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How about the examples already listed? The long ending of Mark and the Johannine Comma?

That's an incredibly simplistic view - so simplistic as to render it useless. That verse in Isaiah was written by - who knows, but likely not Isaiah. Then you would take it and have it apply to, say Timothy, also written by who knows (not Paul). Do you have any evidence that 1. God agrees with the original, anonymous author and 2. That He thinks that it applies to, say, Timothy?

Which verse do you want people to believe - that there is one Lord and NONE else or that there are multiples deities that are, in some sense, one/unified? Uh - no. One is not one's neighbor. One is one's self and the neighbor is someone else who is close to one's self. Words have meaning - you can look it up.

Carbon footprint refers to the amount an individual or entity contributes to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - primarily carbon based gases. The reason people, supposedly, are asked to reduce their carbon footprint is because manmade greenhouse gases supposedly cause global warming.

I asked because of your post: "..why aren't members of the church more involved in environmental activist activities? or are they and I just don't see it?" It sounded like you were saying that "good" Mormons are environmentalist and those that weren't environmentalists aren't "good" mormons.... which prompts me to inquire if you practice what you preach. I think it is a bunch of nonsense to say that following LDS teachings leads one to reduce his/her carbon footprint.That the globe is warming may be certain. What is far, far from certain is the role mankind plays in controlling that warming.

It's worth noting that in the view of practically all or all credible NT scholars, the person that wrote that was engaged in a deception by pretending to be Paul. Besides which, it says nothing about what constitutes scripture... and for that matter, I'd not sure what the author, not Paul, meant by "God-breathed."

Ultimately, they are all "added" scriptures. They (the books of the NT) had to be added the the scriptural collection at some point. Interestingly, one of the criteria that was originally required for scriptural status - apostolic origen, turns out to have not been true of many, perhaps most of the books of the NT.

Yeah - well - whatever... how much time, money and effort do you expend on environmentalist activities?

Something unexpected has happened at Apple, once known as the tech industry's high-price leader. Over the last several years it began beating rivals on price.

I dunno - how much dough did you contribute to Green Peace last year and how many environmentalist organizations number your name among their active roles?

You certainly can (not endure to the end). I think you are really on to something here. Good luck free thinker.

... and why are you troubled?

By the way - that's how section 132 was understood by the Church until the early 20th century. It wasn't just BY.

Like goats and hangovers are strikingly similar?

I think that's Banana Rama before they changed their name.

Got it. Thanks

Are unicorns real? Is President Obama really just a reincarnated Charles De Gaulle in disguise? Will I ever be loved?

Well - I read it. For birthdays and Christmas people give me cash and Barnes and Noble gift cards instead of other gifts so I can buy books. I haven't run across anything that stands out as being biased or skewed - but then I don't know what the original manuscripts said so who's to say. It's much better written - for a modern audience - than the KJV, much clearer and the translation of most any modern version is going to be a better translation than the KJV - especially given the KJV lousy manuscript sources.

The Jerusalem Bible - the most scholarly of all English Bibles says, in response to Moses question: But if they ask me what his name is, what am I to tell them. And God said to Moses. "I am who I am. This' he added is what you must say to the sons of Israel: "I Am has sent me to you." And God also said unto Moses, "You are to say to the sons of Israel: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob has sent me to you." Robert Millet says that he thinks the expression represents what is known as a Hiphil construction, a causative form of the verb [to be]; in short, the Lord's words would mean "I cause to exist" or "I cause to be." This form expresses continuos duration and so it implies that God maintains of sustains.

If I were feeling unkind I'd say that sound like something Mohamed Atta would have said. Instead, I say that I do believe, but what you really mean is that I should believe the same way you do... and no, it is not really that simple. I don't believe what I believe because someone told me what to believe... My belief is the result of study, reason, prayer and experience.

God gave people the ability to reason. Why are they so adverse to using it. If you believe in a God that is good and just and you believe that God said not to kill, why do you believe that God would tell you to be evil? It's like an abusively manipulative parent. If you believe that God is good and God is just, how could you think that God would command you murder, steal and rape? So you don't believe in a God that is omniscient? That's novel. That's a scary thought. Here's how I think. If I ever start to think that God is ordering me to kill someone, rather than hoping that I will be faithful, I hope instead that someone will get me into treatment until I am no longer insane and can be trusted again to live a moral life.

I wonder how many people actually have a testimony that marrying multiple women is ordained of God... not how many people are convinced of it, but rather how many people actually lacked wisdom and asked God and then received knowledge from God that it was.

Yes, I can see that for people like you, the thinking has been done. I suppose that if you leader told you to that if you should approach your neighbor and offer peace terms (surrender to you) and if they refuse, you are to murder the men, kidnap the children, steal their belongings and rape the women... then you'd do it. Right? That's not a hypothetical. That's what a prophet actually said in Numbers 20. "When you draw near a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if its answer to you is peace and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labour for you and shall serve you. But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it; and when the Lord your God gives it into your hand you shall put all its male to the sword, but the women and the little ones, the cattle, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemy, which the Lord God has given to you..."

If only it were that simple. Obviously it is not. God himself hasn't said anything to us about it. We are doing what someone, not God, says God said to them. Prophets plural? How many prophets have received an officially approved revelation that God wants men to marry multiple women?

Fill in the context, from the Book of Mormon, that you think I am missing/