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- Thu May 16, 2024 1:13 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Russell McGregor: Online Mopologist Extraordinaire
- Replies: 24
- Views: 801
Re: Russell McGregor: Online Mopologist Extraordinaire
Yet what are they to do if their prophet tells them the word Mormon is Satanic? They can resume the word Mormon and continue to eat ham once a future prophet gives the all clear signal. Did a president say the word was Satanic? If that's true then the church has created this problem. People are jus...
- Thu May 16, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: LDS Missionary held on rape charges
- Replies: 27
- Views: 724
Re: LDS Missionary held on rape charges
Missionaries are now being taught how to trawl social media to find people they can groom into letting missionaries into their homes. They’re using members Facebook connections and groups to slot in their leading questions etc. if you are “friends” with a serving missionary on any social media platf...
- Thu May 16, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
- Replies: 180
- Views: 4188
Re: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
You're right, of course. Unfortunately for him, me, and maybe the board, I always have hope. I see my brother in MG. In fact, have to continuously remind myself that MG is not my literal bother. My brother has the same responses, the same tactics, the same style, the same beliefs. And I love him de...
- Thu May 16, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
- Replies: 180
- Views: 4188
Re: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
If we break down every single choice a person makes and determine whether that choice was made using free will, we would fine that that would vary. We have a sense of freedom will with things like how we wear our clothes. The limitation is the availability of clothes that we own. So owning the clot...
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:13 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Many-Transfigurations theory
- Replies: 14
- Views: 416
Re: The Many-Transfigurations theory
FAIR doesn’t portray the event as quite so miraculous. some Saints specifically state that as Brigham Young addressed the congregation he sounded and appeared remarkably like Joseph Smith, others simply say that the “mantle of Joseph” or “of the prophets” rested on Brigham Young, and others state th...
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:05 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Many-Transfigurations theory
- Replies: 14
- Views: 416
Re: The Many-Transfigurations theory
In my judgment, the available evidence is persuasive that the story of Brigham’s transfiguration was being told quite early, and it’s difficult to imagine that so many testimonies over so long a period and from such far-flung areas emerged from a conspiracy to deceive or from a mysterious “contagio...
- Thu May 16, 2024 6:46 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
- Replies: 180
- Views: 4188
Re: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
Do people have free will in how they respond to criticism or a bit of raillery? Or are they programmed into predictable responses? A fellow I know compulsively sorts everyone online into either believers in a 'creator God,' or hopelessly nihilistic atheists. This same fellow has a seeming inability...
- Thu May 16, 2024 6:44 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
- Replies: 180
- Views: 4188
Re: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
Does the 7 year old child of Mormon parents in Utah really have a free will choice about being baptised at 8 years old? Does the born-in-the-the church married man, with a Mormon spouse, Mormon parents, a Mormon boss at work, and a social group entirely consisting of Mormons, have a free will choic...
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:36 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
- Replies: 180
- Views: 4188
Re: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
Does the 7 year old child of Mormon parents in Utah really have a free will choice about being baptised at 8 years old? Does the born-in-the-the church married man, with a Mormon spouse, Mormon parents, a Mormon boss at work, and a social group entirely consisting of Mormons, have a free will choice...
- Wed May 15, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Church missionary programme is heavily reliant on Utah
- Replies: 3
- Views: 133
Re: The Church missionary programme is heavily reliant on Utah
Do you think that people in Utah would find it harder to leave the church because it is all around them than a person elsewhere without that energy? Yes. In Utah it’s likely that your entire family, all your friends, and the place where you work is heavily Mormon. Leaving the Church in that circums...