My beloved brothers and sisters across the world, I express my deep admiration for the faith and courage I see in your lives. We live in a most remarkable time—but a challenging time.
Everything changed on a rainy afternoon visit to Rainbow Bridge in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. In a life-altering experience, Hilton was bathed in the love of her Father in Heaven and felt the truth of not only his existence but the existence of Jesus Christ as well. . .
n fact, she was unable to find a seat anywhere. Then a dear friend, who was a member of one of the general auxiliary boards and was sitting in an area designated for board members, invited Sister Monson to sit with her.
I have spoken to many Mormons and read in their book. Some of the races don't exist and there is no connection to the Indians & Israelites as discovered on deepest genetic level. The gold plates do not exist and are on a language that is undocumented.
Joseph Smith did what 'cult; leaders often do. He claimed that over time the fundamental message of Jesus was incomplete and his teachers and church are the olny true holders of the faith. That is just the very start.
In the February Ensign 2010, there is an article about managing finances in the current difficult economic times. Guess which outgoing this church places first? Tithing. Thats right, 10% of your gross income to a church that has assets approaching $100 BILLION dollars!
The Mormon church, much like the Catholic church is obsessed with Money, Power and Sex. And both a crumbling.
Christianity will fail in this century, because the actions of a few greedy evangelicals hijacked the message.
The Most Reverend John C. Wester, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, also spoke. He was followed by the Salt Lake Scots Bagpipe Band performing Highland Cathedral and Amazing Grace. Members of the Sikh faith and Gnostics were part of the performance for the first time this year.
According to the report, the diocese like most across Canada is in crisis. The report repeats, without qualification or question, the results of a controversial study presented to Anglican bishops five years ago that said that at the present rate of decline a loss of 13,000 members per year only one Anglican would be left in Canada by 2061.
The report, prepared for the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia, calls Canada a post-Christian society in which Anglicanism is declining faster than any other denomination. It says the church has been moved to the far margins of public life.
The Anglican Church in Canada once as powerful in the nation's secular life as it was in its soul may be only a generation away from extinction, says a just-published assessment of the church's future.
But he cries when we show him the flyer that a task force member created, displaying a picture of his kidnapped son with a reward for his return. Some burdens—like the orphanage are difficult to carry. Some burdens—like a son who has been kidnapped—are nearly impossible.
In the front of the orphanage are four new graves, the family and loved ones of Bishop Mardy, killed in the earthquake.
For Bishop Mardy, as director of the orphanage, there are a thousand worries in a land that is no longer functioning and at least seventy mouths to feed.
He gently handles these concerns, emanating a quiet peace and power.
Some of that food and goods goes to the general population as the Church partners with a number of groups including CARE, Food for the Poor, International Relief and Development and many others. Much of those goods, however, go directly to the members of the Church as the bishops report the needs of their ward.
The Church has sent down about 500,000 pounds of food and other critical materials in the weeks since the quake and will stay on providing relief for the foreseeable future
Sobers declines to say how many missionaries are now in Guyana after some 40 church members left to comply with the government's Sept. 2 departure order. Police say no more than 20 missionaries remain.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has said it hopes to replace the missionaries who departed. The church has been sending missionaries to Guyana for more than 20 years.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The Mormon church is slowly rebuilding its public profile in Guyana after the government ordered dozens of its missionaries to leave last fall because of outdated documents.
Church spokesman Leslie Sobers said Saturday the church has resumed donations of medical equipment to charities in the South American nation.
OREM -- The Religious Studies Program at UVU will host filmmaker Helen Whitney for a panel discussion on her PBS documentary "The Mormons" on Friday, Feb. 12, 10 a.m.-noon, in the UVU Library Lakeview Room (fourth floor).
Produced as a joint project for Frontline and the American Experience, this four-hour documentary explores the history, experience, and diverse perceptions of Mormonism.
