Mormon Gem - Can't Afford Not To Pay Tithing

[omiolo]

New bishop for Mormon church

January 10, 2012

Spenborough Guardian (United Kingdom)

[omiolo]

Bet you didn't realize that numerous members of the celebrity set are also members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In other words, top names in Hollywood belong to the Mormon religion. Take dancer and actress Julianne Hough for example. The 'Footloose' star and 'Dancing' pro was raised in Utah, a state well-known for Mormon communities. Which other celebs belong to the LDS church?

[omiolo]

2 teens charged with arson in Santaquin LDS Church building

January 1, 2012

Deseret News

[omiolo]

What?!: Fact and Fiction About a Rising Religion by Gary Lawrence. A lively analysis of the facts and fictions surrounding Mormonism - a religion mysterious to some, misunderstood by many, and maligned by more than a few. Sprinkling each chapter with results from his national polls, Lawrence produces the go-to guidebook for the person who wants to understand "just enough" about this increasingly visible religion. Retail: $24.95

[omiolo]

The Promised Land: Lehi prophecies about the promised land, focusing on the blessings and consequences that come with keeping the commandments of the Lord. Making this covenant with God and prospering in the land of promise is a common theme throughout the Book of Mormon.

[omiolo]

FAIR Study Aids Lesson 6: Free to Choose Liberty and Eternal Life

February 4, 2012

FAIR LDS

[rtardbox]

wow, welcome to the female world of superstition ... "expect a blessing" ... what a joke ... after that does not happen your church leader will tell you that blessing is "in the next life" ... grown!!

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@rtardbox I want you to know that God loves you.

[rtardbox]

@MormonsLoveFamilies I want you to know that notion, when said outside the heart, is so meaningless it makes people think the one who says it is insane, stupid, cultish or all three. I want you to also know that, unless this notion is felt internally, the external revelation of God's love brings comfort to NOBODY!

My conclusion - you are a woman with a cake easy life. Full of platitudes and superstitions and no real words of meaning or power at all. Just like this dogmatic, idiotic video

[omiolo]

@rtardbox "it makes people think the one who says it is insane, stupid, cultish or all three"

Were you DROPPED on your head too many times as a kid? Did your MOMMY not love you enough? Seriously, what is WRONG with you?

[rtardbox]

@omiolo guess i'm a realistic, critical thinker who won't get sucked into a confidence easily. dag me and my brain! sigh.... guess mormonsm ill never be my thing hen... ohhhhh noooooo!

[omiolo]

@rtardbox "guess i'm a realistic"

Guess AGAIN! and what is with the disjointed comment?

[rtardbox]

@omiolo it's not... you're just an idiot... "guess i'm a realistic thinker" or "guess i'm a critical thinker" combined into "guess i'm a realistic, critical thinker" ... you freaking idiot

hey, send me 10% of your income and i promise your cup will runeth over. i represent god and god wants you to give it to me and i'll spend it on stuff he wants me to and you'll be blessed with health and hot women and fast cars and sturdy erections and crap. i even take checks!

you fool

[omiolo]

@rtardbox "you're just an idiot"

Wow, you told me! In your world the little educated disjointed people are the smart ones and the HIGHLY educated coherent are idiots.

I am glad YOUR world and my world do NOT come in contact with each other!

[rtardbox]

@MormonsLoveFamilies oh, and p/s --- god loves you too.  just like he love Hitler, Satan and Cain.... kinda puts God's "love" into perspective now doesn't it?

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@rtardbox God still loves you.

[omiolo]

For more than an hour, amid explosions, waterfalls, fiery deaths and a Christ in glowing white robes who floats to stage from a heavenly height, the Prestons and their brethren helped bring to life the stories told in the Book of Mormon.

"Plato listed spectacle as one of the basic elements of drama, and we certainly cash in on that," said pageant artistic director Brent Hanson, a theater professor at Utah's Dixie State College, who, like all pageant staff, is a volunteer. .

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@omiolo The first part of the sentence threw me off for a minute.

