LDS claim about J. Smith

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***It isn’t a claim of the LDS that Holy Spirit went entirely silent after the apostles. As for the rest of the analogy I get that Mormonism is not seen as a natural development of the original church.

No, it is not seen as a natural development of the original Church, it could not be more contrary to it. It is in every sense the complete opposite. Such as pride in our dealings is the complete opposite of Real Humility that only can come from Christ Himself, then through us if we so choose. . In the Original Church we are taught to place ourselves in the lowest places. The Pope would be in the lowest of them all, assuming He is following Christ example. Only pride in what Christ has done for us matters. Christ placed Himself in the lowest places, he hung with the lowest people, this was the greatest thing that he came to do for those who can understand, come to this revelation. In it you find yourself at the foot of the Cross with absolutely no where else to go that matters, embraced by Mary and John, all the Saints and Angels are there to embrace you, for the joy that is only found in Christ Jesus. You see God will never die and leave His Church Orphaned. He will always be our only Parent. In Him we have found His Eternal Son, His Eternal Spirit that through His Son He has poured out this love on His Creation. I mean this is the Advent Season, Christ to us. This what we are living in this Glorious Season. After which comes the Easter season once more into our lives.

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If I were to change the analogy, the NT church was like a child who couldn’t get along with her parents, then the parents later died in a car accident. The child was then brought up in foster care and mixed the teachings of both old and new parents.

Looking back, when I was taught by my LDS Grandmother about Joseph Smith and His Church, about the restoration I can only pray that she has said yes to Christ and found her way home. But in my heart I know that the love my grandmother gave me was from God through her. So when I make it home to my creator in a sense I will be home with my grandmother. So I am not distressed in any way shape or form.

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** Later the original parents were resurrected and had a new child. The parents love both children and hope for the best for each of them.**

Christ / God died for me and was risen in order for this child to have life, to be reconciled with His Father, to wipe out the punishment that was against all as a result of what took place in the garden, to willingly leave the grace of God in search of becoming a god. Christ has given this grace to know these things to Christians who have been born again because of Him.

I was once lost, Now I have been found.

God Bless
 
Mormon Fool

“It isn’t a claim of the LDS that Holy Spirit went entirely silent after the apostles. As for the rest of the analogy I get that Mormonism is not seen as a natural development of the original church”.


No, it is not seen as a natural development of the original Church, it could not be more contrary to it. It is in every sense the complete opposite.

I take that back. I see Mormonism as the reason we need the Catholic Church. I see the same errors in Mormonism that I see in myself daily. It is a natural development of mankind to desire what the LDS Church offers; it is the story in the garden of eden. This natural development, the desire to sin, to want power and glory for self and family is the whole reason we need the Church. To die to these desires to be risen in Christ. The Church is here on earth to guide us away from these wants and desires, not so much because they are bad, rather they are not offered by God. They do not place God above all things. Anything that is not offered by God will die, by taking things that are not offered by God we will die along with these things, death being separated from God…

Satan offered these things to our first parents in the Garden; he also offered the same things to our God in the dessert. Only Jesus showed us how to say no. Our desire is not to become a God, it is to say no to the desire to want to become one. But to be drawn in to Him, to become one with God. That is another story, that is very Christian.
 
hmm some very interesting discussion. Thank you everyone for giving there thoughts.
 
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