kryoung1983 Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 If I am being spiritually true to myself I would be Anabaptist. I love them! If I am being greedy then a pastor of a mega church. I have a knack for writing sermons.
Rivers Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 I'd be a pantheist. I see God most prominently in nature. Such as in that primary song about velvet roses and lilac trees.
Calm Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 (edited) One of my favourite songs growing up: https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/my-heavenly-father-loves-me?lang=eng And if you get bored, you can print this up and color it (it comes from a sharing time that teaches the song, but isn't completely identical to it so when I used it as Primary teacher I tossed the pears, kitten and fish but feel free to color those too): https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/magazine/liahonlp.nfo:o:20cd.jpg Edited June 24, 2015 by calmoriah
tagriffy Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 I probably would have eventually wound up becoming a Catholic.
Rivers Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 One of my favourite songs growing up:https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/my-heavenly-father-loves-me?lang=engAnd if you get bored, you can print this up and color it (it comes from a sharing time that teaches the song, but isn't completely identical to it so when I used it as Primary teacher I tossed the pears, kitten and fish but feel free to color those too):https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/magazine/liahonlp.nfo:o:20cd.jpgI teach primary now. I just may use it.
Calm Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 (edited) I loved doing visuals for my classes, the year they changed the manuals I quickly snatched all the older ones and their visual aids to keep as resources...and I still can't figure out why I was the only one checking out the large old style flannel board stories...the kids loved putting them up even if the artwork wasn't the most colorful....and it was actually scripture stories and not some fictional moral tale. Last year I taught Primary I had done the manual so many times I put a lot of my creative energy into making a extra large standing flip board chart out of a sketch pad too big to carry under my arm (so I added a handle...made it so things wouldn't fall out). We'd start out with a quick look at last week's with its main scripture I had focused on (NT year) and then go to the next and I would have some stuff pasted up and some for the students to add...that was so fun, I miss teaching kids. Usually brought a blanket to sit on so we could get nice and close to each other and look into their eyes while telling stories...probably would wear pants to teach if I ever manage to get back into it. Have to be able to attend on a regular basis to be a teacher or it just isn't fair to the kids. Man I miss it. With older kids, as long as we had so many overhead projectors around, I would turn crossword and other puzzles into overhead transparencies (copies can do that pretty easily and a pack of transparencies is cheap and lasts forever) and use them as attention getter or mental break with coloured markers so kids could work together on them rather than individually (and tried to be subtle about giving the not so advanced students the easier stuff so they didn't feel embarrassed because they couldn't read well...had a very wide range, so much so in one class that instead of using scriptures, I bought scripture readers for all for the simpler language...the Church puts out a lot of nice stuff that teachers just don't take advantage of, imo). Edited June 24, 2015 by calmoriah
mikegriffith1 Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 Prior to the restoration, why?Now, any difference and why a difference?If you were to live in an area where there are no LDS services? Any differences? I think I would go to the Orthodox Church (aka the Greek Orthodox Church). Their doctrines are closer to ours than any other church, and their services are dignified and reverent.
JLHPROF Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 I've always been drawn to the Amish way of life, and I like Buddhists quite a bit too. I'd be a pantheist. I see God most prominently in nature. Such as in that primary song about velvet roses and lilac trees. One of these probably.I could never see being a non-Mormon Christian. Christianity as taught in traditional Churches makes no sense to me without the additional light of the Restored gospel. If I decided Mormonism was false I would probably give up on Christianity as they are inseparable to me.
Anakin7 Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 (edited) House Church, Weslyan Methodist, Orthodox.. In His Eternal Debt/Grace Anakin7 Edited June 25, 2015 by Anakin7
Alan Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 For me it would be either Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox.Probably Eastern Orthodox.
Ham Clam Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 My parents are both converts to the Church who met each other at a Older Single Adult dance, so who knows where my spirit would be without the Church.In order: Some form of Progressive Christianity, Buddhist, a wanderer.
UtahTexan Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 No idea. I loved being Catholic....but then, I tried to get an annulment because, as my priest determined, my ex lied about too many things to induce the marriage. After 2 years, the hideous process was still not over and so invasive that I cancelled it. The Catholic Church cared more about my annulment than about the kids molested by priests. Had the bishops spent as much time and work on THAT issue when it first cropped up as they did on my issue, the molestation cases never would have happened...... 1
Gervin Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 What if. What if humans did not evolve, what mammal would you be? an aardvark, I think What if you never met your current husband/wife, who would you be married to? Alicia Keys, most likely 1
Alan Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 I've just realised I have posted on this thread twice, and given a different answer each time.The first time I said "Church of England or Methodist" and then (several weeks/months later) I said Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox". I guess that simply illustrates that I'm unstable and would probably try different faiths, favouring various denominations depending on what mood I'm in.Either that or I'm going senile. I think it is probably the senility because when I saw the picture of Alicia Keys above posted by Gervin, my immediate thought was "her earrings are too big and very ugly"!
Tacenda Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 (edited) ERayR, not even a church that believes in the BoM? And D&C? And Pearl of Great Price? Aren't there churches out there like this that aren't TCOJCOLDS? Or would you just have church at home and not go for social reasons to another church? Edited June 25, 2015 by Tacenda
ERayR Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 ERayR, not even a church that believes in the BoM? And D&C? And Pearl of Great Price? There are churches out there like this but that aren't TCOJCOLDS.i If the LDS Church is false then none of them have any validity. 1
Tacenda Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 If the LDS Church is false then none of them have any validity. Sounds like it isn't about a church per se. Reading the below seems to say it's not a true church but a true faith. Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Acts 2:47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. Acts 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: Acts 7:48-50 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? Hath not my hand made all these things? Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Acts 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; Ephesians 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
longview Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 Alicia Keys, most likely- - - Either that or I'm going senile. I think it is probably the senility because when I saw the picture of Alicia Keys above posted by Gervin, my immediate thought was "her earrings are too big and very ugly"!And why are her nostrils of uneven sizes?
Gervin Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 And why are her nostrils of uneven sizes? It's the flaw that makes her perfect.
Kenngo1969 Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 an aardvark, I think Alicia Keys, most likelyDon't those suckers deform the earlobes, or something?
mfbukowski Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 an aardvark, I think Alicia Keys, most likelyDang. First time I ever gave YOU a rep point!
Calm Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 Don't those suckers deform the earlobes, or something? All I can think of is the pain of them pulling on the lobe....
ERayR Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 (edited) Sounds like it isn't about a church per se. Reading the below seems to say it's not a true church but a true faith. Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Acts 2:47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. Acts 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: Acts 7:48-50 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? Hath not my hand made all these things? Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Acts 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; Ephesians 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: The Church is only "true" in that it is the framework/vehicle to deliver the Gospel to the world and to administer the saving ordinances of the Gospel. If you have no true Gospel the framework is hollow. Edited June 25, 2015 by ERayR 1
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