This is exactly how I see it and this is what the scriptures teach. I can tell that John is quite familiar and in perfect touch with the style of Bruce R McConkie's teachings and Mark E Peterson's too. All of the GA's teach this but deliver it in their own style. Some are gentle like President Monson and some pound the fist on the pulpit like Mark E Peterson did but the message of the apostasy and the restoration is clearly told.
Paul O On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 21:48:37 -0800 "John W. Redelfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't believe there is any inconsistency or contradiction in Church > > doctrine on the matter, but am becoming increasingly disturbed by > what I > see as a growing inconsistency in the minds of the saints over the > relative > merits of apostate religions and true Christianity as only practised > by the > saints. Of course there is some truth in other denominations. So > what? Nobody has ever said otherwise. But the whole idea of a > "true" > Church loses all meaning if we don't remember that for there to be a > true > Church there have to be false churches. False churches teach false > > doctrine. They do not lead their members towards Christ. On the > contrary, > most of them so confuse their members with false teachings that they > reject > our missionaries when otherwise they might have listened to them. > > If it isn't a true Church, it is a false church. I should think > that would > be obvious. The saints seem to be incapable of understanding the > difference between the false doctrine taught by other churches and > the good > people who are misled by those doctrines. We need to learn to > discern > between the various churches that people belong to and the people > themselves. > > But no, every time I point out something wrong about the teachings > of > another church, I get practically booed out of the house by > protestations > that other churches have some truth. Did I ever deny it? They just > don't > have priesthood. They don't have unpolluted doctrines. The do not > have > the power to save. And if a person remains committed to them, they > will be > damned for rejecting the servants of Christ and his gospel. A man > who > lives and dies a Buddhist has as much chance of obtaining eternal > life as a > Baptist who does the same. I say this keeping in mind that some > Buddhists > join the Church, and so do some Baptists. But they are the only > Buddhists > and Baptists we are going to be associating with in the Celestial > Kingdom > if we are fortunate enough to end up there ourselves. > > Broad is the path to destruction, but the narrow gate to the > Celestial > Kingdom is the baptism performed by the Church of Jesus Christ of > Latter-day Saints. And there is no other way to get in. No one > obtains > the Celestial Kingdom unless he becomes, dead or alive, a member of > the Church. > > There seem to be a lot of people who are losing sight of this > fundamental > teaching of the gospel. > > John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
