Maybe they fancy themselves as the patient Charlie Brown who covers us with a fleece blanket and returns us, shivering, to our warm bed when the Great Pumpkin doesn't appear to deliver toys to all the children in the world.
It is absurd to believe in a great pumpkin rising from the pumpkin patch, but I can admire the earnest, devoted way Linus believes a great pumpkin will rise. If it helps him get through life, the writers of this musical seem to say, more power to Linus.
Maybe those writers think that we Mormons, much like Linus, miss out on the candy of life, freezing in our strange fields.
By profession, Elder Scott was a nuclear engineer. Forty years ago, he and his wife were visiting some friends, and he was amazed at how this other person had been able to take a blank piece of paper and watercolors and make something beautiful of it. So, eventually he began taking lessons.
One discussion led to another, and at one point Sheri Dew asked him -- she had seen some of his art -- and said, 'Is there any way we could share that?' She asked him, and he thought about it for awhile, and then one thing came to another and we were able to have these prints made of his originals so that we could share them with the public."
When those same people discover the great tower story in the Book of Mormon, they typically assume that this proves that the Book of Mormon is merely a fictional creation of Joseph’s imagination and borrowings from the Bible.
Science doesn’t seem to support the notion that all peoples of the earth had a unified language four to five thousand years ago, nor that this singular language suddenly became multiple languages in the short period implied by the biblical narrative. For some people, the Tower of Babel story is a great example of how science conflicts with religion.
As Elder Holland spoke prior to the dedicatory prayer, he commented on the nearly three million people in the busy city below who had no idea of the great event that was happening, quietly and without fanfare, on the hillside above them.
They were unaware of the blessings about to be invoked by an apostle of the Lord over this long-suffering, war-torn land. With the blessing that was pronounced, the gospel in its fullness could be extended to Burundi and thousands would hear the message and embrace it.
@omiolo The reason why you have so much time on your hands is the fact is that you are typical mormon from utah who are known to be lazy and dont work. The other reason is because your gay, most people who have families dont sit and talk to themselves in video rooms all day long.
@MormonsLoveFamilies Youre a mormon and for a mormon (knowing that the mormons are a form of satan) have NO place to bless anyone by God, a mormon doing so is only mockery from the mormon. Theres enough proof throughout the decades that proves that mormonism is of lies,deceit and trickery. I will NOT tolerate anything of satan mocking my father in heaven, YOU GOT ME!
@omiolo Talking to yourself just proves that you have no friends, no job because the mormons from utah are known to be lazy. You probably sit in your basement and whack off to joseph smith pictures and pics of little kids.
@omiolo cus you mormons dont have a leg to stand on.. thats why the only insult you idiots can come up with is calling someone immature, hey if all of us out there hate blasphemous mormons then hell yeah then I am damn proud to be immature because of that
@MormonsLoveFamilies oooh bad people.. to the mormons, any child of God are the bad people because in reality the mormons are a product of satan, which concedes of lies,deceit and trickery and how the mormons use Jesus name as a ploy to lure Gods children away from him to join satan and his mormon children, fyi, it is blasphemous for a mormon to claim being a Christian
@omiolo Yelling in caps sounds to me as if you dont have an arguement, in other words I win again against an idiot mormon who is trying to spew out blasphemy and mockery of the Lord! Again if I go to utah and visit you in your basement I will have no problem ripping you apart. You feel safe behind a computer screen but if it came down to it you would run and hide.
Historical significance: Preston is located in southeastern Idaho, close to the Utah border; the town was founded in the 1860s by Mormon pioneers. ...
WARSAW, Poland -- The status of the LDS Church in Poland can best be described as ironic -- a start dating back to the late 19th century, but a current membership totaling fewer than 2,000; and the predominance of the Roman Catholic Church allowing a Mormon presence in the then-ommunist country in the 1970s but serving as an obstacle to conversion today.
@omiolo Everyone knows what a troll you are, I heard that you sit in these video rooms and carry on conversations with yourself, which is a good idea for you because no true child of God wants to hear your mormon blasphemy, so you are the only person who will listen to yourself
On a warm summer afternoon, passersby in Temple Square speak many languages as they make their pilgrimage to the heart of the conservative religion that numbers nearly 14 million members worldwide. The nearby Salt Lake Tabernacle, home to the internationally renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir, attracts the devout as well as the curious.
