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darrmad 06-18-2012 06:38 AM

Voting for Mormon Romney is Betraying Jesus Christ
 
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Jesus Christ loves you. He died a sacrificial death on the cross to forgive your sins. Would you vote for someone who misleads people about Jesus?

As you learn what Mormons believe, you will see Mormons are not Christians. Voting for Mormon Mitt Romney is betraying Jesus Christ our Savior because Romney is not a Christian and opposes Jesus Christ. Do you also know that God warns Americans will be harmed for voting for a Mormon or a non-Christian (2 Chronicles 19:2, Psalm 1)? Look at this Christian versus Mormon analysis:



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Five Mormon Cult Errors

1) Mormons Deny God

Jesus Christ is the second Person of the Godhead. Mormons teach Jesus Christ is the spirit brother of Lucifer, a created being.
The Holy Bible is the inerrant Word of God. Mormons use non-Biblical books.
God alone is God. Mormons teach men become Gods and God was once a man.
2) Mormons Preach a Different Gospel
Paul, the apostle, warns, “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:9). The book of Mormon was given by an angel.

3) Mormons Hide the Cross
The Holy Bible says, “The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing” (1 Corinthians 1:18). Mormons do not display the cross in their buildings.

4) Mormons Have Occult Practice
Christians trust in Jesus Christ to protect them, and God’s Word gives Christians power over sin. Mormons think “magic” underwear with markings helps them.

5) Mormons are Anti-Christian
Jesus Christ said, whoever believes in Him will be saved (John 3:16). Mormons deny the real Jesus Christ. They are exclusive and teach that Christians are apostate.

If you have believed errors about God, will you repent today? God is just a prayer away. You can draw near to Him now.

God Warns non-Christians Romney and Obama Harm Americans

Sam 06-18-2012 12:09 PM

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we're voting for a president, not a pastor

Pressing-On 06-18-2012 12:33 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Sam (Post 1168761)
we're voting for a president, not a pastor

Not a pastor in the sense of a state or national controlled religion - totally different than mere Christianity. That was the issue with separation of church and state.

I think we do need to be careful who we vote for - Psa 33:12 "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance."

John Gill says, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,.... Who have an interest in such a wonder working God, both in creation and in providence, and especially in grace: which, though it may have a principal regard to the nation of Israel, whose God he was in a very distinguishing manner, yet must not be limited to them; for he is the God of the Gentiles also:"

It strikes me as particularly interesting that or Founding Father's attested to the fact that this nation was given to us by the hand of Providence. And while America did not have a Christian Founding in the sense of creating a theocracy, its Founding was deeply shaped by Christian moral truths. That is not a state religion, but a universal belief in God Almighty.

I don't consider Mormonism mainstream Christianity. Our country was founded on Judeo/Christian principles.

When I read Article Six of the Constitution - "...but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States", I think back to Thomas Jefferson and remember his quote - "I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."

When he drafted The Bill for Religious Freedom in 1777, the Anglican Church was officially recognized as the state religion in Virginia. The draft was enacted in 1785, while Jefferson was in Paris, France.

Jefferson was especially hostile to the Catholic Church because of his time spent in France. It is my belief that the "no religious Test shall ever be required as a qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States", refers to a "one" religion, i.e. Catholic or Anglican Church type example. I don't believe it had anything to with religious views outside of Christianity. It just doesn't make sense as colleges and school text were based on the Bible.

The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
Thomas Jefferson, 1786

"Well aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others,..."

The three writers of the Federalist Papers claim their Christian heritage and beliefs.

John Jay spoke of his Christian faith. Jay shared an experience he had, in France, with some atheists. ""On one occasion I was at a party with several atheists. They spoke freely and contemptuously of religion. During the course of it, one of them asked me if I believed in Christ. I answered that I did, and that I thanked God that I did. Nothing further passed between me and them or any of them on that subject."

Before Alexander Hamilton died, he had plans to establish an organization that would preserve the basic values of Christianity and the Constitution. He was going to call the organization - The Christian Constitutional Society.

James Madison was a seminary student. He studied under Rev. John Witherspoon.

When these men studied law, they studied it from the premise of a higher law which all human law must conform. They studied Blackstone who stressed a higher law in God.

