Sound like Christians to me.

Quote from rcanfiel:

If you are talking about what people argue over based on opinion, I would agree.

But this argument is irrelevant in the spiritual domain. God either is or He isn't, as according to His revealed will, as reflected in a particular religion's scriptural document.

If He is, then what people think is vastly limited and mortal, and their beliefs are no more founded than what they think 11 dimensional space must be like. They just cannot understand it on their own
What you describe right there would make God irrelevant, not the arguments for or against It.
 
Quote from I am...:

Cooincidently, both have arranged their electronic perceptual filters that my posts cannot even be seen, let alone considered.

The Truth
..shame dude. Some fell on stony ground.
 
Quote from rcanfiel:



1 We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.

2 We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.

That depends on how you look at it. Adam&Eve brought death onto the human race. It is called Original Sin. Before this, all people were pure before God.

All people were pure but had no body. I don't see getting a body as being a punishment. We have a just God, he doesn't punish me for someone else's sins.

3 We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

WHAT? "It is by grace you are saved and not through works." The determination of whether people were true believers or not was known since before the foundation of the world

Mark 16:16

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved

Mathew 7:21

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

James 2:14-26

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
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Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
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For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.




4 We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
5 We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.

WRONG. All true believers have authority from God without intervention from any person: 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

Hebrews 5:4
And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.


6 We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
7 We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
8 We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.

Show me the scripture that says anything about "correct translation of the Bible."

And speaking of that, show me anything in the scripture that points to the Book of Mormon, which is a reprehensible document that violates and perverts the things of God. It is without need, and was written by a circus performer. It has misled millions away from the true calling of God.


Tukor already explained what nonsense your first request is.

As for your second request.

Ezekiel 37:16-17

Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.

The Book of Mormon states that those writing it are decendents of Joseph.

Also Christ states:

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.


9 We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
10 We believe in the literal agathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.

Show the scripture that says the New Jerusalem will be in America. The scripture makes it perfectly clear than the heavens and earth will be swept away. There will be a new heaven and new earth. Try reading Revelation, and put down the peepstones.

This is actually dependent on whether you believe in continued revelation. Myself andmillions of other understand that revelation and prophecy was to continue. The book of Revelation refers to 2 prophets that will be killed in the streets. Seem to me the concept of prophets in the last days isn't strange.


11 We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
12 We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
13 We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
 
rcan,

Your posts take entirely too long to respond to. If you'd be willing to discuss with me one point at a time, I will be happy to respond. If you insist on posts that will take me that long to respond to, I simply don't have the time. I'm not interested in an argument.
 
Stu:
>What you describe right there would make God
>irrelevant, not the arguments for or against It.

(Stu, something tells me that your above statement is gonna go whoosh)

As you would know Stu, rcanfiel is one of millions and millions who believe that "opinion" isn't applied to the scripture -- it's just there, it's perfect, and it says what it says.

Of course the millions who believe that come up with just about as many versions of "what's there, what's perfect and what it says" -- and of course they all can't be right.

Oh, but rcanfiel? ... he does not 'interpret', has no 'version' and IS right. Got it?

JB
 
Quote from Cache Landing:
2 We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.

That depends on how you look at it. Adam&Eve brought death onto the human race. It is called Original Sin. Before this, all people were pure before God.

All people were pure but had no body. I don't see getting a body as being a punishment. We have a just God, he doesn't punish me for someone else's sins.

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Since you want these one at a time...

Cache, scripture is a package deal, the will of God. You cannot tweeze out things that support a position you favor. It all applies in every situation. And you keep mixing in Mormon doctrine, which dissonates with scripture in many ways. Genesis and scripture never say that man was created without a body. That is a mormon belief that contradicts:

MAN EATS AND PROCREATES:
Gen 1:28-30 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

MAN EATS, WORKS PHYSICALLY, HAS PHYSICAL FORM MADE FROM EARTH, HAS NOSTRILS, AND IS IN A SINGLE PHYSICAL LOCATION
Gen 2: 5-8 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground- the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. Gen 2:15-17 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

THE MAN HAS BONES & FLESH, AND SLEEPS
Gen 2:21-23 the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man."

AND ALL THIS TIME, THEY ARE STILL PURE, FOR THEY HAD NOT YET FALLEN. NOTHING IN ANY WAY HINTS, SUGGESTS OR CLAIMS MAN HAS NO BODY AT THIS POINT.

LATER THEY HAVE CHILDREN. AND THERE IS NOTHING IN GENESIS THAT AFTER THEY FALL, THAT THEY THEN GET BODIES.
 
Quote from Turok:

(Stu, something tells me that your above statement is gonna go whoosh)

As you would know Stu, rcanfiel is one of millions and millions who believe that "opinion" isn't applied to the scripture -- it's just there, it's perfect, and it says what it says.

Of course the millions who believe that come up with just about as many versions of "what's there, what's perfect and what it says" -- and of course they all can't be right.

Oh, but rcanfiel? ... he does not 'interpret', has no 'version' and IS right. Got it?

JB
yep JB, it went woosh ok. It has to otherwise the noise of religious crutches breaking might be deafening.
I simply notice though how just one 'God given' thing called rationality, paradoxically, is enough to transform blind beliefs into pantomime.
 
Quote from rcanfiel:
scripture is a package deal, the will of God. You cannot tweeze out things that support a position you favor.
So how come you tweeze?
Worse still. You tweeze out of an interpretation of Geneses to support a position you favor, when actually...

Gen 1 :28-30 has man created in God's image on the 5th day
Gen 2 : 5-8 &
Gen 2:21-23 (rather contradictorily) has man formed from dust by God after the 7th day

Quote from rcanfiel:
You cannot tweeze out things that support a position you favor. It all applies in every situation.
Then it applies to you also.
Man in God's image Genesis 1 , is not the same as the man from dust in Genesis 2.

Unless you concede God's image is made from dust, man in God's image is not man formed. Not only are they of different constitutions, they come at distinctly different times during the tale.

In my opinion Cache has most certainly made the case for his fairy tale - where he states.. "All people were pure but had no body.", (made in God's image) , by the very words and descriptions in your fairy tale.
 
Quote from stu:

So how come you tweeze?
Worse still. You tweeze out of an interpretation of Geneses to support a position you favor, when actually...

Gen 1 :28-30 has man created in God's image on the 5th day
Gen 2 : 5-8 &
Gen 2:21-23 (rather contradictorily) has man formed from dust by God after the 7th day

The second is a much fuller elaboration of the same event. Hebrew often uses repetition. Sometimes the repetition is very local. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." The 4 gospels also cover many similar events from different perspectives and for different audiences. Luke is a Gentile, Matthew, Mark & John are Israelis.

Then it applies to you also.
Man in God's image Genesis 1 , is not the same as the man from dust in Genesis 2.

The first is spiritual. The second is physical.
 
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