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Snow removal expert in my Mom's ward.

Every time I see this come up online, participants are overwhelmingly introverts. intj here

That is what Christians have reflected on for 2000 years. God can do anything and it is possible our salvation could have come in any fashion. God knows us, and knows our need, and has given us what we need. Another answer is the scriptural answer, that the OT is fulfilled in the NT, also meaning the old covenant is fulfilled the New Covenant. The New Covenant being Jesus. The law and the prophets are fulfilled in Jesus. So there are multiple scriptures that are fulfilled in the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus. There is of course a mystical aspect to Jesus and all the surrounds him. To enter into the life of Christ is to enter into the mysteries of God. One spends a lifetime contemplating the profound acts of God among men.

God does not need, nor is required to do anything. God's nature is love. It is God's nature that is the cause of our existence and it is God's nature that is the cause of the mercy we receive. It is based on viewing righteousness as the individual aligning one's will to the will of God, and the premise being, why would one not want to do that? Free will, being gifted to us in order to freely choose and love God. To use the gift that God has given to go against God (sin) is an abuse of the gift which God has given us. It is the concept of Christian Holiness. Those with the theological view that hell will be empty do not throw away Apostolic teachings or doctrines.

Nice! I was thinking that I want to read the book! There is another book, about a boy from India who was kidnapped, sold to a Christian orphanage, adopted by a LDS family and raised in Utah. "The Ophan Keeper". http://www.ldsliving.com/How-a-Boy-Kidnapped-in-India-and-Raised-LDS-in-America-Miraculously-Found-His-Way-Home-After-Nearly-20-Years/s/83992

"Lion" A boy in India is lost +1200km from home, adopted by a couple in Australia, and spends a couple of years in his adult life trying to find his childhood home and biological mother and family. Cuz, he's still lost. Based on a true story. Big name actors (Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nichole Kidman, David Wenham), small budget film. Good story about love and family. I liked it.

My workplace is full of huggers. Greetings of coworkers who work in other locations and show up for a day or two give and get hugs. It was unnerving when I first started as I'm not a huggy kind of person, but now I accept and give the hugs and view them as the industry standard handshake (for the industry I'm in anyway). Arts and entertainment people are huggy, and to the point of the OP are all over the place in regards to sexual orientation. I give and get hugs from all of of 'em. ?? Dont be the grumpy grumper at work who is going tsk tsk at coworkers. If anything you risk growing into the grumpy old person who yells "get off my lawn", when you could instead choose to be hospitable and welcoming.

Yikes. This would be workplace harassment. The sexual orientation of a coworker is none of her business.

"Christian" is a broad term, and the answers to your questions will vary. Catholic/Orthodox doctrine is that God created us as rational beings, and gifted us with free will. Creation itself emanates from God's love. Our free will allows us to love God in return, freely. As love that is forced, i.e. God creating us to only love God and never sin, would not be us loving God and thus love would be removed from our relationship with God. "God is love", is central to understanding the Atonement . Long story made short, the Fall was man's turning away from God. An infinite transgression that required an infinite reconciliation. Only God, our infinite Creator, could reconcile us to Himself, and He has done so out of love for us. We choose to follow God, freely out of love, or not. We are responsible for our own choices. It is Catholic doctrine that all who follow God according to their conscience and what they understand will be judged according to their understanding and following God's will as they understand it. This is where different Christian theologies diverge. Some denying free will, others denying hell altogether. There is some of this among Catholic theologians who have posited that God's mercy and love conquer all and hell will be empty. While this is a theological musing based on Catholic doctrines, this is not a Catholic doctrine

http://www.documentarytube.com/videos/the-story-of-anvil

"Into The Forest" Rachel Evan Wood and Ellen Page play sisters in a post apocalyptic world. Well acted, plot moves along at a good pace but is not an action film.

