Being LDS is both easy and difficult…and this thread is based on my 25 years or so on forums like this. It is easy being LDS in the sense that you are told what to believe, how to act, what to wear, and what to believe in regards to talking point theology. It is difficult in that, heart wise, you know it it a bunch of nonsense. You know as a Mormon you can not be a God, just like the Christian God.
There is no doubt in my mind, that the LDS posters here struggle in their hearts, and want so bad to make Mormonism work for them in their lives. That is why they are here. If they were complete and satisfied in their belief and faith they would not be here…I know this in that this very desire, to actually know that what I was taught as a Mormon was not as DB writes, “a bunch or hooey.” It’s a real heart thing and struggle, a ver personal struggle.
And this is very important to understand if you have never been LDS… that LDS members here are not talking to us, they are talking to themselves…trying unwittingly to strengthen their testimony. You don’t see them trying to promote JS and BY…what you see is they are trying so hard, and bless their hearts, to bend and twist the Biblical Jesus into a warped and honestly perverted theology. Trying hard to somehow over ride th e mess of JS and BY.
JS was a womanizer…there is absolutely no way to get around that if one does a honest study. Read section 132 of the D&C, and do a little research why it was written. Emma, Joseph’s wife wanted to have a fling with William Law, in that Joseph was intent on having Jane Law as either a wife or consort.
BY was a bully, starting distillery’s and wine vineyards…working with an apostle in having a gambling house so it would sell his liquor…and stealing tithe money from the church to finance these types of things,
You don’t see the LDS folks here promoting these truths, but what you see is heart felt attempt to some how make the Biblical Jesus fit somehow into all of this confusion and madness. And that is why we, as Christian’s and ex-Mormons need to pray for these folks, to have the strength to test their faith and to be strong enough to look at it for what it is.
There is no doubt in my mind, that the LDS posters here struggle in their hearts, and want so bad to make Mormonism work for them in their lives. That is why they are here. If they were complete and satisfied in their belief and faith they would not be here…I know this in that this very desire, to actually know that what I was taught as a Mormon was not as DB writes, “a bunch or hooey.” It’s a real heart thing and struggle, a ver personal struggle.
And this is very important to understand if you have never been LDS… that LDS members here are not talking to us, they are talking to themselves…trying unwittingly to strengthen their testimony. You don’t see them trying to promote JS and BY…what you see is they are trying so hard, and bless their hearts, to bend and twist the Biblical Jesus into a warped and honestly perverted theology. Trying hard to somehow over ride th e mess of JS and BY.
JS was a womanizer…there is absolutely no way to get around that if one does a honest study. Read section 132 of the D&C, and do a little research why it was written. Emma, Joseph’s wife wanted to have a fling with William Law, in that Joseph was intent on having Jane Law as either a wife or consort.
BY was a bully, starting distillery’s and wine vineyards…working with an apostle in having a gambling house so it would sell his liquor…and stealing tithe money from the church to finance these types of things,
You don’t see the LDS folks here promoting these truths, but what you see is heart felt attempt to some how make the Biblical Jesus fit somehow into all of this confusion and madness. And that is why we, as Christian’s and ex-Mormons need to pray for these folks, to have the strength to test their faith and to be strong enough to look at it for what it is.