[HA Bible Study is on hiatus through the November election as we honor Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney by studying the scriptures of his Mormon religion.]
Doctrine and Covenants 130:22
The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.
Discuss.
Puddy will always reserve comment until Steve the Mormon comments. Naturally the pig headed ones will make a snide comment about leftist Steve’s religion!
@1
Wow, new depths in sanctimony are being plumbed before our eyes…
That’s so straight!
A number of conservative Christian blogs and webs denounce the LDS faith and state that Mormons are not Christians. Since the nature of God and the concept of the Trinity are so central to Christianity how does LDS belief compare to Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant belief. I was raised a fundamentalist Catholic with 10 years of boarding school but for the life of me can’t remember much theology.
@4
Trinitarian orthodoxy was established by the Council of Nicaea in 325.
I know this is what the Catholics hew to, not sure if/which Protestant faiths embrace the same dogma. I would imaging that it’s shared, given that it was nailed-down so far back, so close to the establishment of Christianity, as an essential, foundational dogma.
I would also think that this is where the ‘Mormons as apostates’ could most definitively hang their complaints – non-acceptance of orthodox trinitarianism seems like a clear deal-breaker from the point of view of more traditional Christian belief systems.
The Catholic version goes…
This is bedrock ‘you gotta believe this if you want to be in our club’ stuff. If Joseph Smith led a movement that diverged from this, then it seems that there is logical reason to say that Mormons are not Christians.
That last statement, besides being of ecclesiastical importance, has massive and far-reaching implications with regard to American society and how it views ‘outsiders’.
I’m not sure if the QOTD captures the most divergent view that the Mormon’s hold, relative to more mainstream Christianity, of the nature of God – though God the Father as flesh-and-bones being is pretty different from mainline Christianity.
@5…thanks for clarity. I wondered about God, the Father, made flesh and bones, sounded outside traditional thought but I actively bailed from the RC church after boarding school for the customary reasons. I taught in Las Vegas for the past four years with lots of LDS and other religious kids. It always struck me that they and their parents practiced religion that was a mile wide and an inch deep when it came to core beliefs.
This one gets into some of the nitty-gritty of why a lot of Christians view Mormons as being cultists and not true Christians. In a nutshell, the LDS teaches that the Trinity is three distinct, separate Gods. The father in the “Father, Son and Holy Ghost” trio has a God-wife. Heck, any of you can become a God although, heh, the odds might be a little long for some of you. Anways, think LDS, Joe Smith and multiple Gods, plural versus singular, as most other Christian faiths, both Catholic and Protestant, believe there is but one God in this universe and the doctrine of the Trinity is that God exists at the same time in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I was just laughing yesterday at my own childhood “Huh? WTF?” view of the Holy Ghost. It really hasn’t changed much. WTF?
In this life on earth it really doesn’t seem to matter if one’s frame of orientation is a sky-god or if one follows the logic of theoretical physics to infinite universes and eleven dimensions, it’s what one does with one’s life is what’s important. We can pay lip service all we want to God, Plato or Einstein, but it’s how we act out our lives day by day that reveals each of our own’s true values and worth.
For my part, I don’t see this as being a world of makers and takers. I see it more as a world of those who give and those who don’t. Whether they be a Christian, atheist or whatever, I tend to like those who act out the values taught in Matthew 25, regardless of whether or not it is the words of Jesus which guide them.
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talk about raising kids with a armful of hate, Lib Sci is our guy!
Jeez. How do they keep it all straight? Three super gods, hundreds of lesser gods (angels) and thousands of micro gods (saints), each with its own turf.
talk about raising kids with a armful of hate, heh, the asshat troll is one to talk..
Been hating all his miserable life.
@7 Waiting for puddle’s take on this. Crickets chirping …
@8
I say plenty of things insulting to organized religion, particularly that of hypocrites telling people who they should hate.
HOWEVER, @5 was nothing but dispassionate discussion of Christian, particularly early Catholic, dogma, and how it might conflict with Mormonism.
What’s hateful about that? Or are you just talking out your ass again, Piltdown?
@7
Steve…
Three different g/Gods (plus a god-wife)? I could see how traditional Christians, for whom the unity of God in three aspects is a foundational, holy, essential mystery, could say, “No Way, that’s not consistent with the basic ground-rules of Christianity.”
Also – the Mormon dogma that any of us can become g/God – is that the same “Godishness” that GOD has? That is, are humans who become gods on the same level as God the creator? If so, I could see rejection of that by more traditional Christians as intellectually defensible – it is what it is, and no value judgement – but it’s not consistent or compatible on a very important, foundational point with traditional Christian dogma.
Heading out to doorbell – GO OBAMA! GO R74! GO FRAME! GO INSLEE!
Why old SENILE Wabbit… Puddy respects all Christian religions. You like most other HA haters despise religion.
Interesting qualification.
@15 “You like most other HA haters despise religion.”
ASS U ME
I respect all religions, but I don’t necessarily respect all churches or everyone acting in the name of religion. I judge people by how they behave, not what they claim to believe.
@15 and you despise living breathing people called gay. Puffy is a hypocrite and a fake and a phony.
