Is God a Mormon?

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Re: Is God a Mormon?

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Nevermind.
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Re: Is God a Mormon?

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Quasimodo wrote:
LittleNipper wrote:
David was writing of the Great three in one ---- the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. God placed in David's heart what to write. David didn't make it up himself.


The doctrine of the trinity is a much later concept. It doesn't appear until the New Testament. David had never heard of the Trinity.

You try to present yourself as an expert in all things Christian, but you are just trying to bolster your own ego. You are making it up as you go along. The Trinity must be a little annoyed at your hubris.

There must be some board somewhere that would be more acceptable of your fuzzy religious thinking. Here, you are at the bottom tier.

I've always thought of the Trinity as a god designed by a committee, in the same way that a giraffe is a horse designed by a committee.


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Re: Is God a Mormon?

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Quasimodo wrote:
LittleNipper wrote:
David was writing of the Great three in one ---- the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. God placed in David's heart what to write. David didn't make it up himself.


The doctrine of the trinity is a much later concept. It doesn't appear until the New Testament. David had never heard of the Trinity.


Nipper, thanks for making my point.

Now what?
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Re: Is God a Mormon?

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What the prophets wrote, they didn't full comprehend.
The Trinity is fully revealed in Christ. The Old Testament is now more fully understood with the advent of the Messiah.
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Re: Is God a Mormon?

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LittleNipper wrote:What the prophets wrote, they didn't full comprehend.

But you do, right?

The Trinity is fully revealed in Christ. The Old Testament is now more fully understood with the advent of the Messiah.


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Re: Is God a Mormon?

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LittleNipper wrote:What the prophets wrote, they didn't full comprehend.
The Trinity is fully revealed in Christ. The Old Testament is now more fully understood with the advent of the Messiah.


How do you know this, LittleNipper? Maybe you know the thoughts of the prophets? I think you may be just guessing. I'm quite sure that you don't know if the prophets had a full understanding of their prophecies or not. It's foolish for you to attribute a lack of understanding on the part of the prophets to suit your own awkward beliefs.

If you were to start those kind of statements with "well, maybe" or "I think", they might not sound so ridiculous.

You should come to grips with the reality that you are not a prophet, nor do you have any knowledge that the rest of us do not.
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Re: Is God a Mormon?

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Quasimodo wrote:
LittleNipper wrote:What the prophets wrote, they didn't full comprehend.
The Trinity is fully revealed in Christ. The Old Testament is now more fully understood with the advent of the Messiah.


How do you know this, LittleNipper? Maybe you know the thoughts of the prophets? I think you may be just guessing. I'm quite sure that you don't know if the prophets had a full understanding of their prophecies or not. It's foolish for you to attribute a lack of understanding on the part of the prophets to suit your own awkward beliefs.

If you were to start those kind of statements with "well, maybe" or "I think", they might not sound so ridiculous.

You should come to grips with the reality that you are not a prophet, nor do you have any knowledge that the rest of us do not.

I accept God's word as inerrant. Do you?
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Re: Is God a Mormon?

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LittleNipper wrote:I accept God's word as inerrant.

Up to now You (and all of us)
- used to hear many god's words only verbally repeated by self-appointed prophets
- used to read many god's words only written by people we don't know, by people may have not existed, by fraudsters etc.

Did You hear words of any god? No.
As I didn't.
Here is only one such human being, who has met with something god-like thing, during f### his girlfriend.



LittleNipper wrote:Do you?
No.
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