[Import: Eunuchs]

I was definately in the same shoes as you after I got baptized in the church. I thought that celibate life was just as noble, if not more, than married life in the eyes of God. Thankfully though, through the Spirit of Revelation, I came to realize the error in my belief, that my belief of life long celibacy was not inline with Heavenly Father's will for my life. I found a great thread for you to check out:

http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/29659-matthew-19-12-a.html

[Requirement of being an apostle]

Hey guys I'm having a chat with my friend on another forum about the restored gospel. There are two issues I'm trying to explain to him and I'm hoping you guys can help (we have a religous debate going on at another forum, here is the link Religious Discussion Thread - Page 15 - 2K Sports Forums:

1) When the beloved John bowed at the feet of an angel in Revelation the angel admonished him not to do so. Yet my friend insists that it was Jesus that John bowed down to and that Jesus himself told John not to do so, but to only bow and worship at the feet of His Father. My friend says that you only worship God the Father and never Jesus Christ. Here are the scriptures:

Rev. 19: 10

10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Rev. 22: 8

8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.

2) My friend insists that in order to be an apostle you must have been witness to Christ baptism, and that there are can be no other apostles other than the original twelve because there names are written upon stones. Here is exactly what he said to me:

as far as apostles go again please pay attention to word apostle, there are ONLY 12 APOSTLES this is clearly documented not only there are 12 apostles, only way they can be an apostle is if they were witnesses from Johns baptism to Messiah's resurrection this is clearly documented in acts, when replacement of the Judas were about to occur, qualifications were made that only those who were there witnessing Messiah in Person were qualified to be an apostle, 12th and Final apostle..any others can say they are apostles, but their names are not found on 12 stones which are 12 names written in heaven..thus they are not apostles.

Mathias was the Final apostle.

when they asked Messiah what was the most important Law and commandment what did he say?

he said:

"you shall love your God with all your heart your mind and your soul,this is the GREATEST commandment, and second is this you shall love your neighbor as yourself on those 2 commandment hangs all Law and prophets"-Messiah

as you see we are always commanded to worship Father, we are never told to worship Messiah.

I appreciate your help fellas.