But we are Latter-day Saints on this plane who know how to pray. It is nearly unheard of for a chartered plane full of passengers to pray together before they leave for a destination or to have a devotional featuring a song, Because I have been given much, I too must give. Yet, we are travelling as a community, already connected by our shared faith and unspoken bonds
This new media outreach has potential to reach many young people from all over the world. Nearly 33,000 DVDs of A Brand New Year: 2010 Youth Celebration were produced to be distributed to leaders throughout the world. The productions were translated into 11 languages.
We have peers encouraging peers, says David L. Beck, president of the Churchs organization for young men. We feel like there is strength in numbers, but many LDS teens are teaching us that you can be strong if you are one, and your heart is where it should be. And as those youth in isolated areas of the world watch the DVD, they will understand that they are not really alone, that there are other LDS teens in the world like them.
The research series, sponsored by the Utah Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society and the Family History Library, is free and also includes classes on beginning research, land records and migration patterns.
Library celebrates black history with African American research series
SALT LAKE CITY — Author and genealogist Darius Gray will be the keynote speaker at the seventh annual African American Family History research series Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Family History Library. Gray's presentation "The African American Family: We Must Remember!" will be 9:30 a.m. in the library's main floor classroom.
... worth of ads in the Las Vegas Israelite, a Jewish newspaper, and an additional $700 for ads in the Desert Saints magazine, a Mormon-centric publication.
Read what the second writer, Jacob, said about the difficulty of engraving on plates. But knowing that anything not on plates would perish, he still hoped to give us a small degree of knowledge concerning us . . . that they may know that we knew of Christ, and we had a hope of his glory many hundred years before his coming.
We know that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his associates rendered immeasurable aid through the organized religious institution of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and untold millions have been blessed as a result — no strings attached.
These two items still stand in many ways as the spiritual and intellectual ancestors of virtually every anti-Mormon publication for the past 176 years -- originality hasn't been a notable quality in such materials -- and a swollen, turbid river of anti-Mormon books, pamphlets, films, newsletters, Web sites, seminars, lectures, sermons, Sunday school curricula, radio broadcasts, tabloids and television programs has flowed ever since.
In February 1831, the prominent Scots-American preacher Alexander Campbell published an attack on Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon titled "Delusions." By 1834, the first anti-Mormon book, Eber D. Howe's "Mormonism Unvailed" [sic], came from the press.
She immediately fell in love with swimming," said Stacey Nymeyer, her mother. "We also discovered she is a big competitor and an individual sport athlete. When she played team sports, she became frustrated when teammates didn't put forth the same effort, so swimming was perfect for her."
But when a childhood playmate wanted to take swimming lessons, Nymeyer tagged along, thus triggering a chain of events that would eventually make her one of the best female swimmers in the world.
There are absolutely no swimming roots in the Nymeyer family tree. Lacey's father, Aaron, played football and basketball in high school. Going further back, her grandfather is in the Arizona basketball hall of fame.
Full translation of the Book of Mormon in Laotian nearing completion
A senior missionary couple serving in Laos report that the first full translation of the Book of Mormon in Laotian is nearly complete. Most Laotian speaking members live in the United States in four congregations. A branch does meet in the capital of Vientiane with around 70 active members.
Almost a quarter of a million dollars has been spent by Twentieth Century-Fox in building sets for the picture not only on the studio lot but also at Big Bear and Lone Pine, Cal., where the company will move as soon as it finishes work on its present location.
The lunch hour ends and the sun, as if taking orders from the movie makers, emerges from the clouds. If the company had waited for the sun, instead of taking their lunch hour when they did, an hours production time would have been lost. That would have meant a loss of $5,000, for thats what it costs to keep a company of the magnitude of the Brigham Young troupe on location.
They eat well and the food is of the best, for Director Hathaway believes like Napoleon that an army, even though a movie troupe, travels on its stomach.
So in other words, you send missionaries out who haven't even read the Bible, claim doctrines that aren't Christian are in the Bible when they're not, and yet they can say they follow the Gospel of Christ, when they don't even know what it is? Strange.
