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I recently found a group of very interesting verses in the New Testament, and I was wondering what the traditional Christian way of explaining them is. They all have to do with instructions Jesus gave His apostles after He rose from the dead. Matthew 28:5-10 and Mark 16:5-7 roughly agree with...

So are you saying that the Jews preserved Judaism just as God wanted it for the 500 years between Malachi and John the Baptist? Are you saying that it wasn't until Annas and Caiaphas that there was enough wickedness for God to send John to preach against? I think it was more likely that the Jews...

The only problem I have with it is that it's premature. It's going to take a very long time for God to transform any of us (including Joseph Smith) into being fully divine. Dzheremi, why do you think Mormonism should be embarrassed?

Why wait until the end? Why not ask Jesus (or His Father) right now whether or not Jesus knew Latter-day Saints?

Phoebe Ann, how did you come to the conclusion that the LDS Church is not "a branch of Christianity"?

I am not aware that there was any limit put on it at all. Ah, so God intended for Sara, Maria, and Melenia to all stay single all their lives? I don't believe there's any evidence that Joseph Smith liked it at all.

Well, it all depends on what you mean by create. Were we created out of nothing, or were we created by God taking the intelligence that makes up our inner core and giving it first a spirit body and then a biological body? I don't think there's anything atheistic (or bordering atheistic) about...

If you can't know that God would annihilate the unsaved if He could, then how in the world do you know that God will not lie?

BigDaddy4, are you saying that there is ample evidence for the accuracy of the idea that God has the power to annihilate the unsaved? That there is ample evidence for the accuracy of the idea that God will not use that power, but instead will let the unsaved suffer forever? If so, what is that...

Well, I'm certainly not inerrant. Other LDS posters, what do you think about what I've posted. Does anybody take issue with what I've said? I'm not going to pretend that I know the answer to that question. At least not right now. Perhaps you should ask Eyring why he thinks checking an answer to...

Let me rephrase that. If some faith tradition says that God "already knows who will and who won't," and yet teaches that God went ahead and created the ones who He knows won't, then why should we believe that that faith tradition is actually inspired by God?

I can't speak for WWA or Jane Doe, but I would say there's a huge distinction between listening to men that the Holy Spirit has told you God wants you to treat as his spokesmen, and listening to men that the Holy Spirit has not.

Well, I do think it's going to a good cause, but the more important thing is that I think it's going where God wants it to go. It's God's money, not mine, so I need to give it to the people God has inspired to use it.

DingDing, why do you think Thomas Monson is either godless or a liar?

If it was God's plan from the beginning to bring Jesus into a community of Jews God knew would reject Him, and if the fact that the Jewish leaders had fallen away from God's wishes enough to get Jesus crucified, didn't make what God did with the Jews a mistake, then how do we know that what God...

I'd say both (a) and (b).

I completely agree that God knows "all things which are to come"; the crucial question is, does God know them in general, or does He know them down to the last detail? Some Latter-day Saints think God knows them down to the last detail. I think He just knows them in general.

If God already knows who will and who won't, then why did God create the ones that He knows won't?

I'll ask you the same question I've asked some other people on this forum. Traditional Christians seem to believe that God created the world and everything in it, including thinking beings like you and me, out of nothing. Do you believe that? If God can create a thinking being out of nothing...

Dzheremi, I'm not sure I understand your question. It is impossible that the person that's asking God a question might be doing both? Listening to the Holy Spirit via ways to listen to the Holy Spirit that have been revealed to men like Eyring and Holland? I think too that there really are two...