So, back to what I believe they were saying is based on their experiences with religion in France and England, they had a very poor opinion of orthodox Christianity. For instance, the founders of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut instituted religious establishments—arrangements by which the civil government favored one church and penalized anyone who dissented from its teachings.

Giving the reigns of this country to any person, regardless, of their religious beliefs is a dangerous move, IMO.

Sam 06-18-2012 03:41 PM

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Many of the founding fathers of this country were "religious" men and held to the idea of a state religion like the Anglican Church of England. Others were religious men who held views different than the Anglican Church and had been persecuted by the state church and did not want to go back into something like that. Others were criminals wanting a new start and some who indentured themselves as servants/slaves to get a new life in the new world.

The "religious" or "Christian" folks soon displayed their style of Christianity by:
--persecuting Roger Williams because he believed in baptism by immersion and had to flee to Rhode Island and establish a new colony.
--the Salem witch trials
--the doctrine of Manifest Destiny" i.e. the idea that God created this new world for WASP's (White Anglo Saxon Protestants) and it was our divine duty to kill off all the Native Americans and send them to hell through policies of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

The first century church was persecuted by the government but was admonished to pray for their leaders. The 21st century church often preaches a doctrine of establishing some kind of a theocracy and forcing their religious/moral/ethical laws on everyone regardless of their religion or lack of religion.

tv1a 06-19-2012 04:13 AM

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I would vote for Romney.

houston 06-22-2012 04:48 AM

And voting for Bama is also betraying ....?????

Dordrecht 06-22-2012 06:25 AM

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It's like Sam said, we vote for a president not a pastor/preacher.

aegsm76 06-22-2012 08:35 AM

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Let me ask all of the deep thinkers that are not voting for Romney, because he is Mormon, a question.
Have you ever, ever, voted for a non-Christian before?
If you have and you are now using this as a reason to not vote for Romney, you are not consistent.
I would consider you hypocritical.
If you only vote for "Christians", then how do you determine that?
If you are oneness, do you vote for trinitarians?
Is that not the same thing?

When you make your litmus test to be only voting for those who believe as you do, you make your choices really small.
Provided you are being consistent.

aegsm76 06-22-2012 08:40 AM

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PO - it is interesting that you quote Jefferson.
Since part of why you are not voting for Romney is his religion, let me ask you if you would vote for Jefferson?
Jefferson was a virtual apostate, who denied the virgin birth, denied any of the miracles performed by Jesus and denied the resurrection.
Even so, he was a great patriot, President and visonary.

Timmy 06-22-2012 10:20 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by aegsm76 (Post 1169694)
PO - it is interesting that you quote Jefferson.
Since part of why you are not voting for Romney is his religion, let me ask you if you would vote for Jefferson?
Jefferson was a virtual apostate, who denied the virgin birth, denied any of the miracles performed by Jesus and denied the resurrection.
Even so, he was a great patriot, President and visonary.

And a beer brewer. ;)

Pressing-On 06-22-2012 10:37 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by aegsm76 (Post 1169692)
Let me ask all of the deep thinkers that are not voting for Romney, because he is Mormon, a question.
Have you ever, ever, voted for a non-Christian before?
If you have and you are now using this as a reason to not vote for Romney, you are not consistent.
I would consider you hypocritical.
If you only vote for "Christians", then how do you determine that?
If you are oneness, do you vote for trinitarians?
Is that not the same thing?

When you make your litmus test to be only voting for those who believe as you do, you make your choices really small.
Provided you are being consistent.

I am very skeptical of those trying to re-write history.

Jefferson was raised in the Anglican Church and came to distrust organized religion. Jefferson wrote bills that were designed to assure religious freedom and to abolish the special privileges of the Anglican Church in Virginia.

Virginia disestablished the Anglican Church in 1776. It took the church's clergymen off the public payroll and exempted Virginians from paying taxes to support the church.

After all, the reason the Pilgrims and Purists came to America is because, in the 1500s England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and created a new church called the Church of England. Everyone in England had to belong to the church. This is exactly what Jefferson opposed.

He wrote his own epitaph, in his old age, and said this, "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson , author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia."

And, in his old age, he also wrote, "To love God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself is the sum of religion."

