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Ever hear the story of the prodigal son? I love it. Let me explain it in detail: 1) The son in the story asked for his inheritence early, which, in Hebrew culture is equilvalent to saying your father is dead to you 2) He became a swine herder after squandaring his inheritence. This was not simply straying from the path, but open rebellion against his father. Swine was prohibited by Jewish law, and to become a swineherder was lower than low 3) However....when he finally returned home his father ran to him. His father had been sitting at the front of his house, looking for his son, and the moment his son started back on the path to him the father ran. He gave the son his robe and his ring. The significance? We all fall short, and require forgiveness. But remember, Heavenly Father is watching for us, and the moment he sees you on the right path he will run to you, and send you his Spirit, no matter what you have done. He will clothe you with power (the endowment) and give you all that is his (the ring symbolizes power, or priesthood). Baptism isn't just a one time thing, we renew our baptism, in effect being baptised again, every Sunday when taking the sacrament. Being immersed in water is symbolic, it in and of itself is nothing save the covenant behind it. Partaking of the bread and water is equal to being baptised again, it is the renewing of your promise with God. Remember, when Christ completed the atonement he didn't just take upon himself your sins and your pains, but your hopes, dreams and aspirations as well. He knows you more initmately than any other on this earth. He knows what makes you happy, what makes you laugh and he wants you to do that more.

So which is the greater show of love towards God? Saving an innocent from death by lying? Or admitting to hiding someone? Which is the greater commandment? "Greater love hath no man than this, that he should lay down his life for his friends." or "Thou shall not bear false witness." After taking a class on Judaism and ancient Hebrew literature, one needs to take into context all situations and all sayings. Lying itself is divided into two kinds. The evil kind is the one associated with the Devil. This lying hurts. It hurts God, others, and is done for a wrong purpose. When Satan ''beguiled'' Eve it involved an intense, mult-level, suffering. The other kind of lying, such as Abraham did, is not evil. A greater TRUTH (the opposite of a lie) was upheld

Just remember. God doesn't do "isms." To apply man made terms such as monotheism, polytheism, mormonism, etc is to apply man made logic to a being who's ways "are not your ways."

Everything that is good is of God. Never believe that some of the important truths you've been taught are wrong. The teachings of Sadartha Gautama have had an influence for good in this world, and may have been a preperatory teaching inspired of God. Now, it's up to someone to take these teaches, possibly enshrined in the Eightfold Path, and apply them to a loving Heavenly Father Right View: My understanding of life, and myself is that I am nothing. By myself I am lower than the dust of the earth. By realizing this I have realized that I need to utterly rely on my faith in Christ and God. It is my hope and belief that by doing this I can become sanctified, that I am adopted into the House of Israel, and become a son of God and joint-heir with Christ, able to inherit all the Heavenly Father has. This view makes me want to have faith in God even more, and makes me want to spread his goodness by service to my fellow man Right Intention: I should intend to submit every act and every work I do to the glory of God, who seeks for the glorification of his children. Right Speech: I should expound truth in all things. I should rely on the Holy Ghost to give me wisdom to say and do the right things in order to further the cause of truth. Right Action: As expounded upon by several philosophers and monks, right action is the abstaining of taking life, from stealing, and illicit sex. I have never had any desire to do the first two. But the last one is trouble for most men. I am saving myself for the one who I will take to the temple one day. Her and I will be sealed with Holy Powers given to man by God. We shall be partners, working towards the same goal of being reunited with our Father. She will be my queen, and the mother of our family. And if I have one thing I can give her when I take her in marriage, it will be my chastity, my virtue, and my honour. Right livelihood: Work is an eternal principle. We often refer to the 'Work of God' or other such sayings without realizing that our own work, however seemingly tedious or insignificant, is preparing us for our own eternal work. Do work in honesty, in righteousness, with the realization that it is preparing one for eternity The next three are about meditation. But these can also be applied to prayer. We need to put effort into our prayer. We need to desire to know the truth, feel the love, and know the goodness of our Father. We need to want this more than anything else. We need to have the right mindset. And we need to concentrate on this.

I just bored my testimony of the plan of salvation. Told him I was too busy to argue as I was writing a paper on the Peace of Westphalia and bid him good night.

