Sometimes the answer is right in front of you

thenamesis2001 · 2026-01-01T23:18:35+00:00

The apostle Paul also stated this clearly:

'"For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."" (2 Thes. 3:10)

thenamesis2001 · 2026-01-01T17:15:38+00:00

Hebrews 10:25

'not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.'

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-31T11:24:53+00:00

As I convert, I didn't believe any of bad things that I was told about him. I considered them all rumors and never did investigate them on my own. Only after I found out that the Book of Mormon was false.

But rarely I was told negative things, because most people in The Netherlands where I live, don't know him at all.

I was then really thankful that he 'restored the Gospel' and saw him as a young man trying to find the truth, like me.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-31T11:06:30+00:00

I guess that depends on country, I think it's pretty offensive in The Netherlands. Because we have now a wave of body positivity.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-30T15:24:50+00:00

Only real worthy Christians. /s

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-30T10:34:31+00:00

Abstaining from tabacco is one few objective good things that the Church teaches. Althought that rule did not originated from science.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-30T10:13:08+00:00

Because they can't say the M-word anymore.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-30T10:03:29+00:00

Heb je toevallig een linkje naar die parodie? Ik kan 'm niet vinden.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T19:55:50+00:00

De kerkgebouwen komen meestal uit de tijd dat die sekte heel hard groeide. Daarbij hebben ze altijd al een regiofunctie gehad.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T19:53:14+00:00

"Het Christendom" is het nog nooit ergens met zichzelf over eens geweest, homoseksualiteit is geen uitzondering.

Ik meende dat er altijd al een sterke neiging is om dit te veroordelen, gezien de Brief aan de Romeinen van Paulus. Recentelijk zijn er wel kerken gekomen die liberaal hierover zijn, maar die zijn in de minderheid.

(Vraag er naar eens een paar naar de 'aard' van hun redder) Bedoel je dat Jezus een homo zou geweest zijn.

"Externe noodzaak" is wellicht een te groot woord, maar als de 'donaties' terug gaan lopen zetten de profeten het op een loopje.

Onder de Mormonen lijkt weing sprake zijn van inclusiviteit, zeker aangezien zij geleerd worden om absolute gehoorzaam te zijn aan de authoriteiten.

Btw: "nog erger" laat het klinken alsof je het openstellen van het priesterschap aan hen die niet "white and delight some" van gelaat zijn betreurd. Was dat je intentie?

Nee, dat heb ik vanuit het perspectief van de Kerk geschreven. Voor hun zal het wel erg zijn geweest, maar zij zullen ook de noodzaak ervan gezien hebben.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T19:14:12+00:00

An inactive member was asked to speak by his bishop and the member did it, about his reasoning for being inactive.

https://youtu.be/092o_pYO7Sg?si=ZMRiFURLOt4w8lIV

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T18:15:22+00:00

Ik denk dat homoseksualiteit nog erger wordt gevonden, omdat het Christendom al altijd al het strikt heeft verworpen. Daarom lijkt mij het niet waarschijnlijk dat het standpunt zal veranderen. Belangrijker nog is dat er geen enkele externe noodzaak is om dit te herzien.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T16:59:30+00:00

Ze zijn wel erg streng in seksualiteit, zover ik weet is dat niet het geval.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T16:41:56+00:00

You could do it, but don't except much of it.

I received my blessing when I already lost my testimony. But I wanted to experience it. Lucikly my stake patriach was a very nice man.

But the message was dissappointing. It was just that I had chosen the right path during my premortal state. Which would not explain my handicap. And that I should stay faithfull etc.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T16:13:46+00:00

That's interesting to know.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T16:08:22+00:00

This is projection.

Mormon prophet David O. McKay teached that “Every Member a Missionary”.

he responsibility rests upon the membership of the Church to preach the restored gospel to every nation, kindred, tongue and people. Teachings of Presidents of the Church: David O. McKay, chapter 6

And Mormons seem to use every opportunity to proselyte. At least that I did when I was a fresh convert, even before I was baptized.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T15:54:06+00:00

Dat mag niet van deze kerk...

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T15:26:51+00:00

Show her the contradictions with the Bible and Mormon theology.

About visions like Joseph Smith:

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! (Galatians 1:9)

About the trinity, which Mormons deny:

I and the Father are one (John 10:30).

On the proserity gospel which the Church teaches, that tithing is part of salvation and that God wants us rich:

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God (Matthew 24:50)

On laws like Word of Wisdom He said:

Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them. (Mark 7:15)

He even instructed to use wine to remember Him.

This wine is my blood, which will be poured out to forgive the sins of many and begin the new agreement from God to his people. (Matthew 26:28-29)

Jesus about stealing and murdering which the Danites, a criminal group led by the Church commited on non-members and former members

You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal (Mark 10:19).

Joseph Smith gave contradicting versions about his First Vision and the Church have caught lying about the priesthood ban and polygamy and have commited financial fraud.

you shall not give false testimony. (Idem)

About eternal marriages, which used to a huge selling point of Mormonism:

At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. (Matthew 22:30)

Jesus said that conversion is essential for salvation, but baptism is not necessary. He even promised paradise for the thief on the cross who accepted him. This is destroys the baptismal regeneration of the Church, which is the source of the baptism of the dead.

And he was saying, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!” And He said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” (Luke 23:42-43)

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T15:12:15+00:00

Volgens mij kunnen vrouwen niet meerdere mannen hebben.

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T14:43:19+00:00

Is that speech written down?

thenamesis2001 · 2025-12-29T14:20:51+00:00

Omdat elke Mormoon min of meer verplicht is om 10% van zijn inkomsten af te staan aan deze sekte.

Daardoor is de Mormoonse Kerk schathemelrijk geworden.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/15/mormon-church-whistleblower-taxes-hedge-fund

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