Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:21:46 PM
Before he dropped out of the race I thought Mr. Romney was the best candidate and I would have voted for him. This is not about anti-Mormonism; it is about truth.
Morality alone will not provide you entrance into the kingdom of God. A perfect righteousness is the only way to heaven because ‘God is light and in Him is no darkness at all’ [I John 1:5].
Everyone at the wedding feast is given a robe by the king in honor of his son. This robe is the perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to all those who rest in Him alone to cover their sin. These are the ones whose sins were imputed to Him who knew no sin when He suffered for them on the cross. [Matthew 22]
You say your holy book is a second testament of Christ. By this you imply that there is deficiency in the first. This we cannot abide without comment. The NT testimony is clear…
‘God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son’ [Hebrews 1:1-4].
Are we to expect a fuller revelation after the great prophet has come who is the image of the living God? The coming of the New Covenant in Christ is the focal point of history. The Scriptures testify to His perfection [Colossians 2:1-9] and to the completeness and sufficiency of His testimony [2 Timothy 3:16-17].
The Bible says that the foundation of the Church is built upon the apostolic testimony, Jesus Christ being the chief corner stone…
‘Then I, John,saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband…Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb’ [Rev 21:2; 14].
The prerequisite for apostleship is given in the Bible; an eye witness from the beginning of Christ’s ministry to the resurrection and ascension…
“…of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection” [Acts 1:21-22].
Jesus said that He would build His church. Will you deny that He is able and that He builds it as He will? Do you find fault in His churches? The churches today are no different that those in the NT. They are made up of sinners who have found grace and are in the process of transformation. They are all imperfect people and will be the first to admit it. But they are growing in grace and desire to pass it along as best they can.
Christ has been growing His kingdom for 2 millennium. There is a great cloud of witnesses who have gone before us. He is not unfaithful to the promises. You need no other prophet than that prophesized by Moses and fulfilled in Christ.
You may call yourself a church and your leadership apostles but be not deceived, the meaning is contrary to the NT. You reject the authority of Scripture as the apostolic testimony to the Church and you reject the Christ of Scripture, who purchased His Church with His own blood and is able to build it according to His good pleasure after the council of His own will…
‘[God] put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all’ [Ephesians 1:22-23].