Today in church the teacher compared the mormons running from the law to the Exodus of the Israelites. Why do these morons think it's remotely comparable?
vhainya Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bob T Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Dead sea in middle east > > Salt lake in Utah > > The church is true > > QED > > > LOL!
Not only that we have Utah Lake which is conncected to the GSL by the Jordan River. This is just like the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea being connected by the Jordan. I am definitely going back to church. WOW. HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THIS? Hallelujah. The church is true
"...most of the Israelites did not come from outside Canaan - they emerged from within it. There was no mass Exodus from Egypt. There was no violent conquest of Canaan. Most of the people who formed early Israel were local people - the same people whom we see in the highlands throughout the Bronze and Iron Ages. The early Israelites were - irony of ironies - themselves originally Canaanites!"-Finkelstein and Silberman
That is the problem with religious debates. Someone once said that arguing over religion is like two bald guys fighting over a comb.
Mormons (and other western religions) have a great religious heritage based in Canaanite polytheism and borrowed myth.
I often think of the "sacred truths" taught in seminary and endless lessons at church. No matter how I twist it in mind, I can no longer see how the word truth fits into the equation anywhere. It turns out that god did not bless any of our troubled ancestors. They led mundane lives and liberally embellished to make themselves legends in their own minds.