Keep questioning your own truthfulness. It's hysterical! All this to not have the moral energy to admit that what I posted is correct.
There's only one. Any others are splinter groups and have completely lost the Priesthood and Authority again. The "Reorganized" LDS Church has now completely lost its way, changed their name and looks like most other Christian churches. Splinter groups just like all the other Christian churches that splintered off the Catholic and Greek Orthodox church.
Really? Your Aunt has to be a Saint for sure!!! Go ahead, give your best shot. What else do you have to do?
Well of course my aunt is a saint. The term saints, as used by Mormons, mean that they are members of Jesus Christ’s own church. They are baptized in His name and have taken His name on themselves. As Saints, they believe that they have a special responsibility to live according to His teachings and to represent Him well. As a Mormon...did ye nae know that, laddie?? I may (or may not) be a lapsed Catholic gone pagan, but spending summers at her house growing up...one picks up a few things.
I taught high school for 16 years at a Catholic High School. Every other year, I'd be asked to invite the missionaries to teach a class with the world religion class full of seniors. We did end up with some converts. One while he was still in school. See, some pay close attention and feel the influence of the Holy Ghost.
Your stratagem is painfully obvious and no I’m not going to fall into that trap. You want to hide behind your faith and not debate on the comments I made earlier? That’s fine. I am truly done and turning off notifications for this group. Toodles!
I've certainly debated on your comments, as anti-Christian bigoted as they can be sometimes. I stumped you so you do what liberals always do when stumped. RUN!
There is a whole post I put up that you have yet to comment on. Nary a single quote. http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/gender-doesnt-exist.585920/page-8#post-1072714491 And you’re doing what internet trolls typically do. Try to annoy someone to the point where they lose their cool so the troll can have the smug, superior satisfaction of being the winner of that particular game of internet chicken. That or the satisfaction of being able to go to the admins of a site and say “See! I was debating like a good little net-citizen and <sob><choke><sob>…and <sniff> they called me names!<pouty boo-boo lip>” and get the person ban-hammered. Now I’m not saying that you are (nor am I saying that you are not) a net troll, but I’ve seen this setup too many times and have had my tuchas booted from sites for playing that game. I. Am. Not. Going. To. Play. That. Game. With. You. Cut! Print! Check the gate! Moving on.
Gender was synonymous with sex until Liberals co-opted the word for their own devious uses. There is harm. It is called fraudulent misrepresentation.
I've been booted as well. Can't remember the site but ya. Not for trolling. For rude comments so I really try to not do that. I'm a conservative Republican so I keep my cool.
Yes I did. Here is is again, "Cougarbear: Neither is the answer. Your lack of knowledge and understanding of God's Plan of Salvation and Exaltation is the challenge with your logic and reasoning. You begin with a false narrative and conclude with one. The Fold of Adam and Eve are not animals or creatures. They are "gods in embryo." Jesus said, "Ye are gods, and the children of the most High God." While our bodies are of the dust of this earth, they are eternally different than any other of God's creatures great or small. What you are doing is trying to fit worms, snails, amphibians, insects, fish and other creatures into the Plan of Salvation and Exaltation of God's plan for us, not them. See, I don't see you as an insect or a worm. You are a child of God made in His image for a purpose of His Glory. We are all spirit brothers and sisters with one set of physical parents (Adam and Eve) and one set of spiritual parents (Heavenly Father and Mother).
Ok...fair point. But in my defense, the post in which that sprang from has most of your comments included in my quote...Which I don't often look at since I was there when I wrote them. You really, REALLY need to learn how to use the quote function so we don't lose your stuff in among what we've written. And on the subject of quotations, you neglected the bit where I explained how if you feel that homosexuality is natural and not something that the person can help any more than heterosexuality for straight folks...that God saying "I'm going to make you that way and give you the same sexual drives as straight folks but make it a hell-worthy trespass if you act upon them." makes God look like a massive jerk of Brobdingnagian proportions. I'd think that my calling God a massive [insert favorite derogatory term for penis here] would have been worth at least a comment...preferably an explanation on how we get Theodicy out of that scenario. Care to give it a go? Or will you continue to try to find my weak spot so I explode in a fury of ad hominum attacks?
