How does an LDS distinguish between what the Holy Ghost is telling them and between their own feelings and beliefs?
3 Kings 22 21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means? 22 And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him, and shalt prevail: a go forth, and do so.
I know that you will probably not except this as scripture, but I do. In our Doctrine and Covenants in section 9 verses 8 and 9 it says:
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Are you saying that the Holy Spirit will not testify to people? That it is a lying spirit? Yes I agree that there is Satan and his devils that try to trick people, but the true spirit has a whole different feel to it. It burns of truth. In the New Testament, Jesus speaks of the testimony of the Spirit many times. One prominent one that I’m sure you know is when he talked to Peter and said ," Blessed art thou Simon Bar-jona; for flesh and blood have not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in Heaven."
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I’m sorry, but that was rude and uncalled for. I answered a question to the best of my ability. If you don’t like the answer, don’t listen. You don’t need to insult me. All I was saying is that is how we are taught in my church, which I believe was the original question.
You want to argue with me. This is silly. I’m not trying to argue doctrine. I was just answering the original question of how do the LDS determine what is the spirit and what is our own feelings. If you don’t like the answer… ignore it.
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Your prophet provides exceptions for abortion. This is not a pro-life stance.
The rest of my comments explain how I got to that conclusion. The church tells you to pray about if you should make the exceptions. Concluding that abortion is wrong and I’m sure the Lord thinks so too, their prayers would be answered that it is wrong, thus it is Pro_life, even if it doesn’t force the ideas onto others.
Yes, I read what you wrote. You said that mormons use what prophets have said to help guide them to the right answer. Your prophet says that abortion is ok, in certain circumstances. And like I said already, this is not a pro-life stance. Your beliefs leave room for someone to believe that God gave permission for an abortion. Perhaps personally, you believe that you would not be guided to this decision, but you do not speak for all mormons and believe that all mormons can get an different answer from God than you
Dosdog always gets right to the point.
NO! I have done no such thing. I come here to explain some of our church’s doctrine that I have seen misinterpreted. I have never once said, “I think you don’t have the truth.” I have tried to be passive and explain it as in the LDS church says this, and this is why. I don’t try to preach to you. I don’t try to get you to believe our “cult.” I have never said anything of the sort. All I have done is say you said this, this is what is really going on. About the Catholics being Christian thing. I never meant to be condescending. It was merely to point out that people are assuming that they know what mormons believe. I will never tell you that I know all the Catholic doctrines. I can say, “I have a Catholic friend who said this. Can you explain it?” But I will never try to explain your doctrines. I have people here attacking what I say, because they think they know my church better. This is a very immature and not open attitude. This is not what I was trying to get. I was trying to just politely put the LDS point of view here, so that maybe someone will open their hearts to accept us instead of condemn us for things they don’t understand. So no, I do not expect responses like this. And that comment was not to the point. It was mockery.Dosdog always gets right to the point.
But, you come here, telling people that they do not have the whole truth. While making condescending remarks about how that’s ok, you’ll still let Catholics be Christian. I don’t know why you would think that people would not reply in kind.
When I was a Mormon, I was never sure if the LDS Church believed that life began at conception. That may be one of the reasons they permit abortion in some cases. The LDS Church has not taken a position on embryonic stem cell research. When does life begin for the LDS? If they really believed life began at conception would they even consider allowing the murder of a baby in the womb because of rape or incest?
That was exactly my point! So why does the LDS leadership encourage its members to pray to see if the Holy Ghost will tell them it’s all right to kill their babies?
Your approach is passive aggressive. This is what you said: