In the news I read an article about a Florida County (Pinellas County) that voted to end the adding of fluoride to their drinking water. Hoo Boy, you would have thought they were seceding from the nation! The media, liberals and medical experts were on the war path, out to make the county leaders as the epitome of EVIL! "You don't care about public health!!!" they cried. "You've let those TEA party Republicans get you do make this dastardly move!" Oh the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth!
Excuse me here just a moment. Hold on! STOP EVERYTHING!!!
Can I just ask one teensy, weensy little question or two, please? A question that should have popped into most everyone's heads. If fluoride were essential for our health, why isn't it already in our water? Why hasn't fluoride been added to our water for thousands of years? Oh, that's right, we're not all gonna die next year, if we don't have tons of fluoride added to our water. Fluoridated water is a modern thing, a thing started in the 1940s. A thing that has been going on in this, the age of cancer. Yes, cancer is one of the top 5 causes of death in the US, folks.
As it turns out, fluoride and chlorine are carcinogens. And sooner or later, some people are going to get cancer from these carcinogens that are added to water. So the Pinellas County officials, by ending fluoridation of their water, are actually doing the best thing that could be done for the public health. Said one official, "You don't have the right to "medicate" us [with fluoride] if we don't want it."
On top of that, it will save the county government $205,000+ a year! Yes, that right, it costs the taxpayers a gob of money to have poisons added to their drinking water, so that later on they will get sick, and will have to go to the medical establishment for "treatment".
Another problem with Fluoride is that it interferes with thyroid activity. Fluoride belongs to the halogen family, as does Iodine. Now the body needs Iodine to make important chemicals in the body. Iodine and Fluoride are similar, since they belong to the same family, but there is a difference. Fluoride has a stronger charge than Iodine. Because of this, if fluoride is present, it will take the place of Iodine in the chemicals that the thyroid makes. But the chemical made with Fluoride is useless to the body. And fluoride will destroy the thyroid over the course of time. Just recently here in Glendora, CA, fluoride began to be added to the drinking water in 2007. And this last year, a friend of mine had to have his thyroid removed because it became cancerous. Fluoridated water really made his life better!
Experts say that fluoride prevents cavities. Not really. If you eat enough sugary things and let them stay on your teeth, you will still get cavities. A far safer way to prevent cavities is to limit or exclude the consumption of sugared foods and drinks. Educate parents and children. Not only will cavities be reduced, but other serious health problems will be averted.
So I say, "kudos" and congratulations, to the Pinellas Co., Fla. officials for ending fluoridation of their water. They are doing the best thing possible for the public health, and they are saving taxpayer money.
As for the chemical industry that produces fluoride (which is actually a waste product of other industries), the medical and dental experts, and the liberals who want to force the public to be treated with fluoridated water, and other poisonous matter: do it to yourself, and leave the rest of us alone!!!
Friday, October 14, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Mormonism is not a cult, but is the one true Christian Church
Mormonism is not a cult, but is the one true Christian Church. On the other hand, the "historical" Christian churches today are apostate, and cling to creeds that are pagan philosophy mixed with scripture.
In the news we find a Baptist Pastor, a "Dr." Jeffress, who says Mitt Romney is not a Christian because he is a Mormon. This is because Mormons do not believe the Trinity doctrine that says there are three Gods in one. This constantly repeated accusation from Protestants and others is utterly silly! In actuality, the Mormon Church is the one true Christian Church, and the older "historical" Christian churches cling to pagan philosophy as the mark of their Christianity! This is the absurdity that we get from people who have never read and studied history, but go about spouting the nonsense they were taught in a school of religion designed to make a career out of preaching the Gospel (which is supposed to be available without money or price).
You see, the older "historical" Christian churches cling to the creeds, which were formed centuries after Jesus and the Apostles died, and were formed by Churchmen who had mixed the pagan philosophy into their definition of God, and which definition or creed was sanctioned by the Roman Emperor as a political move the unite his fracturing Empire. The Christian part of the creed: The Father, Son and Holy Ghost + the pagan philosophy part of the creed: there is only one, immaterial God = an impossible, unscriptural mixture!
Where did this pagan philosophy come from? When Christianity sprang into the world, it was a tiny but growing belief amidst a world awash in the Classical philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus.
After the deaths of the Apostles (100AD), in Alexandria, Egypt, the scholars (Philo, Plotinus, Origen, Athanasius, etc.) busily merged pagan philosophy, Judaic and Christian concepts together, in the centuries after the Church was left without Apostles with general authority over the church.
In the preface to Edward Gibbon's History of Christianity, we read: "If Paganism was conquered by Christianity, it is equally true that Christianity was corrupted by Paganism. The pure Deism of the first Christians . . . was changed, by the Church of Rome, into the incomprehensible dogma of the trinity. Many of the pagan tenets, invented by the Egyptians and idealized by Plato, were retained as being worthy of belief."
The creeds were formed by men infatuated with Classical pagan philosophy in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. Jerome, the translator of the Bible into Latin even altered the text, left out many things, and added words to "improve" the writings of the Apostles, so as to make the text appear to support their philosophical notions. John 4:24 is an example of text alteration where Jesus is quoted as saying that "God is a spirit", to the woman at the well, which does not even fit in with the subject he was speaking about (worship through the Spirit). A modern Prophet of God, in retranslating this verse, corrected the verse, and left out the Neo-Platonic concept inserted by Jerome.
Thomas Jefferson wrote about the absurdity of 3 Gods in one, the product of a creed that was a mix of philosophy and scripture; " Nor was the unity of the Supreme Being ousted from the Christian creed by the force of reason, but by the sword of civil government, wielded at the will of the fanatic Athanasius. The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus [a mythical 3 headed hound], with one body and three heads..."
The scriptures say that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are one: " For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." (1 John 5:7) It means they are one in purpose, that they bear the same record. It does not mean that they are three Beings in one.
So what is the nature of God? They are three distinct, separate Beings. At the baptism of Jesus, Jesus came forth out of the water; the Father spoke from heaven bearing witness of His Son;and the Holy Ghost descended from heaven in the form of a dove. Three separate Beings, each doing his part; one in purpose, bearing the same record.
The Prophet Joseph Smith described the Father, Son and Holy Ghost as follows: "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us." (D and C 130:22) The Father and the Son are Resurrected, Perfected, Exalted Men.
The Apostasy of the Historical Christian Churches, and the Fallacy of their Creeds
As thinking men have intently read the New Testament, and marveled at the miracles of Jesus and the Apostles, and the gifts of the ancient church, and then looked around today at the historical Christian churches, they have come to a conclusion: something has changed! Yes, indeed, something has changed an awful lot. Jesus instituted one church, with Apostles, Prophets, Seventy, and later other offices, such as bishops, with gifts and miracles. Today there are hundreds of Christian sects operated by priests for hire, spouting creeds and absurdities of philosophy, with no more revelations, miracles, gifts, etc.
And the Lord Jesus Christ himself confirmed this very truth, that the historical Christian churches have fallen away, and are apostate and dead. For this reason, the Father and the Son appeared to a young man and called him to be a Prophet, to restore again the Church of Jesus Christ on the earth. In 1820, in answer to Joseph Smith's question, which church should he join, Joseph was told by the Lord, "I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: 'they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.'" (JS-History 1:19) Not only are the "historical" Christian churches unacceptable to the Lord, but their creeds are an abomination in the sight of God.
And yet it is by the measuring rod of these abominable, pagan-influenced creeds that "Dr." Jeffress judges Mitt Romney to not be a Christian! What utter silliness!
The Good News: Christ's Church Has Been Restored
Well the bad news in all this is that the "historical" Christian churches are apostate. But the good news is this: the one true Church of Jesus Christ has been restored again on the earth, and anybody who desires to investigate it, find out for himself the truth, and join it by the baptism of water and of the Holy Ghost can! Anyone who wishes to enjoy pure Christianity, as it was enjoyed in ancient days, can do so today. The name of the Church is: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Look it up today!
In the news we find a Baptist Pastor, a "Dr." Jeffress, who says Mitt Romney is not a Christian because he is a Mormon. This is because Mormons do not believe the Trinity doctrine that says there are three Gods in one. This constantly repeated accusation from Protestants and others is utterly silly! In actuality, the Mormon Church is the one true Christian Church, and the older "historical" Christian churches cling to pagan philosophy as the mark of their Christianity! This is the absurdity that we get from people who have never read and studied history, but go about spouting the nonsense they were taught in a school of religion designed to make a career out of preaching the Gospel (which is supposed to be available without money or price).
