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  1. Because you expanded what has been carefully calibrated discussion unilaterally in a way that hospitality before discussion with her didn't require. She's afraid you've abandoned your faith and maybe wondering if you're going to start drinking too.
  2. Well i watched the first moon landing. They didint stick around long any of the four? times they went 69-72. And just recently we got to see passing the moon in a new flight beyond.
  3. Well not a moment too soon to ditch "mormonism" as depicted. (which bears little to no similarity with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teachings and beliefs).
  4. I don't think we know exactly how and who was physically involved in creating all of what we know as the earth.
  5. I would have been so curious about how they get along together given what is happening and the potential risks for each of them. I'd be curious about how they got excused from war duty and whether they can even speak of that.
  6. rpn

    Utah History

    For many years, the history of Utah was the history of the Church of Latter-day Saints: The second Volume of "Saints covers the history of the church from 1846 to 1893 The Centennial Collection is another source: https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/734691
  7. none of which is scriptural but became part of the Catholic and thereafter other divergent faith participation over the years.
  8. There are members who participate in Jewish Seders, carry crosses like some do to mimic what Jesus experienced. We are free to celebrate however we choose. I can tell you that I've seen/heard of more sunrise services in the last five years. We break the bread and water in the Sacrament every Sunday, not just on Easter. And many of us do Easter Egg Hunts (usually not on Easter Sunday itself). We are more prone to celebrate the Ressurection than the dying on the cross part (which was necessary but which doesn't/shouldn't eclipse the resurrection.
  9. Why would He have prompted two separate prophets to investigate the issue , if He didn't think it was time? He may have known that despite prophetic efforts to get the investigations going, He wasn't going to find willing ears? But two separate prophets were inspired to conduct the investigations.
  10. In my mind the quintessential example on this point comes from the two times top church leadership was inspired in the 1880's and then again in the early 1900's to investigate the priesthood ban. (Because Zebedee Coltrin outright lied and Abraham Smoot also denied that Joseph Smith had ordained black men to the priesthood in the 1880's after Brigham Young died, there wasn't a quorum willing to hear the desires of God on the racial issue until 1978). And given the increasing ugliness that grew up around the racial disparities during that time leaning flat into racism, it clearly is possible for all of them to go astray.
  11. But that is materially different from the original question of whether or not it is sinful. When you do wrongful things by compulsion of misguided or wicked leaders, they are the ones that bear the sin, not the member doing it.
  12. We are obligated to confirm what our leaders (or anyone else for that matter) with the Spirit. I don't think any of us ever are obligate to simply accept because even a general authority says so.
  13. That doesnt have to be a lie: It could be that what happens now isnt what happened at the time of that call. It could be that a person who was on the call kept a personnel copy when they weren't supposed to. It could be the person who called kept a copy. It could be that the convo was reduced to paper before it was destroyed. It could be that is what the attorneys believed at the time, and now they know it didnt happen in this case. Appropriate to note the discrepancy, but at the moment the accusation of "lie" is unwarranted.
  14. Because I am fully responsible for what I do to make sure our leaders know what is happening in the Lord's church, what those who receive the information do upon it's receipt is just not something my contributions can determine. People who have the capacity to resolve known wickedness (or bad or even just wrongful) behavior cannot be held accountable for failures to do what they should, without having actual knowledge of it.
  15. I sang in the choir, and went vting with people whose companions weren't available. And you can always serve in "Just Serv" Projects in the community and help clean the building.
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