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I watched My Best Friend's Wedding.  Still great as it was the first time I saw it.

I watched My Best Friend's Wedding.  Still great as it was the first time I saw it.

The world is going to hell in a hand basket and Christians would rather bite at each other than reach out to the lost.
Paul warns against this sort of thing in his Epistle to Titus, 3:10  “Warn a divisive man once, warn him twice, then have nothing to do with him.”
If I have to judge you on your “Christianity” (which is rare), then I will do it in accordance to what fruits of the spirit you bear - Ephesians 5:22-23
I, like you, don’t waste much time on arguing doctrine with people. I am confident in my faith and my relationship with our Father.  Besides, according to the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, when you and I and everyone else who claims to belong to Him has to stand before Him on that day He is only going to ask us one doctrinal question: “Did you or did you not take care of the people I told you to take care of”
We are told in 2 Nephi 33:10 ...”If you believe not these words then believe in Christ.” It’s not my job to point out to people elements of their doctrine that may not line up with my own, it’s my job to help them believe in Christ.
Having been one of those people who discounted the faith of LDS members, I can tell you that I did not change my mind due to someone’s knowledge of doctrine. My mind was changed by Mormon friends and neighbors who walked with Christ and helped me with my own faith despite the fact they knew I would most likely never join the Church. LDS members who treated me like another brother in Christ. Mormons who prayed with me, gave me blessings, and cried with me when my life was coming apart. 
We should no longer concern ourselves with what others think of us or our faith. We should concern ourselves with reaching the lost and the best way to do that is to continue to live our lives in a way that is pleasing to our Father. 

Um, dude, you can't be posting pictures of cookies like that without also posting pictures of a glass of milk!  [smh]

Different issue, but similar situation. Like LDS, American Assemblies of God folk do not drink alcohol. However, we are not centrally-governed, and the French A/G do allow moderate consumption. Some of our missionaries (permanent--planning to spend their adult lives 'on the field') attempted to fit in with their new culture, by moderately drinking. However, some of them ended up having to return home, because they became alcoholic. Now, the French A/G understand that American missionaries are not permitted to drink, and they no longer try to encourage them to do so. My thought:  Japanese public bathing may be completely respectful and modest, within the culture. However, it may cause an American, no matter how well-intentioned, to stumble. So, in making a decision, consider your own spiritual walk, in addition to what's appropriate in the culture.

And there you go.  The scriptures became interpretations, the interpretations became assumptions and speculation, and there you have it.  Some folks figure they'll get a call from their Bishops one day asking them to move to Missouri.  And some folks, (like the dad of the little girl down the street from me), just figure they won't wait for that call.
And now RKY and his AVOW folks figure it'll be RVs in the rocky mountains instead.  I mean yeah, it's possible the Lord may ask me to do things I never considered.  But given the onionskin-thin tapestry of guesses in these links, I'd be really surprised if it was "Bro NT, pack up your family, quit your job, and move to Missouri/the Rocky Mountains.
Your mileage may vary.

https://www.lds.org/scriptures/history-photos/photo-10?lang=eng
http://www.lds-mormon.com/adam_ond.shtml

I was going to ask about this before I left yesterday, thanks for reading my mind @wenglund !!

She claims it was a GA, but hasn't said who.  I could never find anything out about it.  In HS, we went on a church history tour when we studied D&C.  I want to say I heard about it on that trip too, so who knows.  Sounds to me like it could have been concocted by individuals who don't refrigerate their ketchup.  *queue Twilight Zone music* 

Yep.  When I was 7, the little girl who lived down the street's dad actually packed his family up and moved there.  He said he was doing it early "so the rest of you will have a place to stay when it happens".  Such a pity - the little girl and I were going to grow up and get married.  
I'd be interested to know why your mom thinks that - where she got the notion.  I'm pretty positive it isn't from any doctrinal source.  I'm guessing plain old cultural urban legend stuff, like people who live on the wrong side of 13th east in Salt Lake don't refrigerate their ketchup.  You just can't trust people who don't refrigerate their ketchup. 

