Modern-day Experiences With The Second Comforter

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Re: Modern-day Experiences With The Second Comforter

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dande48 wrote: 02 Jul 2018, 12:10 "We'd like to take your daughters into the wilderness and marry them and start a new civilization."
"Ok"
And he died.
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I wonder if Ishmael sat in the back row during Nephi's sermons.
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Hahaa. I would agree when it came to Nephi dealing with Laman and Lemual he was the majority of the time very arrogant. I believe in the books I'm talking about when it came to faith in the Lord Nephi was incredibly humble, which I agree. I think he could have been much more patient with his brothers. Maybe that's one of the sins Nephi was referring to in his psalm. I would agree that they people that have claimed to have experienced the Second Comforter do put Nephi on such a high pedestal just like Joseph Smith. And it's interesting that they mention not to trust in the arm of the flesh, for instance, they would agree that much of the teaching of the LDS Church is part of the arm of flesh, but then they don't stop to think that Joseph Smith's and the ancient prophet's teachings were some of that too.
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Heber13 wrote: 02 Jul 2018, 14:11
dande48 wrote: 02 Jul 2018, 12:10 "We'd like to take your daughters into the wilderness and marry them and start a new civilization."
"Ok"
And he died.
:clap:

I wonder if Ishmael sat in the back row during Nephi's sermons.
NON? New Order Nephite?
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To me, it's another reason to be agnostic in Mormonism. All this mysticism, beliefs that are not clearly docrtine, fable, culture or policy (which??). Unverifiable, for the most part. And then, capable of producing unhappiness due to obsession, self-loathing at not having achieved it, or otherwise.

I prefer not to have an opinion because any opinion I would have is not worthy of consideration. It is pure speculation.
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