The Pearl of Great Price states that God showed Abraham a star, which he called Kolob, far off in the heavens, and said that His dwelling place was somewhere near to that star.
I can’t understand for the life of me why that statement would be remotely offensive to Catholics. Other than Ed Decker told you that you should find it offensive.
What’s so upsetting about that? Is it just upsetting that Mormons think that they know something that didn’t come through the Catholic Church? Is pride implicated? What’s the big hysterical deal about Kolob? Why would such a factoid need to be in the Book of Mormon? I say factoid, because it’s not really a “doctrine” … except for the implication that God is real, has a real physical habitation. Like CS Lewis said, Heaven is a place, but hell is a state of mind.
I know for you it is not offensive. For this reason a stated this out. And another person here too. We don’t think, or better we are sure that when you say it you think is not offensive. First of all since for you is not you think is not for the others: for example cannibalism is not bad for who pratiques it.
How can I explain why this with the other points are deeply insultant?
You have to see who is God for Christians. The Lord is so, but so higher then any capacity of grasping or rationalaizing his nature that is like he doesn’t have nature but is the core of all nature but is not all nature at the same time. Since He is behond conception He is behond time and space. He doesn’t have any need, He is the need of everything else, He is absolute purity and goodness, and I can go on.
The concept of God for you is extremely lowering is Holy being. It is like for you LDS would be is the same if you go from celestial to telestial or outter darkness. Even in the first case is a degradation of state.
Degradating the sate of the Lord is deeply offensive for something like me. And I am sure for other Christians too.
So immagine when I hear He has a body of flesh and bones like us and that He lives nearby a star or a planet.
Leave it alone what Bringham Young said about it and the Virgin Mary (not official doctrine but nevertheless came from the mout of one of your prophet). This scene is even unconceivable for a Christian and I can say one of the worse blasphemy you could ever pronounce involving The Absolute Purity of our Holy Father and then the human purity of our Holy Mary.
You have a very accessible access of holyness and purity and it is me that I cannot understand why you cannot understand it is offensive.
And for this reason for me is much much more insulting hearing something like that then an insult to my mother. She is human, she could have even sometimes, hope not, go correctly with a form of insult. An insult is something that degrade your state with a clear faulsity. So immagine what is for me the degradation of our Lord. I know you don’t feel it inside. But there is something that even though you don’t feel you have to accept being real for the other. For eterosexual is very difficult to feel what can feel an omosexual and vice versa.
For the other concepts: Jesus the brother of Satan.
Jesus proceed directly from the Father and He is Holy in nature. Being Holy in nature is again to have an accessible example like being etherosexual. You are this way and you don’t become omosexual for choice, you must have something inside. (to be clear with the omosexuals: no discremination it is just an example. You are just sinners like the rest of us, just commiting a different kind of sin, the Lord has to forgive me, you and the other sinners no matter what kind of sin you commit is a sin)
Exaltation in mariage: this completely reduce the impact of the coming of Jesus Christ, and
if you see and perceive Jesus like I do you feel deeply insulted.
And so on with the other concepts.
For you trying to explain why I and somebody like me feel deeply insulted is an hard task that implies having a different heart. Like the example I have given you.
If you try to reduce my feeling to your feeling** you cannot understand since what you believe made you differnt like what I believe made me differnt. It is of the outmost importance of what you believe since what you believe changes you in a way or another.** For this reason Jesus said if you believe in me you will be saved and the Will of My Father is you to believe in Who He has sent.
It is not a question of being polite, well mannered people. Good people to the eyes of other men.
Remember that what is good for the man may not be that good for the Lord and vice-versa.
Then of course if from your point of view you that you consider yourselves already saints and if you are married in a progression to be gods, and righteus since you are obbedient and follow your rules… of course then in this prospective you think it is pride.
Have you ever thought can be your pride?
PS: another point insulting is the fact that a mormon say he can bound the Lord. Or to say it more diplomatically that if he does all things as he should Lord has to recompensate him, he bound the Lord since the Lord is bounded form His word.
But did you understand His word? So why Jesus had so many things to say to the Pharesiens? They were like the cream of mormon. You have to pay your dime, they pay even more, you have to go in a mission they go in two mission, you have to fast once a month they fast three times. It is perfectly this concept that Jesus was denouncing on them. And who doesn’t understand doesn’t know who were the pharisiens.
Just accept mormon doctrine can be deeply insulting for a Christian.