Hey bug?! You work near the Enmax centre right?! And thanks for the advice people. I'm just going to let this stew for a few days. I have more important things to worry about....like research papers.....which are of the devil.....

Hey yall, what's cracking? I haven't been able to visit much due to college and preparing for the mission. But what do I do in a situation like this? So, I have this friend that I think of as a sister. A little over a month ago our little conversations that we had randomly ended. Nothing. I wasn't to concerned as I figured she was busy, and I knew for sure that I was. But tonight I was like, 'what the hey, I'll just say hi'. So I drop her a message. Next thing I know I get a message back calling me a liar, and I'm acting like I'm in grade 2. Me? In the dark, not a clue as to what's going on. When I ask her to clarify she says that I know, and that she's already told me what happened...that I lied about talking to her. She says sorry for some reason, I tell her there's nothing to forgive, but that I hope she'll forgive me for whatever she thinks I did. She says it's different on her side, and things aren't right anymore. So what do I do? I don't know what happened, and no matter how many theories I can come up with I won't know unless she tells me. I still care for her obviously, but I don't know how to approach this. As of right now, I'm just going to let it sit for a couple days, pray for guidance and for comfort for me as well as her.

You want something really different and cool to listen too? Try Matisyahu! The guy is a young Orthodox Hasidic Jew, and blends traditional Hebrew themes with a mostly reggae style. Seriously....I'm listening to him right now, it's clean and it's catchy!

When did she serve?! My best friend served in the Toronto West mission.

I'm in a World Religions class, and Western Civilizations class in college (Just got to Lethbridge yall! Finally moved in! Woot!) and it's amazing to see the flood stories that originate from almost every civilization. Heres a few examples: Noah's Ark - Not gonna summarize this one Epic of Gilgammesh - The gods are angry with humanities sin and bloodshed, they tell a man to build a boat, save his family. This is a Mesopotamian legend Atlantis - Advanced civilization destroyed by giant flood.

Actually...this is sounding less like a Trinitarian beliefe, and more like modalism. Modalism is a common view held by Christians who do not fully understand the Nicene, Athanasian or other creeds. Indeed, modalism was declared heretical by the early churches.

Read the Nicene and Athanasian creeds.... Just yankin your chain.

You'll always be a member of God's Army?

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1) Other than being a member of Christ's church? Just yankin your chaing I guess a lot of it has to do with the knowledge of where I came from, why I'm here, and where I'm going. I have a knowledge that Christ still talks to man on earth. I have a more initmate knowledge of the power of the atonement and what it truly is. There are more things of course. 2) I was born into the Church, baptized at 8. However, there came a point in which I had to decide what I truly believe. It came with great study, and great prayer, but eventually I recieved my answer. 3) We hold it equal to our other standard works. It is the word of God to man. There have been mistakes made in the bible, mistranslations, and additions not of God. But if read prayerful and with careful study one will find the word of our Heavenly Father in there. 4) If it's wholesome, go ahead and partake of it. If it's not, there's no value to be had in it.

As for the first point, I was trying to make a general statement, rather than point at just one government or the other.

There are some similarities. However, the common gnostic view that the body is evil and is something to reject is completely and irrevecably inconsistent with God's view.

Several times in Honduras I saw "Jesus for president"....if only....

Long winded I know...but I'm bored tonight and 'Caeser' has put me in a reflective mood. I apologize to those having to read that.

