Why Do LDS Dismiss the Greater Part of the New Testament?

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Re: Why Do LDS Dismiss the Greater Part of the New Testament

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Just admit it Albion. You were caught in your own web, and you can't give a good response. You just repeated the old man made evangelical doctrine that there is only one heaven, and when I told you that the Bible mentions three, then you just didn't know how to respond, once again!
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gdemetz wrote:Just admit it Albion. You were caught in your own web, and you can't give a good response. You just repeated the old man made evangelical doctrine that there is only one heaven, and when I told you that the Bible mentions three, then you just didn't know how to respond, once again!


Doesn't Mormonism teach that there are five levels of heaven?
Telestial
Terrestrial
Celestial - three separate levels within it
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Drifting wrote:
gdemetz wrote:Just admit it Albion. You were caught in your own web, and you can't give a good response. You just repeated the old man made evangelical doctrine that there is only one heaven, and when I told you that the Bible mentions three, then you just didn't know how to respond, once again!


Doesn't Mormonism teach that there are five levels of heaven?
Telestial
Terrestrial
Celestial - three separate levels within it

Yes, that is correct.
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gdemetz wrote:nothing relevant
Drifting wrote:Doesn't Mormonism teach that there are five levels of heaven?
Telestial
Terrestrial
Celestial - three separate levels within it
liz3564 wrote:Yes, that is correct.


May I rephrase/update according to dictionaries I can read?
(You know, I am a miserable non-english-speaker)

The levels of heaven:
Three heavenly (=celestial) level, can be found in heaven - as other heavenly things.
One earthly (=terrestrial) level, can be found on Earth - as other earthly things.
One ????ly (=telestial) level, can be found in... can be found on... can be found at...

OK. I've found the place:
Image - or - Image
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Yes, but what Paul was referring to were the three levels of heaven; namely the telestial, terrestrial, and the celestial. He was not referring to the subdivisions.
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gdemetz wrote:Yes, but what Paul was referring to were the three levels of heaven; namely the telestial, terrestrial, and the celestial. He was not referring to the subdivisions.

Which Paul? Osborne, our gracious Shulem?

The biblical Paul doesn't refer anything telestial.

FYI nobody in the Bible refers telestial.
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I wasn't quoting Paul! I stated that he mentioned the third heaven! He didn't mention any subdivisions of the heavens!
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gdemetz wrote:I wasn't quoting Paul! I stated that he mentioned the third heaven! He didn't mention any subdivisions of the heavens!


Why didn't he?
Did he not know?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric

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I don't know why he didn't. If I see him then I will ask him that.
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gdemetz wrote:I don't know why he didn't. If I see him then I will ask him that.


Perhaps he wasn't a Mormon...
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric

"One, two, three...let's go shopping!"
Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
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