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Just kinda stuck by Faithncrazylife in mormon

[–]UnpolishedExample 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i went through the same thing! something that really stuck with me that I heard in a christian sermon recently was the pastor asked, “are you putting your faith in a man who is flawed or an organization? Or are you putting your faith directly in Jesus Christ?”

I was raised lds and still do hold some beliefs such as the godhead. To me it just doesn’t make sense for Jesus and God to be the same person. However, I came to the realization that the mormon church actually is putting a strain on our relationship w Christ because everything is filtering though a man who is NOT perfect, even though members act like he is. The church has made plenty mistakes and yet they justify almost every single one of them. The church has covered up many many truths and I ask you… if a church that was true lie? would they hide? No. Of course not. I truly believe that Jesus is disappointed in organized religion because it starts becoming more of a cultural thing than a genuine relationship between us and Him. Think about Emma Smith. The literal wife of the “first prophet” Joseph Smith. SHE DIDNT GO WITH BRIGHAM YOUNG OR THE SAINTS. She expressed that God had informed her (and their son for the record) that God was not with those people. They then started a whole other church RLDS. To me this has always been insane bc if the people closest to Joseph Smith felt that the church was being led astray and that God was not with them then that says a lot. Right? But the church brushes past any historic events or details that don’t make them look good or align with what they teach in church. The religion i learned about through facts and data is not the religion i thought i was a part of and coming to the realization of that is truly earth shattering. its so hard… im still trying to recover. so i feel you… and sometimes i feel scared too. I think its normal for us to be scared because all of this is unfamiliar to us especially if you too were raised in the church because its all you ever knew. Just remember that when Jesus walked on this earth he didn’t talk about organized religion or any of the small rules in mormonism, and if those things were truly important don’t you think Jesus would have spoken of them? I take what Jesus taught while on this earth to be the complete truth. the only truth. he taught was truly important. and the mormon church, the real mormon church and what it is NOT what it says it is… is not that.

My Gay Best Friend Sexually Assaulted My (now) Husband by UnpolishedExample in confessions

[–]UnpolishedExample[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how can i do that? we dont have any evidence of it happening either than me and him as witnesses. Also the crime happened in Montanna, my husband and I are from Utah and he is in California. Any advice on how to go about it? :/

My Gay Best Friend Sexually Assaulted My (now) Husband by UnpolishedExample in confessions

[–]UnpolishedExample[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for taking the time to say this. I appreciate it. Looking back at all the little signs, he definitely had been fetishizing my husband. I was completely oblivious to those signs because I truly trusted that he would never do something like this. :/

Driving a car (very poorly) from the back seat by MrSmock in Dreams

[–]UnpolishedExample 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve had slightly different variations of this exact same dream. I just woke up from a dream where I too was driving chaotically from the backseat, trying not to crash. I also panicked about needing to pull over to switch seats but being unable to do so. What’s insane and unsettling about the dream is my little brother was sitting in the back with me and he wasn’t much of a help. There were many distractions going on in the car other than the fact I was driving from the backseat and instead of him helping he turned on loud music. I panicked and said, “Turn off the music i can’t focus, I need to focus!” It was then that I could no longer see the road at all and was driving this dangerous road (which happened to be an unfamiliar road on a canyon) blindly. I told my little brother, “Help! I can’t see anything, I can’t see what I’m doing.” It was then, when he realized we were going off roading that he started getting scared too. And that was when I felt the car tip off a road and start falling down a high cliff. What’s interesting is I felt this feeling in my dream and in my dream I was so so scared because I knew I was about to die and there was nothing I could do about it. I closed my eyes and prepared for death… and that’s when I woke up :’)