mrmarklin

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was in a shop in Berlin......97% Cakao! It was really good!!!! Brought some home.....................

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.

Is being honest in my opinions not nice????

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.

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.

I'm watching it.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.:)

Scientifically, everything is either energy or matter in the universe. That being the case God had plenty of materials on hand for creation.

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

Baptism is the Greek word for immersion.

- if he was truly repentant he would stay away Absolutely.

I hate to swim against the tide, but I would start with the Bible. The BoM is another testament of Jesus Christ. The Bible, in my opinion, is the foundation of the scriptures for all of us, including other faiths. It's timeline precedes the BoM. It would and should take priority.

I would not reply to this moral leper. You don't know his motives for reaching out to you. Why take a chance?

Moses and Aaron were both Levites. I don't think that we can generalize about all of us.

Sounds like harassment to me. you should definitely tell him that you don't want to see or be seen with him even at "public" events. You should keep him away from your kids. If his behavior persists after this typr of firmness, you should tell him you will seek a restraining order, and if it persists after that you should get a restraining order.