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Originally Posted by Zeste  At least we'll be in Iraq for 100 years, easier to usher in Armageddon that way. Joseph Smith was wrong, the Great Abominable Church isn't Catholicism, it's Islam.
Don't worry though, it will be a 7 year war followed by 1000 years of peace and Christ's second coming. Then the believers will be risen and the non-believers left to perish on earth after the rapture.
This is an exact paraphrase of Mormon friends of mine. |
Some people are too stupid to live.
I don't know why people can't even get it together to do anything beyond "lol I had a friend once" research.
Here's something from LDS.org, you know, the website that's actually official.
"Elder Bruce R. McConkie said, “The titles church of the devil and great and abominable church are used to identify all churches or organizations of whatever name or nature—whether political, philosophical, educational, economic, social, fraternal, civic, or religious—which are designed to take men on a course that leads away from God and his laws and thus from salvation in the kingdom of God” (Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed. [1966], 137–38).
Emphasize that the great and abominable church is a symbol of apostasy in all its forms. It is a representation of all false doctrine, false worship, and irreligious attitudes. It does not represent any specific church in the world today. "
That took me two seconds. TWO seconds.
Furthermore, Armageddon followed by Millenial rein is a common belief held by many Christian religions, as there is a lot of support from the Bible on the subject.
That Armageddon will be started and occurr in some way in the Middle East is wellfounded as well. The word "Armageddon" is actaully a greek transliteration from the Hebrew "Har Megiddon," or Mountain of the Meggido. The valley of Megiddo is located 50 miles north of Jerusalem. The Second Coming's conflict is called "Armageddon" because it will spark from the same area. I think that with the situation in the Middle East that's not much of a stretch.