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- Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:27 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: The Covenant Hand?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7262
Re: The Covenant Hand?
Of all the pearls of wisdom you could have given a group of impressionable youth, and this is the best you've got? I think this goes beyond the opportunity cost of giving youth instruction that could benefit their lives. Oaks didn't just pass on an opportunity to pass on a pearl of wisdom, he took ...
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 9:23 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: New Gospel Topics Essay - BOM Geography
- Replies: 45
- Views: 17656
Re: New Gospel Topics Essay - BOM Geography
They totally throw Oliver under the bus ... For sure. I don't think there's a way to know for absolute certain what really happened but from the narrative in that essay: Angry investors in the society and local antagonists circulated many rumors attacking Joseph, including allegations that he commi...
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:39 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: New Gospel Topics Essay - BOM Geography
- Replies: 45
- Views: 17656
Re: New Gospel Topics Essay - BOM Geography
Back in September of last year, when Cook was accompanied by Kate Holbrook and Matt Grow during some fireside or other at Nauvoo,I remember hearing a reference to 116 (no lie, 116, like pages that were lost or something) "topics" that weren't a part of the Saints book but would be available for refe...
- Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:01 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Next change predictions
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13120
Re: Next change predictions
Girls between the ages of 11 and 18 can pass the sacrament. However they still will not be allowed to bless it. I’ve heard some wards have the YW pass sacrament to the nursing mothers lounge. I can see this as a potential change. I came across a post elsewhere that was about blessing the sacrament....
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 5:12 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Report on "Special" Stake Conference
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5306
Re: Report on "Special" Stake Conference
... The people are so dedicated they don't mind meeting in rented spaces and tents, since there isn't any money to build chapels for them. ... https://media.giphy.com/media/zYEg3iFhP7Ily/giphy.gif How many chapels could you build for the cost of one temple in Rome? Several office complexes? A mall?...
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 5:29 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Another devotional aimed at keeping believers from looking behind the curtain - this time @ BYU
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14955
Re: Another devotional aimed at keeping believers from looking behind the curtain - this time @ BYU
I saw this article pop up in my social media feed. I got the distinct impression that Corbridge conflates the Spirit with confirmation bias. In the end, the article becomes another thing that feeds people's appeal to authority. Corbridge looked into it. Corbridge is spiritual and a GA. Corbridge's f...
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 5:11 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Text from Bishop
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9028
Re: Text from Bishop
If I remember correctly, you asked for a break. This is your bishop testing that boundary you established. A polite, "No thanks." is in order. You could even sugar coat it to help the medicine go down, "Thanks for thinking about me, but I'm not interested in taking on any assignments right now." May...
- Sat Jan 19, 2019 7:47 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Ward Conference is now a Dystopian Future
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1919
Re: Ward Conference is now a Dystopian Future
Finally we got to endure a thick helping of pre-guilting members over not using their extra free hour from 2-hour church properly. Apparently it is not to be used for football watching or sleeping. I expect these guilting talks will fade away as 2-hour church becomes the new normal, but for now it ...
- Wed Jan 16, 2019 2:29 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: LDS fireside this Sunday on "Navigating Doubts"
- Replies: 57
- Views: 24543
- Tue Jan 08, 2019 5:09 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Missionary name badges
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7318
Re: Missionary name badges
I've seen a few older couples that have specific stake callings wear name badges to church on Sunday but I see far more RMs that have their mission name badges attached to their scriptures or something... and they've been home for over a decade.
- Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:27 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: 7% decrease in Mexico's congregations
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8752
Re: 7% decrease in Mexico's congregations
SM attendance is a number every unit submits in a quarterly report. Someone has their finger right on the pulse of the trends in actual membership.deacon blues wrote: ↑Fri Jan 04, 2019 8:07 pmIs it time for the Church to get realistic about it's membership numbers?
- Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:25 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: The changing face of LDS INC under RMN...why the rush?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 28864
Re: The changing face of LDS INC under RMN...why the rush?
I'm also thinking that we're leading up to a change to the WoW. I'm not chomping at the bit to drink tea or coffee, if they are taken off the list I'll in all likelihood continue to not drink them. That's my disclaimer stating I don't have skin in the game. But banning coffee and tea really makes us...
- Thu Jan 03, 2019 3:33 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: The long rumored temple changes are happening now?
- Replies: 97
- Views: 45406
Re: The long rumored temple changes are happening now?
Church statement on temple changes: "Whenever the Lord has had a people on the earth who will obey His word, they have been commanded to build temples." The temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by Rome in 70 a.d. I wonder why the existing Christian church wasn't commanded to build another, smaller tem...
- Sat Dec 15, 2018 4:01 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: MTC closures
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6356
Re: MTC closures
I'm likely remembering wrong but I half remember hearing that some kids going out on missions were reporting directly to the field. They didn't go a MTC.
Anyone else hear something similar?
Anyone else hear something similar?
- Thu Dec 13, 2018 9:08 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: I'm about to be officially "outed": NOM Crowd-Sourcing
- Replies: 68
- Views: 31970
- Sat Dec 01, 2018 6:40 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Monthly EQ updates
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6056
Re: Monthly EQ updates
The same priesthood power that created worlds, galaxies, and the universe can and should be part of our lives. Here's a brush, go scrub a toilet.
- Fri Nov 30, 2018 1:11 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Weak anachronistic arguments
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5911
Re: Weak anachronistic arguments
Come on guys. They likely merged into a rapid moving ocean current like on finding nemo and made it to the Americas in a few days. No need for magic or fantastic explanations. It's easy... Except for that pesky Ether 6:11: And thus they were driven forth, three hundred and forty and four days upon ...
- Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:25 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Resign or Get Ex’d
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10306
Re: Resign or Get Ex’d
I think if you resigned there'd be a greater chance of well meaning members showing up in an effort to get you to rejoin. If you are ex'ed then people would probably try to avoid you.
- Mon Nov 26, 2018 4:53 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Gina Colvin called for disciplinary council
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14153
Re: Gina Colvin called for disciplinary council
Didn't she join another church?
From the CHI1 under the section "When a disciplinary council is mandatory"
From the CHI1 under the section "When a disciplinary council is mandatory"
Apostasy
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5. Formally join another church and advocate its teachings.
- Thu Nov 22, 2018 6:50 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Home study church
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8053
Re: Home study church
I don’t like using the word lazy because it has so many negative connotations, but I’ve come to the conclusion maybe being lazy isn’t always a bad thing. With as much that is expected of members of the church there's probably a way to label everyone as "lazy." I know that when I was more orthodox I...