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Defending the faith one Shizpost at a time.

@PeacemakingSt No more "uncontested slam dunks"

Peacemaking can mean scrolling past when an adversarial account is trying to rage bait Latter-day Saints.

@MormonSerf I'll see you in heck

Telestial tier

@MattTestifies Wouldn't want those pesky 18 year old sister missionaries convincing his paying customers... uh, congregation members

Spends years building a platform around attacking a faith he clearly doesn’t understand, and somehow we’re supposed to believe he’s the voice of discernment. Wild way to spend a ministry. You’ve made your master very proud, Korihor. I mean Todd.

@DanShaha @MormonSerf We can't let ourselves become white monsters

@Piecemaker2121 @MormonSerf The green sugar-free monster is objectively better than the white monster, and I’ll die on that hill.

@MormonSerf can I still be considered white and delightsome if I prefer the black and green Monster Zero Sugar instead? or is that heretical

@ChemBearEsq @Emchclark You must be fun at parties

@Emchclark @Piecemaker2121 I have no reason to trust someone's witness who has lied

Translation: "I don't like it when members of the church don't accept my framing and try to correct my clear misunderstandings of their beliefs"

@Sola_GPT Oh yeah? But their pastor and parents told them that Moses was a prophet so Moses is off the hook

If Creedal Christians applied the same prophetic standard to Moses they apply to Joseph Smith… They could rip him to shreds And they could do it based only on HIS OWN canonized writings 😀

@RandomLDS @LargeInStature_ isn't gonna like this

My wife has always thought Nephi was some hot guy. It broke my heart to tell her what “large in stature” actually meant.

The Real Problem With Mormonism

@Grownded @dmh1125 @antiantimormon Help I'm having the burning in my bosom what do I do

@dmh1125 @antiantimormon Help! My lack of faith is being challenged and it makes me feel funny in my tummy!

Congrats to @antiantimormon for getting a Reddit post dedicated to malding about him reddit.com/r/exmormon/com…

Mormonism has a different Jesus and preaches a different gospel. This is what the Bible says about Mormonism: “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.” -Galatians 1:8

There are patterns of apostasy all throughout the scriptures. It's just simple rejection of God's prophets usually. Jesus chastised the Pharisees for killing the prophets He sent them, for example. But in the case of the Great Apostasy, the facts are that the Christ was indeed calling more apostles after He ascended. Take Matthias and Paul for example. The apostles did their best to hold the churches together, and we see apostasy creeping in almost immediately in that first century as recorded in the new testament. That's why Paul wrote all of his letters, to correct false teachings that were entering into the church, in Corinth for example. Then all of the apostles were killed off and the Priesthood authority and keys they held were not passed down. There should have been more apostles, God never declared that there wouldn't be. Different groups tried to assert authority and supremacy, such as the Roman church, but they didn't claim to be apostles. They said that Peter gave them the apostolic authority, but the claims were not recorded and these bishops never claimed to be apostles. Nevertheless, groups splintered and further doctrinal drift started to occur as bishops usurped and claimed authority they weren't given, without the apostles to correct these drifting doctrines. Then as time passed, without apostles and prophets to guide the church through revelation, those who took over cited the "deposit of faith" where they put a stop on God and declared that public revelation had ceased. No more scripture, God doesn't talk anymore apparently, even though he did for the entire first century after Christ's death. By this point the apostasy was all but complete, and the authority to officiate ordinances carried on. Despite saying there was no more public revelation, they still were happy to make changes as they saw fit. The council of Nicaea specifically resulted in the understanding of the nature of the Godhead being altered fundamentally by vote, now dubbed the "Trinity" that was influenced by Greek philosophy. Cosubstantiality and a host of other attributes were errently given to God. To get to your post, you and I both know how the next 1000 years went. Heretics being burned at the stake, wars, dogmas, controlling of the scriptures, indulgences, etc. were all features. There wasn't really any religious freedom. Imagine if God called a true prophet in the middle east, they would've been killed there too. This isn't to say there weren't ever righteous people or true followers of Christ during this time, it's just the authority to administer the ordinances of the gospel were lost without the Apostles priesthood authority and keys. Sincerity is not a replacement for priesthood authority. Very importantly, the Bible had many plain and precious truths either lost or straight up removed. This is an actual prophecy Nephi recorded in the Book of Mormon. So if the Book of Mormon is true, that prophecy is also. Biblical inerrancy is not realistic. Protestants were instrumental in changing the religious freedom paradigm, but it wasn't until the United States was born that true religious freedom was available, and even then that came with challenges. God knew that if He called a prophet earlier, they'd likely be burned at the stake or beheaded. God will let men exercise their agency, he's not going to force anyone to believe. Prophets got killed all the time. Joseph Smith just happened to be the guy that fell upon because he was in the right place at the right time, and probably foreordained to do it. Christ restored the priesthood authority directly by sending Peter, James, John and many other prophets to come down as angels and actually restore the authority. Then all of the doctrines that were lost were restored. That's why we have additional doctrines, the proper priesthood authority, and all of that. It could've been anyone really, but it happened to be Joseph.

If living Apostles are necessary for the Church, why did the Church lack Apostles for 1,700 years straight? I’ve yet to hear a good answer solving this problem that doesn’t destroy God’s nature or character.

@stretchyWombat POV: Their idea of "saving" you

Time Creedal Christians spend trying to save people by category: Sex offenders: 0.001% Murderers: 0.001% Drug dealers: 0.001% Prostitutes: 0.001% "Mormons": 99.996% 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

We must just be a lazy cult then if all I have to do to leave it is just sleep in on Sundays

@TheGermanicist @assassinscreed Because of the great apostasy, people also forgot how to swim, that's why they switched baptism to sprinkling of course

@assassinscreed Remake AC 1 on a 1:1 scale and give Altair the ability to swim and use smoke bombs

Edward's story is dear to our hearts (don't spoil too much in the comments though!).

@EricCMeadows But it's more fun to learn the strawman arguments and then speak in absolutes as if you know everything

People have been saying our faith would be easy to take down since 1830. They’ve all been wrong.

@LukeFHan "Well of course we don't like them, Mormons are demonic!" (Their pastor told them)

Contra point 2, Latter-day Saints are quite... peculiar in how much they like other religious groups. It's better to get your info from the literature than from social media.

@PelopeAl41549 But weirdo cult conspiracies are more fun to fantasize about

These people have probably never talked to a Mormon in their lives. I remember the first time it hit me that most people view Mormons in a similar way to how I view the Amish. The vast majority of Mormons are almost disappointingly normal

@RBryan2 @Sola_GPT

@Piecemaker2121 @Sola_GPT "Oh, Mormons are nice people"... I do not believe this, biblically speaking, Mormons are wicked people, commandment breakers, who believe Joseph Smith more than God. James 2:10

If other Christians really believed we have a “different Jesus” they would have made this claim from the beginning It actually popped up in 1960s evangelical anti-Mormon campaigns Not bc it’s a strong argument but bc they kinda HAVE to say this Since we are all about Jesus!

@seanryanlayton With the Ark in Area 51. Did you not watch Indiana Jones???

Where's the stone tablets Moses? Huh?