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Rats - I missed it! I'd love to have seen that one. What did y'all think of it? Was there "inside" experience related by FLDS people? Did any of them mention how they compare Jeffs with Smith? Did any of them say what they think of Jeffs now?

Several LDS posters have commented in this very thread, as well as others, since that admin change was implemented a few days ago. It was my understanding that it applied to the Unorthodox Christianity part of the forum, but that it's okay for them to post here. Someone please correct me if I'm...

Mormonism teaches that each person must earn his/her own salvation, made possible only through the atonement and sacrifice of the Savior - and, of course, the devout obedience to all the commandments and the performance of all the salvific temple ordinances, even if by proxy. In the case of...

It's the past that presents the theological problem: in order for Christ to have progressed to His godhood, as Mormonism teaches, would that not mean that you believe that at one time in His existence He must not have yet been divine - and therefore changed? And where did anyone here say or...

I may be an ex-Mo and therefore "accepted" under the new CF rules, but I have to say that I will miss my LDS friends here. Are you thinking I'm crazy for calling you my friends, when we've butted theological heads here so many times? I don't look at it that way at all. That I no longer believe...

Joseph Smith's extra-marital "marriages" have always been known about in the church, and in fact until last year you could find a public record of the sealings online. When I went to retrieve it, however, I discovered that it had been taken down, and then not long after that the church published...

It has recently finally come out to admit that he practiced polygamy, which flabbergasted a lot of people, including a lot of TBMs who are now taking a long, hard look at their testimonies if they haven't in fact already resigned. But since parts of the JST are a part of canonized LDS scripture...

Wow - what a cool site - thank you!

Dr. Steve, would you give us the literal translation of the Greek, please? How I wish I'd known Greek when the missionaries gave me those lessons back in the sixties!

I understood that that was your inference; my most recent post was to correct your inference and to explain my meaning, instead, which corresponds with definition No. 4, also from dictionary.com, to wit: belonging characteristically (usually followed by to):

And what would that "view that all of the other churches have of themselves" be, and how on earth can you make such a sweeping generalization when there are so many of them?

Since no part of that particular comment mentioned how or when any person would enter into godhood - only that in Mormonism no unmarried person could do so - I would be very grateful if you could point to the exact comment or part where the speculation took place, and thank you.

My dear Sir, that phrase, "basic Bible stuff," was a direct quote from your own post. And since you believed it basic and it was in the Bible, why would it be anything other than easy for you to substantiate, and why would you take issue/offense at my comment to that effect? It was not at all...

This is baffling. To point out that your idea seemed to differ from that of your church authorities was somehow rude, or to ask for an explanation for that was rude, or to ask again when the original request was ignored was rude...which? I have made a deliberate effort not to employ rude...

D&C 76:95. "And he makes them equal in power, and in might, and in dominion. "Equal" is not exactly the same thing as "like." And you did not answer my question about agreeing/disagreeing with your general authorities. Would you be so kind?