Posted by
Phil E. on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 5:27:06 PM
Here's a 30 minute video crash course on Mormonism for the Christian, pivoting off a TV interview with Mitt Romney. In the interview, Mitt Romney acts more like a Liberal Democrat, dodging the issues. When Judy Woodruff simply tries to contrast his beliefs to historical Christianity, Mitt Romney said, "the most unusual thing in my church is that we believe there was once a flood upon the earth...."
Oh, come on! The MOST unusual thing in the Mormon church is that they believe in Noah's flood? Like Evangelical Christians? What about the ark that Jared built? (NOT.) Where God didn't know that water would come in a hole in the bottom? (Book of Ether, 2:20 in the Book of Mormon) Isn't that kind of unusual? Especially after God successfully instructed Noah how to build an ark, sans hole in bottom.
What about God having a father, who had a father, who had a father...? And what about Jesus returning to the "new Jerusalem" in Independence Missouri? Better watch out, you who are Jewish. Maybe Mitt Romney, like Ahmadinejad, doesn't believe in the Holocaust either? He thinks he's Jewish. How will that affect his policy toward Israel? And what about their god coming down to earth and having sex ("siring") with Mary to beget their jesus?
Worse, he tells Judy Woodruff that she doesn't exactly have his doctrines right. More Liberal Democrat lies. She has his doctrine EXACTLY right, as stated in Mormon literature, quoted on the video.
Golly, if Mitt Romney can't be honest and forthright about his religion, why should you expect him to be honest about anything else? Wouldn't the true Christian be happy to let his light shine and let the world know the truth? Remember how the Apostle Paul - a REAL Apostle - took the opportunity at his criminal appeal before King Agrippa to preach the Gospel? (Acts 26) So why won't Mitt Romney, a former missionary, similarly use these opportunities to preach that polygamy is a requirement for godhood (Doctrine & Covenants 132), that Blacks can NEVER inherit the "priesthood," that Mary was impregnated by their god to sire Jesus?
Some of my Christian brothers in the video are naive concluding what a government with a Mormon President like Mitt Romney portends - although I wonder what two of them would say since their false arrest in Utah during a Mormon pageant (charges dismissed). Let's see if they can still witness with a Mormon controlled Department of Justice in power. Anybody remember Clinton and the abuse of FBI files?. Still, the body of the video is very informative and accurate.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-165097805928466048&hl=en
[Nor are some of my brothers very exacting in saying that Mormons share similar values as Christians. For example, while the Mormon church currently says it's against abortion, their reasons are FAR different from the Christian's. I'll cover that later, but it involves "spirit babies."]