God and Christ’s Atonement for my sins at this Easter time have, will continue to supercede Joseph Smith. For me, this is everyday in my spritual life, not just weeks before Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. I love Mary, mother of God, nonetheless whether Joseph Smith or her (and of course have been and are important to me)---- plain and simple, Jesus Christ is my Savior and my Advocate — the Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords as the world turns.
Well, to be fair, Christ will be your “Lord of Lords” until you (hopefully) achieve the delights of the Celestial Kingdom, where you, in fact, will be “Lord of Lords” to all your “spirit children” in the same manner your “Elohim” is your “Lord”.
If this statement is true then you must have quite a bit of cognitive dissonance. According to LDS practice, both can not be true.
No it is not and never will be.
Of course there are Catholics, such as the late Stephen H. Webb, who believe that Mormonism is obsessed with Christ.
People can, and do, exaggerate both the non-Christian and Christian aspects of Mormonism.
My obsession continues to be better person through the gospel of Jesus Christ. Your quote validates further my interest with those that I have known for years to build goodwill, whether one joins my church or no church/religion at all.
CCC 460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”: “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.” “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.” “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.”
:shrug:A Christian saying the same thing would mean a different thing.
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since “goodwill” is subjective.Lord have mercy, not this again. Maybe there will come a day when Mormons stop interpreting Catholic documents using a Mormon decoder ring.
Of course Christians don’t believe what Mormons believe about becoming a god. which it why Mormons are not Christian.
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Doctrine & Convenants 121:32 said:
They have much in common with Protestantism itself.
Yet somehow, someway, they believe that the New Testament canon of 27 books are all God’s Written Word - and none of the other 300+ early Christian writings are and have been mistakenly left out.
Two points. One, not all of what you consider to be “Protestants” believe that the Catholic Church necessarily lost the “true faith”. And second, most protestant churches have a different interpretation of what makes up “Christ’s Church”, which I suspect you’re aware of
Yeah that has to be one of the stranger points I’ve never understood for both Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses. I mean yes both to one extent or another have their own translation of the bible, but the books contained in it, are still the same books contained in the bible most who call themselves Christian use. So if the rest of us went apostate after the apostles, wouldn’t that make the bible other Christians agreed on apostate?
This is true. Actually Mormons and JW could easily have said that New Testament is wrong and chosen a completely different library for it, seeing as the Church was in apostasy so how would they be able to have the authority to make a Canon? Actually a great book Mormons could have used if they created their own New Testament would be " The Shepherd of Hermas ", which although was very popular in early Christianity, and even cited as scripture by some early Church Fathers, in time lost support because it actually supported claims of many heresies which came to be such as Docetism, Montanism, Arianism. The Book seems to promote further public revelation through a period of time, which would support Mormons claims very much so. Also they could use the “Apocalypse of Peter,” because at the end Christ promises that in the end God will free everyone from Hell and everyone will go to heaven. I believe that is a belief in Mormonism as well, that there really isn’t any hell persay, but a spirit prison which seems to resemble purgatory to some extent, but in time everyone is freed from it. And again this was a very popular book in early Christianity, was cited by some Church Fathers, but many scholars believe this phrase of salvation of all was just to much out of line with the beliefs even taught by Christ, thus was not put in the Canon.Yeah that has to be one of the stranger points I’ve never understood for both Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses. I mean yes both to one extent or another have their own translation of the bible, but the books contained in it, are still the same books contained in the bible most who call themselves Christian use. So if the rest of us went apostate after the apostles, wouldn’t that make the bible other Christians agreed on apostate?
Very good point. You’d think the church fathers of one or both of those faiths would have found other books to include in their version of the bible to differentiate it. Unless their claim is that even in apostasy those who thought they were true Christians made the right choices in selecting books of the bible even if their translations, etc… were wrong? I mean the Mormons do this to some extent with the Book of Mormon I suppose essentially portraying the Bible as an incomplete record of Christ’s time on Earth and missing the “second act” in America. But not so for the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
How many books in your Old Testament? I can’t think of a protestant denomination that doesn’t profess 39 books. Somehow, some way, those 4th c Catholic Bishops lost the true faith… not knowing what was, and was not the Written Word of God. And somehow the Catholic Church lost the knowledge that the “true faith”, that professed by the apostles to their descendants was one that included the doctrines of Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide.
Yes, the Catholic Church lost this element of the True Faith as well.And second, most protestant churches have a different interpretation of what makes up “Christ’s Church”, which I suspect you’re aware of
They are very protestant in regards to the canon, professing that the NT contains 27 books and the OT contains 66 books. Yet those early Catholic Bishops who they tacitly give authority to in determining the NT canon of 27 books, also professed belief in the OT containing 46 books.
Same as you I suspect. My church includes the Deuterocanon in our bible as well as
1 Esdras (Vulgate 3 Esdras)
2 Esdras (Vulgate 4 Esdras)
Prayer of Manasseh