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Date Posted: 08:33:03 09/18/11 Sun
Author: john
Subject: Re: The Priesthood Scam
In reply to: George 's message, "Re: The Priesthood Scam" on 12:02:26 09/17/11 Sat

in your "oh so typical" way George, you have skirted the question and not answered... and once again you have blamed the communists, atheists, skeptics, etc (i am surprised that illegal aliens weren't also mentioned) while dancing around the question...

care to take another stab at it?

john



>>so again, george and lois, how have things changed
>>from the beginning of the church or from your view of
>>the "time that the church was perfect"?
>>
>>simply stated, it hasn't changed at all...
>>
>>john
>>
>
>Ah, but John, it has changed. You are just looking at
>the postcard edgewise, and not head on.
>.
>The church has never been perfect since the beginning.
>However, under the tutelage of postChristian skeptics,
>atheists, communists, and the rest of a motley crew,
>the leadership has become convinced that Jesus'
>admonition "Be ye perfect, as your Father in heaven is
>perfect," is ridiculous nonsense. From there they have
>gone on to compromise with Evil.
>
>In a nutshell, the church has always been imperfect,
>it has always had the same Lord, and it has always had
>the same Enemy. Throughout history it has occasionally
>been suckered into making goo-goo eyes at the enemy,
>but now it has simply surrendered to that Enemy. The
>move toward same-sex marriage can be described in
>Blake's terms: "the marriage of heaven and hell."
>
>Like Paris, "the City of Lights," the Community of
>Christ has negligently allowed itself to be
>overwhelmed, and now finds it prudent to compromise
>with the world, rather than transform it. Instead of a
>hospital for sinners, (like the orthodox churches,) a
>debating society (like the post-Christian churches,)
>or a country club for the saints, (like the LDS
>Church,) it has instead become a country club for
>sinners. That's why liars, frauds, thieves,
>adulterers, homosexuals, and blasphemers are running
>the place, rather than being ministered to by it.
>
>Enjoy Vichy Christianity, John. Maybe you'll be
>gracious enough to hide a few Christians in your
>attic, out of sympathy for their outmoded religion. It
>would be prudent, though to remember the ocnsequences
>for those who enjoyed Vichy France.
>
>George
>
>"Be ye not conformed to the world, but be ye
>transformers of the world.'

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