With that said there are dangers in the world today that children must be made aware of and this can make parenting a challenging enterprise as parents strive to protect yet must necessarily provide sometimes distasteful information to their children.
All of this is best approached in prayerful contemplation under the direction of the Spirit. But isn't that the best formula for all aspects of child rearing?
I find that ANTImormons can NOT understand nor debate the LDS Doctrine. Revelation is too hard a concept for their understanding, especially on the spiritual level.
Christians Worship God. as a trinity he allows love to exist before teh material universe began, and the context of my statement related directly to the one you made about he Book of Mormon.
Christians do not believe in worshiping a cross or a book. We just believe in actually reading books and understanding or respecting the cross for what it is. For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing.
Just because the pastor has a Bible sitting on his podium, or there is a cross at the front of the Church, doesn't mean they're actually worshiping it! There is no idolatry in biblical Christianity. Read the Bible sometime.
And how is my interpretation of the Bible self serving? I'm not the one who claimed I could have multiple wives, who said lying was ok if it protects my particular church, who said my way or the highway. Who said that? Your Church Leaders, not mine.
As for the Bible, you don't read all of it. It's ironic you make that claim. You read the parts you agree with, and then claim the rest was corrupted or changed somehow. You read your own Bible, not the Bible of historical Christianity. And no, you're not free to read any Bible, you only use the King James Version. I am free to read not only any Bible I want, but anyTHING I want. Anti-Christian material doesn't scare me, because my faith isn't a lie.
No one sings praise songs AT the cross lol. Just because it's there doesn't mean people are directing whatever they're doing to the cross. I'm sorry, but you're insane.
Denial of what? Your assertion is groundless, and you don't even get it. It's sad.
Evangelism is a fairly new label for Christianity actually. And what's wrong with the dinosaur, if he's right and the new creature, whatever that might be, is a lying fool?
How am I uneducated and unChristian? How are you educated and Christian? lol. You're silly.
If I was afraid of being wrong, I wouldn't go out looking for confrontation and open discussion about the big questions of life.
I'm about ready to stop talking to you. You've become a waste of my time. You don't even understand simple logic, and you avoid my questions like the plague.
Confrontation isn't always a bad thing you know. Sometimes it's necessary. And it's not filling any voids. If you read anything I wrote above about my happiness, you would know that it is specifically Jesus Christ that makes me happy. And not just happy, but joyous.
Listen, It's necessary to confront people when they're being self destructive and you care about their well being. If your brother was doing drugs, you'd confront him. You'd tell him you love him, you want him to be happy and healthy, and you want him to stop. That's what confrontation is: Confronting someone about something you believe they're doing that is wrong. And it's necessary when sharing Christ with people. I'm not empty. I'm filled with the Holy Spirit.
Yes, I'm so desperate to be right, that I might up the ridiculous lie that writing involves a pen or a pencil and paper. How outrageous!
Listen, you're the one who started attacking an nit picking something so simple and stupid like whether I can talk without using sound, and now you're trying to attack ME for doing the same thing to you? LOL
Ok, you're an idiot and continuing to talk to you only makes me an idiot. So I'm done. I don't know what an RFM meeting is, and I don't know who Steve Benson is. You're incapable of answering the most basic and simple of questions, and you're insane. I hope you're just a child and not an actual grown man, talking like an adolescent like this.
I will just leave you to continue posting comments to yourself. No wonder no one else ever talks to you lol.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- When Stephen Weber walked into the Yale chaplain's office and introduced himself as the New Haven Institute of Religion director, she had a few questions.
"She said, 'Where have you been? We have been waiting for you,'" said Weber of the meeting held in June 2010. She also added that she had known several Mormon students. "It's rather interesting to have that kind of greeting."
Since then, the school has officially recognized the institute. After a review by the Yale Religious Ministries group, Weber is the LDS chaplain to the Ivy League campus and meets regularly with other campus chaplains.