[omiolo]

A different kind of Mormon stage show

The annual Hill Cumorah Pageant in upstate New York tells the events of the Book of Mormon on a massive outdoor stage. Hundreds of families attend, and it's run entirely by volunteers.

Los Angeles Times

[omiolo]

In the play, we wanted to deal with events that occurred in various companies of Mormon pioneers. Our solution was to frame the whole pioneer saga within a single dream. We gave the dream to John Brown, who was a Prominent Pioneer and also my great-great-grandfather, in order of importance.

[omiolo]

This month I'm way backstage, about six hundred miles backstage. A stake in Riverside, California (they're telling me it's the "Jurupa" stake, but I don't believe them), is mounting a production of the musical play "The Trail of Dreams" that was written fifteen years ago by yours truly, James Arrington, and Steven Kapp Perry.

[omiolo]

With a treasure-trove of stories and experience, the founder of

Heirlines*com gives an overview of his upcoming presentations at

the BYU Conference for Family History & Genealogy on July 26-29 and

gives candid advice about finding the right person with the right

qualifications when you need some extra help finding important

family information. It's informative and entertaining.

[omiolo]

These are just two of the recent mysteries professional researcher

James Petty has been called upon to solve.

[omiolo]

@fab42 "Have you threatened YOUR child with eternal damnation today"

Yeah, we tell them that if they do NOT get an education, they will end up BITTER, lonely and destitute like you....

[omiolo]

@fab42 ".please donate it to people who build hospitals instead of churches for their own gain"

Who is it in the LDS church that gets rich when we build churches? Please do the ONE thing you will NEVER do and be specific......

[omiolo]

President Thomas S. Monson Delivers Commencement Address at Dixie State College

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@omiolo I would have liked to have gone.

[omiolo]

Another way that you can share the gospel is to invite friends to meet with full-time missionaries in your home. Those missionaries are called and prepared to teach the gospel.

[omiolo]

Admitting that they had only turned its pages, they accepted my invitation. When they returned, they said tearfully, “We have read the Book of Mormon. We know it is true! We want to know more.” They learned more, and it was my privilege to baptize both of them.

[omiolo]

Yep, Naomi and Stacie and Stephanie and Liz are Mormons. They're members of a large, close-knit network of Mormon lifestyle bloggers -- young stay-at-home-moms who blog about home and hearth, Latter-day Saint-style. From Rockstar Diaries (Naomi) to Underaged and Engaged (Stacie) to Nie Nie Dialogues (Stephanie) to Say Yes to Hoboken (Liz), Mormon lifestyle bloggers occupy their very own corner of the blogosphere.

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@omiolo Sounds interesting.

[omiolo]

The two sides on a proposed Mormon temple in north Phoenix recently tried to make their case to a zoning adjustment hearing officer.

[vendo233]

This is an honest-to-goodness load of crap. I've "prospered" more now since I stopped paying tithing than I ever did when I was paying tithing. I think fasting was invented so that tithing wouldn't look so suspiciously greedy. If we want to give, we should give. Otherwise, it's extortion. I wonder if Jesus truly wants us to be dumb and faithful or smart and wise?

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@vendo233 I want you to know that God loves you.

[omiolo]

Jesus then turned to the Twelve and asked, “Will ye also go away?

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@omiolo A question we should ask ourselves too.

[omiolo]

You will remember Jesus’s experience in Capernaum as disciples who had followed the Savior would not accept that He was the Son of God. The scripture reads, “From that time many of his disciples … walked no more with him.

[omiolo]

Around 26 inches high, a 3 inch high band of South Arabian script encircled it. To see an almost identical altar was something that exceeded our expectations, but the best was still to come.

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@omiolo I am not sure to what you are referring.

[omiolo]

For me, it was hard to reconcile the carefully excavated and restored complex with what I remembered. It was only a few minutes later that we realized that a stone altar stood a short distance away, one that looked the same as the altar in the catalog. Excitedly, several of us began to examine it.