He highlights five ways social media and marketing have helped Mormons spread the gospel and explains that as Mormons, "We enjoy the relationships we have with those around us, and more importantly, we believe most strongly in building a true relationship with God. It is these 'relationships' that, in my opinion, make Social Media, and modern-day marketing a natural fit for every Mormon, whether they realize they are doing it or not." Check it out!
Social media: "I'm totally excited and stoked that technology is enabling us, as Mormons, to finally share with the world who we are, on a global and massive scale and we can finally be completely transparent about who we are." So says blogger Jesse Stay, who happens to be the Social Media Architect for the church, in this fascinating post on "Mormon viral marketing.
The battle over the definition of marriage is also a battle to control religion's role in public discourse, said William C. Duncan at the annual conference of the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research. It also is a relatively new issue.
Clayton Christensen: Did you know that "well-known Mormon author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen was quoted at length in David Brooks's New York Times column, called 'The Summoned Self'"? Check to see what was said!
FHE year: Need a lesson for tonight's family home evening? How about a year of family home evenings? By the end of 2010, this blog hopes to have 52 weeks of lesson plans "to teach and inspire your family." And because we're already to August, there are many weeks of lessons to use and peruse already posted. Wow!
What Schryver was talking about was how he solved part of a mystery that involved ancient Egyptian papyri, secret codes and the Knights Templar. It was nothing less than a paradigm shift in how scholars could approach the 1835 Kirtland Egyptian Papers.
"There are instances where there are sudden strokes of light," he said. "Something beyond yourself, a conclusion, understanding, insight, not a result of simply cognitive, rational processes alone. It is a power and strength beyond our own. Sometimes those come quickly and they bring a tremendous immediate illumination."
Revelation comes in a variety of ways, Elder Bednar taught. He shared three patterns to revelation. To explain the first pattern, Elder Bednar compared revelation to someone turning on a light in a dark room.
He compared finding balance in life to the example of a Chinese acrobat spinning multiple plates on a stick simultaneously. Just as the acrobat is limited in the number of plates he is able to keep spinning, individuals are limited in what they can do, and need to learn to focus on the most important.
Students, missionaries and faculty members listen from the lobby as Elder David A. Bednar, of the Quorum of the Twelve, spoke to the Ogden Institute of Religion on Sunday, October 17.
@omiolo Doesn't surprise me that a mormon trashes Gods name like you just did with me. You have psychotic mental issues and you need to be in jail, YOU do IN fact MOLEST children, LIKE all MORMONS do
@omiolo why did you just completely sidestep the subject of discussing the gospel? i am even willing to discuss it through the Book of Mormon only. do why do you not want to discuss the gospel? i know why you do not want to start in Alma 4 or 5, so you pick a topic to discuss...
@omiolo hahaha you are a riot. you can sure dish it out the judgment and scorn but when it comes back you can't even discuss Christ's teachings. do you want to discuss the gospel or be a coward? Christ taught to testify in all things in all places; i'd like to testify. would you?
(i wonder if the next comment from you will be something like this mentality: "you said it not me.... i know you are but what am i?)
@omiolo well i was pretty close as to what absurd comment would come next. actually, though, your sarcasm is moot considering dictionary*com for the word "riot", 5th definition "something or someone hilariously funny"
now that you've sidestepped every issue, are we ready to discuss the gospel? i'd like to discuss some aspects of the Book of Mormon. is that ok?
Every chair in the Ogden Institute building was occupied Sunday evening as students, missionaries and faculty members listened to Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve and his wife, Sister Susan Bednar, speak at a fireside.
Drawing from Sister Fox's diaries, Chapman focused on her experiences in the YLMIA. Read one 1901 entry: Started for Vernal (Utah) for Mutual Improvement Conference. Went as far as Price. Stayed all night with President Reuben Miller. In the morning, took the stage with apostle Rudger Clawson riding about 60 miles reaching a so-called station about half-past 10 o'clock p.m.
