LEGO Joseph Smith

I’ve grown tired of Bible bashing Joseph Smith was right: "In the midst of this war of words and tumult of opinions, I often said to myself: What is to be done? Who of all these parties are right; or, are they all wrong together? ..... the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible." No matter how good your Bible bashing is, it will not change the fact that our strongest questions of the soul find their best answers in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Eternal families - Baptism for the dead - Premortal life - Eternal progression - Living prophets - Personal revelation - The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ There is no other church that even comes close

When I finally finish dealing with the "Mormons aren't Christians" fiasco - and then both Robert Boylan and Luke Hanson drop debate videos...

@DerekLeach Who are you?

@Mormonger I feel like I’ve explained this to you a ton already. Are you just not listening?

Over 99% of Christians can't explain The Trinity without committing heresy - so why are Mormons going to Hell for not understanding it?

@Mormonger An assertion without foundation.

How is it that Mormons know The Bible better than everyone else when we have so much more scripture that we have to study compared to everyone else? Do Creedal Christians just not take The Bible seriously or what?

@ThoughtfulSaint @JoelWebbon

@JoelWebbon Embrace-autism.com

Mormonism is Islam for White people.

Cheers!

Dibs

I might as well just be Mormon at this point

@crbrendemuehl @EricRSammons "substance"😂

@Mormonger @EricRSammons Now that’s the substance that we all expected to see.

It’s amazing how much of Mormon apologetics consists in hiding their core beliefs from the public.

@rileyadamvoth This you? 😂

They'll claim some of the clearest teachings of holy Scripture is wrong, stupid and terrible, spit in the face of God, mock him and say "see Jo was clearly better" (which horny pedo Jo claimed as well) AND THEN STILL YELL, "But we're Christians too, just like you!" 🤦🤦🤦

@crbrendemuehl @EricRSammons

@Mormonger @EricRSammons People living on the sun. Fetish sacred underwear. Becoming genetically Jewish. There’s more.

@YeezyHowYouDoIt @JS_StrngstSldr If you can tell us what an explanation is, then demonstrate how you gave an adequate one, I would be amazed 😂

@Mormonger @JS_StrngstSldr I gave an explanation, but instead of reading and responding to it you called me autistic lmfao Aight bro

Guess what other myths got busted yesterday

@majoriansmusing To be clear, because Anne Frank was Jewish, and not saved under your Trinitarian beliefs, you believe she’s burning in a fiery lake of hell. Talking trash about us for trying to do her work posthumously to save her is not the huge win you think it is.

Can't help but notice that this tweet itself hides what you think those core beliefs are 😂 Say them outloud, and let's have a debate

"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.

“True or not, the Book of Mormon is a powerful epic written on a grand scale with a host of characters, a narrative of human struggle and conflict, of divine intervention, heroic good and atrocious evil, of prophecy, morality, and law. Its narrative structure is complex. The Book of Mormon should rank among the great achievements of American literature, but it has never been accorded the status it deserves, since Mormons deny Joseph Smith’s authorship, and non-Mormons, dismissing the work as a fraud, have been more likely to ridicule than read it.” — Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 314. [Pulitzer Prize for History, 2008]

So members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are: - Mountain Jews - White Islam - Temu Christians - Also not Christians - Atheists (somehow) - Pagans - A prudish/fertility cult - nonexistent We truly are the restoration of all things 🤣

@StyliteLight x.com/i/status/20646…

@Mormonger Who says that Mormons are going to hell besides you?