Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
What makes it appropriate? Jesus had no problems being without a building to worship in.
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Whistleblower to IRS: "Mormon Church has amassed $100 billion in tax-empt fund
- Thread starter Evangelicalhumanist
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Simply that there are a lot of members in some areas.
Then what is all that money for?
None of that is war logistics.
Are you pulling all this war logistics stuff out of your rear end, or is that actually LDS doctrine?
For now it is for helping people to be happy by sharing the gospel.
One reason we have prophets is because they can see what's going on and what times and seasons we live in better than we do.
The physical fight is just barely seen on the horizon.
As you can see, any money right now is used to help us increase personal testimony and share what we know with others for their happiness and fulfillment.
Allegedly, yes. So, war logistics?
A prophet should be able to see it clearly then. So, war logistics?
Not if it's being stockpiled for the end times, no.
Did Noah stop building the ark because everyone laughed at him or thought he was evil or because they were evil?
I'm not the prophet. I just know from scriptures that there's going to be a fight eventually. And like Noah building the ark, we have every right to look foolish now.
We are fully invested in preaching the gospel for now. That is the whole logistics for now.
It certainly didn't go in the direction I thought it would!LOL. The thought experiment of this thread has been a lot of things. Logical is not one.
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
If we're both around when the time comes, Jay, you've got yourself a date!Just a side point.
If you get a fund distribution, my dear friend, you're taking me out to dinner.
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What if his powers have waned?
Criminy...the guy would be over 2,000 years old by now!
Like me...and I'm doin' dandy!
To win what exactly?
The day of Christ's return is a day of judgment, detailed in the Scriptures as a time of battle, a great and fear-inspiring day of darkness and burning anger, a day of fury, distress, anguish, desolation, and alarm. It is the time of the greatest tribulation in mankind's history. (Matthew 24:21)
God told his wayward nation through his prophet Amos. “It will be darkness, and no light, just as when a man flees because of the lion, and the bear actually meets him; and as when he went into the house and supported his hand against the wall, and the serpent bit him.” (Amos 5:18-20)
Isaiah was told: “Look! The day of the Lord itself is coming, cruel both with fury and with burning anger.” (Isaiah 13:9) “That day is a day of fury, a day of distress and of anguish, a day of storm and of desolation, a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick gloom.” (Zephaniah 1:15) During such a time of trouble, one’s money will be absolutely worthless.....“Into the streets they will throw their very silver . . . Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s fury.” (Ezekiel 7:19; Zephaniah 1:18)
All of these prophesies pointed forward to this one time of judgment. There will be nowhere to run...nowhere to hide.
If anyone thinks that they can buy their way out of that, then IMO, they are fooling themselves.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I have my doubts the way he always needs money. Maybe he does do that, but he does he blow it all on blow? Gambling? Hookers? Where is gods money going?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Well, you know, if you read it, it must be true.
...... There may possibly be a fund with $1 billion dollars in it (although I rather doubt it), but a "Second Coming Fund"? What on earth for?
I'm wondering that myself. What the heck is a second coming fund anyways?
We're not buying our way out. We're trying to bring happiness to people and hope that we can get more people, including ourselves, to survive the second coming.
Matthew 24:21, Amos 5:18-20 and Isaiah 13:9 all point to the righteous being rescued when you read the verses around them.
In my opinion, Zephaniah 1:15, Ezekiel 7:19 and Zephianiah 1:18 are about previous destruction before the second coming.
If you do not contend with me on my interpretation I won't contend with you on yours.
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You don't look a day over 1500.
Well those are things you'll never find the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spending anything on. That is certain!
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Never? Is that like "our pastor would never get caught with a male prostitute." I'm sure it's happened. Yall are still only human, afterall.
Joseph Smith was charged 100 times and had to spend a lot of his life in jail and was never found guilty of anything. Neither will you find our leaders ever with cocaine, gambling, hookers or male prostitutes. That is something I know. Only 15 leaders of the Church get any money at all, it's less than $100,000/yr each, and it goes to traveling.