Chapman commented, "This was her first big excursion across the plains. If only she could comprehend that about 70 years later, she would be flying to her destinations instead of walking."
Her travels with the YLMIA organization were intense, Chapman said, because it was still a rural environment in Utah, and the organization leaders would leave families for as long as six weeks at a time to visit far-flung missions of the LDS Church in Canada and Mexico.
Those who enter the temple are required to don white clothes that symbolize purity, and must wear covers over their shoes. Even those who clean the temple must be card-carrying members, he said. Visitors during the open house won't have to wear white, but it is hoped their apparel respects the sacredness of the site, Whiting added.
Ricks, a professor of Hebrew and Cognate Learning at Brigham Young University, said just knowing Book of Mormon names and their origins would help an individual know these names were authentic.
The message she hoped listeners received was more elaborate -- "The beauty of the great plan of happiness puts men and women as equal partners in the great journey from our home in the premortal existence through mortality, and then returning back to our heavenly home," Hudson-Cassler said.
While the charming rock-and-brick home next to City Hall seems small by today's standards, some say it embodies the grand pioneer spirit that helped found this South Davis County community.
Thomas Whitaker -- born in England and baptized into the Mormon faith in California in 1849 -- built the two-story house in the 1860s for his wife Elizabeth
The couple, who were married in the Anchorage Temple in 2001, have two sons, Shane, 5, and Austin, 2 ½. Their third child, a baby girl, is due in September.
"We believe death is not an end to life," Sandra Banks said of her Mormon faith.
"It's a great comfort to know he's watching over his little family from the other side and they'll be together again someday."
The annual Hill Cumorah Pageant near Palmyra will be staged Friday and next Saturday and July 13 through 17.
The theatrical representation of scenes from the Bible and the Book of Mormon is presented by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Hill Cumorah, located on Highway 21, two miles north of Thruway Exit 43.
Performances begin each day at 9 p.m. Parking and admission are free. For more information, call 597-5851
@omiolo Sounds like YOU'RE bit TOUCHED in the HEAD with YOUR writing STYLE with EVERY other WORD that is in CAPS, IF I went to HELL I WOULD of seen the PROPHET of SATAN joseph SMITH
@omiolo YOU ARE NUTS FOR TALKING EVERY OTHER SENTENCE IN CAPS BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT ITS BEEN PROVEN THAT THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH IS ROTTING IN HELL AS SATANS VERY OWN PROPHET OF SATAN.. OK YOU MORMON CHILD MOLESTING TROLL
@omiolo "YOU are in HELL. Look around the Prophet of God, Joseph Smith is NOT there. REPENt."
lol still accusing and judging people as though you yourself are guiltless of being a hypocrite. you truly astound me.
“Wherefore, I say unto you, that ye ought to forgive one another; for he that forgiveth not his brother his trespasses standeth CONDEMNED before the Lord; for there remaineth in him the GREATER SIN.
...of you it is required to forgive all men." (D&C 64:8–10.)
@omiolo wow, you really and truly do not even understand your own doctrine. i'm just now finding this out. you spout of "prescribed" answers but you do not even have a clue to the meat of your own church.
"he didn't ASK for forgiveness"?? you honestly think that the Lord meant "forgive ONLY THOSE that ASK for forgiveness"?
@SvenTveskegg I have a hard time discussing the Bible with so called Born Agains, because NOTHING else seems to matter besides ATTACKING Mormons and declaring your salvation in spite of what the Bible says.
@omiolo you find it hard to discuss the Bible at all. i haven't seen you testify of Christ once in all of your absurdities. can you? i have already told you, if you want to discuss the gospel, let's discuss the gospel--and i will even discuss it from solely from the Book of Mormon. so let's get to it, what do you want to discuss? i have already suggested several chapters in the BoM to start but you don't seem to like those (go figure): Alma 4 and 5. well? shall we?
@SvenTveskegg Hes have a good time talking to himself in here and he thinks he is tough with his Caps he uses in his sentences (rolls eyes) hes a child molestor that should still be in jail.. utah is pathetic and full of pedophiles
On his return from his mission, Allred went to Utah State University to prepare himself for medical school. At about the same time, he began working with a nonprofit organization whose goal was to provide housing, hospitals and community centers in Brazil.
