Doctor Scratch wrote:Lol. Talk about a case of projection! “Self-destructively nurse their prideful grudges”? I never could have come up with a better description of the Mopologists than that. It’s absolutely perfect.
This is a great point with startling conclusions that I didn't appreciate until I put my pot of tea to the stove this morning.
First of all, the proprietor is preaching false doctrine, let's make that clear. No traditional atheist is a candidate for outer darkness. No run-of-the-mill apostate is a candidate. What's he going to church for every Sunday if he's making mistakes like this?
But suppose he's right. Then wouldn't it also be true that those who can never forgive critics would also be candidates? I mean, you can't convincingly say you're following Christ if you can't forgive your neighbor. What if the apologists can never forgive Grant Palmer no matter what? What if they can't forgive Richard Dawkins?
Now imagine this, Bertrand Russell stands before the Lord at the judgement and Dan is there as a witness. Suppose Bertrand Russell refuses to acknowledge that the man before him is God -- any alien civilization a hundred thousand years beyond ours could pull a stunt like this. And he's arrogant, pretends to be smoking the pipe he doesn't have, insults the Savior and Joseph Smith. He laughs at the three witnesses.
The problem Dan has is that if he's stipulating a Bertrand Russell type atheist willing to dig in and never accept God no matter what,
then he must be first to forgive. Oh, it would be easy if any critic acknowledges that they were wrong and begs God for forgiveness, Dan will easily let it go then. But he's stipulating there will be atheists so angry that they'll continue to believe whatever they want all the way to outer darkness, and that means that Dan must forgive all of them while they are at their peak of defiance.
But he can't just quickly let it go, realizing his plans of eating out with friends will be ruined for eternity. He has to really forgive them, and really mean it.
And he has to forgive first.
And what better way to prepare for the judgement than to learn to forgive first while here on earth? Henry Eyring has made it clear that it's no easier to do the work and live commandments in the Spirit World than here. It looks like Dan's new doctrine, if true, will pose him substantial issues down the line.
We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have. They get rid of some of the people who have been there for 25 years and they work great and then you throw them out and they're replaced by criminals.