Is the Church really growing?

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gdemetz wrote:I wouldn't have written it if I didn't believe it.


What sea is going to overrun Boston?

No, seriously, your posts seem to be taking a turn for the more bizarre fringe old time beliefs. Almost like a joke. Just an observation.
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The Atlantic Ocean.
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just me wrote:
gdemetz wrote:I wouldn't have written it if I didn't believe it.


What sea is going to overrun Boston?

No, seriously, your posts seem to be taking a turn for the more bizarre fringe old time beliefs. Almost like a joke. Just an observation.


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That prophesy has never been revoked, and it will surely happen just as the prophesy that Elijah would return happened!
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just me wrote:What sea is going to overrun Boston?


The Red Sea. Don't ask me how. Reality checked out of this forum for a while.
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Actually that the Atlantic could overflow on a coastal city like Boston is not really so far fetched.
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Drifting wrote:
gdemetz wrote:The church's population percentage will skyrocket...
Can you supply an approximate timeframe and define 'skyrocket' in absolute numerical terms?
gdemetz wrote:I prayed yesterday that you all would still be alive to witness those events.


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gdemetz wrote:Actually that the Atlantic could overflow on a coastal city like Boston is not really so far fetched.


Not likely, but possible.

http://www.maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/hazards/tsunami/jan05.htm

Also God could make some cosmic debris hit the Atlantic as well.
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gdemetz wrote:I wouldn't have written it if I didn't believe it.


Sure, I believe you believe it will happen. But those are false prophecies made by a Mormon apostle who couldn't really see the future. He was trying to be dramatic and get people all excited. Just like Joseph Smith was trying to do when he penned the Explanations of Facsimile No. 3 and presented them to the world as a revelation of lost history. Joseph Smith got it all wrong. I know you don't believe the things he said in Facsimile No. 3 are correct because Joseph Smith was making it up and didn't understand Egyptology although he pretended to. Well, Mormon apostles don't know the future either and just made things up. They really don't do that anymore because they have learned to stop prophesying lest their word be verfied in the future and they be shown to be false.

If you can tell me the name of the king that is supposedly in the writing of Facsimile No. 3 then perhaps I'll worry a little bit about New York's pending earthquake. Or, if you can explain to me how the Egyptian god is only a slave then perhaps I'll worry about the sea covering Boston. And, if you can show anything about the Explanations of Facsimile No. 3 being Egyptologically correct then you can give a little credibility to your past Mormon apostles who stuck their necks out and made prophecies that so far have not been fulfilled and never will be.

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gdemetz wrote:That prophesy has never been revoked, and it will surely happen just as the prophesy that Elijah would return happened!


You have no proof that Elijah ever returned. It's pure religious declaration based on nothing more than faith for those who care to believe. Will Jesus return? Nope. He's not coming either. So don't act like it really happened as if it's fact. It's nothing but your faith which is pure myth in my book. Did Jonah get swallowed up by a whale? Nope -- it's pure myth, a false story to get people in line to obey Jehovah. The same is so with Joseph Smith. His revelations were all produced from the corners of his own brain. Nothing inspired at all. Just look at the Explanations of Facsimile No. 3 and you'll see total disaster. Poor Joseph, he was caught telling lies thanks to modern Egyptology.

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