The hypothesis you make is false. God didn't make homosexuals. And, the only heterosexuals that it sounds like he made were Adam and Eve. But, I doubt that as well as the biblical story of Adam and Eve is simple way of explaining the emergence of those humanoids on this earth who received the first spirit children from Heaven. Adam and Eve were the ones that made their physical children and taught them the difference between good and evil. Then, left it up to them to choose freely whom they would follow, God or Satan through their choices. God gave commandments for mankind to develop faith in God by having the choice to choose good or evil. Those heterosexuals who decided to choose evil and perform homosexual acts would fail to keep the commandments and thus suffer the consequence of their actions. Like it or not, we are being tested on who will keep God's commandments to be rewarded with potential Eternal Life in the Celestial Kingdom of Heaven.
In what way? How is it fraudulent? What did they offer you that their wearing women's clothing invalidated?
Gender is the expression of sex basically put it's what makes boys boyish girls girly men manly and women feminine. He's on rigid structures they're just a general thing. I really don't like how people take a boy that isn't very boyish and try to put him in the box of he's trans. We should be a little more open-minded, like I said these aren't hard and fast rules that you must adhere to they're just observations
There is nothing you have said here that is said by the other Churches about your denomination and others. Basically you're being a copy cat. Now do you have anything on the actual topic, or do you want the thread jack some more?
Actually, no it wasn't. Gender was not originally synonymous Sex (adj). It was first used in the sciences and languages. Later, it became a euphemism for sex (adj), because there were people who were uncomfortable with the word sex, equating it to the verb). After a while, as linguistic evolution goes, it did indeed become synonymous with sex (adj). Now it is under going another lingual shift, learning towards identity. Fraudulent would imply that the one making the claim believes other than what they claim.
The explanation in the bible is figurative when speaking of how Adam and Eve came to be. With latter-day prophets with more scripture from those times in our library of scriptures, we have more information. Adam and Eve had belly buttons. Lots of details were left out and written for those of Moses time frame for their ability to understand. There was a Garden and there was a fall of Adam so there was a need for a Savior to take away our sins.
We aren't a splinter group and no other Christian Church says we have come out of another Church like the Catholic Church. So, that is wrong. We are the "Restored" church of Jesus Christ in these the latter-days. There is nothing we have copied from Christian Churches in our day. We are the Church that existed in the former meridian day of Jesus Christ on the earth. The Bible is the blueprint of Christ's true Church. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only Church that fits the criteria laid out in the Bible. No other Church is even close. From the foundation of Apostles and Prophets to all other restorations of the restored truths.
You have completely missed what I'm saying to the point of strawman. The claim that you are the "true Church", the church following the actual teachings and ideals of God and Jesus and the Apostles, etc. and that all the others are wrong, is no different from all the other Churches making the same claim about yours and all the others not them. And since that claim has been going on long before Smith, differing only the the details and justifications, it's a copycat claim. Now do you have more thread jacking to do, or can we finally get back to the actual thread topic?
I've done some thinking to wonder where the fraud could come from. And I think I've stumbles across something that might fit. There are transwomen out there who look quite good. Who present nothing of their previous CIS male lives. To the men who would hit upon a woman only to find out that they were previously male...squiffs them out. Is that the fraud? That some men see women as a "target rich environment" and finding a few "landmines" is what's causing the fuss? The cries of fraud? And don't flood me with examples of people in the early stages of their transitioning. I've seen them. I've also seen people in their transitioning from the beginning through the months and years. A TV show I watch (documentary) has a transwoman historical expert who, as the seasons progress, is getting more and more feminine. An artist I follow has shown her progression from the first to now and after a little over a year...looks amazing. And here's a real kicker. I'm a member of our local BDSM and lifestyle community. At an event I was talking to a woman. Was sitting across from her at a narrow table having a wonderful conversation. Later that evening I saw her in nothing but her panties. Nothing about her screamed "previously a bloke". I didn't learn she was trans until a week later. A cold-case murder show I watched just recently, had a man kill a transwoman he was dating because he found out she used to be a he and he couldn't stand the thought of it. Oh the angst! Oh the drama! Oh the huge manatees! And that's when it hit me. Is THAT the fraud?
Kindly REFRAIN from PROJECTING your own Science Denialism and your theist dogma onto others. Have a nice day!
IRONIC that you CANNOT appreciate that applies EQUALLY to YOUR own LEARNED theist "crap". EVERYONE is BORN as an ATHEIST! You had to LEARN about that theist "crap" that you are trying to IMPOSE on others.
