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Hagoth wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:15 pm That you must obey and sacrifice for some guy in Salt Lake City because he has a direct hotline to God.

That's the one right there - the unquestioned obedience is to me the most harmful because IMO it leads to all of those other issues mentioned above.

This is one of the teachings that drives me nuts from the outside looking in because once you think of the inverse it really makes God seem like a monster. But while you're in there you will justify it however you want. I remember asking my wife what she thought about knowing I would not be with her ...

You do realize that you're not allowed to the take the church (and it's prophets or scriptures) at their literal meaning, right?

Man that clip of the two women and the one says 'then don't be thinking' about what she heard is just so common and so depressing. And I think most of us have experienced both ourselves thinking that way and then others responding that way to us once we take a step away. I can give a few variations ...

Oh my Gods, he changed the dedicatory prayer for a temple to include "think celestial" and said it was a revelation to do so. Jesus take the wheel.... Rasband is one of those guys that just feels like he's always angling to move up to the top so I just take read everything in the worst way, but ...

I looked into my seer stone last night and am making the following prediction: They will double down on garment wearing this weekend at general conference and they will have a woman do it because they want a woman (who is willing to say what the men wan them to say) to try and get the women of the ...

MoPag wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:20 am Eyring

He's talking from home

It's looking like the older leaders (Nelson, Oaks, Eyring) are unable to be there in person which is interesting... you could have a situation where they all go close together in the not too far off future.

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/2023-statistical-report-church-jesus-christ Looks like a decent number of converts Yeah overall slow and steady growth - about 1.5% overall. I think at some point you can see the data on where the growth is coming from and of course would LOVE to see ...

Did I miss any announcement about the 2023 membership statistics? I know they don't read those over the pulpit because there's no time to waste during conference ( :roll: ) but I didn't hear anyone directing people to a website. The membership statistics are the most interesting thing about the ...

NOMference is the best way to experience GenCon! Looking forward to following along!

I looked into my seer stone last night and am making the following prediction: They will double down on garment wearing this weekend at general conference and they will have a woman do it because they want a woman (who is willing to say what the men wan them to say) to try and get the women of the ...

If the church is trying to provide the member with a religious symbol that reminds us of covenants and promises, it could accomplish this in a much different way. The cross is an example. This is it 100000000% The church used to claim they had protective powers and have obviously steered far away ...

Can you provide more details? The article you linked to is pay-walled. Here's the meat of the article: Brace yourselves, nonconforming Latter-day Saint women. Leaders soon will send an updated question to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who want to enter one of the faith ...

For a second I thought you were going to have a nice spot on the LDS speaking tour circuit.

It's been a bit since I've been around, but I have to say if you're trying to push people out of the church, one way to do that is to try and enforce garment wearing 24/7. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/03/29/lds-church-steps-up-this-message/ From Peggy Fletcher Stack, it was brought up at a ...

What's the gist of the podcast? Bart Ehrman goes through how the 'virgin' idea got into the Bible, why it's based on a mistranslation, and then talks a bit about how it's really nowhere else in the Bible and is actually contradicted by Mark/John and I believe he covers briefly that the birth story ...

I had never heard about this until last year when I was listening to a podcast about the Christmas story and it's just mind blowing. Even crazier is that a lot of scholars (Bart Ehrman included) believe that the first two chapters of Luke are late additions which really puts the story in Matthew on ...

I don't think his legacy is altered whatsoever in the minds of believers... they either ignore the Tim Ballard stuff or excuse it. It certainly does make the church's job a lot easier is deflecting any accusations that might come from the Tim Ballard stuff now. And, no, I am NOT implying that they ...

Or, as the current evidence suggests, MR Ballard called up big tithe payers and convinced them to give to OUR. M Russell was a fundraiser for the private organization, apparently. Yeah that would fit in there nicely too - Ballard used tithing records to find the marks to raise money for Ballard ...

Church leaders earned their reputation, whatever that reputation might be. “President Ballard has never released tithing records to Operation Underground Railroad or any other organization,” the church spokesman said. The following could be realities that would still make that statement technically ...