I sent an e-mail. It's definitely not pagination, as there are zero comments showing (all of the hundreds are not appearing).

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Everyone, even with the thread problems, keep the comments on topic.

You can click "date" on the top of the comments to re-order them.

Something is seriously wrong with IntenseDebate.com right now...

What kind of connection problem? As in, not being able to connect to Mormon Coffee at all?

Isaac, it doesn't look like you're reading your e-mail, so maybe you'll see this:

I have to delete any subsequent comments you make until 12AM MST because you have surpassed the 6/day limit. Please see our comment policy, linked at the top-right of this page.

Thanks,

Aaron

PS: I would add to my list: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=drjrz8s_216cgw6nwcp

Whether faith and works are inextricable and whether good works (the kind that please God) are necessarily enabled by faith aren't matters of debate for me. In my opinion these two issues essentially function as red herrings.

Among others, here are some real watershed issues:

1. Whether faith-enabled works are part of the steps in a process, the completion of which is a prerequisite requirement for receiving forgiveness. See Spencer Kimball's six-step outline of the repentance which brings forgiveness. Kimball didn't limit his definition of such prerequisite repentance to a mere contrite heart and willingness, etc.

2. Whether there is any part of faith or works that serves an even partially meritorious role in achieving forgiveness or eternal life.

3. Whether this life is part of a larger process of becoming the kind of God that can be worshiped someday on the basis of merit by other persons.

4. Whether all true Christians can claim (on the basis of truth) to have instantaneously received comprehensive forgiveness of sins and eternal life in the here-and-now.

Take care,

Aaron

Evangelicals don't teach it. We simply point out that traditional Mormonism taught it, institutional Mormonism in a measure continues to teach it, and at the laymen folk level of oral traditional it still is a doctrine that thrives.

This isn't an issue of mere focus. It's an issue of a true/false proposition. Either you believe you can become a God worshiped by other persons (spirit children) someday or not. If you do, then we have all the more reason to hold up the teaching to the world and show it for how ugly it is, and then call all who believe in it to repent, and instead worship the one true God as the God over all gods for all worlds and universes.

Isaac, the issue of "focus" and "emphasis" is a red herring. The issue is whether you are going to repent.

Isaac, nowhere does Paul narrow or limit or relativize his comments to missionaries.