Quote:

The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
Thomas Jefferson, 1786

"Well aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free;
that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others,..."
To call Jefferson an "apostate" is truly a stretch. No, it is actually a distortion of his views.

MissBrattified 06-22-2012 11:56 AM

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I really couldn't care less that Romney is Mormon. It won't affect my voting decision whatsoever. I would have been LESS likely to vote for Santorum, even though I admire his conservative values, because I believe he would have let his religion interfere with his ability to govern. Leaders of this country will be better leaders if they are believers, yes. However, they are to govern according to our constitution and laws--not by scripture. I want a godly leader who intelligently rules according to the laws as they exist and strives to change those laws that are unacceptable--morally and constitutionally.

Polarizing statements like the title of this thread only serve to hurt people and stifle real discussion.

Pressing-On 06-22-2012 12:07 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by MissBrattified (Post 1169733)
Leaders of this country will be better leaders if they are believers, yes. However, they are to govern according to our constitution and laws--not by scripture.

Anyone unbiased of history knows that our Founding Father's constructed our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence from Biblical principles. So, I think it would be best to say that "extremism" is what our Founding Father's didn't want in our leaders. Which is probably your point with Santorum.

TJJJ 06-22-2012 04:21 PM

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Oh my......

That is why, living here in Utah like I do, I NEVER vote for those anti-Christ people!


Mormon demons everywhere so I hide my head in the ground and hope god, I mean Obama will make everything all right!

tv1a 06-22-2012 04:41 PM

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Jefferson also had an affinity for slave women.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Timmy (Post 1169708)
And a beer brewer. ;)


Pressing-On 06-22-2012 04:44 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tv1a (Post 1169795)
Jefferson also had an affinity for slave women.

I watched a documentary the other day that said the rumor was started but there really isn't proof that would hold up today in court. It's still a long standing controversy.

Pressing-On 06-22-2012 04:45 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TJJJ (Post 1169787)
Oh my......

That is why, living here in Utah like I do, I NEVER vote for those anti-Christ people!


Mormon demons everywhere so I hide my head in the ground and hope god, I mean Obama will make everything all right!

LOL!

tv1a 06-22-2012 04:46 PM

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I have a personal conviction if someone says I should do business with them because he or she is a christian. I walk away from the table. A christian shouldn't use their relationship with Christ as bargaining chip. I would have voted for Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich over Mitt Romney. I'll vote for MR over BO any day.

tv1a 06-22-2012 04:47 PM

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A court recently awarded a monetary settlement to people who claimed they were descendants of Jefferson. It was big news a few years ago.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pressing-On (Post 1169798)
I watched a documentary the other day that said the rumor was started but there really isn't proof that would hold up today in court. It's still a long standing controversy.


Pressing-On 06-22-2012 04:59 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tv1a (Post 1169802)
A court recently awarded a monetary settlement to people who claimed they were descendants of Jefferson. It was big news a few years ago.

Well, after I viewed the documentary, it didn't make sense to me. If people were awarded a monetary settlement, whatever. More power to them. LOL!

CC1 06-22-2012 05:20 PM

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The title of this thread is absurd and insulting. Oh, and just plain wrong.

Pressing-On 06-22-2012 05:26 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by CC1 (Post 1169813)
The title of this thread is absurd and insulting. Oh, and just plain wrong.

Although I believe that Mormonism is outside of mainstream Christianity, the title could have been worded a little less caustic.

Michael The Disciple 07-13-2012 05:00 PM

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So should one vote for Barak Hussien Obama? Whose Church taught Black Liberation Theology? Who was mentored by the Communist Frank Marshall Davis? Who SEEMINGLY favors Islam over Christianity?

I will probably almost certainly stay home in Nov.

Pressing-On 07-13-2012 05:09 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple (Post 1175203)
So should one vote for Barak Hussien Obama? Whose Church taught Black Liberation Theology? Who was mentored by the Communist Frank Marshall Davis? Who SEEMINGLY favors Islam over Christianity?

I will probably almost certainly stay home in Nov.

I don't think anyone criticizing Romney is saying that we should vote for Obama. Many of us don't like either one.

