Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: David.Anderson@cs.cmu.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Mormonism and Christianity Message-ID: Date: 2 Sep 90 04:16:48 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 28 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Lynn, here. Just a short selection to showthe kind of accuracy Mr. Firth represents in his latest posting: > Excerpts from netnews.soc.religion.christian: 30-Aug-90 Mormonism and > Christianity Robert Firth@sei.cmu.edu (5656) > 9. The third day he rose again from the dead, > No. There was no physical resurrection; Jesus appeared to his > disciples, and later to the inhabitants of the New World, in a > spiritual body. The same body, in fact, that he departed to > become incarnate. Nonsense. LDS believe Christ was physically resurrected--and that the 2,500 or so "Americans" physically touched Christ's *physical*, resurrected body (touching the prints of the nails and the wound in His side). > 13. I believe in the Holy Ghost; > No. For public consumption, the Holy Ghost is described as > a spirit personage; the inner doctrine is that it is a metaphor > for a certain kind of spiritual power. More baloney. LDS doctrine *clearly* teaches that the Holy Ghost is a personage--there is no "inner [metaphorical] doctrine." Where *do* you get this stuff, Mr. Firth?