RE: [TruthTalk] Role of Law - of God or otherwise

[Slade Henson]

If I read you correctly, you're asking "Does God allow people to worship him differently than the Jewish?" And the answer ifs Yes. One of my professors sees the Jerusalem Council in Acts as permission to denominationalize.

 

There are other factors involved. Can one still be a believer and believe the Book of Mormon? I have read portions of the book of Mormon and from my Judaic background, it cannot be true. Does that mean why one who believes in the book is not saved? I dismiss the question. Otherwise, people who believe in UFOs, Evolution, or any other false thing cannot be saved either.

 

The problem arises in this way: As it is written, "How you mete out judgment is how you will be judged." The Mormon boys who came to visit my house on a Shabbat morning were greeted by a house full of Jewish men who were preparing for a study. During the course of our conversation, it became apparent that the Mormon Doctrine states that unless one takes on the yoke of the Book of Mormon and believes it to be the Third Testament, one cannot be saved. They [the Mormon boys] just put themselves into a precarious situation, because they will be judged by God in the way they meted judgment out to these particular Jewish men; [i.e., if they're wrong, they might not be saved]. As additional support, refer to the parable of the man who owe his King the equivalent to the National Debt, yet forced a companion into debtor's prison for a C-note.

 

I will say this, however. I appreciate the love Dave H has. His love far exceeds ANY one else. If there is one thing you can learn from this man, it is love. I have no desire whatsoever to join the Mormon Church and I know Dave H has no desire to become Messianic. Since we two are dogmatic, there are, then, other avenues to explore and discuss together.

 

-- slade

 

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Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Role of Law - of God or otherwise

Serious question, here.  if God does not allow for their faith _expression_ to some degree,  what is the point of the change of heart?   By "allow" I am not saying "agree" or "support" or "view their religion as viable alternative."   I guess what I am getting at is this  --  a parallel of sorts between this acnient situation and the RCC, 7thDay Adventist, Mormons, JW, Ken my man Copeland --  these groups and the people within those groups who are doing the best that they can do.  

JD
If I am on the right track, here,  then this argument we have been having about Dave Hanson has biblical example in the way God responded to those nations who were not Jewish.  




In a message dated 1/12/2005 8:42:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Somehow their tendency to flay the skin off prisoners is not a rite that God would smile upon.
 
I think it shows the Grace of G-d... even the heathen is given an opportunity to change their heart.
-- slade

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Sent: Wednesday, 12 January, 2005 16.55
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Role of Law - of God or otherwise

Re:    Ninevites nation and the rule of God in their culture.

Observation:   Apparently there was something existent in their going ons, at the time of Joanh, that established some degree of connectivity between these pagans and the God of the Jews (who would also be the God of us all, of course)  .  

Clarification:  The Ninevites were not obedient to the Torah.  

Question:  Does the sending of Jonah mean that God allowed for their religious _expression_, such as it is, and what implications in that for us and the and the world we live in?

John