12/15, Glenn wrote:
Gary, why don't you explain a little
history to DaveL. He doesn't even seem to know what Protestants
are.
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>DAVEH: [LDS]
have no aspirations to be thought of as
'Protestant'.
ftr, i'm somewhere betw asking a question and
making a statement; so:
(What if?) by definition, there are no followers
of JC who aren't Protestant/s relative to the historical influence of
Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, et. al.
i'm thinkin that since Mormons
are declaring that THE proper channal of hierarchical earthly
authority resides in Mormon institutions/ideology, their energy has to
be properly directed against the Christian Pope--not (or
why?) against Ev/Protestants
that's bec true Protestant followers of JC have
nothin to offer Mormons except, as DaveH says, above, that which LDS ain't
even interested in:-)
historically, followers of Christ simply
abandon/ed the Pope's 'authority' (whatever he arrogated to
himself) and they continue/d to resolve the earthly authority issue/s
without primary reference to ANY external, global religious
bureaus/bureaucracies--neither (to) the papal nor (now, to) the Mormon
'priesthoods';
that JC is the only high priest we
have, and that he resides forever mainly in the heavens, means that
religions with strictly earthly bureacratic priesthoods apart from Christ (who
doesn't need them:-) are (as Dr GT suggests) totally ignorant of the real
implications of both the NT and Evangelical/Protestant church history (which
i'll make an effort to point out in various future posts,
Glenn)
in essence, for now, although LDS/Mormons
(like many Catholics) talk the talk, by admission, above, LDS can not
and will not walk the walk (of following only JC of the heavens, of the
Scripture, who, alone on the throne that matters, is exalted by
God, whom, therefore, they, the
anti?-Protestants, deny)
in sum, then, the Mormon desire to be Christian,
not Evangelical/Protestant (apparently assuaged by DavidM acc to DaveH) would be
(perhaps, is,) irrelevant, misguided, naive, and ignorant of the meaning of
biblical/church history--but, as i said, i'm
still
thinkin' about
it:-)