"It's been exciting to see those doors open for us," he said. Now, the institute is labeled on school maps, events can be advertised on campus and opportunities to share more about the LDS Church in a spirit of understanding have increased.
Weber oversees the New Haven institute in Connecticut with 102 students, who vary from graduate students and Ph.D. candidates to those who aren't attending Yale. .
Your fallacious pride will fail you in the end. I understand all of your doctrines probably better than you do, and I've debated them many times before with people who are more aware and competent than you by a long run. You should be so cocky if you don't even know what you're talking about.
My beloved brothers and sisters across the world, I express my deep admiration for the faith and courage I see in your lives. We live in a most remarkable time—but a challenging time.
omiolo 1 year ago
As you choose not to be offended or ashamed, you will feel His love and approval. You will know that you are becoming more like Him.
omiolo 1 year ago
Everything changed on a rainy afternoon visit to Rainbow Bridge in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. In a life-altering experience, Hilton was bathed in the love of her Father in Heaven and felt the truth of not only his existence but the existence of Jesus Christ as well. . .
omiolo 1 year ago
Hundreds of women arrive at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City for the General Relief Society Meeting.
omiolo 1 year ago
n fact, she was unable to find a seat anywhere. Then a dear friend, who was a member of one of the general auxiliary boards and was sitting in an area designated for board members, invited Sister Monson to sit with her.
omiolo 1 year ago
@ThundaFrumDownUnda
I have spoken to many Mormons and read in their book. Some of the races don't exist and there is no connection to the Indians & Israelites as discovered on deepest genetic level. The gold plates do not exist and are on a language that is undocumented.
Joseph Smith did what 'cult; leaders often do. He claimed that over time the fundamental message of Jesus was incomplete and his teachers and church are the olny true holders of the faith. That is just the very start.
AlexanderRaccoon 1 year ago
Relief Society's purpose is the same as the Lord's purpose
omiolo 1 year ago 3
@omiolo We do seek to do good.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
In the February Ensign 2010, there is an article about managing finances in the current difficult economic times. Guess which outgoing this church places first? Tithing. Thats right, 10% of your gross income to a church that has assets approaching $100 BILLION dollars!
The Mormon church, much like the Catholic church is obsessed with Money, Power and Sex. And both a crumbling.
Christianity will fail in this century, because the actions of a few greedy evangelicals hijacked the message.
neil73 2 years ago
@neil73
when one is EXcommunicated, will the LDS Church accept their tithing?
GOTCHA! now put back on your KKK hat and get back to your rally!
omiolo 1 year ago
@neil73 @neil73
when one is EXcommunicated, will the LDS Church accept their tithing?
GOTCHA now put back on your KKK hat and get back to your rally!
omiolo 1 year ago
@neil73 @neil73
when one is EXcommunicated, will the LDS Church accept their tithing?
GOTCHA now put back on your KKK hat and get back to your rally!
omiolo 1 year ago
@neil73 @neil73
when one is EXcommunicated, will the LDS Church accept their tithing?
GOTCHA now put back on your KKK hat and get back to your rally!
omiolo 1 year ago
@neil73 @neil73
when one is EXcommunicated, will the LDS Church accept their tithing?
GOTCHA now put back on your KKK hat and get back to your rally!
omiolo 1 year ago
The Most Reverend John C. Wester, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, also spoke. He was followed by the Salt Lake Scots Bagpipe Band performing Highland Cathedral and Amazing Grace. Members of the Sikh faith and Gnostics were part of the performance for the first time this year.
omiolo 2 years ago 6
According to the report, the diocese like most across Canada is in crisis. The report repeats, without qualification or question, the results of a controversial study presented to Anglican bishops five years ago that said that at the present rate of decline a loss of 13,000 members per year only one Anglican would be left in Canada by 2061.
omiolo 2 years ago 3
The report, prepared for the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia, calls Canada a post-Christian society in which Anglicanism is declining faster than any other denomination. It says the church has been moved to the far margins of public life.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
The Anglican Church in Canada once as powerful in the nation's secular life as it was in its soul may be only a generation away from extinction, says a just-published assessment of the church's future.
time to get off the dinosaur!
omiolo 2 years ago
But he cries when we show him the flyer that a task force member created, displaying a picture of his kidnapped son with a reward for his return. Some burdens—like the orphanage are difficult to carry. Some burdens—like a son who has been kidnapped—are nearly impossible.
omiolo 2 years ago
In the front of the orphanage are four new graves, the family and loved ones of Bishop Mardy, killed in the earthquake.
