Kintsugijin

@farmingandJesus You're on a farm, why wouldn't people come to your door. You have fresh food and animals.

Why do you come to my door then? I tell them I am a believer in Jesus and they still try convert me. Why if we’re both Christians? You are the door knockers who can’t answer theological questions honestly. I don’t try to convert my parents to Baptist because they are Presbyterian. We’re under the same savior, the same umbrella. We’re Christians. You try to convert actual Christians to Mormonism , which isn’t Christian.

@MatthewBockholt Hope for what? And hoping suggests there's a desire for something lacking, doesn't it?

@Kintsugijin Hope.

What is the very first step in faith?

@busy_bee_me I agree, the first step into faith is desire. Then, desire for what?

@Kintsugijin I still think desire is the first step. It is something we do, not something we realize exists.

@stretchyWombat Amen brother

I have an idea: I will stay a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints And you can stay a member of some sect of Creedal Christianity And we'll let Christ decide who was more aligned with eternal truth. No need to debate anymore. How does that sound?

@vegashotflash @CossinMasked Yes, and they're in the Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Atheist churches.

@Kintsugijin @CossinMasked 1978 was not that long ago. Those who were raised racist are still alive and in church leadership.

I hate my timeline right now. Mormons are Christian. Christianity means discipleship of Jesus Christ. If your definition excludes people who worship Christ, covenant with Christ, preach Christ, and try to follow Christ, then your definition is broken. At that point, you’re not defending Christianity. You’re guarding a social club label. The question isn’t whether LDS are Christian. The question is why some people are so desperate to make Christ smaller than their own gatekeeping. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures

@busy_bee_me Interesting. So would the first step be awareness of that missing part? That missing God shaped hole? Might explain why so many just fill it with trash or replace it with themselves, over understanding the divine nature of its shape.

@Kintsugijin I don’t think so. I think we can know something is missing without knowing what it is.

@SocialNomadRach That's fair, heretic. 😏

Heretics are Christians in error. You simply aren't Christian.

@busy_bee_me Wouldn't we have to be aware of something to desire it, and that in itself suggests a level of knowing in order to desire it, wouldn't it?

@Kintsugijin A desire to believe. Mustard seed discourse.

@Thatbrian We still have cookies, welcome to partake.

The "Mormons are so nice" myth got busted yesterday.

@busy_bee_me Desire to what? Curious to flesh this one out...good answer though!

@Kintsugijin Is it not a desire?

@AndrewLongSh0t Not even. Explain in detail, what is the first step coming unto Christ in faith?

@Kintsugijin Sorry that you seem incapable of dealing with reality. I’m sure your ego is hurt that you got taken by a cult but it’s not too late to repent and escape Mormonism.

@catholic_comedy That's fair.

I like Mormons. I think they're genuinely nice people. I just think they're dead wrong about theology. Still, salt of the Earth folk. Best heretics I know. Not historically, but as far as I've interacted with them... just don't go to Utah.

@plasmarob I need to find peacemaking again.

@Kintsugijin I need a short mental tagline for me/us. Let me know if I need improvement. maybe we just reply "be a peacemaker" to each other. it's reductive but it's the reminder i need. i have been struggling inside and maybe a no elaboration grugbrain paste is enough of a jolt.

Mormonism was based on the belief that the Apostles’ Creed is an abomination to God. Joseph Smith said this is what God told him. Yet they want to be called “Christian.” Come out of Mormonism and come to Jesus.

@Brosephos @Atlas1053267 Oh burrrrn! Just like the current Catholic Church? Cope Pope Perv.

@Kintsugijin @Atlas1053267 Oh, like getting with 14yo girls like J Smitty did? 🤭

Mormons love to talk about young girls marrying older men which makes sense given their founder did just that

@Brosephos @Atlas1053267 Yes. You'r a dying breed.

@Kintsugijin @Atlas1053267 You suck even worse at trolling. Mormons, are you good at anything?

@plasmarob You're not wrong there. I've been in a mood probably. Need to realign likely. Thanks for calling it out.

@Kintsugijin It's all hurting me spiritually. I want off the ship. We're not making a difference. They've chained themselves to others. I will reserve my focus on people I follow or are mutuals. I will start from love first and last.

@JoelWebbon Didn't you say that slavery was beneficial for black people? And consider separation of races is good in today's society? Grow tf up dude.

Despite being polytheistic fertility-cultists whose galactic headquarters is near Planet Kolob and their messianic Promised Land just an hour north of Kansas City, Mormons get the good press of being a notoriously polite, kind, and neighborly people with a low-crime, mutually respectful community with deep American values. That could be the fruit of their religion. Or… It could be the natural result of what happens in a homogenous, high-trust community which banned black people from full admission until the Carter Administration. But we’re not allowed to talk about that.

@Brosephos @Atlas1053267 🇺🇸

@Kintsugijin @Atlas1053267 You're so American it hurts