Moodshadow
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Doctrines and/or church affiliations notwithstanding, that question is disgusting, demeaning, shamefully presumptuous, and abominably insulting.
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Let me see if I have this right: you love your family just enough to call them family here but you don't love them enough to where you want to spend the eternities with them?
Doctrines and/or church affiliations notwithstanding, that question is disgusting, demeaning, shamefully presumptuous, and abominably insulting.
Lol it's a question. It's about how Christians view families.
You're misunderstanding what is taught here. Jesus was not talking about all marriages, he was referring to that specific case. Such a marriage was called a Levitical Marriage. It was tradition. The lesson learned here is a traditional marriage will break at death because it's not bound by God. A marriage bound by God, however, will stand throughout the eternities. Like I said, a heaven with no family is a hell. I'm grateful for the knowledge that families can be together forever. How do you feel knowing you believe you will have zero claim on your children?
Let me see if I have this right: you love your family just enough to call them family here but you don't love them enough to where you want to spend the eternities with them?
I am speaking of after this life, not while we are on earth in physical bodies. God wants us to marry on earth, it is why he invented it, we are to populate the earth, people have sexual desires but these are all natural, physical acts - not happening in the spiritual realm outside of our natural bodies.
Are you not aware we are all one family? It will be even more so when this time on earth as we know it is done.
This doctrine is false, it doesn't exist, the Mormons made it up. In the temple, people can be married to dead people, it goes on and on.
I do not now nor ever will understand this mindset.
If you were to adopt a child, would you not love that child just as much as any other member of your family? Sure you would. Im not questioning that.
Have you ever had a friend you would take a bullet for? I have.
What I am questioning is the logic of the sealing. We are supposed to love each other equally. Doesnt matter who they are or where they come from. That persons soul on the other side of the planet should mean just as much to you than your own blood relatives. This is one problem I have with these atrocious wars we are involved in right now, but thats another subject.....well, actually, no its not.
And this is what Jesus taught to love your neighbor as much as yourself.
Let me see if I have this right: you love your family just enough to call them family here but you don't love them enough to where you want to spend the eternities with them?
Yes, I agree.I think its hard for them to understand this concept......Jesus had the same problems back then.
I don't understand this mindset either. This is just one of many, many issues Mormon's do not understand about Jesus and the Bible, you just have been taught wrong.
Did you know - and please have an open mind -
Jesus came to redefine the term family. Remember when he asked, "who is my mother and brothers?" He answered himself with, "they who do my Father's will are my mother, brothers and sisters".
That's the redefining moment, we should not only love our spouses, blood relatives, children - but in the same manner, we love those in Christ. We are all adopted into the family of God. We are one family, there are no spouses in heaven, no aunts, no uncles - we all share one another equally because we are the Body of Christ. We edify one another - all of us together as One.
There is no separation as the Body, you are trying to separate it into "family units", this is a natural human concept and you are thinking with a natural mind, not a spiritual mindset.
Love covers a multitude of sins.
This thread of who has read the book of Mormon has turned into something else.
To me reading of the wonderful savior and how many are blessed by reading about Him, is a good thing.
If reading this book is not helpful for some then dont read.
I don't understand this mindset either. This is just one of many, many issues Mormon's do not understand about Jesus and the Bible, you just have been taught wrong.
Did you know - and please have an open mind -
Jesus came to redefine the term family. Remember when he asked, "who is my mother and brothers?" He answered himself with, "they who do my Father's will are my mother, brothers and sisters".
That's the redefining moment, we should not only love our spouses, blood relatives, children - but in the same manner, we love those in Christ. We are all adopted into the family of God. We are one family, there are no spouses in heaven, no aunts, no uncles - we all share one another equally because we are the Body of Christ. We edify one another - all of us together as One.
There is no separation as the Body, you are trying to separate it into "family units", this is a natural human concept and you are thinking with a natural mind, not a spiritual mindset.
And anyone who does not agree is accused of not truly reading it with an unbiased and open heart.
And now, in addition to the humiliating disrespect exhibited in your earlier post, you add mockery with this expression of mirth? Have you no shame at all? Whatever happened to "...benevolent, virtuous, and doing good to all men?"
Good job on something you got from someone else. How many people use this? I've lost count. Instead of the one verse you need to read that with the 2 verses before and after. The dark skin was not the curse. If you actually take it in the context it's in instead of just repeating what every critic says you'd know this. The curse was being cut off from God. The dark skin was a marking and nothing more, not the curse.
Behold the Lamanites your brethren, whom ye hate because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins.
Actually, Jacob 3:5 makes it pretty clear that the curse was not merely being "cut off from God", but the blackening of their skin:
Please note that the curse, according to Jacob 3:5 doesn't say that the curse was directed at their relationship with God, but upon their skin.
Good try, though.
Would you be kind enough to point out for us, then, where in the Bible - or even in the Book of Mormon, or the Pearl of Great Price, or the Doctrine and Covenants - it tells when Jesus Christ, being the Great Exemplar, set the standard by obeying this great commandment Himself by participating in His own eternal marriage sealing while He was on the earth?Oh, you mean like your trinity belief? OK. So you believe we'll become one massive Trinity. Is that it? Yet more of your insulting sarcasm? It's getting really, really old. No one said or even hinted anything about one massive trinity - that is your own derisive invention.
Thinking about the togetherness of the family IS the spiritual mindset. No God, except a powerless one, would not allow marriage to be eternal. Why did the Savior tell Peter thank whatever he bound on earth would be bound in heaven? If a marriage is bound on earth by God's authority it shall be bound in heaven. Do you believe Jesus was fooling Peter? Is a marriage that is bound on earth by proper authority not bound in heaven? You do realize, don't you, that since all of this is purely LDS doctrine, it is therefore not very helpful except to those who are LDS - and they already know it?
Only in Jesus Christ's church is the doctrine of eternal marriage found. This is true doctrine and I say it by the name of Christ Himself. If I were to believe death breaks marriage I would be saying God is not Almighty.
It wasn't a "try", it was accuracy.
The source talked about was 2 Nephi. I know the Book of Mormon quite well.
You can't and won't because you do not believe in it. You don't believe in it therefore your reading does not come from the Spirit of God.
Behold the Lamanites your brethren, whom ye hate because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins.
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