You see, the older "historical" Christian churches cling to the creeds, which were formed centuries after Jesus and the Apostles died, and were formed by Churchmen who had mixed the pagan philosophy into their definition of God, and which definition or creed was sanctioned by the Roman Emperor as a political move the unite his fracturing Empire. The Christian part of the creed: The Father, Son and Holy Ghost + the pagan philosophy part of the creed: there is only one, immaterial God = an impossible, unscriptural mixture!
Where did this pagan philosophy come from? When Christianity sprang into the world, it was a tiny but growing belief amidst a world awash in the Classical philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus.
After the deaths of the Apostles (100AD), in Alexandria, Egypt, the scholars (Philo, Plotinus, Origen, Athanasius, etc.) busily merged pagan philosophy, Judaic and Christian concepts together, in the centuries after the Church was left without Apostles with general authority over the church.
In the preface to Edward Gibbon's History of Christianity, we read: "If Paganism was conquered by Christianity, it is equally true that Christianity was corrupted by Paganism. The pure Deism of the first Christians . . . was changed, by the Church of Rome, into the incomprehensible dogma of the trinity. Many of the pagan tenets, invented by the Egyptians and idealized by Plato, were retained as being worthy of belief."
The creeds were formed by men infatuated with Classical pagan philosophy in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. Jerome, the translator of the Bible into Latin even altered the text, left out many things, and added words to "improve" the writings of the Apostles, so as to make the text appear to support their philosophical notions. John 4:24 is an example of text alteration where Jesus is quoted as saying that "God is a spirit", to the woman at the well, which does not even fit in with the subject he was speaking about (worship through the Spirit). A modern Prophet of God, in retranslating this verse, corrected the verse, and left out the Neo-Platonic concept inserted by Jerome.
Thomas Jefferson wrote about the absurdity of 3 Gods in one, the product of a creed that was a mix of philosophy and scripture; " Nor was the unity of the Supreme Being ousted from the Christian creed by the force of reason, but by the sword of civil government, wielded at the will of the fanatic Athanasius. The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus [a mythical 3 headed hound], with one body and three heads..."
The scriptures say that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are one: " For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." (1 John 5:7) It means they are one in purpose, that they bear the same record. It does not mean that they are three Beings in one.
So what is the nature of God? They are three distinct, separate Beings. At the baptism of Jesus, Jesus came forth out of the water; the Father spoke from heaven bearing witness of His Son;and the Holy Ghost descended from heaven in the form of a dove. Three separate Beings, each doing his part; one in purpose, bearing the same record.
The Prophet Joseph Smith described the Father, Son and Holy Ghost as follows: "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us." (D and C 130:22) The Father and the Son are Resurrected, Perfected, Exalted Men.
The Apostasy of the Historical Christian Churches, and the Fallacy of their Creeds
As thinking men have intently read the New Testament, and marveled at the miracles of Jesus and the Apostles, and the gifts of the ancient church, and then looked around today at the historical Christian churches, they have come to a conclusion: something has changed! Yes, indeed, something has changed an awful lot. Jesus instituted one church, with Apostles, Prophets, Seventy, and later other offices, such as bishops, with gifts and miracles. Today there are hundreds of Christian sects operated by priests for hire, spouting creeds and absurdities of philosophy, with no more revelations, miracles, gifts, etc.
And the Lord Jesus Christ himself confirmed this very truth, that the historical Christian churches have fallen away, and are apostate and dead. For this reason, the Father and the Son appeared to a young man and called him to be a Prophet, to restore again the Church of Jesus Christ on the earth. In 1820, in answer to Joseph Smith's question, which church should he join, Joseph was told by the Lord, "I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: 'they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.'" (JS-History 1:19) Not only are the "historical" Christian churches unacceptable to the Lord, but their creeds are an abomination in the sight of God.
And yet it is by the measuring rod of these abominable, pagan-influenced creeds that "Dr." Jeffress judges Mitt Romney to not be a Christian! What utter silliness!
The Good News: Christ's Church Has Been Restored
Well the bad news in all this is that the "historical" Christian churches are apostate. But the good news is this: the one true Church of Jesus Christ has been restored again on the earth, and anybody who desires to investigate it, find out for himself the truth, and join it by the baptism of water and of the Holy Ghost can! Anyone who wishes to enjoy pure Christianity, as it was enjoyed in ancient days, can do so today. The name of the Church is: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Look it up today!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)