David Delphenich

Interaction product design guy designing websites - and all free time is following Christ (LDS), oh and running kids around to soccer. Whew! Hurrah for Israel!

[David Delphenich @delphenich]

Don’t get caught up in the accusatory fog of the world.

What an amazing story and testimony.

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@JRLGrisham @TheGermanicist Feel free to tell Him that yourself. Best of luck with that.

Oh and learn your biblical history - the confidence of the ignorant online is so painful.

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@TheHillofSlane @GoWithJordan_ Your personal standard for them is a flawed proposition, which is not even biblical - no prophet all throughout time has ever been perfect. There is only one that has ever been perfect - that is Jesus Christ.

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Speculation that gets written down to encourage people to ponder, study, and seek their own revelation is not the same thing as core, unchanging doctrine. People constantly conflate the two and then use that confusion to justify all kinds of criticisms.

What’s especially strange is that they rarely apply the same standard to any other faith tradition. If every sermon, commentary, theological opinion, or speculative idea ever expressed by religious leaders were treated as binding doctrine, no faith would survive the scrutiny.

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Speculation that gets written down to encourage people to ponder, study, and seek their own revelation is not the same thing as core, unchanging doctrine. People constantly conflate the two and then use that confusion to justify all kinds of criticisms.

What’s especially strange is that they rarely apply the same standard to any other faith tradition. If every sermon, commentary, theological opinion, or speculative idea ever expressed by religious leaders were treated as binding doctrine, no faith would survive the scrutiny.

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Serious red flags man! I mean, just imagine the original apostles ( many just young teenage fisherman who never have even left their home town) and then Christ himself having the nerve to all go around to the Jews (clearly Gods chosen people (and then to the rest of the world)), thinking how their super tiny cult church is the correct one out of all the belief systems, across all time, and across all humanity. Geez, what morons!! Who’s following that crazy cult!!

Yup, that’s basically what you just sounded like. 🤦‍♂️

That is literally the start of every belief system across all space and time.

Please let your cringy, embarrassing posts end. At this point, it’s less like someone searching for truth and more like someone hopelessly searching for validation. If you were genuinely at peace with your decision, you wouldn’t feel the need to constantly attack others who make different choices. The endless criticism is just a super sad attempt to reassure yourself that you chose correctly—just because you feel validated when some agree with you, doesn’t mean your correct in your choices and beliefs. The sad part is that you seem completely unaware of how obviois it is to everyone else how not okay you are with where your at - oh and even worse your terrible takes are probably bringing down others with your sinking ship.

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The most important thing prophets/apostles do is unify the body of Christ behind a single translation of scripture so that there aren’t 50k+ different Christian denominations all stating they are actually the ones with the correct definition of the Trinity, or if baptism is needed , or [insert any doctrine or verse].

Ephesians 4 makes it quite clear why prophets and aposltes (even after Christ came and setup his church) are needed - note that “edifying” here means educating” :

“11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;”

So without that authority given to the apostles/prophets, no one else has the authority to correct the doctrine so that we all aren’t “tossed to and fro”.

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The most important thing they do is unify the body of Christ behind a single translation of scripture so that there aren’t 50k+ different Christian denominations all stating they are actually the ones with the correct definition of the Trinity, or if baptism is needed , or [insert any doctrine or verse].

Ephesians 4 makes it quite clear why prophets and aposltes are needed - note that “edifying” here means educating” :

“11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;”

So without that authority given to the apostles, no one else has the authority to correct the doctrine so that we all aren’t “tossed to and fro”.

[David Delphenich @delphenich]

Nope. Everyone just loves to say that about us, but not a single lesson, talk or LDS person has ever, ever, ever said we earn our exaltation, and has never said: “oh, geez walley” look at how good we are, we will certainly earn heaven for ourselves. Nope, never happens - never has been said. We know it’s only through Jesus Christ that anyone is saved.

We follow Jesus and do what he actual says and receive the gift of baptism and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost from those with authority, and that directly impacts our lives in a real way - that direct connection to God literally helps us in following the two great commandments that he said His followers should actually follow.

The data the world collects on the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS) just speaks for itself. It’s only ever brought up when we are being attacked in hopes you guys will open your eyes - since all you guys care about is “evidence” to back up your “faith/beliefs”. You deal and cope with it however you guys want - but what you just said is a pathetic made up lie you guys love repeating about us because it makes yourself feel better and holier then though. How do you not see that?

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@farmingandJesus Lizzy. Where is the question?

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@farmingandJesus Next person

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@nicoraytruth Who are you?

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@Latterdaytruth Wasn’t Jackson County where Adam and Eve lived after leaving the Garden of Eden. Meaning that it’s NOT the place where the Garden of Eden is.

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Here’s Gozo talking about how he attends the temple before each game:

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“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” -Matthew 24:14

“I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” - Revelation 14:6

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History made. Gozo to Booth — the first Latter-day Saint to Latter-day Saint goal in MLS history.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by the numbers:

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The most powerful protection against childhood depression is having a mother who values religion.

When a mother and her child both said religion was personally important to them, the child was 80 percent less likely to develop major depression.

Five times lower risk.

That comes from a 10-year longitudinal study at Columbia led by psychologist Lisa Miller. It's the largest protective effect against depression she has found anywhere in the resilience literature.

A decade later, Miller's team put adults from the same cohort in MRI machines. People who rated religion or spirituality as personally important had thicker cortices in the exact brain regions that thin in people at high familial risk for depression. The protection has a physical signature.

The variable wasn't belief alone. It was shared, internalized importance. Mom and child both meant it.

The strongest known buffer against depression in kids is a parent and child who share a faith that actually means something to both of them.

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Yikes, so much is just poorly researched in that-which is sadly how a majority of mainstream Christians come across, even about their own beliefs, let alone when they try to explain others’ beliefs. 🤦‍♂️

Besides all the obvious incorrect statements made about the Book of Mormon in the first two paragraphs, I find it interesting they point out the forty days of Jesus’ visit after His resurrection, where we have so very little of what Jesus actually did during that long period of time. But apparently, so much happened during this time that, as John 21:25 says: “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.”

We know Jesus, before His resurrection, said when asked to heal a Gentile: “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24), but He also said: “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” (John 10:16). The Bible never mentions Him personally visiting these other sheep. So Jesus must have visited other sheep around the world so that they might all hear His voice and be one fold and one shepherd.

Which, as a Christian, you clearly believe means He is Christ over the entire world-not just the “Middle East area.” So why would He not have visited others around the world?

It’s no wonder there are ancient traditions and fable stories told of a great white God or divine teacher who came and visited ancient lands all around the world. Thankfully we have at least one other of these ancient records (The Book of Mormon) telling the story of these other lost sheep - hopefully others will come about.

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@DavoustBaldPate @RestoredTruth8 🤦‍♂️