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Mine is sort of a combination between two and three, but I ultimately went with two because I don't think the church is in complete apostasy. The early church was what it claimed to be but after Joseph Smith died some major errors crept in and have been perpetuated to one degree or another since the...

To be number one means someone else has to lose out because it's me and against another person. The only person you ought to compete with is yourself. That way, if you win no one else loses. And if you lose you can always try again, over and over, like a boss fight in a video game.

Thanks for the update Roy.

You got me all choked up too. That's what mourning with those who mourn is all about.

Reading the entire story instead of just the snippet changes the entire thing. It's an excellent story. Note how his Dad wasn't magically "fixed". Note the focus on the positive and on Christ like behavior which is to just love and be grateful. Note how much growth Marc had at the end there and how ...

Ya know, back to this quote: "Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it." I think the only way this can at all apply is through Joseph's restoration of saving ordinances for the dea...

The problem is that to most people anything that questions the Church is an attack on their faith. Me? I see such things as the refiner's fire. I come out the other side stronger and with more faith in my GOD. Anti-Mormon sites are terrible. I've been to some and it's all just biased "we hate Mormon...

Well now, see, the scriptures do talk about studying things out in our minds first and then talk to God about it. So I think if we're ONLY following our feelings we're skipping the reasoning part of the equation which is not a good thing.

Mercyngrace Joseph Smith said that paradise and spirit prison are the same thing. It's the Spirit World, and it is one's state of mind as they go from this world to the next that make it a prison or a paradise. Yup. :thumbup: One of the common themes I have noted of interest in the near-death exper...

Pure Mormonism has a blog post about why he abandoned polygamy and touches on Section 132 not even being a revelation by Joseph Smith. The trouble is, this sounds good and so does the story above which makes me think that perhaps we have it because the people wanted it not because it's what God want...