Michael The Disciple 07-13-2012 05:42 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Pressing-On (Post 1175206)
I don't think anyone criticizing Romney is saying that we should vote for Obama. Many of us don't like either one.

I know just getting a bit passionate:nod

Pressing-On 07-13-2012 05:48 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple (Post 1175208)
I know just getting a bit passionate:nod

No problem. I've been pretty passionate this whole election cycle. I'm sure it wasn't noticeable. :heeheehee

Baron1710 07-13-2012 07:57 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Pressing-On (Post 1169739)
Anyone unbiased of history knows that our Founding Father's constructed our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence from Biblical principles. So, I think it would be best to say that "extremism" is what our Founding Father's didn't want in our leaders. Which is probably your point with Santorum.

Jefferson was clearly a Deist. There is no rewrite of History necessary. John Adams was a Unitarian, Franklin was a Deist, Thomas Paine was a Deist and had no use for Christianity. Let us be real about who our founder were. When Paine died it was written at the time he was a drunk and a Deist.

Dordrecht 07-13-2012 08:18 PM

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2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.

Pressing-On 07-14-2012 11:27 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Baron1710 (Post 1175216)
Jefferson was clearly a Deist. There is no rewrite of History necessary. John Adams was a Unitarian, Franklin was a Deist, Thomas Paine was a Deist and had no use for Christianity. Let us be real about who our founder were. When Paine died it was written at the time he was a drunk and a Deist.

:nah

Jefferson: "I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Quotations on the Jefferson Memorial, Monticello.org.

Letter to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, 1822:

"The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man:

1. That there is one only God, and He all perfect.

2. That there is a future state of rewards and punishments.

3. That to love God with all thy heart, and they neighbor as thyself, is the sum of religion…But compare with these the demoralizing dogmas of Calvin…The impious dogmatists, as Athanasius and Calvin,…are the false shepherds foretold [in the New Testament] as to enter not by the door into the sheepfold, but to climb up some other way. Thee are mere usurpers of the Christian name, teaching a counter-religion made up of the deliria of crazy imaginations, as foreign from Christianity as is that of Mahomet. Their blasphemies have driven thinking men into infidelity, who have too hastily rejected the supposed Author himself with the horrors so falsely imputed to Him. Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would no have been Christian." -
Allison, Maxfield, Cook & Skousen, Ed., The Real Thomas Jefferson, The National Center for Constitutional Studies, 2008. p. 356.


John Adams:
"The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity, and humanity, … it is resignation to God, it is goodness itself to man." - Adams, Charles Frances. Vol. III, 1854, p. 421.

"Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward almighty God…What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be." - Adams, John. Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Belknap Press of Harvard Press, Cambridge, MA, Vol. III, 1961, p. 9.

Benjamin Franklin:
"I sometimes wish that you and I were jointly employed by the crown to settle a colony on the Ohio…What a glorious thing it would be to settle in that fine country a large, strong body of religious and industrious people!… Might it not greatly facilitate the introduction of pure religion among the heathen, if we could, by such a colony, show them a better sample of Christians than they commonly see in our Indian traders?…"

"In such an enterprise, I could spend the remainder of life with pleasure; and I firmly believe God would bless us with success, if we undertook it with a sincere regard to His honour," -
Franklin, Benjamin. Letter to George Whitefield, July 2, 1756, John Bigelow, ed., The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1887, V. 2, pp. 467.


"And conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefix’d to my tables of examination, for daily use."

“O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me.”

"I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson’s Poems, viz.:"

“Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!" - Franklin, Benjamin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Chapter 8. EarlyAmerica.com.

Thomas Paine: "It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of Divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles. He can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author." - Thomas Paine on "The Study of God" Delivered in Paris on January 16, 1797, in a Discourse to the Society of Theophilanthropists

Baron1710 07-14-2012 12:37 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Pressing-On (Post 1175305)
:nah

Jefferson: "I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Quotations on the Jefferson Memorial, Monticello.org.

