Well, the ‘revelation’ against smoking and drinking coffee sure didn’t take very long. FROM MORMON HISTORY BOOKS, Emma complained about the smoke and having to provide coffee at church meetings in their home, Joseph prayed on it, and voila’ !revelation - smoking and coffee is bad for you.
If I remember right, when McConkie first came out with ‘Mormon Doctrine’ he was reprimanded and almost excommunicated. He had to do a complete rewrite and get it approved to clear his position in the church.
Mormons take it to heart when they read that God created us in His image. They truly believe He is a man just like you. They say, “As man is, God once was. As God is, man may become.”That is an interesting speculation! One minor bit of detail overlooked: God is pure Spirit so ‘how could He have intercourse like any man!’
Why would the Creator have to rely on behaving like the created!
Actually, Rbt’s view comes close to the truth. The popular myth that Mormons were innocent victims of religious persecution in Missouri does not come even remotely close to being historically accurate. It is more of a comic-book or Mel Brooks view of history.
my wife says you are right. The LDS leaders are always telling the members to be sincere and thoughtful in their prayers and to stop being repeticious in prayer. The Lord probably gets very bored listening to the same thing over and over with no individual thought put behind the prayers. They are told to remember they are praying to the Father and He is listening and they should be specific in first thanking Him and requesting blessings on family and friends and self. But they must always close in the name of His Son Jesus Christ. That is something that does not change, but remains a specific important part of prayer. The form follows “The Lord’s Prayer” as the way that Jesus taught the people to pray. That is the form they use in the LDS church.That’s one thing LDS should be careful of. They rail against the rote prayers of “apostate Christianity”, yet their supposedly extemporaneous prayers are very rote, especially that one long hastily-spoken word at the end: “isaythesethingsnamejesuschristamen”. One would think the speaker has no idea what s/he is saying.
Let’s at least be honest that all public prayer is formulaic to some extent. We Catholics have just perfected the art.
God love you,
Paul
Read “Joseph Smith, Rough Stone Rolling” by Richard Lyman Bushman. I think you will find a fair and balanced view of the story, and will find he does not cover up anything in explaining exactly what happened in Mormon History. It is a very good book. I have read a lot of Anti-Mormon books and find them to be filled with half-truths that are twisted to the hatred felt by the writer.
I had answered your question in my blog long before you asked. Here is the link:
That doesn’t cut it. I would like you to answer here so it may be discussed. I’m not looking for a lecture from you.
Is that mormon doctrine?
Now I didn’t know that. Very interesting. He was quite the scholar but sometimes being good makes it hard to be humble. He was probably a pretty good example of a free thinker who went too far and had to be reined in. We all have them. You probably have problems with renegade priests now and then.
No, you went wide of anything I commented about, and applied your own prejudices, which have nothing to do with me whatsoever. Its all about you zerinus.
That blog is a direct answer to your question. I have created that Weblog precisely in order to avoid having to answer repeat questions. That particular question that you are asking is one that is asked of LDS all the time, and I got fed up with having to answer it over and over again. That is why I have answered it there, so that I won’t have to answer it again. If I were to answer it to you afresh, I would have to cut and paste it out of my blog, because I have nothing more to add to it than what I have said there.
To be fair, that’s the only time Mary makes a guest appearance for most Protestants.
Ah, but you are applying Orthodox dogma about God being a Spirit, a nicety that the mormons aren’t burdened with. Some taught that God is Adam, who became divine. And you need a body to do that, according to Mr. Smith.That is an interesting speculation! One minor bit of detail overlooked: God is pure Spirit so ‘how could He have intercourse like any man!’
Why would the Creator have to rely on behaving like the created!
To where?
I have had this book lying around about Teresa of Avila that I haven’t read yet. I don’t know who she is, or the significance of her. I’m getting that she is looked up to as someone who was a catholic of all catholics or something. As “even” she had problems.
The subject was how God reveals himself to us. I can’t say that I understood it all, but it has given me a lot to think about.