So, after 900+ posts, you’re finally admitting that there is absolutely ***no evidence ***of the preexistence of man, anywhere in the Bible? You could have saved us all a lot of time by admitting to that fact in your very first response, instead of pussyfooting around the subject and trying to argue that there is.
So basically, what you’re saying is that God makes us all play silly guessing games to figure out what He really expects us to do, because none of the lessons that are taught in the Bible mean what we might think they mean. The Bible is just God’s ‘puzzle/story book’ that serves no other purpose than to tell men fantasy tales, then they have to try to figure out the real meanings for themselves, before being able to understand what God really wants them to do. At least, that’s what it sounds like you’re implying to me, considering all of your recent posts.
Doesn’t any of it really mean what it says? Or, is it just that some of it needs to be jumbled around, using some kind of ‘secret code of phrases’ that only a few ‘elite’ people (LDS) know, to make it understandable? I’m not so sure that God intended to confuse us all, instead of telling us the plain and simple truth, in easy to understand language. Do you really think God sent Jesus, just to confuse us even more than the Jews of the Old Testament were confused by all of the prophecies about Him? I don’t think so. I’m pretty sure He came to tell us the plain and simple truth about God, and it’s all contained in the Bible and the Holy Tradition of His Church.
I’m always amazed at the great lengths LDS will go to, in order to make themselves look so much more ‘holy’ than anyone else, by claiming they have it all figured out, while the rest of us are blind fools that can’t possibly understand the complexity of God’s ‘plan’. They certainly seem to think they’re better informed than any other Christians that have ever existed in the 2000 years of history since Jesus walked the earth.
They also have to believe Jesus was incapable of carrying out His mission, to establish an
Everlasting Covenant with mankind, that He promised would never be broken. But, they claim that it was completely and irrevocably broken, shortly after the Apostles that He personally chose to carry out that mission, died. So, not only did Jesus fail, but His most trusted Apostles also failed, miserably. Then, 1800 years later, God apparently decided to send Joseph Smith as His ‘greatest’ gift to mankind, who would finally save the whole world, and never fail like Jesus did… twice.
LDS also insinuate that God plays favorites by only choosing a select few, at the end of the world, to be “exalted” and become “gods” like Him. He also sets up everyone else to fail, just like He did to Adam & Eve. Even though, that kind of predetermination of events would be a blatant contradiction to our ever really having free will, or any hard choices to make for ourselves at all. All of those things make God look like an evil tyrant, that seems to take pleasure in playing such sadistic games with His “less favored” children, that they have no hope of ever winning. It takes some real hutzpah for anyone to dare to make God appear to be so evil. But, Joseph Smith sure had an overabundance of hutzpah.
Everyone has a choice between believing in the simple Truth of Jesus, and believing the lies that are whispered in their mind’s ear by the devil. Listening to the Holy Spirit, and discerning the difference between those two things, is the real test of faith that we all need to pass in order to have eternal life.