@omiolo If I was from hell I would of seen joseph smith down there. Seems to me that lds stands for lucifers demonic servants, you must be another mormon troll seems like it
Casey Allred's two years on a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints mission to the eastern European country were enough to convince him that he needed to help people who weren't awarded first-world privilege at birth.
"That really opened up my eyes to what a Third World country is and what it has," Allred said. "When I got home, I vowed that I was going to make a difference.
Rane created 19 paintings, which were published in a book entitled By the Hand of Mormon: Scenes from the Land of Promise, and also served as the subject of a 2004–2005 exhibit at the Church History Museum.
In 2001 Rane was, like Friberg, commissioned to create a series of Book of Mormon paintings, a series to serve as part of an art book on the subject. Rane was new to scriptural interpretation, having been a magazine illustrator for a number of years, but was anxious to try a different approach to illustrating the scriptures.
The baptistery and other ordinance rooms are also depicted. Close attention is paid to detail, and even paintings, furniture and working chandeliers and lamps imitate those found in the actual temple.
@omiolo "We have been preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ since day ONE and will NOT soon quit =)"
i have not seen you testify of Christ ONCE on youtube. i've seen you criticize, judge, scorn, mock and tell people to repent a lot. oh, and let us also not forget pride, condescension, false witness, hypocrisy, persecution... truly great works for one who belongs to the "only true Church" on earth.
Maybe they fancy themselves as the patient Charlie Brown who covers us with a fleece blanket and returns us, shivering, to our warm bed when the Great Pumpkin doesn't appear to deliver toys to all the children in the world.
omiolo 8 months ago
It is absurd to believe in a great pumpkin rising from the pumpkin patch, but I can admire the earnest, devoted way Linus believes a great pumpkin will rise. If it helps him get through life, the writers of this musical seem to say, more power to Linus.
Maybe those writers think that we Mormons, much like Linus, miss out on the candy of life, freezing in our strange fields.
omiolo 8 months ago
By profession, Elder Scott was a nuclear engineer. Forty years ago, he and his wife were visiting some friends, and he was amazed at how this other person had been able to take a blank piece of paper and watercolors and make something beautiful of it. So, eventually he began taking lessons.
omiolo 1 year ago
One discussion led to another, and at one point Sheri Dew asked him -- she had seen some of his art -- and said, 'Is there any way we could share that?' She asked him, and he thought about it for awhile, and then one thing came to another and we were able to have these prints made of his originals so that we could share them with the public."
omiolo 1 year ago
When those same people discover the great tower story in the Book of Mormon, they typically assume that this proves that the Book of Mormon is merely a fictional creation of Joseph’s imagination and borrowings from the Bible.
omiolo 1 year ago
Science doesn’t seem to support the notion that all peoples of the earth had a unified language four to five thousand years ago, nor that this singular language suddenly became multiple languages in the short period implied by the biblical narrative. For some people, the Tower of Babel story is a great example of how science conflicts with religion.
omiolo 1 year ago
As Elder Holland spoke prior to the dedicatory prayer, he commented on the nearly three million people in the busy city below who had no idea of the great event that was happening, quietly and without fanfare, on the hillside above them.
omiolo 1 year ago
They were unaware of the blessings about to be invoked by an apostle of the Lord over this long-suffering, war-torn land. With the blessing that was pronounced, the gospel in its fullness could be extended to Burundi and thousands would hear the message and embrace it.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo The reason why you have so much time on your hands is the fact is that you are typical mormon from utah who are known to be lazy and dont work. The other reason is because your gay, most people who have families dont sit and talk to themselves in video rooms all day long.
supportingcrew 1 year ago
@supportingcrew I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies Youre a mormon and for a mormon (knowing that the mormons are a form of satan) have NO place to bless anyone by God, a mormon doing so is only mockery from the mormon. Theres enough proof throughout the decades that proves that mormonism is of lies,deceit and trickery. I will NOT tolerate anything of satan mocking my father in heaven, YOU GOT ME!