For Bishop Mardy, as director of the orphanage, there are a thousand worries in a land that is no longer functioning and at least seventy mouths to feed.
He gently handles these concerns, emanating a quiet peace and power.
omiolo 2 years ago
Caring for their flocks in Haiti, right now, has become nearly a full-time job for priesthood leaders.
Dont they just stagger under these loads?
omiolo 2 years ago
Some of that food and goods goes to the general population as the Church partners with a number of groups including CARE, Food for the Poor, International Relief and Development and many others. Much of those goods, however, go directly to the members of the Church as the bishops report the needs of their ward.
omiolo 2 years ago
The Church has sent down about 500,000 pounds of food and other critical materials in the weeks since the quake and will stay on providing relief for the foreseeable future
omiolo 2 years ago
Sobers declines to say how many missionaries are now in Guyana after some 40 church members left to comply with the government's Sept. 2 departure order. Police say no more than 20 missionaries remain.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has said it hopes to replace the missionaries who departed. The church has been sending missionaries to Guyana for more than 20 years.
omiolo 2 years ago
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The Mormon church is slowly rebuilding its public profile in Guyana after the government ordered dozens of its missionaries to leave last fall because of outdated documents.
Church spokesman Leslie Sobers said Saturday the church has resumed donations of medical equipment to charities in the South American nation.
omiolo 2 years ago
Deseret News - 16 hours ago
OREM -- The Religious Studies Program at UVU will host filmmaker Helen Whitney for a panel discussion on her PBS documentary "The Mormons" on Friday, Feb. 12, 10 a.m.-noon, in the UVU Library Lakeview Room (fourth floor).
Produced as a joint project for Frontline and the American Experience, this four-hour documentary explores the history, experience, and diverse perceptions of Mormonism.
omiolo 2 years ago
We are united by a willingness to volunteer for something that we all know could be very difficult.
omiolo 2 years ago
But we are Latter-day Saints on this plane who know how to pray. It is nearly unheard of for a chartered plane full of passengers to pray together before they leave for a destination or to have a devotional featuring a song, Because I have been given much, I too must give. Yet, we are travelling as a community, already connected by our shared faith and unspoken bonds
omiolo 2 years ago
This new media outreach has potential to reach many young people from all over the world. Nearly 33,000 DVDs of A Brand New Year: 2010 Youth Celebration were produced to be distributed to leaders throughout the world. The productions were translated into 11 languages.
omiolo 2 years ago
We have peers encouraging peers, says David L. Beck, president of the Churchs organization for young men. We feel like there is strength in numbers, but many LDS teens are teaching us that you can be strong if you are one, and your heart is where it should be. And as those youth in isolated areas of the world watch the DVD, they will understand that they are not really alone, that there are other LDS teens in the world like them.
omiolo 2 years ago
Library staff and volunteers will also be available throughout the day to assist patrons with personal research.
