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Vort: Now who is guilty of sarcasm?
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I was not being sarcastic in my comment about Biblical Christianity being the Christianity of the Latter-day Saints.
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I clearly defined the Jesus I believe in supported by the Bible.
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Hardly. Your views of God are based on early Christian heresies which themselves are based on neoplatonism. Of course, I don't expect you to admit this; you are much too invested in your beliefs. That's fine. I have no desire to convert you. But I take your snide remarks about worshiping "a different Jesus" at face value. I am certainly willing to accept your word that you worship a "different Jesus"; you are the ultimate authority on who or what you worship, whether the son of God or a Mexican gardener.
But you are certainly no authority on who or what the Latter-day Saints worship. I am.
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If you have a reference from the Bible for God as an exalted man and Jesus as the spirit son of this exalted man and one of his spiritual wives I'd be happy to consider it.
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No, you would not. You would spin the teachings to mean something else, just as you spin the clear teachings of a physical, embodied God as metaphorical.
I know of nowhere in the Bible that teaches that Jesus had two eyes or ten fingers, yet amazingly, I still believe it.
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I suspect, too, that you would have trouble finding one from the Book of Mormon even.
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I have much better even than the Book of Mormon or the Bible. I have latter-day prophets, including living prophets, who teach me the truths of God.
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But then Mormons tend to do you take my comment out of the contect in which it was given...
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I don't believe this qualfies as a meaningful English sentence.