The LDS members and the Kingdom of God

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_gdemetz
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I read that in the Koran about the so-called "virgin birth," which just further proves to me that it is false just as the so-called Christian religions who believe that fairy tale doctrine. "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.......and shall be turned unto fables."
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gdemetz wrote:I read that in the Koran about the so-called "virgin birth," which just further proves to me that it is false just as the so-called Christian religions who believe that fairy tale doctrine. "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.......and shall be turned unto fables."


LOL The blind leading the blind.
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Yea, that's right. It's the blind Christians leading the blind Muslims.
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gdemetz wrote:I read that in the Koran about the so-called "virgin birth," which just further proves to me that it is false just as the so-called Christian religions who believe that fairy tale doctrine. "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.......and shall be turned unto fables."



You don't believe in the virgin birth? I'm shocked :eek:

Nephi, long before the Master’s birth, was given a vision of His coming. He saw in that vision the mother of Christ, “a virgin, most beautiful and fair above all other virgins” (1 Nephi 11:15).

Of her He was born in Bethlehem of Judea, and the angel said unto Nephi, “Behold the Lamb of God, yea, even the Son of the Eternal Father!” (1 Nephi 11:21).
'Gordon B Hinckley December 2007'


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Q: Does the Mormon Church believe that God and Mary had physical sex to conceive Jesus?
A: The Church does not claim to know how Jesus was conceived but believes the Bible and Book of Mormon references to Jesus being born of the Virgin Mary.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317 ... z1ttQR4DJI


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Franktalk wrote:
gdemetz wrote:Islam? You can't be serious. Christ's teachings were definitely not Islamic.


He is not serious. He is just looking to start another worthless tangent of wasted time. Don't take the bait.


Actually Islam recognizes Jesus as a prophet.
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Themis wrote:
Actually Islam recognizes Jesus as a prophet.


pbuh (As Muslims say.)
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Just read FOX NEWS 21 Questions & Answers...

Thanks! Very straight forward, from a PR position. However, honest, well-read LDS know the definition of CULT goes beyond the Mormon limited defining of the term. So be it.
There could have been many other revelatory questions asked -- concerning LDS attitudes and policies about women -- that would have been more relevant politically in today's world.

Mormonism, as a Christian sect, is simply one of the lot of fabricators of myths and legends that spin engaging stories perpetuating Biblical untruth and fantasia.
A few centuries and they will be history. Meanwhile education spreads, truths are revealed, old folks die taking their resistances with them. New generations will improve upon the old, and truth will prevail creating a better world!
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Actually the Christian population is growing faster than the general population. So in your world it may appear to be disappearing it is in fact growing. So you are left with a problem, either the world is wrong about things or you are.

"In 2010, there were 2.30 billion Christians in the world, an increase of 150 million from two billion in 2005. The increase in the Christian population is growing at a slightly higher rate than the world population – 1.3 percent per year, when the total world population increased with 1.2 percent. The Christian population in Asia and Africa had the highest growth with 2.6 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively, but the Christian population is declining in Europe. Although the number of Muslims and Hindus – 1.6 billion Muslims and 870 million Hindus – are less than Christians, the Muslim population has grown at a rate of 1.9 percent per year and the Hindu population has grown at a rate of 1.5 percent per year, however charismatic Christianity and independent churches are growing at the fastest, at 2.4 percent per year[1]."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_ ... ion_growth
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The prophets and apostles have taught plainly that the virgin birth is a false doctrine. I know that Nephi kept referring to her as a virgin (as she was when he first saw her in vision) even after she gave birth to Jesus, but the fact remains that virgins have never given birth to anyone.
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gdemetz wrote:The prophets and apostles have taught plainly that the virgin birth is a false doctrine. I know that Nephi kept referring to her as a virgin (as she was when he first saw her in vision) even after she gave birth to Jesus, but the fact remains that virgins have never given birth to anyone.


Then your prophets are false.

34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
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