Mormon Patriarchal Blessing?

[zerinus]

OK, a little more comment on the Roger Keller article at the FAIR site you linked us to (above) and which I am finally reading. I have already made the comment earlier that Mr. Keller appears to be rather furiously backpedaling from typical Mormon understanding of the apostasy. When I say “typical” I am referring to the understandings of Mormons at street level, as well as the Mormon theologian Bruce McConkie.

As we can see from these three paragraphs, Mr. Keller has assumed the tack of the kinder, gentler Mormon church since around 1900, which has made a determined effort to appear mainstream, rather than bizarre, as it did prior to 1900.

He appears to be admitting that there was no UNIVERSAL apostasy, as Bruce McConkie said there was, and as Mormons I’ve met have said there was/is. If there was no UNIVERSAL apostasy, then the Mormon claims that there was, are false, which we all knew. This puts a mighty rickety foundation under Mormonism, which is all about Restoration. If there is no need for a Restoration, there is no need for Mormonism, or any of the other Protestant-derived cults which claim an apostasy and a restoration.

Continuing on with comment on the Keller article provided by chasjohn:

So, it was the “authority to administer the saving ordinances of the gospel” that vanished, but not all of the “knowledge” of the gospel. Well, then, how were the Christians brought to Christ? How were they spiritually fed? Through knowledge? I don’t see how the Catholic Church could have expanded the way it obviously did if there were no Apostolic authority present within it. How could it have survived, intact, for 2k years and going, without the divine protection of God? Maybe Mr. Keller will reveal this later in the article, but so far, I am not finding any evidence of an apostasy, but just some double-talk.

You are beating a dead horse Allweather. I have repeatedly answered all of the above for you in other discussions elsewhere, but you turn a deaf ear. I don’t know why you bother.

zerinus

 

[Allweather]

You are beating a dead horse Allweather. I have repeatedly answered all of the above for you in other discussions elsewhere, but you turn a deaf ear. I don’t know why you bother.

zerinus

I’m commenting on an article from FAIR that chasjohn linked us to a few days ago. I only have time to do it a little here, a little there. He posted the link in response to my asking for evidence of what he calls elsewhere The Great Apostasy. I’ve asked for evidence for The Great Apostasy. All that has been presented so far, either by you or by chasjohn, is flimsy theorizing by Mormons. That, Zerinus, is the form of your earlier and repeated answers: flimsy theorizing.

Therefore, The Great Apostasy is better named The Great Mormon Fantasy, and it is upon this Fantasy that Mormonism rests. Because the apostasy is a lie, Mormonism is a lie.

We all know there is no concrete evidence for this apostasy. In fact, all historical evidence points away from it. So why don’t you Mormons just stop with the fabrications about Christianity, admit you can’t prove something that should be proveable from history if it ever existed, and drop this false religion of yours?