RE: Christians, what is it like to have a personal relationship with Jesus?
July 15, 2016 at 9:19 am
(July 14, 2016 at 1:46 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:(July 14, 2016 at 1:15 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote: . . . I would point to the dozens of messianic prophecies in the OT that were all fulfilled by Christ. It's really quite telling when all taken together.
Well . . . . . . .
You can thank (or curse) the Mormons (yes, the Mormons again) for showing how that little bit of religious chicanery is accomplished:
* say they did when some/most/all didn't
* rewrite the prophecies, a little or a lot, and repeat as necessary
* rewrite the records of the supposed 'fulfillments' to make them closer
* make up more 'fulfillments' if the existing provenance seems inadequate
* rely on the pew warmers to not look at any of the pesky details too closely
* lock away in old musty filing cabinets anything that might upset the apple cart
* claim inconsistencies or problems are due to imperfections in translations that are unavoidable
* divert, deflect, obfuscate
* excommunicate any of the pew warmers that seems to be catching on to the chicanery
So, that's how that bit of sausage is made. I suppose for the rest of the religious folks it's a real kick in the shins the fucking Mormons published the play book, but here we are, and as even the highest muckety mucks in Salt Lake City have come to realize, it's DAMN hard to get that kind of shit back in the can.
I'm thinking the True Christians of the 1820s on might have tried a bit harder to exterminate the Mormon menace had they but realized the peril LDS would put all their religions in.
Well, you still have the whole book of revelation to look forward to.
