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We hold a Christmas family home evening on Chirstmas eve. We don't open presents until after Christmas breakfast - the whole family is involved in preparing our Christmas breakfast and then we pray before breakfast and we talk about the real meaning of Christmas around the breakfast table.

I frequently refer to the NIV in my personal study. Joseph Smith had a revelation that can be likened to this question, and while it was primarily concerned with the apocrypha, its principles are relevant to all scripture. D&C 91. 4 Therefore, whoso readeth it, let him understand, for the Spirit manifesteth truth; 5 And whoso is enlightened by the Spirit shall obtain benefit therefrom;

See D&C 20.

Do you mean contradict the standard works? Or contradict a particular interpretation, even thought it may be widely held, of the standard works? I can think of a specific instances where the latter has occurred.

Green tea and black tea are the exact same plant. The leaves are quick dried for green tea and slow dried for black tea, allowing them to oxidize as they dry. That said, the final decision is up to you. This church heavily emphasizes following the spirit. If the green tea contains therapeutic elements which help you and that is the real reason for its consumption then there really isn't a WoW violation in there. If it still troubles you then seek an alternative. Let the spirit be your guide.

It had very little to do with the availability of water. You may want to find and read an article titled "The Catholic Liturgy and The Mormon Temple" by Marcus Von Wellnitz. The article is copyrighted by BYU and is not available online but it can be purchased online. Jeff Lindsay touches briefly on a few of Marcus von Wellnitz's points on his web site (scroll down a little). Marcus von Wellnitz contends that the baptism ordinance as practiced in the Catholic church is a conflation of the original immersion baptism and other early esoteric Christian rituals, rituals that are familiar to modern LDS. Consider that at a Catholic baptism the child is not just baptized (sprinked) but is also anointed with oil (with reference to Christ's anointing as Prophet, Priest, and King), clothed in a white garment, and given a new name (the name of a saint). (Cyrill suggested in the fourth century that by the anointing the person also became a prophet, priest, and royal) Also, next time any of you temple endowed members visit a cathedral, especially the really old ones, I suggest you take a good look around. I've been in many cathedrals around the world but St Marks in Venice has some of the best examples of things a temple endowed LDS member should recognize.

IMO, a Mormon character on House has more to do with politics than Mormonism itself. I've seen quite a few shows make subtle digs that are directed at one or the other of the current Republican candidates - one show last night had a not so subtle dig at Rudy. These shows present falsehoods as facts without any recourse for refutation, all under the guise of some story to dodge equal time regulations.

Green tea is often promoted as having healthy benefits for the drinker. This is contrary to actual facts and the US FDA has taken formal exception to some of the claims made by green tea sellers. One thing that many people are not aware of is that green tea and black tea are both made from leaves of the same plant. The difference is that the tea leaves are dried very slowly for black tea so that the leaf oxidizes and darkens (much the same way a piece of fruit darkens because it oxidizes) while the leaves are quick dried for green tea.

Probably. But they are not the only ones. The ten tribes were scattered all over Europe, and from there eventually all over the world. See Jabob's (Actually Zenos's) allegory of the wild and tame olive trees in Jacob 5 and 6 in The Book of Mormon. There is a high probability that almost everyone living on Earth today can count Abraham as one of their ancestors and most can count Jacob as being among their ancestors.

But, since sex can, and does, occur outside the family unit - that pre-supposes at least one of two things: 1) Their body is not resurrected as promised, it is not a perfected form of an earthly body but it is lacking functioning sex organs, or 2) Free agency, an eternal principle, has been terminated. I can't otherwise see how, if the body is resurrected as we are taught it will be, you can keep two people in the terrestrial kingdom who want to have sex from having sex. Can you?

Thats not quite correct. Women can be, and frequently are, sealed to more than one husband after they pass on. Kate, if your mom does follow through and you later do the work for your father, when the time comes to do the work for your father discuss it with your ward temple work specialist. If he can't help you then discuss it with the temple presidency. It will be possible for you to be sealed to your father. The important thing to keep in mind about sealing covenants is the covenant itself. Its the covenant that matters, not whom it was made with.

We are resurrected in the same form we had here on Earth. Every hair, every body part. "Every" by definition includes the sex organs. Gender is a part of our eternal identity. If the part is there then sex is possible. And probably possible in every degree of glory. We know that procreation is possible only in the Celestial kingdom, so organization of intelligences into spirit children is probably something else.

The cats out of the bag now. http://www.crediblereport.com/extreme-make...mon-edition-21/

It is important that one keep in mind what the word "nation" actually means, and especially what it meant to those who wrote the scripture in the English language. It is an error to make 'nation' synonymous with 'state' A "nation" is a group of people who share a common identity and origin, in the sense of ancestry, parentage or descent. Thus preaching the gospel to Arabs does not necessarily mean teaching the gospel in all the states of Arabia. Teaching the gospel to the Chinese nation does not necessarily mean preaching the gospel in the boundaries of the State known as the Peoples Republic of China. The church is doing very well in South Korea - teaching the gospel in the state of North Korea is not necessary for fulfillment of scripture.