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@blatant_sock @ThoughtfulSaint @IgorIsBack @emuse1955 @CamBertuzzi @LukeFHan Careful - your confirmation bias is showing and she saw it!!

@readthebooks22 @TeancumRockwell @DisaffectedZ @IgorIsBack @CamBertuzzi @LukeFHan @emuse1955 Romans 8:16-17 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

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@Ab0utTreefiddy @beetle67a @TeeplesCY Trust me - In Matteo's case, it's lunacy.

@beetle67a @Ab0utTreefiddy @TeeplesCY So, you're standing-in for GOD now? Pound Sand.

Also: Contrast apostate Christianity as found in the Orthodox and Catholic Churches with The Church of Jesus Christ found in Acts and also our day: In the Orthodox and Catholic Churches “The Emperor‘s role in unfolding Trinitarian doctrine was not limited to logistical support. It was always an imperial decision whether and when to call an ecumenical council. No one else had the authority to do so, and this principle was never challenged. Obviously, when they thought such a meeting necessary or imminent, churchman would lobby vigorously at court; but without the imperial say so, ecumenical councils simply could not happen. Moreover, emperors usually also set at least part of the agenda for the discussion – which was only natural since there was often much at stake.” - Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300, 127 Contrast this with what we see in Acts 15 in the Jerusalem Council: no Roman influence whatsoever; merely 15 living apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ with the Lord‘s Prophet, Seer, and Revelator Peter both presiding and conducting the meeting and all the apostles deferring to his Apostolic authority. This is the same in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: the Lord‘s living Prophet Dallin H. Oaks presiding, and the other 14 living apostles deferring to his Apostolic authority as he receives revelation from God Himself.

"You aren't a Christian if you don't accept the Trinity." The history of that statement is quite shocking, and almost nobody who says it knows that acceptance of the doctrine of the Trinity was once enforced by exile, fire, and death. Here is what happened. For the first 300 years after Jesus, Christians did not agree on how He related to God the Father. They argued about it constantly. There was no official rule. That was just normal. Then a priest named Arius said the Son came from the Father and was beneath Him. Not equal. Not eternal. A lot of Christians agreed with him. A lot. This was not some fringe group. For stretches of the next century, his side was winning. Other Christians said the opposite. The Son was fully God, equal to the Father, no beginning. Two camps, same Bible, opposite conclusions. The fighting got bad. Riots. Mobs in the streets. Christians brawling over the nature of God. So the Roman emperor stepped in. Constantine. He had just won a civil war and he wanted his empire to stop fighting. He was not even baptized. He did not care about the theology. He cared about order. In the year 325 he called the bishops to a town called Nicaea. He paid for it. He ran the meeting himself. And they voted. They ruled that the Son was equal to the Father, fully God, one substance with Him. That ruling is the core of the Trinity. It got settled in that room, by that vote, on one word that is not even in the Bible. They wrote the ruling into an official statement of belief. A creed. Every bishop was expected to sign it. That is the part people think is the story. It isn't. The shocking part is how they made everyone accept it. Constantine made the bishops sign the creed. The few who refused, he banished. Then he ordered every book Arius ever wrote to be burned. Then he made a law. If you were caught hiding one of those books, you were put to death. Even after all of that, the Trinity did not win for good. A few years later Constantine changed his mind. He brought Arius back. And he exiled Athanasius, the bishop who had won the argument at Nicaea. That man got banished five separate times in his life for believing the thing the church now says you have to believe. For the next fifty years it flipped back and forth. One emperor said Trinity. The next said no. Whoever sat on the throne decided what was true. The official belief about God changed every time power changed hands. It finally got locked in by another emperor named Theodosius. He made the Trinity the law of the empire. Disagree, and you were a heretic. Not in some spiritual sense. By law. Backed by soldiers. A few years after that, the empire executed a bishop for his beliefs. The first time the state put a Christian to death over doctrine. It would not be the last. Then came the document that says it out loud. A creed written around the year 500. Almost five centuries after Jesus. They named it after Athanasius, that same bishop. He did not even write it. They put his name on it for the authority. It opens by declaring that anyone who does not hold the Trinity, whole and complete, will perish forever. Believe it or be damned. Put in writing, and made the test of who gets saved. So that is where the line comes from. Not from Jesus. Not from the apostles. From emperors and councils who needed a divided empire to fall in line. The Trinity did not become the rule because the argument was settled. It became the rule because the side that held it had the throne, the law, and the sword. The next time someone says you aren't a Christian unless you accept the Trinity, remember what it took to make that rule stick. Exile. Fire. And death.

@MattisRedacted No need to fear. Mormons despite being 13% of Christians commit 50% of the Christianity. Be proud 🫶

It’s extremely irresponsible for you to explain why Mark Twain hated the Mormons so much. It’s because Brigham Young roasted him so badly that he became his daddy.

Wesley Todd (Sensible Moderate) @Wesley_Todd_

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Mark Twain on the Book of Mormon: "The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so 'slow,' so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle—keeping awake while he did

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On May 15, 1829, John the Baptist appeared to Joseph Smith, Jr. and Oliver Cowdery and restored the Aaronic Priesthood. “Upon you my fellow servants, in the name of Messiah I confer the Priesthood of Aaron, which holds the keys of the ministering of angels, and of the gospel of repentance, and of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; and this shall never be taken again from the earth, until the sons of Levi do offer again an offering unto the Lord in righteousness.”

Reagan is probably a better choice. He had more Latter-day Saints on staff than any other president. He toured the Church welfare program and said the idea behind it “should be reborn nation-wide.” He gave the Tab Choir the nickname “America’s Choir.” And he said this:

martin 🍊 @dryhumper24

2 days ago

Donald Trump might be the most pro Latter-day Saint president ever

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I'm just going to leave this here.

@johnddavidson

@Arnold_Swisschz @GuyInco15542744 @27gunfighterz @FiredUpCoug

@Arnold_Swisschz @FiredUpCoug

@Arnold_Swisschz @27gunfighterz @FiredUpCoug As far as you are concerned, I insta-mute moron-n00b quickie burner accounts for 5 minutes, then block. Enjoy your intentional ignorance.

Every single Temple is open for public tours before it's dedicated. You get to see every room. Ask questions. Temples are Sacred, not secret. The Book of Abraham Papyri were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and only small fragments remain. For lots of info on Temples: churchofjesuschristtemples.org/about/#what Looks like your attempt at cheeky humor failed.

@DisputedCDV So? If there is a Father, there is a Mother. You're the one whose philosophy requires that to mean "creation" Mine doesn't. That's a "you"problem

@BohemianHacks That was simple truth.

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