So, I just found out a few days ago that I am a polygamist. That makes me an adulterer, as well, under the current doctrinal set. I am still trying to figure out who I am having sex with - because I may have other children out there or may be in danger of some nasty STD if my other polygamist wife is a wild-n-crazy gal. Hopefully, I can figure this all out before it is too late...
Meanwhile, I was in the grocery store telling my woeful tale to a gal and getting her filled in on the Visions of Glory narrative. We were talking about Draper Lake and the whole swinging thing they have going on down there. She goes, "Well, we happen to have a problem here in Cardston". I was like, no way!!
I bump into her later on at the checkout and she says it is a doctor here in town (plus others, I am sure). Second person to confirm the problem. It has been going on for years. Apparently in the old days, you threw your keys into a pile and, blindfolded, picked up a set of keys. That's who you went home with.
Well, I guess in a small boring town, you have to make up your own fun...
Kind of like spin the bottle for big kids....
I prefer my wife's keys, thank you. And not my wives' keys...
And THAT is how you end up with 70% black body bag rates and at the bottom of deep lakes. That trash is not making it into the Millennium without some major repenting. And it might be too late for that. Leav itt alone, man! Stick with the Gospel and the Law of Chastity.
I learned that love is not equal to trust and trust is not love equal to love. Pondering on the aspects of eternal life versus the resurrection helped me to see this. For those who receive bodies on earth, (kept their first estate), and through the blessings of the atonement of Jesus Christ all mortals receive a resurrection. This resurrection appears to be an unconditional blessing of being born, and not based on merit or trust. However, Abraham 3:26 reminds us that this seemingly universal blessing of the resurrection is still based on trustworthiness as well. If you are an unborn spirit fighting against God’s plan of happiness (which includes the Savior Jesus Christ, agency with accountability and the ends of the law), then you are not going to get to keep your first estate and even be in a position to gain a body (let alone a resurrected body). So the blessing of resurrection is unconditional (from more of a myopic scope), but as you step back to see the three general stages of the plan of happiness pre-earth, earth, and post-earthly, then you see trust in Father’s plan and Heavenly Father’s ability to know we are trustworthy, is based ultimately on our choices and Jesus Christ’s atonement. So though some call the resurrection a universal blessing, it requires trust in the Father’s plan of Happiness in the first place. Do we trust Him and can He trust us? Love is behind it all. And even the resurrected bodies all abide different laws as President Oaks and Elder Christianson have recently said. These laws involve trustworthiness.
ReplyDeleteAfter that, I learned that love is not acceptance and acceptance is not love.
I believe God sees us how we are and loves us. God sees us how we were and loves us. God sees us as we can become and loves us.
He may love us but hate our works. He sends prophets, chastisements, angels, etc to help us change our perspectives and choose to follow His ways. He may love us and love our works and still send trials to chasten us, because he loves us.
He will always love us more than we can love our own child or than we can love ourselves.
His trust is given line upon line, except for one thing… reproduction …and only as mortals. It seems there is a liberal amount of leeway given to humans in regard to the law of chastity as mortal beings on planet Earth. The female sex bears more accountability on earth for the choices in regard to the law of chastity. It doesn’t mean a female should be more accountable—a male should as well, equally bear that responsibility. But if a male chooses not to be accountable with his powers of procreation then the consequential burdens tend to heap more on the female during this mortal sphere than on the male. It is my opinion that the restrictions and abilities in conjunction with the reproductive abilities we will have in the next far yonder (eternal life), will hang on how we utilized our procreation abilities in this mortal life and how we feel remorse and change course.
God has told us that if we love Him to keep His commandments. That is how we love God. It is my opinion that the more we trust God, the more likely we will desire to love Him and keep His commandments.
“God loves us as we are” is a misleading statement, in my opinion. God loves us everlastingly, and because of this he does not accept us no matter what.
He trusts us to certain levels (up to a point with certain abilities and powers as mentioned before). The more he trusts us, the more spiritual gifts and levels of progression we can develop.
He does not accept us as how we are, because he knows we have the potential to become more. He does allow us the agency to decide if we want to accept ourselves how we are. This can become the great complacency trap.