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D&C 19 is a pesky little fissure in my belief system's foundation. And its curious that God would let us in on it. I'm letting you know the gig is up!

I had those for probably a decade after my mission. Horrifyingly depressing is the best way to describe them.

Good call. Won't miss it a bit.

Isn't that basically saying the same thing? I work obedience to prepare me to receive blessings or (I give him obedience, he gives me blessings). It's just that there is no specificity to the blessings?

I was going to say something. But now I can't. 🤐😁

Totally! Ugh, those unbelievers! They actually kind of smell too…

You keep that up you’ll have me convinced the narrative is a load of crock!😉

I’m not! And I don’t believe for one second that Christ wants me to be his slave. I understand Paul’s somewhat ironic use of the metaphor, but it is distasteful to me. I hate slavery.

Absolutely! The near entirety of your post demonstrated the error in his doctrinal interpretation. Then you took it personal.

Well, you absolutely smashed it.....until the end when you judged his discipleship. Then you failed.

"For some reason"? Is it a mystery? It's baked in to our cultural, religious vocabulary. I'm 59 yrs old. From the childhood repeated ingestion of "Follow the Prophet, Follow the Prophet, he knows the way", to the adult version of “God will never lead his prophets astray”, to, today's inferred "admittance" of past doctrinal error by way of disavowal; is it any wonder many have some form of faithful indigestion? I wouldn't say I'm upset, more amused than anything.

Why would anyone be forced to be less modest while wearing the new cut?

Yes, this all just feeds my growing cynicism towards religiosity in general and the trappings therein.

That is the revealed pattern? Color me skeptical

A thought (prediction) came to me a while back. Is the use of the vernacular "gathering Israel" going to become a liability for the success in mandate to take the gospel to "every nation, tongue and people"? Seeing that vast numbers of the worlds population is not to keen to anything relating to Israel, could we see a rebranding in the messaging from the church? Sorry, I just realized this is bit of a tangent....