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Originally Posted by KristofferUmfrey
Exactly! So why should I believe your leaders outlandish statements anymore then I should believe the TBN crowd?
Do you think your church is the only one that has been teaching preparation for many years?
Do you think your church is the only one that has been teaching against porn and the breakdown of the family for many years?
LDS seem to think that there church leaders are the only people that recognized these and other issues early on, I can assure you they weren't alone in lifting a warning voice.
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I never said that they were the only ones that made any such points. That is a false conjecture to make.
Trust me, I understand where you are coming from. The only difference is this - and it is what someone told me. What does it matter what someone said or is claimed that they have said a hundred years ago? What significance does that have to do with you today? Are you honestly going to base your faith on what someone said a hundred years ago? If so, then, honestly and truthfully, it is the wrong thing to do. Why is that? Because, guess what the Roman Catholic Church considered those who believed that the Sun was the center of the Universe as they new and understood it were wrong, heretics and suffered grave condemnation. All because they believed something that the Church had taught. That teaching was that the Earth was the center of the then known universe and not the sun.
Yet, now we know that the Sun is not the Center of the Universe, but the Sun is at the head of our solar system. In fact, what is at the center of our galaxy is a large dormant Black hole (courtesy of the History Channel's "Universe" episode that was a repeat last night).
So, if you were to base your faith on such things and say that because of those statements made by people of that time then therefore 200 years later, one should stop believing in that faith and call it false.
Guess what, That is what the Jews were doing when Christ was born into mortality and they didn't believe even the miracles he did.
And Christ himself said that when you follow a prophet, you will receive a prophets reward.
So, Christ himself instructed us to Follow those whom God the Father has called to serve him.
And, finally, who are you to tell God that he is wrong for choosing such people?
Is the Abrahamic covenant invalid because Abraham was intimate with Hagar?
Is King David not in favor of God's love and mercy because of his adultry and murder of Bethsheba and her husband?
Should we discredit the Apostle Paul's epistles because he once persecuted the Church?
Should we not consider Peter a Disciple and apostle of Christ because Peter denied Christ three times?
According to your reason and logic, because a man said 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 years ago something that does not apply to us today we should discredit them and the Church at large - then we are to discredit any person who was called of God and not listen to what they taught. Guess what, that means even the Bible doesn't have any authority in one's life with such reasoning.