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SteelHead wrote:Worse than that, Mormon god is incompetent. The whole reason behind the justification of killing the mafia boss still happened. His blood was shed for naught.

And god saw that it was good.

There is no "Mormon" god. There is simply God and your baseless assertions mean absolutely nothing.
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SteelHead wrote:Disobeying what god tells you to do, then, is the only absolute.


Which is great, as everything I do is mandated by god.


I seriously doubt that.
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PrickKicker wrote:
SteelHead wrote:Worse than that, Mormon god is incompetent. The whole reason behind the justification of killing the mafia boss still happened. His blood was shed for naught.

And god saw that it was good.


There is a theory that as well as plagiarize chunks of the Bible and other books, Joseph Smith mirrored his own doings in some of the Book of Mormon stories, I wonder if this is one of them???


Joseph Smith didn't plagarize the Bible. Wow, we are just on a roll of people making absurd assertions on here.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
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Tobin wrote:I don't know why this is so hard to understand. If you are doing what God wants you to do, it is good by definition. There is no relativism involved. It can not be evil.


As I already said, Tobin, like many, thinks good and bad are defined by God, and ultimately doing what God says is good even if it means going against something God may have said is bad. I find this to be a dangerous idea, one in which we see people flying planes into buildings.
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Tobin wrote:
Joseph Smith didn't plagarize the Bible. Wow, we are just on a roll of people making absurd assertions on here.


In regards to the Book of Mormon, Joseph didn't plagiarize the Bible since he attributed it to God. The problem is he copied from the KJV, including the mistakes.
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Tobin wrote:
Joseph Smith didn't plagarize the Bible. Wow, we are just on a roll of people making absurd assertions on here.


really?

I know you can justify it, by saying it was the jaradites that took it from old world to the new world and that's how it got there, but seriously Isaiah and Matthew... Word for Word in cluding the italic spurious text!

Plus have you ever put the JST-Matthew 5-6-7,KJV-Matthew 5-6-7 and the Book of Mormon 3Nephi 12-13-14 side by side...?

If Joseph Smith didn't copy it, how come the Book of Mormon the most correct book ever! is 99.9% the same as the KJV.
BUT the JST is different to them both? is this the real reason the church wont release it?
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PrickKicker wrote:
Tobin wrote:
Joseph Smith didn't plagarize the Bible. Wow, we are just on a roll of people making absurd assertions on here.


really?

I know you can justify it, by saying it was the jaradites that took it from old world to the new world and that's how it got there, but seriously Isaiah and Matthew... Word for Word in cluding the italic spurious text!

Plus have you ever put the JST-Matthew 5-6-7,KJV-Matthew 5-6-7 and the Book of Mormon 3Nephi 12-13-14 side by side...?

If Joseph Smith didn't copy it, how come the Book of Mormon the most correct book ever! is 99.9% the same as the KJV.
BUT the JST is different to them both? is this the real reason the church wont release it?


Look up the definition of plagarize. I don't think you know what it means.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
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Tobin wrote:Look up the definition of plagarize. I don't think you know what it means.


Mwahahaaaa,

Here comes God again,... You don't think...I know what it means.

Please elaborate on what YOU in your mind, don't think I know in mine... and how it is YOU don't think, I know?

are you using Magic to read my mind?

Plagerism is a term I have chosen... What makes you think you know better?
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PrickKicker wrote:What is CFR?

provide a reference, preferably a credible reference/citation, for the claim you are making...or concede that it is your own speculation without foundation.

PrickKicker wrote:and Which TRUTH are you referring to?

read your own post (the one i quoted) - that is the truth i am referring to...your inference by the all CAPS is that it is singular and only from whence you say
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Sethbag wrote:Well, if you support Joseph Smith as God's spokesman on Earth, apparently God disagrees with you. From the letter he wrote to Nancy Rigdon, we read...
Joseph Smith, trying to get into Nancy Rigdon's pants, wrote:That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another."

"God said, "Thou shalt not kill;" at another time He said "Thou shalt utterly destroy." This is the principle on which the government of heaven is conducted—by revelation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed. Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof till long after the events transpire.

ummm, excuse me....but.......that is still not support for "relativism"
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty
I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them
what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams
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