supportingcrew 1 year ago
@supportingcrew you are crazy!
omiolo 1 year ago
@supportingcrew no matter what LIES you spout, you are STILL crazy and we both know it. In fact EVERYONE knows it.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Prepared to be blessed by God.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
Elder Holland offered a blessing on the people and the nation, dedicating the country of Burundi for missionary work on Oct. 19.
omiolo 1 year ago
Elder Steven E. Snow of the Presidency of the Seventy and Bishop H. David Burton of the Presiding Bishopric were also on assignment in the area.
omiolo 1 year ago
@makingaccountforyou you are like a LITTLE gnat. Vinny McCann should be proud of you.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Talking to yourself just proves that you have no friends, no job because the mormons from utah are known to be lazy. You probably sit in your basement and whack off to joseph smith pictures and pics of little kids.
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
@makingaccountforyou STOP it. This is crazy you typing again. Remember what Jesus did when the crazies came after Him?
omiolo 1 year ago
Young women were encouraged to make banners representing their commitment or heritage during the Sesquicentennial of the Church in 1980.
Sunday instruction for Young Women began in 1980, due to the consolidated meeting schedule.
The practice of repeating the annual Mutual theme was reinstated in 1980.
omiolo 1 year ago
Sister Elaine Anderson Cannon served as general Young Women president from 1978 to 1984. Under her leadership:
The first general women's meeting, which included young women, was held in the Tabernacle in 1978.
omiolo 1 year ago
Sister Kapp and Sister Cannon left rich legacy
The Young Women general presidency honored on Oct. 29 two former general Young Women presidents, Sisters Elaine A. Cannon and Ardeth G. Kapp.
omiolo 1 year ago
Even more bizarre--Nixon (and his men) were convinced Anderson, a Mormon, was part of a larger Mormon conspiracy
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo cus you mormons dont have a leg to stand on.. thats why the only insult you idiots can come up with is calling someone immature, hey if all of us out there hate blasphemous mormons then hell yeah then I am damn proud to be immature because of that
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
@makingaccountforyou speaking of leg, when are you going to come by so I can step on you?
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Bad people usually think Mormon Christians are part of a conspiracy. Which they are, but a conspiracy to do good.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies oooh bad people.. to the mormons, any child of God are the bad people because in reality the mormons are a product of satan, which concedes of lies,deceit and trickery and how the mormons use Jesus name as a ploy to lure Gods children away from him to join satan and his mormon children, fyi, it is blasphemous for a mormon to claim being a Christian
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
@makingaccountforyou I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
@omiolo Yelling in caps sounds to me as if you dont have an arguement, in other words I win again against an idiot mormon who is trying to spew out blasphemy and mockery of the Lord! Again if I go to utah and visit you in your basement I will have no problem ripping you apart. You feel safe behind a computer screen but if it came down to it you would run and hide.
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
Historical significance: Preston is located in southeastern Idaho, close to the Utah border; the town was founded in the 1860s by Mormon pioneers. ...
omiolo 1 year ago
WARSAW, Poland -- The status of the LDS Church in Poland can best be described as ironic -- a start dating back to the late 19th century, but a current membership totaling fewer than 2,000; and the predominance of the Roman Catholic Church allowing a Mormon presence in the then-ommunist country in the 1970s but serving as an obstacle to conversion today.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Everyone knows what a troll you are, I heard that you sit in these video rooms and carry on conversations with yourself, which is a good idea for you because no true child of God wants to hear your mormon blasphemy, so you are the only person who will listen to yourself
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
@makingaccountforyou "Everyone knows what a troll you are"
including the people that make comments on your channel? Why do they ALL label you as immature? Is that a euphemism for short?
omiolo 1 year ago
On a warm summer afternoon, passersby in Temple Square speak many languages as they make their pilgrimage to the heart of the conservative religion that numbers nearly 14 million members worldwide. The nearby Salt Lake Tabernacle, home to the internationally renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir, attracts the devout as well as the curious.
