DaveH--since you (LDS) wanna be recognized as
Christians, 1) go to Rome to negotiate it with the pope; and, 2)
tell the pope how you plan to reconcile the leadership of the LDS bureacracy to
the leadership of Roman bureacracy without starting WW3 (it may not be that
hard to join priesthoods--Mormon priests have the perfect solution to Cath
love-sick celibacy--no? :-)
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 22:55:14 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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.---->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/Protestantsthat'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:-)
