Pain-of-Salvation

Matthew 5:48: King James Version (KJV) 48 "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Wouldn't the made up word "purefection" be more appropriate than "perfection" as we know it's not possible to be perfect? Or is it? When I feel close to Heavenly Father, when I feel pure, I feel in those moments I had seconds of "perfection". The pure peace of God inside makes me feel perfect (not in a braggy prideful way of course)....If we bridged those seconds of feeling perfect with other seconds of the same feeling, can we attain perfection? I, even the optimist, say no because we live in an Entropy, a world that naturally is in entropy, in a state of decay. The natural man wants to come out and "play" in the natural world, the random impure thoughts that come due to physical bodies, the pride that comes in when we compare things with others, the gossip..... Maybe what that verse is trying to tell us is we can be perfect in different areas. If someone offends you, can you be perfect in forgiveness? In the smallest examples of life, can we apply perfect principles perfectly? In temptations, can we use the perfect tools of will and obedience to ward them off? Anyway, what are your thoughts on perfection?

You are being attacked by the Devil and his demons. He's trying (my opinion) to "plant" a fornication seed that has the potential to be a bad root in the soul. Defend yourself by going to the bishop. Peace will bring confidence. Confidence, peace, and Holy Ghost=a powerful missionary.

Unfortunately, just from my brothers experiences and stories, there are definite "planes" of evil just as there are "planes" of good. Without getting into too much detail (he got into astral projection and weird stuff), there are countless demons who try to tempt us in our "plane" of reality by planting "seeds" of temptation; these seeds are aimed to get the natural man out of us (carnal sin being a chief weapon)....interesting from his point of view, our guardian angels can come closer to our planes and ward them off. In his opinion, the more righteous you are, the more you react to your guardian angels, the Holy Ghost, inspiration and voices of warning....if you get into the "dark", the demons have more openings to attack your soul. Scary stuff I know. Nobody talks about guardian angels, but I always think we should pray specifically for help from our guardian angels. My brother thinks he actually met the Devil or witnessed him on an astral projection one time, on a different "plane" of existence that is more or less "parallel" with this world and he witnessed a meeting between the Devil (he thinks) and countless demons and overheard them talking about specific people and how they would be attacked or brought into their fold. My brother says the feeling he had at this time was actually more "misery" and "sad" than "feeling evil or bad". But the misery feeling made him feel the intent was evil. If this is true, then we definitely know the purpose of the devil is to make us miserable. He is in absolute misery, knowing he can never progress. My question is after his role in the plan, could he ever be forgiven? If so, could we handle a prodigal son situation?

Thanks! I'll have to check Clearplay out. I went to the site and Game of Thrones was there. Nice! I wonder if it works for blu-ray.

Ok, so I'm a huge Fantasy/Science Fiction Fan and I see that HBO has a series called "Game of Thrones" after the book series by Martin. So the question is can you be a good Mormon and watch this show? I see that it has nudity/sexual situations. Should I just totally avoid it? It's so tempting, but I'm just not sure.