In a way, that is why it is called "plural marriage"because the wives are each respectively married to the husband and not to each other.
Thanks, -Wade ENglund-

@wenglund yes. My husband has already spoken to our bishop and was told that even if a cancellation is granted that that doesn’t cancel his sealing to his children. Again, a cancellation is very unlikely in my situation so we are just happy to get a clearance but I wasn’t  sure exactly what that mean as far as eternal companionship. This isn’t something my husband or I are going into with out much thought or prayers. We feel that our sealing is important for our marriage and for our family (including the children).  

Divorce is always heartbreaking. I am seeing that his wife is very supportive of this decision (it seems like it was taken by BOTH).
I am just one of those who thought they should have never gotten married in the first place. The idea of marrying someone who is gay is completely bizarre and whomever believes it is a solution to "cure" homosexuality is a fool.

Pity.

 

It's so bizarre to me that family relationships that should be between pastor/bishop/therapist and couple are now trotted out as political weapons to pursuade society about the normalcy and morality of God-prohibited behavior. I'm not too familiar with Josh Weed, but I am aware that some gay people of faith choose to attempt straight marriages, and that the LGBT activists hate that choice. Does anyone remember Madonna coming out with the song "Papa Don't Preach, I'm Having My Baby," and how the pro-choice activists literally called radio stations, begging them not to play the song, lest an impressionable teen mother choose life?
Back to the bishop's counseling office (or pastor's, or therapist's)...PLEASE!

Who in the world is Josh Weed?

I am a believer in and a supporter of the Second Amendment. I am more of a believer in and more of a supporter of the kingdom of God and its leaders. The choice you propose would be clear, at least for people like me.

Fulness of Bread:  When a people can no longer go through the pride cycle because the depth of their BREAD has jammed the cycle, hence causing the machine to freeze up, the “salt of the earth” injector to overfill and then explode in intense molten salt... this explains the bit about Lot’s wife.

You must be a programmer if...

Similar to the parable of the talents?

See!? Proof that Mormon women are oppressed!
 

There might have been far larger civilizations in the Americas that simply were not mentioned in the Book of Mormon narrative.
As far as the time period goes, we know only that the Jaredite nation lasted from sometime after the linguistic confusion at the tower of Babel until between about 200-600 BC. Since we don't know the date of the events at the tower of Babel, any attempt to assign a timespan to the Jaredite nation is largely conjecture. The Book of Mormon lists about thirty generations (likely a few more than that) for the kings of the Jaredites. Naively assigning 20 years to each generation suggests a timespan of only 600 years, which seems far too short, putting the events at Babel somewhere around 1000-1200 BC. By assigning a greater span to each generation and/or inserting as many generations as desired in the spaces where the record says only that So-and-so "was a descendant of" This Other Guy*, you can arbitrarily increase this span to however long you want. 2000 years (twice the Nephite nation's span) is a reasonable enough guess -- but it is only that, a guess.
*"Ether...was a descendant of Coriantor", "Aaron was a descendant of Heth", and "Morianton was a descendant of Riplakish." The first two look like they were either father-son or grandfather-grandson, since the narrative states that "A begat B".

The only thing we know is that Coriantumr from the Jaredites lived long enough to meet the people of Zarahemla. We don't know how long Coriantumr was alive after the death of the Jaredites. We also do not know if the Jaredites spanned further and if the Jaredite story we have in the Book of Mormon is specific to a geographic location.
It would be similar to saying that all the people of Israel were lost to Babylon, when we know at least two groups made it to the American continents. So, some Jaredites could have survived because they had moved to different parts of the land and were never apart of this great war.
So many questions, fun, fun!

As a male, I feel he is shaming you out of his own personal guilt because his actions were 100% adulterous.  Nothing he says has any bearing on the Lord's love for you, nor should it cause you to feel guilt.

I came back to Eminem, which I could never find...nobody told me it wasn't M&M!!