After yesterday's debate:
Immediately after the debate, in which he wasn't questioned about the remark, Huckabee apologized to Romney. The timing of the apology suggested that he might have done so in the debate, had it come up."I said, 'I would never try ... to somehow pick out some point of your faith and make it an issue,' and I wouldn't," Huckabee said in a postdebate interview on CNN from the debate site, a public television studio in the suburbs of Des Moines.
"I've stayed away from talking about Mitt Romney's faith," Huckabee said. "I told him face to face, I said, 'I don't think your being a Mormon ought to make you more or less qualified for being a president.'"
Huckabee's apology was politically smart and spiritually wise. Spiritually, he was doing as Jesus advised - reconcile and seek forgiveness. Politically, he was ending something that could only hurt him.
Apologies galore are owed Huckabee, however, especially for the double standard with which he is being treated. Journalists ask him over and over about religious issues related to Romney's Mormon faith. It is time they either stop or start asking Romney questions - like this one: "Gov. Romney, do you believe Mother Teresa was a Christian?" According to his church, the answer would be no since she wasn't part of the "true" church.
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To the Mormon:
Christians do not believe in some "unknownable" God. You are unfamiliar with Christian beliefs about the one true God. Ignorance is no excuse on Judgement Day. God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. I know Jesus Christ, His Father and the Holy Spirit, the God who dwells in me.
They are not different beings, they are one. There is no other God but one, the Holy One of Israel.
In fact, the prophet Jeremiah predicted "Behold the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
In the day that I took them by the hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;
After those days, saith the LORD,
I will put my law in their inward parts,
And write it in their hearts;
And will be their God,
And they shall be my people.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD:
For they shall ALL KNOW ME,
From the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD,
FOR I WILL FORGIVE THEIR INIQUITY,
AND I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SIN NO MORE." Jeremiah 31
Now where remission of these is, there is NO MORE offering for sin. Hebrews 10:18
This text refutes your religion. Give up the false prophet, and believe on the true prophet, the Lord Jesus Christ, the sinless one, fully human, and fully God, the Creator of all the angels that worship Him. Repent of your sins and your false religion, and trust in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for sins on the cross, and his glorious resurrection from the dead, never to die again, the only true High Priest. The Levitical priesthood is done, and Christ is the only true High Priest, the Mormon false priesthood won't save you. Only Jesus Christ can save, because He is the only Savior.
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The specifics of your theology are not the issue here. It is Huck's personal failings. I am sorry if you think my posts are aimed at you or you faith as a believer. It is not. You are entitled to believe as you see fit. At some point in time, an honest conversation about beliefs would be an interesting discussion. But not during this political season. Not right now. The dark forces of hate and bigotry are at work and threaten to harm our country and we have to speak up against it when and where we find it.
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Thanks.
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PW:
There apparently is a major glitch going on right now with Bnet's spam filter.
I was lectured on Crunchy Con for daring to even bring the subject up. (Sigh.)
But the good news of Jesus Christ doesn't take a break for any 'political season.' "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."
We're all creatures, and we should hear the good news of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection, and the forgiveness of sins to those who believe in the eternal uncreated Creator, the Son of the Father, Jesus Christ.
I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
Listen to what the Apostle declared about this GOSPEL (the Good News)
"For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God."
This gospel is the most important message you will ever hear. Remember that God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. And that God commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has apppointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man He has ordained, whereof He has given assurance unto all men, in that He has raised Him from the dead!
In the New Covenant, the Lord declared through the true prophet Jeremiah
"For they shall ALL KNOW ME,
From the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD,
FOR I WILL FORGIVE THEIR INIQUITY,
AND I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SIN NO MORE."
This same LORD declared:
“ Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel,
And his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts:
‘ I am the First and I am the Last;
Besides Me there is no God."
and "You are My witnesses.
Is there a God besides Me?
Indeed there is no other Rock;
I know not one.’"
This same LORD declared "“ I am the LORD, who makes all things,
Who stretches out the heavens ALL ALONE,
Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;" Isaiah 44
This one true God declared
" Remember the former things of old,
For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,
Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’"
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