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But why the name "Mormon" for this religion? It is a letter away from being called "Moron" and I think it may be one reason why people may perceive the religious movement with some reserve perhaps?
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
These verses epitomize Joseph smith and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. But what would you expect in this world of the Lord's true prophets and Church.
But why the name "Mormon" for this religion? It is a letter away from being called "Moron" and I think it may be one reason why people may perceive the religious movement with some reserve perhaps?
But why the name "Mormon" for this religion? It is a letter away from being called "Moron" and I think it may be one reason why people may perceive the religious movement with some reserve perhaps?
In the New Testament it was the scripture quoting religious leaders of the popular, mainstream sects that reviled, persecuted, attributed falsely all manner of evil against Jesus when He walked the earth. According to them He was a false prophet, He was misinterpreting scripture, He was teaching a corruption of the religion of their father Abraham. All He did was follow the will of God and went about doing good. Yet they constantly put all kind of misinformation about Him to turn the people from Him, constantly tried to lay legal traps for him, and have him arrested on trump charges. Why did Peter and the apostles know He was really the Messiah? God revealed it to them. The rock is revelation. Prayer and receiving personal revelation is the key. False teachers will tell you that you do not need to pray and seek revelation in regards to whether a prophet or particular church is true. Test your own minister out and mention The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
When they finally killed Jesus, many of the religious people in the population rejoiced thinking they did God a favor.
The Bible teaches that Satan is the prince of this world. He controls the hearts and mind of many. He has an unquenching hatred for Christ, His authorized servants, and His authorized Church. He wants everyone to be as miserable as him. It is a threat to his kingdom. Those he controls the most, have his hate towards Christ, His authorized servants, and His authorized Church. That is why the NT church and her prophets were persecuted and killed,
and why when it was restored by the prophet Joseph Smith, even in the one nation set up to protect religious freedom, it had to flee into the wilderness to escape total destruction.
It is pretty strange really how many acted towards Joseph Smith and the LDS. I mean I think Scientology is stupid, and many evangelical televangelists make me want to puke, but it would never cross my mind to try and kill any of them,
to tar and feather them, to constantly try and trump of false legal charges against them, to constantly misrepresent them to create anger towards them, rape their wives and daughters and then kill them, and try and erase them from the face of the earth. I don't know, just would never cross my mind. I can't imagine a state government in the U.S. creating an extermination order on an innocent people and them having to flee from the then borders of the U.S. in the middle of winter. But it happened.
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But why the name "Mormon" for this religion? It is a letter away from being called "Moron" and I think it may be one reason why people may perceive the religious movement with some reserve perhaps?
I had a friend at the factory where I used to work, named “Muddsar”. He went by “Mud”. Fortunately, he had a good sense of humor with regard to “Your name is ‘mud’” jokes.
Mud apparently grew up in the U.S. (he didn't have any noticeable accent that I could discern, and spoke English as one who grew up here) but he is of Pakistani ancestry. In whatever languages are common in Pakistan, “mud” doesn't mean the same thing it means in English, and “Muddsar” was a common name, with “Mud” a perfectly normal shortened form of it.
“Mormon” isn't really part of any official name of this church; it's an informal nickname. Originally, a slur, used against us by our enemies, but it rather stuck. It's very similar to the term “Yankee” to refer to Americans. It comes from the Book of Mormon, which, in turn, is named after the prophet Mormon who lived around 400 A.D., and who compiled and edited the records kept over the past thousand years by his people into the collection of metal plates which his son, Moroni buried, to be brought forth many centuries later by Joseph Smith. Of course, Mormon's parents, in so naming him, would never have thought of the possibility that in another language that would be common in the time their record was brought forth, their son's name would be noted to be similar to a common insult.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
These verses epitomize Joseph smith and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. But what would you expect in this world of the Lord's true prophets and Church.
With all due respect, can someone tell me what the underwear is all about?
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