I'm reading a book entitled Caeser right now to prep for my History of Western Civ class. There's several interesting lines from it: Vercingetorix: That is the way of democracies, which offer mindless idiots a choice of candidates and then wonder why fools are elected. A people needs a king, not men who change every time someone blinks his eye. One group benefits, then another, yet never the whole people. A king is the only answer. Caeser: A king is never the answer. Vercingetorix goes on to laugh at Caeser and call the man a king in all but name, comparing him to Alexander the Great. Caeser repudiates him, it's a long paragraph so I'll paraphrase it: I am no Alexander the Great. All I am is a part of Rome's ongoing pagaeant. A great part, yet only a part. When Alexander died, Macedon died. He was the reason for his country's greatness. He did what he liked and he went where he liked. He thought like a king, Vercingetorix! He mistook himself for an idea. To make it bear permanent fruit, he would have needed to live forever. I am the servant of my country. Rome is far greater than any man she produces. When I am dead, Rome will continue to produce other great men. I will leave Rome stronger, richer, more powerful. What I do will be used and improved by those who follow me. Fools and wise men in equal number, and that's a better record than a line of kings can boast. For every great king, there a dozen utter nonentities. V: Lamely says: I do not agree. What is my point in this? Both make a few right points, but the real truth I believe is found somewhere in the middle. V (I don't feel like spelling Vercingetorix every single time) is right in saying that democracies ultimately do not satisfy anyone. A government should not be founded in which the whims of the majority always take precedence over the rights of the minority. Regardless of whether or not the minority is in the right or wrong. To always leave power in the hands of the majority is to eventually devolve to mob rule. Replace the word 'king' with the word constitution and one may have something here. While there will never be absolute satisfaction with any administration, one that adheres to the constitution of its country will garuntee the rights and liberties of its citizens so that they may find happiness in one way or another. Caeser is right in that a country should never rely on the charisma or idea of one man (or group of men). The man who raises himself to the level of an idea is doomed to failure in bringing that idea to pass, even faster in democracies as they have less time than even a king to bring that idea to pass. However, a servant of an idea, an idea set on paper and enshrined in the foundation a country, can accomplish great things by upholding this idea. In the case of countries that idea is called the constitution. It does not die with age, nor does it get voted out of power. All men who come from the country under this constitution should be there to support it, not themselves. They must understand that their administration is not the time to pass their ideas or their plans, but to stear their nation in a course that might keep it on course with their constitution during troubled times. Yes, fools will be produced in equal (If not in more abundance) because we do have the agency to choose those leaders we feel can uphold the foundation of our nations, but if an adherance to the law is followed then any nation can weather a bad administration. It is only when a series of bad administrations put themselves above the constitution (Often in the name of upholding it), and create a new idea for their country that things run into trouble. This is why Rome fell. When men such as Octavian put themselves above the senate in order to 'run' the senate. Righteous government is in simultude of the Kingdom of God. The plan of salvation and the Father himself are our 'constitution'. The plan might easily be called the Law of Salvation. God and his plan are abosulte, unchanging, and above all other laws in the Kingdom. Yet that does not mean his rule is abosulte in the sense that he takes away our freedoms. He has given us the liberty to choose good or evil. And in the church we have the oppurtunity to sustain our leaders, with rare minority who might opposed having their opinions taken into consideration.

In Canada we eat snow, it's a common (All too common) delicacy, and when sprinkled with maple syrup absolutely delicious. We take a snowy driveway as an oppurtunity to have a picnic outside with the family and the neighbours.

I read it too in Will Durant's 'Story of Civilization' series. They were levites, and their specific duty was to raise sheep for the temple sacrifices.

And I'm shivering up here in Canada....

Shame, or guilt, or whatever you may call it, is an essential step in the repentence. Remember that any terror we may feel about going to the bishop, or kneeling before Christ is not because we feel they will reject us, but because we are not worthy of the love they so freely offer us. Imagine Christ, reaching his hand down and saying 'Lay your sins upon me, I already know what they are, I've already paid for them, now if you'll just let me help you..." It's a personal belief of mine that atonement of Christ not only involved the Messiah taking upon himself the sins of mankind, but everyone's sickness, afflictions, and hurts in life. But that's not all, I think....no....I know that he also took upon himself our joys, our happinesses, our righteous pleasures and hopes. The reason why he wants to help us so badly is because he knows what we are capable of, he knows the goodness inside of us. When he looks upon you he sees sin as just a bit of dirt or mud covering an otherwise beautiful diamond. I've been through repentence before, I had to go to the bishop. Trust me, the sheperd of your ward is in Simultude of the Only Begotten. Lay your sins, but also your hopes for forgiveness at his feet. I garuntee you that as you leave his office you'll feel a spiritual weight come off your shoulders.

Oh please yall, complain to me about snow when you've lived in Canada for 18 years.