You reading a Wikipedia page is no substitute for actually asking Smaneck what she believes. Please don't reduce people to Wikipedia articles...
...especially when the Baha'i faith maintains its own official website.
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You reading a Wikipedia page is no substitute for actually asking Smaneck what she believes. Please don't reduce people to Wikipedia articles...
You reading a Wikipedia page is no substitute for actually asking Smaneck what she believes. Please don't reduce people to Wikipedia articles...
...especially when the Baha'i faith maintains its own official website.
If you want information on the Missouri Synod I wouldn't be opposed to you going to the wiki page.
I'd be opposed to looking at the wiki page to find out what GttH believes. That is, unless the page was written solely by GttH, and then I'd be okay reading it because it would be a primary source.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahá'í_FaithI know what's written here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahá'í_Faith
And that's more than enough for me to know its wrong.
It's simply a fact that the majority of New Testament scholars, both Christian and non-Christian, regard the Pastorals (sans Philemon) as later works, not written by St. Paul himself. That's not an attack, because regardless of whether they are authentically Pauline or not doesn't change the fact that they are Scripture and belong in the Canon--a place they have had for as long as the Church has been talking about a Canon.
You know, it's good form to actually say something instead of just posting links, pics, or videos in an OP.
Christian Apologist said:Heber C. Kimball stated: "The Holy Ghost is a man; he is one of the sons of our Father and our God" (Journal of Discourses, vol.5, p.179).
I had heard or read the name before, I am sure. But I went to look up his name. He rose high in the hierarchy of the Mormon Latter-Day Saints, I can still see how when he was young he was quickly deceived and led along by feelings, which may be why the warming in the bosom is an important part of their conversion experience. In his leadership he took a number of wives, with feelings as basis for its rightness, and he gave his fourteen year old daughter as one of the wives for Joseph Smith.
The Spirit of God is not a man, God was eternally the self-existent being without limit, and never had started out as a man. Mormon beliefs as this about the Holy Spirit being a man and a son of the Father have no basis in the Bible and sharply disagree with statements in the Bible. Yahweh is the one and only true God, the Father, Logos the Word with God who is God and in the incarnation became the Son of God, and the Spirit of God are all that same one God, a single being, together. They work in unity and are never in disagreement. The redemption through Christ that was a mystery until it came is the only effective thing for anyone's salvation, which they have if they respond with repentant faith that God enables for that salvation, coming through Christ being reconciled to God and living in a new way through that.
Christian Apologist said:
The Mormon Latter-Day Saints leaders went off in an extreme direction among the wider culture where they were with including polygamy, or more properly polygeny, though it seemed acceptable from some certain old testament Bible passages. But it must have had some influence on the wider culture for over a century, now secular society has more tolerance of a growing number of committed relationships in a living union of more than two persons.
Ironhold said:"I'd rather a polygamist that doesn't polyg than a monogamist who doesn't monog." -> US Senator Boise Penrose, in response to the Congressional hearings on whether or not the church was practicing polygamy past the 1890 prohibition.
As the Senator noted, many of the politicians who were leveling accusations against the church were known to be having extra-marital affairs, and thus their opposition to the church was the height of hypocrisy.
"I'd rather a polygamist that doesn't polyg than a monogamist who doesn't monog." -> US Senator Boise Penrose, in response to the Congressional hearings on whether or not the church was practicing polygamy past the 1890 prohibition.
As the Senator noted, many of the politicians who were leveling accusations against the church were known to be having extra-marital affairs, and thus their opposition to the church was the height of hypocrisy.
How does what you posted relate to what I posted?
As it is, the theology holds that they're one in unity, purpose, and divine nature rather than the literal unity mainstream Christianity holds.