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

[_Albion]

Oh, gdemetz, a version that adds all the things Mormons wish were there and presume are there. What a great idea....too bad that Joseph Smith beat you to it with his version (I won't use the word translation since that would add dignity to his effort). Likely if you did get it done it would make your scholarship a laughing stock pretty much as it did for Smith which is the real reason why the Mormon Church doesn't want to use it.

[_LittleNipper]

A curse on anyone who adds or takes from what GOD has inspired and protects ---- His Holy Word.

[_gdemetz]

No Albion, just a little common sense would do! You always try to wiggle out of what the scriptures are trying to clearly teach just like you did with the "Ye are gods!" You tried to say that it just meant that they were acting like gods, how dumb! It's your comprehension again, Albion! If that was really meant, then why was the added phrase; "and all of you are the children of the Most High?!? IN other words, the ultra dumb evangelical version should read: "Ya'all actin' like them there gods, but all of ya'all is the chillin' of the Most High." Is that right, Albion? Is that what you are trying to say?!?

[_Albion]

I'll let gdemetz's last post speak for itself.

[_gdemetz]

Many early Christian writers, before the apostasy became even darker agreed with exactly what I am saying and exactly what those scriptures teach, including Irenaeus, Clement, and Tertullian, and I can give you their quotes also if you wish!

"We know that when He appears, we shall be like Him."

We know that when He appears, we shall be joint heirs and gods like Him also." My Spiritual Braille Version

[_Albion]

Jesus will indeed recognize his followers because their spirits will be similar and after his so that he will recognize them.

[_gdemetz]

Hello Albion?!? He is a god with a resurrected body! How ignorant.

[_Albion]

Not ignorant. As you say above: "When he appears we shall be like him" Like him in spirit, not in God-form.

[_gdemetz]

You are wrong again Albion, as usual! We are made "partakers of the DIVINE nature" (2 Peter !:4)! When He comes again, we shall have a BODY like His; "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like His glorious body..." (Philippians 3:21)! "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not appear what we shall be; but we know that, when He shall appear, WE SHALL BER LIKE HIM, for we shall see Him as He is" (1 John 3:2)!

Albion, you should really study the Bible more! I have no doubt that you will come up with some "Papa Joe" explanation in an attempt to put a big evangelical spin on all this, but please spare me. I'm to familiar with what the Bible really states and teaches to fall for that!

[_Drifting]

Which version of Jesus Christ's time in the Garden of Gethsemane is the accurate one and why?
(Mark or Luke)