mrmarklin

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  1. He had not yet attained perfection. That came after the resurrection.
  2. Since the road to exhaltation is through marraige it is logical in LDS doctrine that the Christ was married. After all the Christ was baptized so why shouldn't He have been married too? It has been postulated that the marraige in Cana was His wedding (His mother was evidently in charge). It also strikes me as significant that the first person to see Him after the crucifixion was Mary Magdalene-even before any of the apostles! Of course there is no scriptural evidence of His marraige, but logic says that it must be so.
  3. I wouldn't marry any one that deep into debt. You're not being a snob, just smart and prudent. And remember that once you are married any bankruptcy would affect BOTH of your finances on any thing you decide to buy together (such as a home). Unless you could afford a home on only your credit, you would be precluded from buying one for a long time if he has filed bankruptcy. In addition the law has changed regarding most student loans...it may not be possible to discharge it in bankruptcy. A wise man once said...never go into partnership with anyone who has more problems than you do. Because when adversity arises, they have nothing to lose, while you do.
  4. Your older kids are big enough to be on their own so I would get at least 2 tents. Buy the best you can afford if you want them to last. Coleman is a good brand. I have one that is 35 years old this year and still going strong after only minor repairs. I have give it to one of my sons. I don't think you will find good quality at Wally World. Go to a decent sporting goods store.
  5. You obviously missed the headline in today's Wall Street Journal that stated factories are about to begin hiring again.
  6. This is true. Remember that by Eternal, Mormons mean as often as not, "Godlike" because Eternal is another name for God. When we are perfected, we will be like Him. John 3:2.
  7. We know that the concept of time changes as we leave this mortal coil. There are some hints of it in Einstein's work on relativity. Remember that in Moses, God states that "all things are before Him". That covers a lot, and implies that time as we know it may be irrelevant. My personal belief is that all revelations about the "pre-existence" and Saviors, etc only apply to this world. It would be very egocentric to assume that we are "it". The references to "all things" and "the beginning" were made to very primitive peoples whose understanding of the universe and even the earth's would be very limited so we have to look at those sayings in the context of the times they were given.
  8. I have and English friend. I was at dinner with him and his then girlfriend a few years ago, and asked what she did for a living. She sells Heath Insurance!! I thought it was free in England.........she said it is but if you actually want attention and get cured.........you buy her policy.
  9. This is probably due to sugar being used in England and high fructose corn syrup being used here in the US. Unfortunately, sugar is expensive here (the US) due to tariffs and price controls.
  10. I would be good (maybe) to live in rural areas, but that's not an option for 90+% of us in the west. Here in the US only 2% of the population is engaged in agricultural production, and the rest of us must live in some sort of urban area to make a living. The US and Europe are so interdependent on the rest of the world for almost everything (12% of the world's population using 50% of the resources), that to believe any but a very few individuals have the resources to be truly independent is naive. The rest of the world is evolving in the same way as the last great populations living in rural areas migrate to the ever industrialising cities of those huge nations. Those populations were mostly at a very basic subsistence level anyway.
  11. I was in a shop in Berlin......97% Cakao! It was really good!!!! Brought some home.....................
  12. Since there were no video cameras in those days, of course there is no absolute proof. However, there is a lot of things that infer that He was there, namely the legend of the "White" god that was waited for by both the Incas in South America, and the Aztecs in North America.
  13. Is being honest in my opinions not nice????
  14. Been married for almost 40 years. My wife is visiting her home country even as I write. When she married me, it has always been for her: me. our children and wherever we were at the time. Now that the children are raised, it's about each other. We've had a good life, and my wife has always followed my career wherever it went, and never whined. To think being a Bishop is not broadening his horizons is so self centered on your part that it would make me laugh if it were not so tragic.
  15. Why haven't you grown up?????? Has it always been about YOU???? Supporting your husband's calling only if he keeps trying to leave it is selfish and really very non-supportive. Your home and family is where your husband and children are, and always has been. I'm glad I'm not your husband, because I would want to take a vacation to somewhere other than my old hometown. You must be driving him crazy.
  16. You're right. But thanks for paying for me. I'm 62 and will need the money in a few years when I retire. Sorry, but the whole system is a giant Ponzi scheme. Don't people get arrested and prosecuted for that?
  17. There is secular evidence of a much more recent land division. Have you forgotten the Atlantis legend? That is certainly relatively recent, and not millions of years ago. Most of these "histories" are based on facts that while often distorted with the passage of time, are real events.
  18. Don't know about the first, but the latter two are conventions from "older" times. My ward has certainly gotten away from the latter very definitely, and ocasionally from the second.
  19. You mean like JW Marriott?? There's a building named after him at BYU. Who basically said that he couldn't survive in the hotel business without a bar.
  20. In general, I would say Judgemental. That being said, we make judgements about things and people all the time. But usually these are based on a person's dealings with ourselves, and not in general. We cannot know what is in a person's heart, nor do we normally have all the facts at our disposal.
  21. Check this out: Four generations after Noah, Genesis 10:25 records the birth of Peleg (meaning division) ‘for in his days was the earth divided’.
  22. Well it's different but not different enough to say that Mormons are not Christians. In the strictest sense, Mormons accept Christ as their personal Savior, and understand, along with the rest of mainstream Christianity that the path to salvation is through Jesus Christ.:)
  23. Scientifically, everything is either energy or matter in the universe. That being the case God had plenty of materials on hand for creation.
  24. And Satan put it into the heart of the serpent, (for he had drawn away many after him,) and he sought also to beguile Eve, for he knew not the mind of God, wherefore he sought to destroy the world. The scripture is from Moses 4:6 Satan does not understand the plan