THIS BLOG ATTEMPTS TO SHOW HOW SCIENCE IS CATCHING UP WITH REVEALED RELIGION

THIS BLOG IS AN ATTEMPT TO PUT ALL THE COOL STUFF THAT I BUMP INTO ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND EVENTS THAT LEAD UP TO IT INTO ONE LOCATION.
THE CONTENTS WILL BE FROM AN LDS PERSPECTIVE. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANYTHING IN HERE, I DO NOT PARTICULARLY CARE TO ARGUE, UNLESS YOU CAN ADD TO THIS BODY OF WORK. I HAVE AN OPEN MIND, THAT IS WHY I READ STUFF FROM ALL DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND SEEK LEARNING FROM THE BEST BOOKS. I JUST AM NOT HERE TO ARGUE ABOUT IT - BUT TO PUT IT OUT THERE WHERE OTHERS CAN PERUSE/PURSUE IT. I TAKE PARTICULAR INTEREST IN HONEST SEEKERS OF TRUTH AND BELIEVE THAT SCIENCE IS REVEALED RELIGION'S BEST ALLY. YOU WILL SEE ALOT OF TOPICS IN THIS BLOG THAT SHOW SCIENCE BACKING - AND SLOWLY CATCHING UP WITH - REVEALED RELIGION.
ENJOY!!

Monday, August 15, 2016

HOLDING ON TO FALSE TRADITIONS

One of the reasons I loved TotPJS so much.  There was such great insight into what the life of a visionary was like.  He, like Jesus, had to throttle it back, or he would have met a demise sooner than he did.  In actuality, his life was in God's hands - and he was taken no sooner than he was going to be taken - but, he took a lot of damage for his trouble of disseminating the truth.  This is the definition of a real man - not one who cowers.....

Our false traditions have become engrained once again.  This is the "Mormon culture" that I speak of:
"On May 23, 1843, I listened to a discourse preached in the Nauvoo temple, which was then only partially finished. Brother Joseph was talking on the pre-existence of our spirits, and our relations to God in the spirit world, and our standing in the family circle of our Father. Now I am telling the truth, and I remember that while thus talking he suddenly turned around to the Apostles sitting on the stand and said in effect: 'Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.' Brother Brigham arose and said, 'Don't tell me anything that I can't bear, for I don't want to apostatize.' Brother Joseph, addressing the Apostles, then said: 'The weight of this kingdom has been as a millstone around my neck, but I am going to roll it off on your shoulders, and then the kingdom of God will go on.'
“It has always been when a man was sent of God with the priesthood and he began to preach the fullness of the gospel, that he was thrust out by this friends, who are already to butcher him if he teach things which they imagine to be wrong; and Jesus was crucified upon this principle.”--Teachings, p. 310
"To become a joint heir of the heirship of the Son, one must put away all his false traditions." --Teachings, p. 321
Are our false traditions so precious to us that we would kill a man for exposing them?

I am in Lehi picking up a blue hood and a headlight for the project car.  Last leg of journey.  Quite a drive!!  I drove thru the worst weather I have ever experienced just east of Denver.  Intense is just too meek of a word to describe it!

2 comments:

  1. I would love to know what you think some of the false traditions are that we would cling to so badly that we'd want to butcher a prophet. I've got my hunches.

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    1. I think reintroducing polygamy would really twist a lot of Mormons relative to this culture we live in today. I would guess most Mormons consider polygamy to be a relic of the past and not a part of a higher law.

      I think it is so hard to see the hypocrisy in our selves, and our own selfish nature.

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