omiolo 1 year ago
He highlights five ways social media and marketing have helped Mormons spread the gospel and explains that as Mormons, "We enjoy the relationships we have with those around us, and more importantly, we believe most strongly in building a true relationship with God. It is these 'relationships' that, in my opinion, make Social Media, and modern-day marketing a natural fit for every Mormon, whether they realize they are doing it or not." Check it out!
omiolo 1 year ago
Social media: "I'm totally excited and stoked that technology is enabling us, as Mormons, to finally share with the world who we are, on a global and massive scale and we can finally be completely transparent about who we are." So says blogger Jesse Stay, who happens to be the Social Media Architect for the church, in this fascinating post on "Mormon viral marketing.
omiolo 1 year ago
The battle over the definition of marriage is also a battle to control religion's role in public discourse, said William C. Duncan at the annual conference of the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research. It also is a relatively new issue.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo I live in neither state, dont even attempt to stalk me boy, I will hunt you down
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
@makingaccountforyou and I believe you........
omiolo 1 year ago
Clayton Christensen: Did you know that "well-known Mormon author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen was quoted at length in David Brooks's New York Times column, called 'The Summoned Self'"? Check to see what was said!
omiolo 1 year ago
FHE year: Need a lesson for tonight's family home evening? How about a year of family home evenings? By the end of 2010, this blog hopes to have 52 weeks of lesson plans "to teach and inspire your family." And because we're already to August, there are many weeks of lessons to use and peruse already posted. Wow!
omiolo 1 year ago
What Schryver was talking about was how he solved part of a mystery that involved ancient Egyptian papyri, secret codes and the Knights Templar. It was nothing less than a paradigm shift in how scholars could approach the 1835 Kirtland Egyptian Papers.
omiolo 1 year ago
"There are instances where there are sudden strokes of light," he said. "Something beyond yourself, a conclusion, understanding, insight, not a result of simply cognitive, rational processes alone. It is a power and strength beyond our own. Sometimes those come quickly and they bring a tremendous immediate illumination."
omiolo 1 year ago
Revelation comes in a variety of ways, Elder Bednar taught. He shared three patterns to revelation. To explain the first pattern, Elder Bednar compared revelation to someone turning on a light in a dark room.
omiolo 1 year ago
He compared finding balance in life to the example of a Chinese acrobat spinning multiple plates on a stick simultaneously. Just as the acrobat is limited in the number of plates he is able to keep spinning, individuals are limited in what they can do, and need to learn to focus on the most important.
omiolo 1 year ago
Students, missionaries and faculty members listen from the lobby as Elder David A. Bednar, of the Quorum of the Twelve, spoke to the Ogden Institute of Religion on Sunday, October 17.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Doesn't surprise me that a mormon trashes Gods name like you just did with me. You have psychotic mental issues and you need to be in jail, YOU do IN fact MOLEST children, LIKE all MORMONS do
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
?@makingaccountforyou You live in Pennsylvania or Ohio?
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo why did you just completely sidestep the subject of discussing the gospel? i am even willing to discuss it through the Book of Mormon only. do why do you not want to discuss the gospel? i know why you do not want to start in Alma 4 or 5, so you pick a topic to discuss...
SvenTveskegg 1 year ago
@SvenTveskegg "i am even willing to discuss it through the Book of Mormon only."
That sounds like a sacrifice on your part.....
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo hahaha you are a riot. you can sure dish it out the judgment and scorn but when it comes back you can't even discuss Christ's teachings. do you want to discuss the gospel or be a coward? Christ taught to testify in all things in all places; i'd like to testify. would you?
(i wonder if the next comment from you will be something like this mentality: "you said it not me.... i know you are but what am i?)
SvenTveskegg 1 year ago
@SvenTveskegg "you are a riot."
I am a LARGE UNRULY crowd?
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo well i was pretty close as to what absurd comment would come next. actually, though, your sarcasm is moot considering dictionary*com for the word "riot", 5th definition "something or someone hilariously funny"
now that you've sidestepped every issue, are we ready to discuss the gospel? i'd like to discuss some aspects of the Book of Mormon. is that ok?
