Teaser From The Maxwell Institute

[Daniel Peterson]

Oh I don't know if we teach that much anymore in our church.........

Come on, Kerry. If you're going to do a mocking paraphrase, at least make the paraphrase relevantly close.

You don't actually have to adopt the critics' logical errors and sloppiness along with their positions.

[Bill Hamblin]

Matthew 10:34

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Get thee behind me Satan!! This is fun. Let's pick scriptures and accuse people we don't like of violating them!

[Bill Hamblin]

Get thee behind me Satan!! This is fun. Let's pick scriptures and accuse people we don't like of violating them!

A dog returns to his vomit. Now that's one yucky scripture! But verifiably true. I remember my good old dog Savannah ...

[Bill Hamblin]

A dog returns to his vomit. Now that's one yucky scripture! But verifiably true. I remember my good old dog Savannah ...

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

Now wait a minute! I'm not supposed to quote scriptures to myself!

Edited March 30, 2013 by Bill Hamblin

[Daniel Peterson]

"I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies" (Psalm 139:22).

But wait. Who's speaking here? Bill Hamblin? Or Mark Beesley?

It's all so confusing.

[Calm]

A dog returns to his vomit. Now that's one yucky scripture! But verifiably true. I remember my good old dog Savannah ...

Oh the image...just what I needed.

[Bill Hamblin]

"I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies" (Psalm 139:22).

But wait. Who's speaking here? Bill Hamblin? Or Mark Beesley?

It's all so confusing.

The dyslexic fool sayeth in his heart "there is no dog."

[ERayR]

Get thee behind me Satan!! This is fun. Let's pick scriptures and accuse people we don't like of violating them!

Mark was quoting scripture to prove that Jesus was a total pacifist. I thought we were having a pick your favorite scripture to defend or refute so picked that one to refute the pacifism and to show such exercises are futile.

[Bill Hamblin]

Mark was quoting scripture to prove that Jesus was a total pacifist. I thought we were having a pick your favorite scripture to defend or refute so picked that one to refute the pacifism and to show such exercises are futile.

Whoops, I didn't realize we were playing select-a-scripture.

[CASteinman]

Some people have issues... this is for them..

"Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean." -Leviticus 15:4

(I have some issues. They are stacked up by the couch - where I "sitteth".)

Edited March 30, 2013 by CASteinman

[ERayR]

Whoops, I didn't realize we were playing select-a-scripture.

Mark kind of slipped it in there in #196. Sometimes it is kind of fun because then I can take either side of the issue, depending on what quotes I choose. Kind of neat, huh.

[Scott Lloyd]

Mark kind of slipped it in there in #196. Sometimes it is kind of fun because then I can take either side of the issue, depending on what quotes I choose. Kind of neat, huh.

Ah, you're all a pack of gatekeepers of orthodoxy.

[CASteinman]

Ah, you're all a pack of gatekeepers of orthodoxy.

Perhaps the correct collective noun is "a shrewdness of gatekeepers of orthodoxy".

Well... take your pick..

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-do-you-call-a-group-of

[Scott Lloyd]

Perhaps the correct collective noun is "a shrewdness of gatekeepers of orthodoxy".

Well... take your pick..

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-do-you-call-a-group-of

I like "superfluity" and think it could be useful to us here: "a superfluity of board nannies" perhaps?

[Mark Beesley]

Mark was quoting scripture to prove that Jesus was a total pacifist.

Not quite. If you go back and read what I wrote, you will see that I offered an opinion on what Jeus "might counsel otherwise in matters of this particular nature." It was not intended to be applied in an absolute matter.

Anyway, carry on. Glad I could provide you all with some amusement. :-)

Now these are the words which Jesus taught his disciples that they should say unto the people.

Judge not unrighteously, that ye be not judged; but judge righteous judgment.

JST Matthew 7:1-2

[Mark Beesley]

Oh, there's another good one:

"Fools mock."

[Scott Lloyd]

Now these are the words which Jesus taught his disciples that they should say unto the people.

Judge not unrighteously, that ye be not judged; but judge righteous judgment.

JST Matthew 7:1-2

What an apt one to apply to board nannies. I must bear it in mind.

[Scott Lloyd]

Oh, there's another good one:

"Fools mock."

I'm reminded of the account of the the prophet Elijah mocking the priests of Baal.

Ding-ding. Your turn.

Edited March 31, 2013 by Scott Lloyd

[Glenn101]

Oh, there's another good one:

"Fools mock."

Would you consider Elijah a fool?

1 Kings 18:27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

Maybe it would be a good idea to get the whole quote.

Proverbs 14:9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

Glenn

[Scott Lloyd]

Maybe it would be a good idea to get the whole quote.

Proverbs 14:9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

Glenn

I think he's alluding to Ether 12:26.

In either case the passage is being taken out of context.

[Mark Beesley]

I'm reminded of the account of the the prophet Elijah mocking the priests of Baal.

Ding-ding. Your turn.

Sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner, but, uh, I have a life . . .

[Scott Lloyd]

Sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner, but, uh, I have a life . . .

You are under no obligation to sustain a conversation with me here. Don't get the impression from my bit of jocularity there that I think you are.

[David T]

They have laid out the scope of their initiatives, and categorized them quite nicely on the new blog post:

http://www.maxwellinstituteblog.org/our-mission-statement/

[Mola Ram Suda Ram]

Sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner, but, uh, I have a life . . .

Just keep tellinig yourself that. Lol.

[sethpayne]

They have laid out the scope of their initiatives, and categorized them quite nicely on the new blog post:

http://www.maxwellin...sion-statement/

Just as was feared. Absolutely no concern for the Book of Mormon and its relationship with the ancient world. Shameful.