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Date Posted: 20:44:58 03/14/11 Mon
Author: George
Subject: Re: New Item -- March 14, 2011
In reply to: Lois 's message, "Re: New Item -- March 14, 2011" on 11:16:39 03/14/11 Mon

>>Fundamentalist members of the Community of Christ sect
>>filed today to have the body of their founder, Joseph
>>Smith, Jr., exhumed for forensic tests. A spokesmen
>>for them announced, "We want to find out if there are
>>tire tracks over him, because we believe that the
>>hierarchy has thrown him under a bus."
>>
>>When the administrative officials of the church were
>>asked about this, the church secretary stated, "We
>>know for a fact that Joseph Smith, Jr. was not hit by
>>a bus at any time during his lifetime, or any time
>>since. The current scriptures of the CofC, Selection
>>170, says that God will protect the prophet from being
>>hit by a bus, so it is an article of faith for the
>>CofC that there are no tire tracks on Mr. Smith's
>>body."
>>
>>When asked what Selection 170 was, the secretary
>>replied that it was a revelation from God, written by
>>a blind bus driver. The secretary added, "I know that
>>it's a bit of digression, but I think it is
>>spiritually uplifting to know that, by the power of
>>God, even a blind man can drive a bus."
>>
>>George
>
>George,
>
>That is hilarious!! Following is the storyline put out
>by the c-not-of-c and the National Council of Churches.
>------
>
> >href="http://www.ncccusa.org/witnesses2010/ga-merc-repo
>rt-community-of-christ.pdf">http://www.ncccusa.org/witn
>esses2010/ga-merc-report-community-of-christ.pdf
>
>page 3
>
>"The Membership and Ecclesial Relations Committee
>(MERC) of the General Assembly of the National Council
>of the Churches of Christ in the USA and Church World
>Service recommends to the 2010 General Assembly that
>the membership application of the Community of Christ
>(COC) be approved. This recommendation is
>based on a careful review of written materials
>provided by the COC,"
>
>�It is always important at the onset of any discussion
>of the spiritual roots of Community of Christ to note
>that its founder is not [Joseph Smith] of the Church
>of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
>Saints (LDS), but his son, Joseph Smith III,�
>-------
>
>Hey people, just realize that Grant McMurray and Steve
>Veazey were never prophets and never will be.
>
>Lois
>
>Community of Christ 2002 World
>Conference Bulletin pp. 75-78
>
>H-8 Interfaith Relations Committee Report
>
>(H-8) "The most troublesome text for the Christian
>community regarding other religious traditions is to
>be found in Acts 4:12. This text makes exclusive
>claims to salvation through Jesus Christ and him
>alone. This text has tended to foster prejudice
>toward not only Jews but all other religious claims as
>well because of its exclusivity. This text is best
>understood within the context of the sermon preached
>by Peter in the company of John and others. It
>should not be universalized and become a framework for
>either missional or theological purposes."

So all those years that the RLDS told people that they were the real LDS church founded in 1830, they were lying?

How much longer will it be before the CofC suddenly starts telling people that Jesus wasn't "the Way, the Truth, and the Life," but that he was just lying, too? And all that stuff about this being "Jesus' church" instead of Joseph Smith, Jr.'s or Joseph Smith, III's is a lot of hooey, too, if we are to take this statement at face value.

I cannot believe the depths of depravity to which the CofC leadership is willing to sink to get what it wants.

Like the Victorian rake who wants to marry an heiress -- tell her whatever you have to tell her to get her to the altar, but get her there. Afterwards, it doesn't matter what she thinks.

George

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