SvenTveskegg 1 year ago
@SvenTveskegg "what absurd comment would come next."
now that just hurts......
omiolo 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@omiolo "now that just hurts...... "
hahaha
so is that a "no" then for discussing the gospel?
SvenTveskegg 1 year ago
@SvenTveskegg That omiolo guy is another mormon pedophile, someone wrote to me and told me that he goes in teen video rooms and makes sexual inuendos
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
@makingaccountforyou I have noticed you have to talk about me to others. As if the mere writing of my name puts you closer to greatness.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Oh and what is the mormons fixation with the Catholics
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
OGDEN, UTAH
Every chair in the Ogden Institute building was occupied Sunday evening as students, missionaries and faculty members listened to Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve and his wife, Sister Susan Bednar, speak at a fireside.
omiolo 1 year ago
Elder Bednar speaks to Ogden Institute of Religion
Mormon apostle speaks on topics of interest to students
omiolo 1 year ago
Drawing from Sister Fox's diaries, Chapman focused on her experiences in the YLMIA. Read one 1901 entry: Started for Vernal (Utah) for Mutual Improvement Conference. Went as far as Price. Stayed all night with President Reuben Miller. In the morning, took the stage with apostle Rudger Clawson riding about 60 miles reaching a so-called station about half-past 10 o'clock p.m.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo You wouldnt get the chance to step on me I would bash your skull in you child molesting mormon asshole!
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
Chapman commented, "This was her first big excursion across the plains. If only she could comprehend that about 70 years later, she would be flying to her destinations instead of walking."
Her travels with the YLMIA organization were intense, Chapman said, because it was still a rural environment in Utah, and the organization leaders would leave families for as long as six weeks at a time to visit far-flung missions of the LDS Church in Canada and Mexico.
omiolo 1 year ago
Those who enter the temple are required to don white clothes that symbolize purity, and must wear covers over their shoes. Even those who clean the temple must be card-carrying members, he said. Visitors during the open house won't have to wear white, but it is hoped their apparel respects the sacredness of the site, Whiting added.
omiolo 1 year ago
Ricks, a professor of Hebrew and Cognate Learning at Brigham Young University, said just knowing Book of Mormon names and their origins would help an individual know these names were authentic.
omiolo 1 year ago
The message she hoped listeners received was more elaborate -- "The beauty of the great plan of happiness puts men and women as equal partners in the great journey from our home in the premortal existence through mortality, and then returning back to our heavenly home," Hudson-Cassler said.
omiolo 1 year ago
While the charming rock-and-brick home next to City Hall seems small by today's standards, some say it embodies the grand pioneer spirit that helped found this South Davis County community.
Thomas Whitaker -- born in England and baptized into the Mormon faith in California in 1849 -- built the two-story house in the 1860s for his wife Elizabeth
omiolo 1 year ago
The couple, who were married in the Anchorage Temple in 2001, have two sons, Shane, 5, and Austin, 2 ½. Their third child, a baby girl, is due in September.
"We believe death is not an end to life," Sandra Banks said of her Mormon faith.
"It's a great comfort to know he's watching over his little family from the other side and they'll be together again someday."
omiolo 1 year ago
The annual Hill Cumorah Pageant near Palmyra will be staged Friday and next Saturday and July 13 through 17.
The theatrical representation of scenes from the Bible and the Book of Mormon is presented by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Hill Cumorah, located on Highway 21, two miles north of Thruway Exit 43.
Performances begin each day at 9 p.m. Parking and admission are free. For more information, call 597-5851
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Sounds like YOU'RE bit TOUCHED in the HEAD with YOUR writing STYLE with EVERY other WORD that is in CAPS, IF I went to HELL I WOULD of seen the PROPHET of SATAN joseph SMITH
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
@makingaccountforyou YOU are in HELL. Look around the Prophet of God, Joseph Smith is NOT there. REPENt.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo YOU ARE NUTS FOR TALKING EVERY OTHER SENTENCE IN CAPS BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT ITS BEEN PROVEN THAT THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH IS ROTTING IN HELL AS SATANS VERY OWN PROPHET OF SATAN.. OK YOU MORMON CHILD MOLESTING TROLL
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
@makingaccountforyou come here. Let me STEP on you!