Letter to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, 1822:

"The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man:

1. That there is one only God, and He all perfect.

2. That there is a future state of rewards and punishments.

3. That to love God with all thy heart, and they neighbor as thyself, is the sum of religion…But compare with these the demoralizing dogmas of Calvin…The impious dogmatists, as Athanasius and Calvin,…are the false shepherds foretold [in the New Testament] as to enter not by the door into the sheepfold, but to climb up some other way. Thee are mere usurpers of the Christian name, teaching a counter-religion made up of the deliria of crazy imaginations, as foreign from Christianity as is that of Mahomet. Their blasphemies have driven thinking men into infidelity, who have too hastily rejected the supposed Author himself with the horrors so falsely imputed to Him. Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would no have been Christian." -
Allison, Maxfield, Cook & Skousen, Ed., The Real Thomas Jefferson, The National Center for Constitutional Studies, 2008. p. 356.


John Adams:
"The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity, and humanity, … it is resignation to God, it is goodness itself to man." - Adams, Charles Frances. Vol. III, 1854, p. 421.

"Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward almighty God…What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be." - Adams, John. Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Belknap Press of Harvard Press, Cambridge, MA, Vol. III, 1961, p. 9.

Benjamin Franklin:
"I sometimes wish that you and I were jointly employed by the crown to settle a colony on the Ohio…What a glorious thing it would be to settle in that fine country a large, strong body of religious and industrious people!… Might it not greatly facilitate the introduction of pure religion among the heathen, if we could, by such a colony, show them a better sample of Christians than they commonly see in our Indian traders?…"

"In such an enterprise, I could spend the remainder of life with pleasure; and I firmly believe God would bless us with success, if we undertook it with a sincere regard to His honour," -
Franklin, Benjamin. Letter to George Whitefield, July 2, 1756, John Bigelow, ed., The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1887, V. 2, pp. 467.


"And conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefix’d to my tables of examination, for daily use."

“O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me.”

"I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson’s Poems, viz.:"

“Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!" - Franklin, Benjamin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Chapter 8. EarlyAmerica.com.

Thomas Paine: "It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of Divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles. He can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author." - Thomas Paine on "The Study of God" Delivered in Paris on January 16, 1797, in a Discourse to the Society of Theophilanthropists

I had already completed a response and then poof it was gone with a single click.

I see you can quote these men on religion in general but do you deny that Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine all denied the Deity of Christ?

It is only too easy to show that they did in their own words.

"Here is my Creed: I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable Service we can render to him, is doing Good to his other Children. That the Soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with Justice in another Life respecting its Conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental Principles of all sound Religion, and I regard them as you do, in whatever Sect I meet with them. As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw, or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his Divinity:" - Letter to Ezra Stiles


Jefferson's view of being a true Christian are a little out of the main stream...

"The truth is that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors."

"Among the sayings and discourses imputed to Him by His biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others, again, of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same Being. I separate, therefore, the gold from the dross; restore to Him the former, and leave the latter to the stupidity of some, and roguery of others of His disciples. Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great Coryphaeus, and first corruptor of the doctrines of Jesus."

Pressing-On 07-14-2012 01:03 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Baron1710 (Post 1175315)
I had already completed a response and then poof it was gone with a single click.

I see you can quote these men on religion in general but do you deny that Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine all denied the Deity of Christ?

It is only too easy to show that they did in their own words.

"Here is my Creed: I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable Service we can render to him, is doing Good to his other Children. That the Soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with Justice in another Life respecting its Conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental Principles of all sound Religion, and I regard them as you do, in whatever Sect I meet with them. As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw, or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his Divinity:" - Letter to Ezra Stiles


Jefferson's view of being a true Christian are a little out of the main stream...

"The truth is that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors."

"Among the sayings and discourses imputed to Him by His biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others, again, of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same Being. I separate, therefore, the gold from the dross; restore to Him the former, and leave the latter to the stupidity of some, and roguery of others of His disciples. Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great Coryphaeus, and first corruptor of the doctrines of Jesus."

Can you give me your sources. I've never seen those quotes before. Thanks.

Baron1710 07-14-2012 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On (Post 1175325)
Can you give me your sources. I've never seen those quotes before. Thanks.

For Franklin you can Google letter to Ezra stiles.

The last quote from Jefferson was a letter to William Short dated April 13,1820.

I will get the other quote reference in a bit.

