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- 11 Mar 2024, 22:17
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: LDS purchase of Kirtland Temple
- Replies: 18
- Views: 314
Re: LDS purchase of Kirtland Temple
I know someone with a little bit of inside information about this purchase. They said the Church “overpaid” explicitly to help stabilize the Community of Christ’s financial situation and agreed to keep it open as a historical site primarily to keep it open to the Community of Christ members, specifi...
- 11 Mar 2024, 22:10
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Last Airbender (Netflix)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 219
Re: The Last Airbender (Netflix)
We now are saying endowed women have Priesthood power, just not administrative Priesthood authority, so I can see more evolution in the future framed sincerely within continuing revelation.
- 11 Mar 2024, 22:04
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Callings you've had or might have or will never have in your life.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 321
Re: Callings you've had or might have or will never have in your life.
The best calling I have had: Gospel Doctrine Teacher (since I can tailor the lessons to address issues and still stay true to the material) or Youth Sunday School Teacher (since I can teach pure Gospel concepts early enough to make a difference) or High Council (since I can teach without much other...
- 25 Feb 2024, 22:01
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Child Baptism in a Few Years
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1201
Re: Child Baptism in a Few Years
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- 14 Feb 2024, 18:01
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New Seminary Curriculum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 134
New Seminary Curriculum
The Church has announced a new Seminary curriculum starting this fall that includes lots of practical life skills, including material about emotional resilience. It addresses common mental health issues and skills to help manage them. From a friend in the field, it is not meant to take the place of ...
- 13 Feb 2024, 12:20
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Testimony of Jesus Christ
- Replies: 7
- Views: 385
Re: Testimony of Jesus Christ
What DarkJedi said.
I am open to differing possibilities, and my main “issue” is how some views are so radically different (and even opposed to) the actual ministry and teachings we have recorded as being from Jesus, of Nazareth.
I am open to differing possibilities, and my main “issue” is how some views are so radically different (and even opposed to) the actual ministry and teachings we have recorded as being from Jesus, of Nazareth.
- 13 Feb 2024, 12:18
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Native Americans/Nephites-Laminites
- Replies: 6
- Views: 193
Re: Native Americans/Nephites-Laminites
A “faithful” and reasonable answer would be what PazamaManX said - and it fits the actual wording in the Book of Mormon (including the demographic population statements). (The Lamanites greatly outnumbering the Nephites in a relatively short time and being darker-skinned fits joining an indigenous p...
- 13 Feb 2024, 12:12
- Forum: Support
- Topic: What exactly is a "testimony" anyway?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3878
Re: What exactly is a "testimony" anyway?
Technically, a testimony is a statement of something you feel so strongly about that you would state it with full sincerity under oath, and perjury only applies to knowingly untrue testimony. So, religious testimonies are statements of sincere religious belief. I like that definition, since it doesn...
- 13 Feb 2024, 12:06
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Charges against stake president
- Replies: 7
- Views: 520
Re: Charges against stake president
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&ttl=23&div=0&chpt=63&sctn=11&subsctn=1 This seems clear that there is a priest-penitent exception. I am guessing that a Stake President is not considered a “member of the clergy” who would hear a confession a...
- 04 Feb 2024, 17:26
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How common is regretting having served a mission?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1486
Re: How common is regretting having served a mission?
I have known and spoken with hundreds of people who served missions. They range all over the spectrum in their feelings about it - from amazing to okay to bad to worst Church experience ever. I know some whose missions drove them away from the Church and others who still look back at it as the spiri...