(July 31, 2013 at 6:17 pm)PeterPriesthood Wrote: Now's your chance to ask a real live Mormon anything you want.

What if I don't want to go to Heaven or Hell? Hmmm?

(July 31, 2013 at 6:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Trouble is, Christian views of heaven tend to be almost incredibly drab and awful, tedious to the point of mind-numbing dullness (funny, though, how they come up with the most detailed and exquisite depictions of hell).

I've noticed the same, though I can't blame them for not knowing; after all, they don't have a living prophet to tell them the words of God. We now know much about how Heaven will look, where it will be, who will be there, and what kinds of things we can expect to happen once we attain exaltation on high.

(July 31, 2013 at 6:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I like the Mormon faith - it's one of those religions we can be SURE is a deliberate fraud, as opposed to simple wrong-headedness.

Then perhaps I'm one of your wrong-headed Christians all over, because I believe God has revealed to me through study and prayer that the things I believe are true. I feel like anything contrary to my faith is either false for the sake of misleading us, or its explanation will be revealed at a later date. God's ways are not our own, so we can't expect everything all at once. I believe that we receive knowledge line upon line, precept upon precept.

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(July 31, 2013 at 6:49 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:

(July 31, 2013 at 6:17 pm)PeterPriesthood Wrote: Now's your chance to ask a real live Mormon anything you want.

What if I don't want to go to Heaven or Hell? Hmmm?

It's a good thing God always knows what's best for us. I know you don't think so now, but you might sing a different tune once you know what's in store for you. The only hell we believe in is the one of our own making. Hell can either take place while you are alive, or once you are dead in spirit form. There is no hell when you are resurrected.

Hey Peter. Thanks for your answer. Right now it is a tiny bit confusing to me as I still have no idea what you actually believe in.

I will spend a bit of time researching it tomorrow and come back with more questions (if that is allowed), I enoy finding out what makes people tick.

For now, good night

Do you dance?



Because we can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine

(July 31, 2013 at 6:49 pm)PeterPriesthood Wrote:

(July 31, 2013 at 6:49 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: What if I don't want to go to Heaven or Hell? Hmmm?

It's a good thing God always knows what's best for us. I know you don't think so now, but you might sing a different tune once you know what's in store for you. The only hell we believe in is the one of our own making. Hell can either take place while you are alive, or once you are dead in spirit form. There is no hell when you are resurrected.

Nice non-answer. What if I don't want to go to heaven, be resurrected, or live forever?

[/quote]I've noticed the same, though I can't blame them for not knowing; after all, they don't have a living prophet to tell them the words of God.

Quote:I always find amusing the Mormom practice of distancing themselves from Christians. You're a Christian, mate. Deal with it.

Has it occured to you that ALL religions have claimed that their prophets told them 'the words of God'? You lot simply suffer from the same delusion.

We now know much about how Heaven will look, where it will be, who will be there, and what kinds of things we can expect to happen once we attain exaltation on high.

Quote:lol, you don't know any of that. You merely believe it, which is not the same thing at all.

Then perhaps I'm one of your wrong-headed Christians all over,

Quote:Partly you are, yes. But primarily, you're simply one of the duped Mormon masses taken in by the fraudulent, semi-literate criminal, Joseph Smith.

because I believe God has revealed to me through study and prayer that the things I believe are true.

Quote:I find myself unsurprised. Anyone who can believe Joseph Smith was a prophet instead of a confindence trickster must be prepared to believe anything.

I feel like anything contrary to my faith is either false for the sake of misleading us, or its explanation will be revealed at a later date.

Quote:Nice way to hedge that bet.

God's ways are not our own, so we can't expect everything all at once. I believe that we receive knowledge line upon line, precept upon precept.

Quote:Given that all religions - every single one - are man-made, you're dead wrong. God's ways ARE our ways, you just have your word order muddled up.

Boru

If we all go to heaven, then why did god bother to write so many versions of holy books to "guide" people? To what end, if we all go to heaven? Why don't you join us godless people and have all the fun you want in this lifetime, and go to heaven in the next, just like us?

Do you even lift?

(July 31, 2013 at 6:49 pm)PeterPriesthood Wrote: I know you don't think so now, but you might sing a different tune once you know what's in store for you.

Intereseting variation of xtian cliché #40.

Hey priest!
How do you react to the claims that Joseph Smith was a known conman?
Also how do you account for his translation of the Book of Mormon from the tablets? He translated it in the 19th century but used 17th century English?
Do you honestly believe the whole story that he was visited by an angel who was a white Native American, then he found the tablets in a hill, then he translated them by looking into a hat, then he lost the translations and had to do it again but held a blanket inbetween him and the scribe. Doesn't that seem a little farfetched?