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Let me STEP on you, I really do think that mormons like YOU like to BLOW goats
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
@makingaccountforyou did your god teach you to talk like that? I am sure Vincent McCann is proud of you!
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo "YOU are in HELL. Look around the Prophet of God, Joseph Smith is NOT there. REPENt."
lol still accusing and judging people as though you yourself are guiltless of being a hypocrite. you truly astound me.
“Wherefore, I say unto you, that ye ought to forgive one another; for he that forgiveth not his brother his trespasses standeth CONDEMNED before the Lord; for there remaineth in him the GREATER SIN.
...of you it is required to forgive all men." (D&C 64:8–10.)
ouch.
SvenTveskegg 1 year ago
@SvenTveskegg "ought to forgive one another"
did he ASK for forgiveness? BTW, Michael, when are you going to STOP stalking me?
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo wow, you really and truly do not even understand your own doctrine. i'm just now finding this out. you spout of "prescribed" answers but you do not even have a clue to the meat of your own church.
"he didn't ASK for forgiveness"?? you honestly think that the Lord meant "forgive ONLY THOSE that ASK for forgiveness"?
wow, you are a true gem.
SvenTveskegg 1 year ago
@SvenTveskegg I have a hard time discussing the Bible with so called Born Agains, because NOTHING else seems to matter besides ATTACKING Mormons and declaring your salvation in spite of what the Bible says.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo you find it hard to discuss the Bible at all. i haven't seen you testify of Christ once in all of your absurdities. can you? i have already told you, if you want to discuss the gospel, let's discuss the gospel--and i will even discuss it from solely from the Book of Mormon. so let's get to it, what do you want to discuss? i have already suggested several chapters in the BoM to start but you don't seem to like those (go figure): Alma 4 and 5. well? shall we?
SvenTveskegg 1 year ago
@SvenTveskegg Hes have a good time talking to himself in here and he thinks he is tough with his Caps he uses in his sentences (rolls eyes) hes a child molestor that should still be in jail.. utah is pathetic and full of pedophiles
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
On his return from his mission, Allred went to Utah State University to prepare himself for medical school. At about the same time, he began working with a nonprofit organization whose goal was to provide housing, hospitals and community centers in Brazil.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo If I was from hell I would of seen joseph smith down there. Seems to me that lds stands for lucifers demonic servants, you must be another mormon troll seems like it
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
@makingaccountforyou there is NO **if**! You are in HELL.
omiolo 1 year ago
Casey Allred's two years on a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints mission to the eastern European country were enough to convince him that he needed to help people who weren't awarded first-world privilege at birth.
"That really opened up my eyes to what a Third World country is and what it has," Allred said. "When I got home, I vowed that I was going to make a difference.
omiolo 1 year ago
Yeah mormons sure love their families alright especially when they're banging them, damn sick satanic incest mormons
makingaccountforyou 1 year ago
@makingaccountforyou where in the world are you from? HELL?
omiolo 1 year ago
Rane created 19 paintings, which were published in a book entitled By the Hand of Mormon: Scenes from the Land of Promise, and also served as the subject of a 2004–2005 exhibit at the Church History Museum.
omiolo 1 year ago
In 2001 Rane was, like Friberg, commissioned to create a series of Book of Mormon paintings, a series to serve as part of an art book on the subject. Rane was new to scriptural interpretation, having been a magazine illustrator for a number of years, but was anxious to try a different approach to illustrating the scriptures.
omiolo 1 year ago
The baptistery and other ordinance rooms are also depicted. Close attention is paid to detail, and even paintings, furniture and working chandeliers and lamps imitate those found in the actual temple.
omiolo 1 year ago
We have been preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ since day ONE and will NOT soon quit =)
omiolo 1 year ago
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@omiolo "We have been preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ since day ONE and will NOT soon quit =)"
i have not seen you testify of Christ ONCE on youtube. i've seen you criticize, judge, scorn, mock and tell people to repent a lot. oh, and let us also not forget pride, condescension, false witness, hypocrisy, persecution... truly great works for one who belongs to the "only true Church" on earth.
SvenTveskegg 1 year ago