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Date Posted: 19:57:28 03/07/11 Mon
Author: George
Subject: Re: Comment on Delusional Relgious Teachings --Name Some
In reply to: Mamusz 's message, "Re: Comment on Delusional Relgious Teachings --Name Some" on 11:40:57 03/07/11 Mon

>
>>Lois, I'm referring to the situation of the person who
>>subconsciously knows that something is true, but
>>denies it during his waking hours in order to
>>rationalize his behavior. You recall the scripture "A
>>double-minded man is unstable in all his ways." There
>>are plenty of people who think that they are perfectly
>>respectable and mentally healthy, but the split
>>between what they know deep down inside to be true,
>>and the ersatz truth they use during waking hours to
>>rationalize their behavior makes them psychiatric
>>cases.
>>
>>For instance, anyone (particularly in the priesthood,)
>>knows that if the Book of Mormon is not historically
>>true, that Joseph Smith, Jr. was a liar. Orson Pratt
>>himself pretty much said that if the BoM is true, no
>>one can dismiss it and be saved. If it is not true, it
>>is one of the most evil things ever concocted, and no
>>one can be saved and subscribe to it. Members of all
>>Restoration churches know this unconsciously, but the
>>ones who want to become liberal and enlightened
>>without giving up their family's faith have to find a
>>way to endure this split between real deep-down
>>knowledge and conscious rationalization.
>>
>>From time to time I have had to make metal castings in
>>the laboratory. When the casting is warped or has
>>internal tension, it is very stressed and likely to
>>break under pressure. People who try to live their
>>lives with this split between what they know is the
>>truth, and what they pretend is true, have that
>>internal stress that causes all kinds of insane
>>behavior. I think this difficult is the root cause of
>>all the division inside the RLDS Church. Those who
>>have internally converted to a belief that the BoM and
>>the Restored Church is inherently false try to keep
>>practicing the faith, and their efforts become so
>>warped that all this craziness that we see going on
>>nowadays results.
>>
>>George
>
>That
>is exactly what the COC is doing. That kind of
>reasoning drives ya nuts. No wonder the Lord said:
>
>"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot;
>I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou
>are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew
>thee out of my mouth."
>
>Mamusz
>
>


Well, prepare yourself for a propaganda onslaught. All those avowed homosexual priests that the hierarchy claims it hasn't ordained over the last twenty years have been appointed to the highest ranks, and they are determined to legitimatize homosexual practices in the church, or kill the church.

It's a tacit statement of what was anonymously posted outright on signs in Oregon, when same-sex marriage came up in an election. Homophiliacs put up signs with the Icthus symbol over the caption, "Vote yes, or we kill the fish."

This weekend I read the scriptures some. I know that those who sin without repentance become captives of sin. But in proverbs it says,

Proverbs 30:21 Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up: 22 a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when glutted with food; 23 an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.

The hierarchy has ordained these persons against the rules and by laws of the church, appointed them to high positions, and now is using them to overthrow any sense of Christian order therein.

What would you think if the church leaders had gone out and recruited practicing adulterers, ordained them to the priesthood, gave them high appointments in the hierarchy, and then started a campaign to legitimatize adultery?

Ecclesiastical piracy.

George

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