@hippojuicefilm@marklevinshow Who’s writing these memes? Birch Barlow?
“So, my friends, let's just junk those dumb-o-crats and their bleeding-heart smell-fare program!"
“Mormon abridged a thousand years of his nation’s life while standing on the edge of its grave, watching his whole civilization grind to dust, and he told us plainly that he chose what to write because he had seen our time.
So wake up. I am not speaking in metaphor. Wake up the way a man wakes when the house is already filling with smoke and there is still time, but only just, to carry out everyone he loves.
You were not born into this hour by accident. Of all the ages of the earth you could have been sent to, you were held back for this one, for the late and difficult hour, because you were trusted to be awake in it.
That is not flattery.
It is a summons, and it is heavier than comfort ever was. Somewhere in the quiet of your own soul you have felt it, the sense that you were meant for something more than ease, that you were placed here on purpose and the purpose has weight.
Stop drowning that feeling in distraction. It is the truest thing about you. You were called into this time to help hold the line, to be one of the few who sees clearly while the many sleep, to rebuild the virtue in your own heart and your own home where every civilization is actually saved or actually lost.
The cycle does not exempt you because you are modern, or advanced, or certain it could never happen here. Every fallen people was certain too. So remember what you were given and what it cost.
Humble yourself before the comfort makes you proud.
Refuse the gentle voices crying apathy where there is no peace.
And take your place among the watchers, the ones who stay awake through the long night so that something worth saving survives to morning, because the warning was written to be louder than the lullaby, and it was aimed, across all the centuries, at you, in this hour, for this work.
You were called for such a time as this.
Do not sleep through it.”
@Romans724120566@Alma56_47@joshnaa2gez In what ways is “the God of this universe” meaningfully different from Christ? We believe, as Stephen, that Christ is at the right hand of His Father. But if you buy into the Trinity, then technically God was a man because Christ was a man. Was God ever “just a man?” No.
@ServusDeiVivi@PopePiusIXStan Which is actually credible?
The Book of Mormon. Critique the odd-looking tree all you like, but the fruit it produced is good.
@DavoustBaldPate “Behold thou hast lied.”
Truly, the Book of Mormon was written for our day, so that we might notice the verbal patterns of those who wrest the words of God.
@TNTJohn1717@RandomLDS Paradise does not equal heaven. When the Resurrected Christ appeared to Mary, He had not yet ascended to His Father. His Father was not in Paradise when He went there with the thief.
Temple ordinances are primarily for the benefit of those who died without them, like the thief.
@ServusDeiVivi@PopePiusIXStan I mean, I trust Paul. He was persecuting Christians prior to his vision of the resurrected Christ. No witnesses vouched for his vision. No one vouched for Stephen seeing Christ on the right hand of God. Not sure why detractors expect Joseph Smith to be held to a higher standard.
@ServusDeiVivi@theblessedsalt It’s possible for God to fall. That He could “cease to be God.” Now, He’s not going to, because He knows how to avoid it. He just wants us to know that He walks a razor’s edge of necessity. No other scripture contains this doctrine, save the Book of Mormon.
@marcado_razon@GrandpaJoeSux That argument wouldn’t work against the Mormon pioneer stock who fled persecution to eke out a life in the wilderness.
But the fruits of their sacrifice, the healthy, stable communities are somehow evidence AGAINST the church being true?
Think it through.