moksha wrote:Zerinus, do you believe that a literal interpretation of the creation story is essential in your own version of the LDS faith? I know it is both unessential in my version and that literalness actually diminishes its worth by adding a needless degree of superstition.
I want a faith that gives me both comfort and meaning without resorting to pretzelized explanations. When I take a leap of faith I want to land in clear warm water rather than on thin ice.
Amen.
So you're chasing around a fly and in your world, I'm the idiot?
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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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I think it presents the same problem as most explanations that try to accept both scripture and science. For once I agree with McConkie. "Heresy two concerns itself with the relationship between organic evolution and revealed religion and asks the question whether they can be harmonized."
So I don't try and harmonize them. I figure all truth will be made known eventually. If there is truth in the creation story we will know it. If there is truth in the scientific teachings of evolution etc we will know it.
I have heard members say that Adam was just the first to be a spirit child of God, but that he still had a biological father on the earth. I really dislike that theory and its attempt to harmonize.
Thy mind, O man! if thou wilt lead a soul unto salvation, must stretch as high as the utmost heavens, and search into and contemplate the darkest abyss, and the broad expanse of eternity—thou must commune with God. - Joseph Smith