/christian/ - Christian Discussion and Fellowship

>>630767

FPBP

>Is this insane?

It's not insane, but you are appraising externals as being temptingly more important than the spiritual matter of Faith.

>I think what I want is a Christianity that is communal to the borderline of cult-like without any of the wacky heresies.

Not going to happen. When even heresies are attested to in the NT, in the church's infancy, how much worse do you think it is 2,000 years later?

>>630767

I'm talking more about structural things - things like family home evening, house visits, etc.

>>630772

I'll admit that it's tempting, but assenting to their doctrines would be betraying Christ so it's

so far off the table, it's burrowing into the lava.

I mean "a group of fanatical, borderline cult Christians that don't have heresy as their official doctrine like the LDS do."

>>630765

>Is this insane?

Nope. Mormon here, it's a friggin awesome lifestyle. Four other brothers, no jail time, no drugs for any of them, three of them married with 3, 4, and 5 babies apiece. That's why we're one of the whitest religions anon, Christ and family foundation is the center of our Doctrine.

>>630810

Pfft, are you trying to b8 me? It won't work, it's extremely difficult to raise good kids in this time and age, and my parents pulled it off with this religion.

There are Protestant sects like this.

>>630767

So that means, not Christian = Satan isn't following you = better life

Thanks for clarifying that up.

>>630805

Congrats man, as a Christian I actually consider Mormons a Christian branch. If we didn't, we wouldn't have any good example of our religion, I sometimes wish protestants could be just like you guys. /christian/ is pretty much a r/Christianity colony, they would prefer a Third World Christian African than a White Mormon who literally share the exact same values and virtues.

https://imgur.com/a/n5apM

>>630827

>So that means, not Christian = Satan isn't following you = better life

You can take it a step further and make a contract with the devil. You sell your soul to the devil, and in return you get anything you want in this world: sex, money, fame, etc. However, once the contract is up, it's game over for you.

Remember, eternity is a very, very long time.

>>630837

If you don't like this board, then why don't you just leave? I beg of you, please dust your sandals and leave us be. Everybody can see the false equivalence you're making with r/Christianity which literally has an atheist mod. Just because we don't accept heresy on this board doesn't make us apostate. So go spread your gnostic filth elsewhere, plenty of safe spaces for you online to spew your trash.

>>630873

>safe spaces

>>630805

This one seems pretty safe already :^)

>>630882

It's a Christian discussion and fellowship board. Unless they're asking us questions about the faith, non-Christians (including Mormons) shouldn't be here. It has nothing to do with safe spaces. It's the point of the board, stickied to the front page.

>>630837

Mormons deny the Trinity. They're no more Christian than Muslims are, who also have Jesus figure. We share plenty of values with Muslims, too, you know, and Jews, and Pagans. That doesn't make any of them Christian. A tradition doesn't have to be Christian to have good things in it. A religion wouldn't be able to function if it was too dissimilar to Christianity. It would simply destroy whatever society that adopts it. Secularists are trying their damndest, tho.

Why do Mormons and Jews get so many hot women

>>630868

You can't sell yourself because you have already been bought

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

>>630765

I'd find it extremely oppressive to have some other person, such as a local bishop, sticking his nose in my business and telling me what to do with and about everything, questioning my finances, who and how I do business with, sex life, everything. No thank you!

Galatians 6:4

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

>>630916

>lusting after strangers

That's enough, kiddo.

>>630829

This. Mormon girls are the best, and are almost irresistible with their accents. They make the best food, and at least can have a small degree of technology. I live around a large community of them.

>>630765

>I know Mormonism is 100% bullshit, but still find myself a little jealous of their way of life/community.

*sigh

Listen, just put me in charge of the country or a sect with permission to establish a totalitarian regime with permission to exterminate unwanted people and use their private data and I will literally create paradise on earth.

>>630767

>>630810

>>630868

>>630873

>>631077

Stop being a cretin and actually read a bible

Like Ezekiel 18 for example

>>630843

Necrobump for this post, serves as a warning for us as a community, either Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic, or anything among true Christianity.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mormon-support-gay-marriage-gradually-grows-192425526.html

Mormons are falling into sin like the rest of us, their community isn't invulnerable

>>643395

https://newrepublic.com/article/146589/mormonisms-crisis-faith

>>630765

Jesus and Satan are brothers from another planet!

>>643403

I never wanted to agree with the inquisition.

>>630837

>>630805

anyone else find it really shitty that mods ban people for having a different opinion? I'm not a fan of mormonism but I'm also not a fan of banning people from different sects and creating one big catholic hugbox

>>643427

But the mods didn't do what you claim.

The board rules clearly state this is a Christian board, with Christian meaning believing in the Nicene Creed as a pre-requisite.

Mormons don't believe in it, therefore they can not be called Christian.

>>630868

Cut this shit out; I tried selling my soul for total mastery of six (6) programming languages and a junior software engineer position at Google and nothing happened.

>>643429

Neither of them promoted nonChristian beliefs. One just said he likes his mormon lifestyle and the other said he wished more Christians would act like mormons. These are opinions that they got banned for

>>643432

As they should.

I'm not debating the semantics of the word "promote" with you.

They are slippery sloping into acception, that's the truth.

>>643403

>you're misrepresenting us!

>5 minutes of explanation later

>yes you were right

Mormons always do this shit. "Sure, I'm monotheistic". Five minutes of conversation later: "I will become a god some day."

>>643866

>embed related

MORMONISM IS FOR FANTASY LARPers WHO WANT TO TAKE THEIR LARPING TO ANOTHER LEVEL

FUNNY THING IS 99% OF MORMONS ENGAGE IN THEIR RELIGION IRONICALLY BECAUSE THE RITUALS, THE FAN-FICTION AND SOCIALIZATION IS SO FUN

>>643429

Problem with people like you is you're trying to game the mods into clarifying what the rules are so you can loophole your way into here. This should be another reason why you should banned. Look, I get it, I know what it feels like to be temp-banned, even though you thought you were posting something in good faith, but you know, you need to let go of your ego sometimes and either learn from your mistakes (which you are making) or you can choose to keep blaming other people.

>>643883

Did you misreply?

>>643892

Yes, I meant for >>643432

>>643867

That mormon sounds drunk.

>>630765

> I know Mormonism is 100% bullshit, but still find myself a little jealous of their way of life/community.

That is because Mormonism is a cult. They sucker you in with their niceness and make you dependent on their community. That way when you decide to leave the cult your entire social life is gone, you know no one outside the cult, you are completely alone. It's like a drug dealer who will sucker you in with a free sample, but once you are deep enough in you become dependent on him.

>>630843

Another bump for this to be read

>>643431

If Satan already has your soul, why cut a deal? He gives just enough to keep you in his clutches- too much satisfaction and you might have time to ponder eternity, too little and you are forced too. Keeping you busy and afraid is Satan's game.

>>650229

>>643431

The infernal joke is that Satan has no claim at all over anyone's soul; the state of damnation is at the Judgement and separation of God. You nor Satan can give away what is God's, it's only God who can accept or reject what belongs to Him.

>>630827

Burn.

To be completely honest, Mormonism allured me due to their culture of modesty to the point of prudishness and the idea of getting an easy and almost free wife.

However, the idea of raising children that will be discouraged entirely of critical thinking and be pressured into self-loathing, making their life mission spreading a fake gospel from a plagiarized book, takes away the allure.

The idea of begoming Mormon still tempts me from time to time, just due to the embedded modesty and basically free wife.

>>650365

I think this is mostly lust from my part and it will end up ruining my life, that of a woman, and that of my future kids.

BEGONE SATAN