Hi there. Your opening post is interesting, but has a few problems in describing Catholic doctrines and beliefs. I'm ignoring the Trinity discussion because it's wayyy off, and I'm not getting into a Trinity/Mormon discussion (ever). But regards to this part I quoted, it's not accurate. Catholics have numerous Saints and faithful who have had visions of angels, Mary and/or Jesus. Some of these visions are quite famous and talked about often among Catholics. However, where the First Vision comes into Catholic heresy, is that God the Father appeared, which is, indeed not possible in Catholic doctrine, since no one has seen the Father, and no one could (for a couple of reasons). Second, regarding prophets, prophecy is not dead in Catholicism. There are again numerous Catholic Saints and other faithful who are considered to have been given the gift of prophecy. There are a number of major differences in how Catholics and Mormons view post Resurrection prophets, which would be a long conversation I think. I'm not out to derail your thread of personal thoughts on Mormonism...I'll leave it at that.

In my own family line, there was a woman who came to the US in the 1600s, last name Knightley. Family lore has always been that she was from a royal family and her father in every family genealogy I've seen is British royalty, However, I tried to find record of this connection. Birth, marriage, wills, deeds, anything, and nothing. I'm convinced someone was overly excited to be descended from royalty and penciled in a Lord with the same last name of Knightley. Thus, the temple work for this extended royal family has been done by my family, and probably a long time ago, as this family lore and most likely bogus connection is in old, Mormon, family records. As early as the late 1800s or early 1900s. All that to say, the case may be the same with your family line. Someone connected into it and worked their way through every line and name they could find, a long time ago.

Agreed.

I agree that giving the benefit of the doubt is required for charity. However, we are called to be charitable, not called to be doormats. Discernment is not removed from decision making. All in all, in both the internet and IRL there are times where disengaging is the charitable thing to do. I binge watched the Great British Baking Show and the food terms aren't that difficult to grasp. The visual clues of the food itself are right there. They say they're going to bake biscuits, and they bake crackers. They say they are going to bake scones and they bake biscuits. At which point I learned, very late in life I might add, that the scones we call scones in Utah are not called that anywhere else in the world (except by people from Utah or with Utah connections). But calling Catholic communion "cracker", in the USA, is meant to be insulting and derogatory. It is widely used by anti-Catholics. It is similar in intent to calling temple garments "magic underwear". The intent is to mock and reduce sacred belief to absurdity. When I was becoming Catholic, I felt I had entered a foreign land where I didn't speak the language or know the customs. Every once in a while the place I now call home, throws me for a loop with a new "foreign" thing. Not in doctrine but in culture, and that's just here in the US. Catholicism is incredibly, culturally, diverse and it would be impossible to learn all the Catholic "stuff" of every culture.

Well said. I only add that how we, as Christians, respond to slights is just as important. A measured response to a slight requires the same excessive care.

My observation is, LDS members are more familiar with the practices and beliefs of Protestants. Most have no understanding whatsoever of how a Catholic views the Eucharist. You'll see it here with the usual "cracker" comments now and then. Also Catholicism is often the go to antagonist in analogies and comparisons with some LDS members. It's just how it is. Usually it's an effort to explain the far and above correctness of Mormonism, because this is, a Mormon conversation. Bringing up a Catholic practice or belief is only to make a point about a Mormon practice or belief. The accuracy about what the Catholic Church teaches or what we believe, is seldom the point. I recommend speaking up to explain that's something Catholics feel as strongly about as Mormons do their temples. I don't know that you'll be believed. But yes, we are on a Mormon forum. Ya just gotta let it go, charitably.

In short, Richard Nixon. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/1970s-great-inflation.asp

In what period of time and where?

I don't think this was the case. My mom, who is firmly in the mom should be at home camp, remembers when men worked two jobs in order to support their families. She has said offhand, "Why don't they get another job. That's what men used to do."

Dunno, but that looks like before the service, to me.

Short growing season are not

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/cathedral-celebrates-100th-anniversary--president-monson-speaks-of-service-given-jointly-by-two-faiths ...but no, he didn't receive communion because Catholics ask that non-Catholics, do not.

Exactly!

She most likely has been taking him to church for two years. Mormonism requires very limited exposure before being baptized. Two years is an extremely long time, in that context.