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I’ve started reading a book that offers a new perspective on old history. Published in 2010, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Yale historian Timothy Snyder explores the ideological and other causes of Hitler’s and Stalin’s extermination policies that murdered 14 million noncombatants between 1933-1945 in the area between Berlin and Moscow, bordered on north and south by the Baltic and Black seas. A typical review:
“For over a decade in the middle of the twentieth century, the lands between Russian and Germany were the killing fields of Europe. Tens of millions of civilians from Poland to Ukraine, Lithuania to Belarus were starved, beaten, shot, and gassed to death by the authorities and armies of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. We think we know this story, and assign it shorthand labels: Auschwitz, the Gulag. In his path-breaking and often courageous study of Europe’s ‘bloodlands,’ Timothy Snyder shows how very much more complicated the story was. His account of the mehtods and motives of murderous regimes, both at home and in foreign war, will radically revise our appreciation of the implications of mass extermination in the recent past. Bloodlands — impeccably researched and appropriately sensitive to its volatile material — is the most important book to appear on this subject for decades and will surely become the reference in its field.” — Tony Judt, author of Postwar and Ill Fares the Land”
This subject matter, and books about it, remind us of why politics is important; and reaffirms the thesis that what doesn’t happen as a result of politics is as important, or more so, as what does happen.
Unpleasant as the subject is, as long as we still live in a world where gulags and mass murder continue to exist — and they do, even today — we need to comprehend why and how these things happen, in order to construct an understanding of how to end them and prevent them from happening in the future.
This book may contribute something to that understanding, and therefore is worth the time spent reading it.
Did gleeeeeeeeeeeeman say something while he was bent over dealing with ekim?
dunceman@16,
Sha’ria is calling you!
Joss Whedon, FTW.
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@22
Puddl the poolboy…you’re a bigot like most Christianists.
Sigggggghhh
Do mortals really need to make Me so complex?
Are you driven to create Me in the image of your own fantasies … your Ego, Superego, and Id? Am I one or three.
I AM WHAT AM.
Iowa embraces Mormonism with open arms:
All four major Iowa newspapers back Romney
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-25.....ck-romney/
Does this mean that Iowa won’t get
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is siding with the University of Iowa over its efforts to rebuild from the 2008 flood.
the money?
http://www.cbs2iowa.com/shared.....2206.shtml
@27 CNN has Obama ahead by 4 points in Ohio. Suck on it!
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@ 27
CNN has Obama ahead by 4 points in Ohio.
That CNN poll has Obama up among independents, 49/44.
How many other Ohio polls have Obama leading among independents, RR?
Not many – I can’t find the link but there were three polls out of around 15 in which Obama led among independents, and two of the three were CNN polls.
Last week when Obama led the Real Clear Politics average by 2.5 points, Romney led among independents by an average of 8.7 points. Romney has since increased that lead with independents to 12.3 points, which is why he’s been able to cut Obama’s overall lead even as the polls have leaned more Democratic.
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....osh-jordan
Don’t place too much emphasis on polls that have Obama up among independents in OH, RR.
http://horsesass.org/?p=47339#comment-1196095
@ 27
Here’s a link to Ohio independent results in recent polls.
CNN Poll Finds Obama Up 4 In Ohio… Smells Fishy…
Reason I say it’s fishy is because CNN is the only poll to find Obama leading among independents.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/1.....lls-fishy/
CNN
@26
All four papers had good things to say about Obama and endorsed Moderate Mitt The White Obama.
They didn’t endorse Righty Mitt and they cautioned against the crazy righty shit that his Veep is mostly known for. That’s not much of an endorsement and while they may have endorsed your guy, they’re not endorsing your world view.
And it looks like Obama’s going to win Iowa anyway.
http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....-1922.html
I’ve got a bunch of relatives in Iowa, they’re good working class catholics and they’re all shaking their heads at having to choose between a black guy named Barak and a mormon named Mitt.
@ 32
And it looks like Obama’s going to win Iowa anyway.
Why, that sounds like a fairly confident statement.
Not as confident as this:
“They have this fantasy that the debates will come and the dam will break like it did in 1980,” Axelrod said. “I think they are delusional.
http://www.nationaljournal.com.....e-20120822
but Axelrod has far more experience.
@ 32
The last three Iowa polls are a tie, one for Romney, one for Obama. All three were reported before the newspaper endorsements.
I don’t know how much sway the endorsements have but I do know they aren’t good news for Obama. That Obama was shamed into making his interview with the Register on the record also won’t play well. Iowans, in general, aren’t pussies. They don’t much like people who are.
So….a discussion of religion is hijacked by serial bob, the ranting radiologist from Island county….bleating about Iowa.
Well, here‘s HuffPo/Pollster.com’s compendium of Iowa polls, and here‘s TPM/PollTracker, and both look remarkably similar, and both have Obama clearly and stably ahead.
Peddle your FUD elsewhere, bob.
Hey bob, any comments, you know, on topic, regarding the passage du jour?
Well…now that this thread has been hijacked to discuss polls…
Here’s polltracker for Ohio…seems like the undecideds are gettin’ off the fence, and the latest three polls, and the composite, all have Obama above 50%.
Sucks to be bob…gawd I’m so glad we only have a few more days of his insufferable inanity.
@37
My understanding is that Mormon/bible study threads are open threads.
Yeah, but between Mitt and Obama, that’s pretty much a toss up.
I lived in Dubuque for a while, it’s a nice town.
I it looks like NC’s going to go for Mitt. But considering how those people behave, he can fucking have the place.
@21 you fake, phony, bigot and homophobe, come out of the closet.
@41
Puddl as self-loathing closeted gay guy?
Hmmmmm
Do you really want him on your team?
@42 not particularly, stay in the closet puffy.
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