@mandybgood@SprawlOnoSendAi@StallionCornell Yeah what is this guy reading? The Elder literally says he's sorry for what he did wrong. He also said he's sorry for the pain he caused and said he was in the wrong.
This is a straightforward apology without shifting any blame to the injured.
@RykerJackson97@jackbenimble84@DezGoth I agree.
They were hard but wonderful years. Can't wait to serve another mission (though this time with a companion of my choosing ).
@TimmisZoomer@wellshootguys@chngsmoralman7@BlackBlessedLDS That is what is commonly taught, and I'm sure that is what you were taught as well. I'm sure you were also taught that the vast majority of the human race, even the vast majority of church members, do not obtain such a knowledge and would not qualify for outer darkness.
@TimmisZoomer@wellshootguys@chngsmoralman7@BlackBlessedLDS Except that the specific chart you used is actually not made by the church but by critics and a big difference is the apostasy to outer darkness pathway.
Outer darkness can potentially result from apostasy, but only if you knew with surety that this was the truth and still left.
@EMI_Black_Ace@PopePiusIXStan ...reasoning and understanding, and for some reason He decided to make me so that I see those choices as evil?
For me, no argument outside of God working within eternal parameters makes sense - unless God actually isn't all loving (but if that's the case, well, good luck).
@EMI_Black_Ace@PopePiusIXStan ... God if He could have made things better for everyone, but just chose not to.
The answer given is usually some variation of "our mortal understanding of love is limited" or "whatever God says is love or good is correct - He defined it".
But in that case He also gave me my...
@foldsproteinsII@PerHans85878989 You put quotation marks around the wrong word - there probably are thousands who believe that - maybe even millions.
The quotations should have gone around the word "experts".
@voosiki I think all our lives could be divided up by before mortality, during, and after mortality - Christ being the firstborn and so like the Father as to be indistinguishable except that He previously had not yet been exalted, and now in that He is the Son and the Mediator.
@voosiki Amen, though I do believe Jesus was Jehovah (thus, God) but acting under the direction of God the Father prior to His arrival on earth, though had not fully become exalted until completing his mortal life.
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@PopePiusIXStan@Mormonger He's trying to argue that because Alma said that Jesus would be born at Jerusalem, that means the Church doesn't believe Jesus would be born in Bethlehem and that the Book of Mormon is therefore false.
@aualliso@JeffN_Clasher@Mormonger And in this case, in your attempt to find fault, you appear to have blinded your own sense of logic and seem content to die on hill with little foundation.
Any neutral outside observer would not find your argument very persuasive, but the counter arguments much more logical.
@aualliso@JeffN_Clasher@Mormonger Your personal litmus test does not make up the criteria for "every measure of truth".
The Pharisees and other naysayers around Christ's time often argued that He didn't fulfill prophecy specifically enough for their liking or interpretations, and thus rejected him.
@ChristLifeInc1@Fredric79965849@jaredadairbell I'll address just a point of this last one that I couldn't after being blocked - yes they are all addressed to different groups of people, but Acts 17:28-29 is specifically to people who aren't believers and yet there it states that we are all the offspring of God.
@ChristLifeInc1@Fredric79965849@jaredadairbell Those scriptures say God is the Father of all of us and we are His offspring. You can try to interpret them to have a different meaning than the straightforward reading, but that would be an *interpretation*.
Can you not see that you are making your own interpretation?