WillowTheWhisp

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  1. Neither do I, because both are books of scripture and both invite the Holy Spirit. I know that feeling! Sometimes I think we are called to teach 12 year olds so that we can learn something not necessarily so that they do.
  2. That's weird.I got an email notification of a post in this thread but it doesn't seem to be here.
  3. I have a book somewhere which explains that being born again is not a one-off experience but an ongoing thing where we continue to develop and grow. It's a while since I read it but it changed my outlook because prior to that I had thought it simply was baptism.
  4. I fear one thing most of all, that I have failed Him. In church we are constantly being told that we cannot go there alone. We must take others with us. I can't even manage to bring my own family. I am an utter failure.
  5. If God the Father has no form, and Jesus was yet to be born, how come human beings have a body when God said "Let us make man in our image." ?
  6. We also have youth conventions where the children sleep in other members houses local to the convention location for the duration.
  7. "Feature Films for Families" is here in the UK too but I have found them to be quite pishy once we have bought from them they keep trying to get us to commit to buying more and more which we just can't afford.
  8. How far would you take the argument? Would you refuse to eat or work as a chef or waiter in a licensed restaurant? Not work in a hotel as a cleaner or porter? Not work in a supermarket which has an alcohol section?
  9. So maybe we should just stop all discussions on here and let people find their answers on the anti-Mormon websites.One of the things that put me off the Catholic church was being fobbed off with "it's a divine mystery. You don't need to know that" answer to questions and one of the things I liked about this church was that we are supposedly encouraged to study the scriptures and learn. I was always told by LDS teachers that our knowledge gained here is the only thing we can take with us when we leave this Earth. Perhaps I have been misinformed all these years. I was under the impression it was a discussion forum where we can discuss LDS topics and that the OP had a valid and interesting discussion topic. Excuse me for wanting to participate. No I do not do Home Teaching. I'm a woman. I do Visiting Teaching. I do it every month even when currently injured and despite having no priesthood in my home I do not have Home Teachers.
  10. Just to throw a small tangent in the works - if a serving Bishop worked for a company which wanted to transfer him to another office hundreds of miles away should he refuse to go because of his calling? What about if his job was on the line if he did not accept the transfer? Would his calling still come first?
  11. I'm not worrying about it. Just trying to understand it. What is the point of scripture study if we don't attemp to understand the things we read?
  12. My heart goes out to Sarah's family and friends at this sad time. I pray they will be comforted in the knowledge and assurance of where she has gone and that they, and you, will see her again one day.
  13. But isn't that exactly what she has said mrmarklin that they would both love to holiday elsewhere but instead they go back to where the extended family live in order to maintain that contact. If you move out of the area carlumac Heavenly Father will show the Stake President who to call next as Bishop. Your husband is the one chosen right now because he is there. If he was somewhere else then some other person would be called. I personally don't believe it is wrong to consider the needs and wishes of your family.
  14. No, I understand that God lives on his own planet, but if we are supposed to become like God and have our own spirit children who will inhabit our own planet that we are God and Goddess of how does that fit in with inheriting a celestial Earth? Will we all be living on the celestial Earth but governing other planets which we create ourselves?
  15. Our Bishop has asked the Relief Society to do something to inspire the priesthood. One of the things we are going to do is make some little wooden heart plaques with inspiring phrases or quotes on them but I'm stuck for ideas. They need to be fairly short so the sisters can paint the words onto the plaques. Can anybody suggest anything?
  16. I understand that Anatess as it partly relates to my own experience too. I do understand what you are saying Jason but that is a scholarly argument and I'm not sure people who are taught to believe in the Trinity realise that is what they are supposed to believe. I know I didn't. Of course in Catholicism it gets more complicated too because you have different 'manifestations' Jesus Christ such as 'The Sacred Heart' and different manifestations of Mary such as 'Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrows' and 'Our Lady of Lourdes'. You might have several different representative statues of Mary and pray to whichever one was relevant to your particular petition - almost as if she was several different people. But is God like that? We were told no.
  17. No, you are not stupid. In the early days wine was used but this was later changed to water. We even have wine mentioned in the hymn book. One thing some of us are not clear about, myself included, is when the change was made.
  18. It may have been done to death in the past but there could be new members (of the church or of the forum) who have not read or participated in those discussions. Sometimes the topics move so fast that I miss loads of them when I check for 'new posts'.
  19. So, if we all live on a celestial Earth does that mean we will not have planets of our own to populate?
  20. This is really strange because this is what I actually used to think 'Trinity' was all about. I remember long ago a Pentecostal friend of mine asking me if LDS believed in the Trinity. This was long before I joined the church and my reply was in the affirmative because I had learned of the LDS belief in 3 separate beings which was what I believed and thought was meant by Trinity (like trio) but the Catholic priest told me that belief was heresy.
  21. I was RC for a while before finding the LDS church and I was never taught that. I was taught that God became flesh as Jesus Christ hence Mary being referred to as the Mother of God. When I queried how someone could become his own son I was told it was a divine mystery. There was certainly nothing about three separate beings existing from eternity. If that is Catholic doctrine then why are so many Catholics critical of it in LDS beliefs?
  22. So, are you now telling me that when the Catholic priest taught that God took upon himself human form and came to live on earth in the body of Jesus Christ that what he was saying there is not actually Catholic doctrine?
  23. I'm confused by this thread - It doesn't take much. If we can only ask a question of the last person to post how does it ever get beyond the first 2 posters?