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According to charity on the other board (in a thread about LDS or Christian-influenced shows), this is the purpose of our existence:

charity wrote:There was an epidsode of Star Trek which had LDS teachings in it. Two Enterprise crew members get struck by lightining or something and start to develop super powers. The male goes all power mad, thinks everyone else is just ants and he can kill as he pleases, but the female recognizes that super power can be really bad, and zaps him after he has zapped her and she is dying.

We are tested here to see who can be trusted with the "super powers" of godhood.

(exact post here.)

If this had been how the gospel were taught in Sunday School, I may have stuck around a bit longer! I can imagine the lessons now: "Brothers and Sisters, we are here on this earth to see whether we'd kill people like ants, or kill those who would kill people like ants."

Of course, charity didn't indicate which way was the "right" way. ;o)

Oh yeah, that was about as clear a reference to "LDS teachings" as anything. lol. What I'm trying to figure out though, who has God given the superpowers to? It certainly wasn't to the apologists who are still struggling to find an argument for the church that even comes close to making sense.

skippy the dead wrote:According to charity on the other board (in a thread about LDS or Christian-influenced shows), this is the purpose of our existence:

charity wrote:There was an epidsode of Star Trek which had LDS teachings in it. Two Enterprise crew members get struck by lightining or something and start to develop super powers. The male goes all power mad, thinks everyone else is just ants and he can kill as he pleases, but the female recognizes that super power can be really bad, and zaps him after he has zapped her and she is dying.

We are tested here to see who can be trusted with the "super powers" of godhood.

(exact post here.)

If this had been how the gospel were taught in Sunday School, I may have stuck around a bit longer! I can imagine the lessons now: "Brothers and Sisters, we are here on this earth to see whether we'd kill people like ants, or kill those who would kill people like ants."

Of course, charity didn't indicate which way was the "right" way. ;o)

Hmmm. I'm guessing the male was Joseph Smith and the female was Emma? Reminds me of Hartman Rector's infamous line about how men have to have the priesthood, or they'd be like male black widow spiders and be eaten by the females.

Oh, yeah, right.

Because, we all know that the only thing stopping us athiests from eating babies is that we might get caught. If WE had superpowers like that....WHOA!!!

Unlike the LDS. Who would all use it for only good.

As a side note...I'm not all that sure God is using his superpowers any differently than the evil guy on the Enterprise. I'd bet that evil guy would probably be flooding the earth and making people kill all the first borns and turning people into pillars of salt and killing guys for trying to steady the ark and sending angels with flaming swords to threaten people...you know, evil stuff.

Scottie wrote:Oh, yeah, right.

Because, we all know that the only thing stopping us athiests from eating babies is that we might get caught. If WE had superpowers like that....WHOA!!!

Unlike the LDS. Who would all use it for only good.

As a side note...I'm not all that sure God is using his superpowers any differently than the evil guy on the Enterprise. I'd bet that evil guy would probably be flooding the earth and making people kill all the first borns and turning people into pillars of salt and killing guys for trying to steady the ark and sending angels with flaming swords to threaten people...you know, evil stuff.

You know, there seems to be an underlying belief among Mormons that humans, by nature, are depraved and evil. How many times have we been told that, if God didn't exist, what would stop us from doing terrible things to each other like stealing and raping and murdering? Weird, isn't it?

Runtu wrote:You know, there seems to be an underlying belief among Mormons that humans, by nature, are depraved and evil. How many times have we been told that, if God didn't exist, what would stop us from doing terrible things to each other like stealing and raping and murdering? Weird, isn't it?

Well, the NATURAL MAN wants what the NATURAL MAN wants!

Maxrep wrote:Well, the NATURAL MAN wants what the NATURAL MAN wants!

Yeah, I get that, but there's supposed to be a "gods in embryo" rejection of Calvinist notions of total depravity in Mormonism. But it survives, anyway.

I always thought the Q Continuum had close parallels to the Mormon Council of the Gods.
Most likely the issues that impacted the Continuum would effect this Council as well, such as
the existential crisis that comes from thinking that if you already know everything, what more is
there to experience and therefore why bother with continued existence?

The difference? More chores with the Missus to produce those spirit babies.

Scottie wrote:
As a side note...I'm not all that sure God is using his superpowers any differently than the evil guy on the Enterprise. I'd bet that evil guy would probably be flooding the earth and making people kill all the first borns and turning people into pillars of salt and killing guys for trying to steady the ark and sending angels with flaming swords to threaten people...you know, evil stuff.

Yeah - kinda seems like God would have flunked the "test", eh?

skippy the dead wrote:According to charity on the other board (in a thread about LDS or Christian-influenced shows), this is the purpose of our existence:

charity wrote:There was an epidsode of Star Trek which had LDS teachings in it. Two Enterprise crew members get struck by lightining or something and start to develop super powers. The male goes all power mad, thinks everyone else is just ants and he can kill as he pleases, but the female recognizes that super power can be really bad, and zaps him after he has zapped her and she is dying.

We are tested here to see who can be trusted with the "super powers" of godhood.

(exact post here.)

If this had been how the gospel were taught in Sunday School, I may have stuck around a bit longer! I can imagine the lessons now: "Brothers and Sisters, we are here on this earth to see whether we'd kill people like ants, or kill those who would kill people like ants."

Of course, charity didn't indicate which way was the "right" way. ;o)

You should have come to my Gospel Doctrine Class.