The Family History Library is at 35 N. West Temple, directly west of Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City.
omiolo 2 years ago
The research series, sponsored by the Utah Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society and the Family History Library, is free and also includes classes on beginning research, land records and migration patterns.
omiolo 2 years ago
Library celebrates black history with African American research series
SALT LAKE CITY — Author and genealogist Darius Gray will be the keynote speaker at the seventh annual African American Family History research series Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Family History Library. Gray's presentation "The African American Family: We Must Remember!" will be 9:30 a.m. in the library's main floor classroom.
omiolo 2 years ago
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - 11 hours ago
... worth of ads in the Las Vegas Israelite, a Jewish newspaper, and an additional $700 for ads in the Desert Saints magazine, a Mormon-centric publication.
omiolo 2 years ago
Read what the second writer, Jacob, said about the difficulty of engraving on plates. But knowing that anything not on plates would perish, he still hoped to give us a small degree of knowledge concerning us . . . that they may know that we knew of Christ, and we had a hope of his glory many hundred years before his coming.
omiolo 2 years ago
We know that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his associates rendered immeasurable aid through the organized religious institution of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and untold millions have been blessed as a result — no strings attached.
omiolo 2 years ago
These two items still stand in many ways as the spiritual and intellectual ancestors of virtually every anti-Mormon publication for the past 176 years -- originality hasn't been a notable quality in such materials -- and a swollen, turbid river of anti-Mormon books, pamphlets, films, newsletters, Web sites, seminars, lectures, sermons, Sunday school curricula, radio broadcasts, tabloids and television programs has flowed ever since.
omiolo 2 years ago
In February 1831, the prominent Scots-American preacher Alexander Campbell published an attack on Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon titled "Delusions." By 1834, the first anti-Mormon book, Eber D. Howe's "Mormonism Unvailed" [sic], came from the press.
omiolo 2 years ago
She immediately fell in love with swimming," said Stacey Nymeyer, her mother. "We also discovered she is a big competitor and an individual sport athlete. When she played team sports, she became frustrated when teammates didn't put forth the same effort, so swimming was perfect for her."
omiolo 2 years ago
But when a childhood playmate wanted to take swimming lessons, Nymeyer tagged along, thus triggering a chain of events that would eventually make her one of the best female swimmers in the world.
omiolo 2 years ago
Natural-born swimmer
There are absolutely no swimming roots in the Nymeyer family tree. Lacey's father, Aaron, played football and basketball in high school. Going further back, her grandfather is in the Arizona basketball hall of fame.
omiolo 2 years ago
Full translation of the Book of Mormon in Laotian nearing completion
A senior missionary couple serving in Laos report that the first full translation of the Book of Mormon in Laotian is nearly complete. Most Laotian speaking members live in the United States in four congregations. A branch does meet in the capital of Vientiane with around 70 active members.
omiolo 2 years ago
Almost a quarter of a million dollars has been spent by Twentieth Century-Fox in building sets for the picture not only on the studio lot but also at Big Bear and Lone Pine, Cal., where the company will move as soon as it finishes work on its present location.
omiolo 2 years ago
The lunch hour ends and the sun, as if taking orders from the movie makers, emerges from the clouds. If the company had waited for the sun, instead of taking their lunch hour when they did, an hours production time would have been lost. That would have meant a loss of $5,000, for thats what it costs to keep a company of the magnitude of the Brigham Young troupe on location.
omiolo 2 years ago
They eat well and the food is of the best, for Director Hathaway believes like Napoleon that an army, even though a movie troupe, travels on its stomach.
omiolo 2 years ago
So in other words, you send missionaries out who haven't even read the Bible, claim doctrines that aren't Christian are in the Bible when they're not, and yet they can say they follow the Gospel of Christ, when they don't even know what it is? Strange.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
The scriptures remind us of our duty, if we would be conscientious parents, and they advise us what course to follow with children.
The dominant themes in scripture seem to be to protect, and to spiritually educate our children when they are young.
omiolo 2 years ago
With that said there are dangers in the world today that children must be made aware of and this can make parenting a challenging enterprise as parents strive to protect yet must necessarily provide sometimes distasteful information to their children.
All of this is best approached in prayerful contemplation under the direction of the Spirit. But isn't that the best formula for all aspects of child rearing?
omiolo 2 years ago
I find that ANTImormons can NOT understand nor debate the LDS Doctrine. Revelation is too hard a concept for their understanding, especially on the spiritual level.
omiolo2 2 years ago 4
That is an argument that is used for people who do not understand the Bible
Mormonism has too many blatant contradictions and redefines who God and Jesus are.
