OK OK
What do you think?
If I accept DAVEH as a Christian do you think he would accept me as a Mormon?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/10/2005 11:51:25 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If all Mormons are Christians then all Christians are Mormons, right?
Are all Christians Baptists? Maybe not your best illustration.
Jd
Baptist don't accept me as a Baptist without a rite of membership. They don't accept you, either. But you, I and the Baptist are all Christians. Why isn't that so.
I do not glibbly accept Dave as a Christian -- it is based upon his answer to a question I asked about Christ. In word (script), he expressed my faith.
I accept Dave as a Christian based upon that agreement -- I also accept Presbyterians, Oneness Holiness types, disciples or followers of Benny HindEnd, RCC members (members - not the RCC) and the eviiiiiiiiiil Messianics (don't panic K-S-J I just like saying "eviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil") and I know so little about their faith ....... but I certianly know enouugh to conclude without reservation that the Messianic Triad and I are very much brethren. Why not Handsome Hanson? Look, my mother-in-law is a Mormon. She went back to Colorado last year, Xmas time, and attended one of those 20,000 member Pentecostal churches in Colorado Springs. She attended a hugh Christian celebration -- a presentation of the trial, death and resurrection of my Christ. At the end, she prayed with others THE prayer. She will never convert to denominationalism, remaining a Mormon during her life time. She loves Bill Graham and that prayer means a lot to her. She IS a child of God in my opinion and a Mormon. If the Jews of the First Church could be Jews AND Christian ----------- why not others? Why not me?
Something else. I think it much more condusive to influence and change if we discuss our differences as brethren -- family members rather than as enemies.
JD
