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What bothers me the most is Mormons saying they are Christian when in fact they are not at all. If they would just say they were Mormon with different beliefs that would be fine. There was a time when they did just that. But it is easier to convert others to their faith if they can make un suspecting souls believe they are Christian. The milk before the meat which is very, very deceiving. As Christians we know the difference between being created and God being creator. We know that through Jesus Lucifer was created as well by Him All very Scriptural. If you go to the heart of who Lucifer is in their faith you will find the lie that lies beneath. There faith is built on a jealousy of Jesus, of Christianity as a whole. They feel in their heart that they do a better job at worship than do Christian’s such as you and I in Christ. This comes from pride and this is the motivation at the heart of their very doctrine. They have taken what Satan has offered in the Garden. “You can become a god” They have made this a religion. It is because they do not accept the Trinity / Christianity that they are blinded to these important facts. The grace of God and its meaning is distorted. They would see love as being generated from within themselves and not solely from our creator through us. They would see Wisdom as coming from themselves and not solely from our Creator gifted to us. Trinity / God is where they fall short. We as Catholics need to love them and point them to God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit one in being together. The Alpha and the Omega. Saint Augustine and the Church speaks on these matters well:
When I was just twenty it gave me great satisfaction that I managed to read, and understand, the Ten Categories of Aristotle without a teacher. I would mention the book at every opportunity, slipping the title in with a touch of awe, smiling to myself when lecturers would comment how difficult it had been for them to answer it.
And much good it did me! Indeed, it was harmful, because it encouraged me to think of You, O Lord, as if you were part of what you had made, instead of being its essence and origin. Sadly, I had my back toward the light and my eyes fixed on the darkness. I could understand without difficulty logic, rhetoric, geometry, music, and arithmetic, but I did not see that my intelligence itself was a gift of God and that all the true things I learned came from him, their source. What advantage was it to me that I had a nimble wit when all the while I turned from good and clung to evil? Little did I realize then how much better off were all those (as I saw them) “simple” souls who lacked my native intelligence but put their trust in God….and sheltered safely within the nest of His Church…Saint Augustine
HUMILITY
Humility is a supernatural virtue whereby one is enabled to make a true and just estimate of himself and is inclined to hold himself and his accomplishments in contempt in recognition that all good arises from God alone. It is said “dependence on God gives wings to prayer” St. Ignatius terms it a relinquishment of “self-will, self-love, and self-interests.” It is positive in not seeking honors and esteem of others, and self-condemning because man knows evil is his own doing. Humility is exercised toward God and neighbors: toward God who as the Creator gives man whatever he possesses, and toward one’s neighbors by recognizing their worth in the eye’s of God. This virtue is the opposite of pride and self pursuit, which is the root of all evil; hence humility is basic to the practice of all the virtues. It is fundamental of prayer, notably the prayer of simplicity, for Christ rewarded the Syro-phoenician women for her humility
Peace in Christ
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When I was just twenty it gave me great satisfaction that I managed to read, and understand, the Ten Categories of Aristotle without a teacher. I would mention the book at every opportunity, slipping the title in with a touch of awe, smiling to myself when lecturers would comment how difficult it had been for them to answer it.
And much good it did me! Indeed, it was harmful, because it encouraged me to think of You, O Lord, as if you were part of what you had made, instead of being its essence and origin. Sadly, I had my back toward the light and my eyes fixed on the darkness. I could understand without difficulty logic, rhetoric, geometry, music, and arithmetic, but I did not see that my intelligence itself was a gift of God and that all the true things I learned came from him, their source. What advantage was it to me that I had a nimble wit when all the while I turned from good and clung to evil? Little did I realize then how much better off were all those (as I saw them) “simple” souls who lacked my native intelligence but put their trust in God….and sheltered safely within the nest of His Church…Saint Augustine
HUMILITY
Humility is a supernatural virtue whereby one is enabled to make a true and just estimate of himself and is inclined to hold himself and his accomplishments in contempt in recognition that all good arises from God alone. It is said “dependence on God gives wings to prayer” St. Ignatius terms it a relinquishment of “self-will, self-love, and self-interests.” It is positive in not seeking honors and esteem of others, and self-condemning because man knows evil is his own doing. Humility is exercised toward God and neighbors: toward God who as the Creator gives man whatever he possesses, and toward one’s neighbors by recognizing their worth in the eye’s of God. This virtue is the opposite of pride and self pursuit, which is the root of all evil; hence humility is basic to the practice of all the virtues. It is fundamental of prayer, notably the prayer of simplicity, for Christ rewarded the Syro-phoenician women for her humility
Peace in Christ
www.utahmission.com
And that he was created making him a “spiritual brother” to Satan (i.e. they’re both creations). I quoted Jn 1:1 but it didn’t have much effect.