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From: holly@hpfcly.UUCP (holly)
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 17:27:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 14 17:27:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpfcly!holly    Apr 11 14:27:00 1985

The Mormons are going to the Celestial Kingdom.  Understood!  But as I look
at it my heaven and their heaven are not the same.  Their God is a different
God than the one in the Bible.  I've read enough on Mormon doctrine to believe
that.  In my heaven I will be at the right hand of God, not a goddess having
spiritual babies for eternity.  My husband will be at the right hand of God,
not a God himself.  No where in the Bible does Christ or God make such a promiseto any of us.  Those promises are only in the Book of Mormon and the other
doctrines of the Mormon church written by a man who saw all of this supposedly
by revelation by putting a rock in his hat...his "seer stone".  I retract the
word written.  I will instead say spoken.  I find the validity of Joseph Smith
has a lot to be desired.  This man committed many sins during his life time.
He broke nearly every commandment that God gave us.   Christ obeyed all of the llaws God set before us.  It was the lust for other women that led Joseph Smith
to have a "revelation" that led to polygomy.  Yet here are five million people
following the beliefs of a real con artist as I and many others see it.  I don't
understand this at all.  What about the five point upside down star on the 
temple?  In the occult, this means the goat of geddes (Satan).  Explain this to
me.  If this is the Lord's temple, why is the star of Satan on the front of
it?  Why are the rituals so similar to that of Freemasonary? (Joseph Smith 
was really into this in case some of you don't know this.)  No where in the
Bible does Christ tell us to keep secrets or hold secret rituals yet everything
that goes on in the temple is a secret and all who partake of the rituals swear
to a blood oath of death should they reveal the secrets of the temple.

No where in the Bible does God or Christ say that by some ritual in a temple
can we "seal" dead people in marriage or have them baptized.  Why do so many
people believe this?  Why are so many people willing to believe this man over
Christ himself?  There has not been one archeological find to support the
Book of Mormon; the Bible has many.   

I would really like some answers to some of the above questions because I
honestly don't understand where the Mormon faith is coming from at all.