AlexanderRaccoon 2 years ago 3
When you verbally stone the Prophets and Apostles, the Bible instead becomes your god.
Of course the Mormons would NEVER worship a book or a cross. We worship God.
omiolo 2 years ago 3
Christians Worship God. as a trinity he allows love to exist before teh material universe began, and the context of my statement related directly to the one you made about he Book of Mormon.
AlexanderRaccoon 2 years ago 3
Mormons are Christians. In fact we are the ENSIGN of such.
Yet, we REJECT your belief that we should worship a cross or a book.
We are the Church of Jesus Christ.
omiolo 2 years ago
Christians do not believe in worshiping a cross or a book. We just believe in actually reading books and understanding or respecting the cross for what it is. For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
@sarahstringbean
"in worshiping a cross or a book"
I have seen MANY a EVANGELICAL bow down in front of a cross or sing praises of worship towards a cross.
The Bible is your god, or should I say YOUR self serving interpretation of such is your god.
omiolo 2 years ago
Just because the pastor has a Bible sitting on his podium, or there is a cross at the front of the Church, doesn't mean they're actually worshiping it! There is no idolatry in biblical Christianity. Read the Bible sometime.
And how is my interpretation of the Bible self serving? I'm not the one who claimed I could have multiple wives, who said lying was ok if it protects my particular church, who said my way or the highway. Who said that? Your Church Leaders, not mine.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
"Read the Bible sometime."
the nice thing about Mormons is we get to read ALL the Bible.
We are also free to read ANY Bible, NOT just the Bible of the Catholic, EVANGELICAL, Protestant, or Coptic
omiolo 2 years ago
You ignored the entire rest of my response.
As for the Bible, you don't read all of it. It's ironic you make that claim. You read the parts you agree with, and then claim the rest was corrupted or changed somehow. You read your own Bible, not the Bible of historical Christianity. And no, you're not free to read any Bible, you only use the King James Version. I am free to read not only any Bible I want, but anyTHING I want. Anti-Christian material doesn't scare me, because my faith isn't a lie.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
singing worship praises at a cross is worshiping the cross
nice try!
YOU have been deceived!
omiolo 2 years ago
No one sings praise songs AT the cross lol. Just because it's there doesn't mean people are directing whatever they're doing to the cross. I'm sorry, but you're insane.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
still in DENIAL!
EVANGELISM is going the way of the dinosaur.
It is because of people like you. UNeducated, UNchristian and DESPERATE for others to be wrong!
omiolo 2 years ago
Denial of what? Your assertion is groundless, and you don't even get it. It's sad.
Evangelism is a fairly new label for Christianity actually. And what's wrong with the dinosaur, if he's right and the new creature, whatever that might be, is a lying fool?
How am I uneducated and unChristian? How are you educated and Christian? lol. You're silly.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
you ask a question and then seem to answer it yourself.
do you think that is indicative of a seeker of the truth?
or is it indicative of someone who is desperately afraid of being wrong and having to live with that wrong?
omiolo 2 years ago
If I was afraid of being wrong, I wouldn't go out looking for confrontation and open discussion about the big questions of life.
I'm about ready to stop talking to you. You've become a waste of my time. You don't even understand simple logic, and you avoid my questions like the plague.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
"I wouldn't go out looking for confrontation"
at least you ADMIT that is what you are doing.
It will still NOT fill the void! ONLY the Gospel of Jesus Christ can do that.
omiolo 2 years ago
Confrontation isn't always a bad thing you know. Sometimes it's necessary. And it's not filling any voids. If you read anything I wrote above about my happiness, you would know that it is specifically Jesus Christ that makes me happy. And not just happy, but joyous.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
"Sometimes it's necessary"
some people feel it fills the emptiness and inhibits the confrontationist from having to think about the choices they have made.
omiolo 2 years ago
What are you talking about? LOL.
