Does anyone actually BELIEVE?
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:03 pm
Full disclosure: I am a PIMO and this post is NOT a troll. Rather, it's a sincere post.
I'd like to get responses from PIMI. Do you truly, actually BELIEVE? Do you REALLY think that Joseph Smith was actually visited by HF and JC? Do you think the endowments have a real effect? Do you think that, if you were sealed in the temple, you're with your EC for time and all eternity?
If you truly believe, why? How do you KNOW (not believe) that TSCC teaches the truth?
If you don't believe and are are still in TSCC, why? Is it family reasons? Friends? Social connections of another sort? What shook your faith to its very core? Was it the CES Letter? If so, what spoke to you there? Was it prayer? Was it something else?
For me, it was the CES Letter. It is scholarly and well thought out with references. I read the letter twice before it really got to me. It, more than anything, let me out the door. But I still have to go because my wife makes me go. One of these days, I'm going to stand up for myself and go to Sunday Mass to see what she does next.
There are so many things in the CES Letter that expose the truth, but I'll point out the first thing that got me out the door. The Book of Mormon speaks of horses, but they didn't exist at the time and place that the book was set in. Horses didn't show up for many, many years. That's just one example out of many.
Yes, I owe my new religious life to the CES Letter and the ONLY reason my name is still on the books is because, at the time I stopped going, my wife threatened that she'd leave me and take DD with me if I actually formally resigned.
Sigh.
I'd like to get responses from PIMI. Do you truly, actually BELIEVE? Do you REALLY think that Joseph Smith was actually visited by HF and JC? Do you think the endowments have a real effect? Do you think that, if you were sealed in the temple, you're with your EC for time and all eternity?
If you truly believe, why? How do you KNOW (not believe) that TSCC teaches the truth?
If you don't believe and are are still in TSCC, why? Is it family reasons? Friends? Social connections of another sort? What shook your faith to its very core? Was it the CES Letter? If so, what spoke to you there? Was it prayer? Was it something else?
For me, it was the CES Letter. It is scholarly and well thought out with references. I read the letter twice before it really got to me. It, more than anything, let me out the door. But I still have to go because my wife makes me go. One of these days, I'm going to stand up for myself and go to Sunday Mass to see what she does next.
There are so many things in the CES Letter that expose the truth, but I'll point out the first thing that got me out the door. The Book of Mormon speaks of horses, but they didn't exist at the time and place that the book was set in. Horses didn't show up for many, many years. That's just one example out of many.
Yes, I owe my new religious life to the CES Letter and the ONLY reason my name is still on the books is because, at the time I stopped going, my wife threatened that she'd leave me and take DD with me if I actually formally resigned.
Sigh.
