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Rants and Stuff / Re: General Religious discussion
« on: June 02, 2009, 12:06:04 AM »
Hey, thanks for sharing Frog!
I was a little confused over your first paragraph. So you believe we lived in heaven before coming to earth and only live on earth once? What exactly do you mean by God being the father of our spirits? Does this mean something different than being our Father in heaven?
And I was also a bit confused in your paragraph about Jesus Christ. What exactly do you mean by the term "spirit brother"?
I have also heard that Mormons do not believe the Son is completely God, while still having taken a human nature to Himself. I know you don't believe in the Trinity, but you could clarify on this? Do you believe that God the Father created the Son?
I believe in the Trinity -- God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, three persons in one nature, and that the Son is two natures in one person. I believe in God's omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. I believe that God created human beings sinless, but that because of the sins of Adam and Eve we are now corrupted by sin.
God's justice demands that sin be paid for. He did not have to save anyone but because of His love he chose to save anyone who would believe and trust in His Son, Jesus Christ. He was fully man so that He could fully represent us before God, and fully God so that He could act as God's representative to us.
I believe in justification by faith and not by works. I guess you could say if our sin is a giant pit standing between us and God, the Cross is more of a bridge than a landfill. We can't do anything to fill the pit; any good works we try to fill the pit with is ultimately not enough to save us.
I believe that sanctification is a direct outgrowth of justification. God calls on us to become more and more Christlike, not to earn our salvation but because its closer to how things ought to be.
I go to a non-denominational church. I don't know to what degree Mormons are in tune with Christian public figures, but to give you a better idea of what we believe my senior pastor is Joshua Harris (the guy who wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye ) or you can visit http://www.covlife.org/about/beliefs
I was a little confused over your first paragraph. So you believe we lived in heaven before coming to earth and only live on earth once? What exactly do you mean by God being the father of our spirits? Does this mean something different than being our Father in heaven?
And I was also a bit confused in your paragraph about Jesus Christ. What exactly do you mean by the term "spirit brother"?
I have also heard that Mormons do not believe the Son is completely God, while still having taken a human nature to Himself. I know you don't believe in the Trinity, but you could clarify on this? Do you believe that God the Father created the Son?
I believe in the Trinity -- God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, three persons in one nature, and that the Son is two natures in one person. I believe in God's omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. I believe that God created human beings sinless, but that because of the sins of Adam and Eve we are now corrupted by sin.
God's justice demands that sin be paid for. He did not have to save anyone but because of His love he chose to save anyone who would believe and trust in His Son, Jesus Christ. He was fully man so that He could fully represent us before God, and fully God so that He could act as God's representative to us.
I believe in justification by faith and not by works. I guess you could say if our sin is a giant pit standing between us and God, the Cross is more of a bridge than a landfill. We can't do anything to fill the pit; any good works we try to fill the pit with is ultimately not enough to save us.
I believe that sanctification is a direct outgrowth of justification. God calls on us to become more and more Christlike, not to earn our salvation but because its closer to how things ought to be.
I go to a non-denominational church. I don't know to what degree Mormons are in tune with Christian public figures, but to give you a better idea of what we believe my senior pastor is Joshua Harris (the guy who wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye ) or you can visit http://www.covlife.org/about/beliefs