Listen, It's necessary to confront people when they're being self destructive and you care about their well being. If your brother was doing drugs, you'd confront him. You'd tell him you love him, you want him to be happy and healthy, and you want him to stop. That's what confrontation is: Confronting someone about something you believe they're doing that is wrong. And it's necessary when sharing Christ with people. I'm not empty. I'm filled with the Holy Spirit.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
"What are you talking about?"
actually I am writing!
omiolo 2 years ago
Actually, you're typing lol. But that's irrelevant to what we're talking about.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
actually typing is the mechanism I used to write.
/I am surprised you did NOT know that!
omiolo 2 years ago
...and writing/typing is the mechanism you used to talk to me.
It's like you're actually trying to attack me about things of no consequence, for no reason at all lol.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
actually NO form of writing is talking. Talking involves sound!
/still surprised you did NOT know that
omiolo 2 years ago
And no form of typing is writing. Writing involved a pen or a pencil and paper.
Do you realize how ridiculous you're being? Or are we just going to go in this circle forever?
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
so in your world, when I write a book, it involves a pen and pencil?
omiolo 2 years ago
I'm not the one talking about this crap to avoid the subject. People write with pens and pencils, yes. What else would it be called?
sarahstringbean 2 years ago
my point is simply that you are sooo DESPERATE to be right, that you will make even the simplest things up.
Like people can NOT write a book unless they use pens and pencils
Try to follow your made up rules and complete nonsense!!
omiolo 2 years ago
Yes, I'm so desperate to be right, that I might up the ridiculous lie that writing involves a pen or a pencil and paper. How outrageous!
Listen, you're the one who started attacking an nit picking something so simple and stupid like whether I can talk without using sound, and now you're trying to attack ME for doing the same thing to you? LOL
sarahstringbean 2 years ago 2
@sarahstringbean
still at it with the BAIT and SWITCH!
My understanding is that your types even do that at RFM meetings. I know Steve Benson enjoys doing that!
omiolo 2 years ago
Ok, you're an idiot and continuing to talk to you only makes me an idiot. So I'm done. I don't know what an RFM meeting is, and I don't know who Steve Benson is. You're incapable of answering the most basic and simple of questions, and you're insane. I hope you're just a child and not an actual grown man, talking like an adolescent like this.
I will just leave you to continue posting comments to yourself. No wonder no one else ever talks to you lol.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago 2
yeah, I would deny and NOT acknowledge Steve Benson if I were you too!
You ANTImormon types have quite the collection of unsavory people!
omiolo 2 years ago
@AlexanderRaccoon
"as a trinity"
My Bible does NOT have that word it in. I prefer to stick with the God of the Bible.
omiolo 2 years ago
@AlexanderRaccoon sounds like you are extremely uneducated and confused. Why doesn't that bother you?
omiolo 1 year ago
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- When Stephen Weber walked into the Yale chaplain's office and introduced himself as the New Haven Institute of Religion director, she had a few questions.
"She said, 'Where have you been? We have been waiting for you,'" said Weber of the meeting held in June 2010. She also added that she had known several Mormon students. "It's rather interesting to have that kind of greeting."
omiolo 1 year ago
Since then, the school has officially recognized the institute. After a review by the Yale Religious Ministries group, Weber is the LDS chaplain to the Ivy League campus and meets regularly with other campus chaplains.
"It's been exciting to see those doors open for us," he said. Now, the institute is labeled on school maps, events can be advertised on campus and opportunities to share more about the LDS Church in a spirit of understanding have increased.
omiolo 1 year ago
Weber oversees the New Haven institute in Connecticut with 102 students, who vary from graduate students and Ph.D. candidates to those who aren't attending Yale. .
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Yale university, right?
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies Yes, New Haven, Connecticut.
omiolo 1 year ago
Your fallacious pride will fail you in the end. I understand all of your doctrines probably better than you do, and I've debated them many times before with people who are more aware and competent than you by a long run. You should be so cocky if you don't even know what you're talking about.
sarahstringbean 2 years ago