LDS Gospel Doctrine

[JANADELE]

   Yes, two young men travelled from across the world to me and came to my door.  I had never before even heard of the LDS Church or the Book of Mormon or ever known of, or met, an LDS member.  Since then three of my sons have served Missions, married in the Temple, four have served as teachers and leaders, including Bishop and on the LDS High Council... guess those two young men would be pleased with the results of their service.

[The Troll]

  Yes, two young men travelled from across the world to me and came to my door.  I had never before even heard of the LDS Church or the Book of Mormon or ever known of, or met, an LDS member.  Since then three of my sons have served Missions, married in the Temple, four have served as teachers and leaders, including Bishop and on the LDS High Council... guess those two young men would be pleased with the results of their service.

    Mother brain washed, children brain brain washed.  What more could a mother want.  Don't over do it of the kids or you will get some children like me and my sisters who were burned out by our mother's religion.  Also know a lot more kids of mothers who were burned out by their mother's religion.  Do it and see.

[JANADELE]

And many more who were brought up without the moral teachings of Christinity who sucumbed to the evils of the world.  

True Christianity is the ultimate truth and the path to Eternal Salvation.

[The Troll]

And many more who were brought up without the moral teachings of Christinity who sucumbed to the evils of the world.  

True Christianity is the ultimate truth and the path to Eternal Salvation.

  To insinuate that I have succumbed to the evils of the world is total BS.  I am just as moral and good as you.  There is one thing that I practice that you so called Christians don't.

  The Golden Rule.  Do un to other as you would have done un to you.  You religious and pious people are always looking down on other people who don't believe your stupid pagan malarkey.

  You say that the only people to get to go to your heaven must come through Jesus Christ.  Holy Crap.  Out of 6 billion people on the earth only 2 billion claim to be Christians (I doubt some of these people's faith).  Your God is sure leaving a lot his people for the devil.

  The non-Christians Janadele 

[JANADELE]

You have had more than enough free reign for your Off Topic criticisms TT, stick to the topic or get lost.

[JANADELE]

In the scriptures you will rarely discover a revelation that didn't come in response to a question. Whenever a question arose and Joseph Smith wasn't sure of the answer, he approached the Lord, and the results are the wonderful revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants. Often the knowledge Joseph received extended far beyond the original question. That is because not only can the Lord answer the questions we ask but, even more importantly, He can give us answers to questions we should have asked. Let us listen to those answers.

The missionary effort of the Church is founded upon honest investigators asking heartfelt questions. Inquiry is the birthplace of testimony. Some might feel embarrassed or unworthy because they have searching questions regarding the gospel, but they needn't feel that way. Asking questions isn't a sign of weakness; it's a precursor of growth.


God commands us to seek answers to our questions (see James 1:5–6) and asks only that we seek "with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ" (Moroni 10:4). When we do so, the truth of all things can be manifested to us "by the power of the Holy Ghost" (Moroni 10:5).

Fear not; ask questions. Be curious, but doubt not! Always hold fast to faith and to the light you have already received. Because we see imperfectly in mortality, not everything is going to make sense right now. In fact, I should think that if everything did make sense to us, it would be evidence that it had all been made up by a mortal mind. Remember that God has said:

"My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. ...

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8–9).

Nevertheless, you know that one of the purposes of mortality is to become more like your Heavenly Father in your thoughts and in your ways. Viewed from this perspective, searching for answers to your questions can bring you closer to God, strengthening your testimony instead of shaking it. It's true that "faith is not ... a perfect knowledge" (Alma 32:21), but as you exercise your faith, applying gospel principles every day under any circumstances, you will taste the sweet fruits of the gospel, and by this fruit you will know of its truth (see Matthew 7:16–20; John 7:17; Alma 32:41–43).

[The Troll]

You have had more than enough free reign for your Off Topic criticisms TT, stick to the topic or get lost.

  Oh, thank you Mrs. Good Christian.

[JANADELE]

  

[JANADELE]

Then in the allegorical prophecy made of these events, "the Lord of the vineyard" looked at the waste of His creation—and wept. "What could I have done more for my vineyard?" was His painful cry. No answer could be given. "Have I slackened mine hand, that I have not nourished it? Nay, I have nourished it, and I have digged about it, and I have pruned it, and I have dunged it; and I have stretched forth mine hand almost all the day long, and the end draweth nigh." (Jacob 5:41, 47.) In spite of such grief and despair the Lord of the vineyard determined to "spare it a little longer" (Jacob 5:50)—long enough for one final attempt, long enough for one more dispensation, long enough for one final experiment focused on the promised land.

So, after a thousand years of preparation, the Spirit of God rested upon a young Italian sailing under the flag of Spain, and, as Nephi had seen in vision, "he went forth upon the many waters, even unto the seed of my brethren, who were in the promised land." (1 Ne. 13:12.)

This "Christian of almost maniacal devoutness" as Alistair Cooke calls him, this man with the zeal of Galileo, Don Quixote, and John the Baptist combined, was not to be denied. (Alistair Cooke, America, New York: Alfred Knopf, 1973, p. 30.) "Our Lord with provident hand unlocked my mind," said Columbus, "sent me upon the seas, and gave me fire for the deed. Those who heard of my enterprise called it foolish, mocked me, and laughed. But who can doubt but that the Holy Ghost inspired me?" (Jacob Wasserman, Columbus, Don Quixote of the Seas, New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1959, p. 20.)

Columbus stood on the captain's deck, but the all-seeing eye of the Lord was on the compass, and the hopes of every dispensation filled the sails. The prophet Nephi had also seen in vision what followed: colonization, war, and the birth of a new nation.

"And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld that the Gentiles who had gone forth out of captivity did humble themselves before the Lord; and the power of the Lord was with them.

"And I beheld that their mother Gentiles were gathered together upon the waters, and upon the land also, to battle against them.

"And I beheld that the power of God was with them, and also that the wrath of God was upon all those that were gathered together against them to battle. And I, Nephi, beheld that the Gentiles that had gone out of captivity were delivered by the power of God out of the hands of all other nations." (1 Ne. 13:16–19.)

Once again, after meticulous preparation and precise timing, the Lord had begun to build on His promised land a congregation that had compacted to pursue "the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith." The cultural freedom of the Renaissance and religious freedom of the Reformation underscored the strong sense of personal freedom espoused in the Enlightenment to provide the ideal attitudes and environments for the beginning of this "first new nation." George Washington, six years before he was inaugurated as the initial president of the Grand Experiment, wrote of America's moment in history:

"The foundation of our empire was not laid in the gloomy age of ignorance and superstition, but in an epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined than at any former period."

[JANADELE]

Link for above:

http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=7171fd758096b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD   

[Bo D]

I am truly sorry for this, but that picture you use for your avatar reminds me of a line from the Bob Seger song - Night Moves

"And points all her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high"

[The Troll]

 

  Your own little world,

[Palehorse]

I am truly sorry for this, but that picture you use for your avatar reminds me of a line from the Bob Seger song - Night Moves

"And points all her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high"

[followsthewolf]

I am truly sorry for this, but that picture you use for your avatar reminds me of a line from the Bob Seger song - Night Moves

"And points all her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high"

Bingo.

[Palehorse]

http://www.youtube.com/v/kw94TwKqH_c