[omiolo]

Among those receiving equipment were the Guyana Police Force B Division, Guyana Prison Service, Guyana Fire Service, New Amsterdam Catholic and Anglican Churches, NCN Berbice Sports Club, Lower Corentyne Secondary, J.C. Chandisingh Secondary, Port Mourant Secondary, Tutorial Academy, Belvedere Primary, Rose Hall Town Primary, CCI Mission and Corentyne Comprehensive Secondary Schools.

[omiolo]

Elder Spencer Wilhelm and Elder Kevin Michels (Concepcion, Chile): Right after the earthquake, we found a woman in the hallway, hysterically screaming and in need of help. In her apartment we found her husband who had been paralyzed from a car accident last year from the neck down. So we carried him down 5 flights of stairs. We got them away from the building then went back up for his medicine, some food for that family, our keys and cell phone.

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@omiolo That was a devastating earthquake!

[omiolo]

Elder Riley Harper (Chile, Concepcion South Mission): A few months before the quake we had a mission meeting on emergency preparedness and President Swenson outlined an emergency plan which included where the missionaries should meet up in the event of an emergency.

[omiolo]

He instructed them specifically on what to do in the event of an earthquake. The First Presidency sent the missionaries water bottles with a built-in water filtration system and water filtering tablets. The water bottles have been a life saver and all the missionaries are using them.

[omiolo]

Elder Jonathon Welling (Chile, Rancauga Mission): We got back to Chepica on Tuesday and handed out clothes and food. Since the Catholics lost their church, they were using our church to help their congregation, many of whom have lost everything. I am perfectly safe and happy and hopefully many people can find their Heavenly Father though this disaster.

[Shulamitefire]

This common false assumption is very often repeated and completely ignores the very plain definition of tithe as food gathered from farm increase or herd increase.

The widows mite is an example of free-will giving and is not an example of tithing. None of the Temples chests were for tithes. The poor received money from those chests before leaving the temple.

[Shulamitefire]

The poor were not required to tithe at all! Neither did the tithe come from the results of mans crafts, hands and skills. Only farmers and herdsmen gathered what God produced as tithe increase. Jesus was a carpenter; Paul was a tentmaker and Peter was a fisherman. None of these occupations qualified as tithe-payers because they did not farm or herd animals for a living. It is, therefore, incorrect to teach that everybody paid a required minimum of a tithe.

[Shulamitefire]

There are 16 verses from 11 chapters and 8 books from Leviticus 27 to Luke 11 which describe the contents of the tithe. And the contents never (I repeat), never included money, silver, gold or anything other than food from inside Israel! Yet the incorrect definition of "tithe" is the greatest error being preached about tithing today! (See Lev. 27:30, 32; Num. 18:27-28; Deut. 12:17; 14:22-23; 26:12; 2 Chron. 31:5-6; Neh. 10:37; 13:5; Mal. 3:10-11; Matt. 23:23; Luke 11: 42).

[omiolo]

This love of learning showed up in a 2008 report by The National Study of Youth and Religion, which described Latter-day Saint youth as excelling in religious knowledge and devotion in a time when church attendance and religious study are at an all-time low.

[omiolo]

When you see that reality clearly with spiritual sight, you will put spiritual learning first and yet not slight the secular learning. In fact, you will work harder at your secular learning than you would without that spiritual vision.

[Shulamitefire]

To build shopping malls, et al & provide open, responsible, defendable financial disclosure to their membership?

To be barred from temple entrance because of not having previously paid admission with their tithes? See Luke 18.

To have gone without basic living necessities because of having given to a church that greedily idolizes mammon?

To as the Christian Bible says owe no man anything but love?

How much money Mormons believe they owe their church-cult of corporation!

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

Shulamitefire;

You do not need to debase yourself like this. You are better than this.

[Shulamitefire]

@MormonsLoveFamilies

Neither do Mormons need to debase Christians, nor exchange the image of the incorruptible God for an image made like Mormon man, who exchange the truth for lies, who worship creation more than the Creator. Let the reader understand.

[omiolo2]

The Mormon church understands the power of the widow's mite!