Beautiful_Serenity

If you truly repent from any sin; the repentant person has learned from his/her mistake. Of course if you make the same mistake again and again then the person who "repented" really hasn't otherwise the same pitfalls wouldn't be so easy to trip over. I think that when we are truly repented and really learned from our mistakes we wont sin (that particular sin) again. Of course the problem with the human race is memory. We forget! We forget the lessons we have learned. We hang on to old habits, friends who really aren't the best to be around, and get caught up in the same old scene. Making a change of heart is just that a change. If we do get caught up in our mistakes then we will be "damned", but the good news is we have a whole life time to learn to fix those mistakes. Yet we have so much to learn what a waste it could be to try to take the same class over and over if we have already passed.

I think the lord is aware of our situation. He knows what we can handle. I agree.

So what are your opinions about all this? It is obvious that most LDS practice birth control to some extent. Are we all going to hell for it, as some leaders in the past have suggested? Or does doctrine change? Are current leaders silent or wishywashy because we are too hardened as a people to handle the truth? ← I being the oldest of 7 children knowing that my parents used birth control. My mother always said, "I feel like were missing someone". Nine months or more later I had another brother or sister. My mom was 34 years old when she had her last child. She finally felt like we weren't missing anyone else and had the situation fix so there would be no surprises. I do think that if she was by chance to get pregnate again it would put her into a life threatning situation because of her health. Yes I would have to say that many LDS practice some form of birth control. I don't think we are going to hell for it. Until my bishop asks and says that I can't go to the temple because I AGREE with birthcontrol, I have no worries about going to hell. Being on birthcontrol is not one of the first principles of the gospel...and I personally and working on narrowing my gap between my temprole state here and perfection with out worring about birthcontrol. So in closing I think that President Hinkley ia not wishy washy at all and if it is revealed to him that birthcontrol is an absoulte no then I guess I will change my thinking. I saw nothing in "The Family Proclomation, to the world" about birth control. I think as long as we raise our familys according to those standards we will all be fine. We can only do our best. Heavenly Father know what that is and so do we. Bea-