@Joyofthesaints@ThoughtfulSaint The scriptures are rife with stories of God’s people stumbling and failing to take the easier way. Christ will ultimately win in the end. That’s a moot point, However, it is arrogance to think that somehow we are immune to consequences simply because we live in the latter-days.
@Joyofthesaints@ThoughtfulSaint They 💯 have the power and microphone to stamp this out but they don’t. We can’t move forward until we debulk the cancer.
The fact that the family proclamation is now controversial shows we have a major problem in the church with active members who simply reject the clear teachings of the prophets and don’t understand our doctrines.
And outsiders look at this division and are turned off as they see what looks like another bickering Protestant sect instead of a united covenant people.
When so many of the members don’t even believe our prophet it looks weird when we are asking non members to.
“If ye are not one… ye are not mine”
@melonakos@Manhattva@ThoughtfulSaint We should all cry repentance while working out their own salvation. Suggesting that an elder should relinquish their duty runs counter to scripture.
@TeachingbridgeM@LukeFHan By their fruits. Muhammad created a military empire that forced conversion by military expansion. Smith drew people from the nations because they desired the biblical Christian church. The Muhammad/smith comparison is academically lazy.
@melonakos@Manhattva@ThoughtfulSaint Maybe if the progressive strain in the church would defend the tenets in the proc we wouldn’t have to constantly hammer the topic. Sadly, the greatest enemy comes from within.
@DavdJustnFreemn@faithandfarm@ryanswalters73 True but you still can’t explain how a farmer’s son produced a book (full of undiscovered hebraisms) in 65 working days without higher education in 1829.
@OchoZaco The LDS church is also doing a better job of cleaning up records. Move outs, deaths etc.
churches are shrinking across the board however polling shows that conservative faiths have faired better. Which is counter to your assumption. https://t.co/b6TzpQbG1r
@KimballCall Tired of members cucking themselves in order to be liked, newsflash…The average evangelical loathes you and your cherished beliefs and it’s never going to get better unless we call out their bigotry. we’ve tried “niceness culture” for two centuries and it doesn’t work.