Yes of course so show me the scripture that states Heavenly Father only answers prayers through the gift of the Holy Ghost or his Holy Spirit to man...
Our Founding Fathers appeared in the St. George temple and asked, paraphrasing, "Why has our work not been done???" Meaning all their necessary saving ordinances performed in holy LDS temples, for those reading who might not understand the term "work" in that sentence.
For those who don't know...The St. George, Utah temple (which was the first temple completed after the other two were destroyed in Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois) years before the Salt Lake temple.
Heavenly Father can us anyone whom he chooses to answer prayers
on his behalf..
Heavenly Father has never appeared to anyone, except Joseph Smith, all other appearances to man have been by Jesus Christ, in the Old and New Testament.
This is nothing new, Mary has been appearing to men throughout the centuries..
The oldest recorded date that I know of is the one I just posted in the 1500's but I'm sure there were others before that, just haven't researched it enough.
We are vain if we think our leaders are the only ones who experience divine visitations, and even more vain if we think we are the only ones who see visions of heaven/the afterlife/resurrected beings, such as Mary...
I've read many many many accounts of what heaven looks like, by those who have had near death experiences and I've had the image of Mary Magdalene flash before my own eys and have felt the power and love of Christ that emminates from him...
It's nothing like I've ever felt before or since. I wanted it to last forever and it wil as soon as Christ comes again...
I've also heard the singing/music of heaven, while sitting in sacrament meeting and later asked my wife if she heard it too and to my astonishment she said yes.
It's worth all the garbage in this life just to be able to hear that singing/musci again as well as the feeling that flooded my being when in the presence of Christ for literally a second...as was the singing for just a second..
Just a glimpse of the feelings and sounds of heaven, with Christ as the center, he being our means of salvation and exaltation in that place...
Heavenly Father is humble to and recognizes who's brought us back to him... What a great sacrifice Christ has made on our behalf...
Mary only wants to help lead as many people as she can to her son...