Also you may want to read some of Paine's Essays here:

http://www.deism.com/paine.htm

Baron1710 07-14-2012 01:36 PM

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http://www.beliefnet.com/resourcelib...n_Adams_1.html

The other quote by jefferso was a letter to JohnAdams you can read the whole letter above.

I would also recommend his letter of advice to Peter Carr where he advises him to be wary of those that teach either extreme about Jesus. One extreme being that he was born of a virgin, etc. etc.

Pressing-On 07-14-2012 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Baron1710 (Post 1175331)
For Franklin you can Google letter to Ezra stiles.

The last quote from Jefferson was a letter to William Short dated April 13,1820.

I will get the other quote reference in a bit.

Also you may want to read some of Paine's Essays here:

http://www.deism.com/paine.htm

Thanks. Seems some of the quotes are contradictory to what I've read. I'm pretty sure a Deism site will be totally biased. I'll check into it when I have more time.

I know Jefferson's background with the Anglican Church and his disappointment, but I think as time evolved, he wasn't a Deist later in life, if in fact, he ever was.

The many quotes I've read by Franklin don't prove to me he was Deist. Being that a Deist believes that there is a God, but he doesn't become involved with with His creation, I don't find that thinking in Franklin's writings.

I haven't really studied Paine, but his stand against teaching science without including Theology is pretty cut and dried to me.

Baron1710 07-14-2012 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On (Post 1175334)
Thanks. Seems some of the quotes are contradictory to what I've read. I'm pretty sure a Deism site will be totally biased. I'll check into it when I have more time.

I know Jefferson's background with the Anglican Church and his disappointment, but I think as time evolved, he wasn't a Deist later in life, if in fact, he ever was.

The many quotes I've read by Franklin don't prove to me he was Deist. Being that a Deist believes that there is a God, but he doesn't become involved with with His creation, I don't find that thinking in Franklin's writings.

I haven't really studied Paine, but his stand against teaching science without including Theology is pretty cut and dried to me.

The Paine link has no bias, it is a link only to Paine's letters and essays.

Pressing-On 07-14-2012 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Baron1710 (Post 1175332)
http://www.beliefnet.com/resourcelib...n_Adams_1.html

The other quote by jefferso was a letter to JohnAdams you can read the whole letter above.

I would also recommend his letter of advice to Peter Carr where he advises him to be wary of those that teach either extreme about Jesus. One extreme being that he was born of a virgin, etc. etc.

Yes, I did Google that. I had to Google part of the quote to find it. That is interesting and I wonder what that quote had to do with his disenchantment with the Anglican Church? That is something interesting to look into. I can relate to his feelings because of the 20 years I spent in the Roman Catholic Church.

Pressing-On 07-14-2012 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Baron1710 (Post 1175335)
The Paine link has no bias, it is a link only to Paine's letters and essays.

Oh, okay. I look at it then and verify with other sources.

Baron1710 07-14-2012 01:48 PM

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"We often hear of a gang of thieves plotting to rob and murder a man, and laying a plan to entice him out that they may execute their design, and we always feel shocked at the wickedness of such wretches; but what must we think of a book that describes the Almighty acting in the same manner, and laying plans in heaven to entrap and ruin mankind? Our ideas of His justice and goodness forbid us to believe such stories, and therefore we say that a lying spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible."

Paine on the Blasphemy of the Bible.
 

Pressing-On 07-14-2012 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Baron1710 (Post 1175339)
"We often hear of a gang of thieves plotting to rob and murder a man, and laying a plan to entice him out that they may execute their design, and we always feel shocked at the wickedness of such wretches; but what must we think of a book that describes the Almighty acting in the same manner, and laying plans in heaven to entrap and ruin mankind? Our ideas of His justice and goodness forbid us to believe such stories, and therefore we say that a lying spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible."

Paine on the Blasphemy of the Bible.
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Thomas Paine: "It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of Divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles. He can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author." - Thomas Paine on "The Study of God" Delivered in Paris on January 16, 1797, in a Discourse to the Society of Theophilanthropists
Both of these quotes are quite contradictory. It doesn't make a bit of sense.

Baron1710 07-14-2012 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On (Post 1175340)
Both of these quotes are quite contradictory. It doesn't make a bit of sense.

Not at all. Paine believed God was only knowable through creation not through Scripture.


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