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This passage... what is this "substance" you are talking about? (Obviously not "you" personally). What scripture verses can plainly tell me of "substance"? What do you mean here? To be honest: I don't find scriptures that support this. I don't find reason to support this. And on the rare...

Family and work stuff has been majorly depleting my time and energy.

I do certainly enjoy philosophy, and find such to be the wisdom of man. It has good things there, but also limitations and somethings (while well intended) miss the mark. Such is also my view of Classical influence on Creedal theology: the Creeds and Church Fathers works. Vast majority of...

“Mormon” theology doesn’t incorporate Greek/Roman/Classical philosophy the way Creedal theology does. For example, both believe God is all powerful, but an LDS Christian doesn’t usually go about phrasing things as “God is omnipotent”, so that can fumble up communication. Yes, God is...

Actual "Mormon" here-- Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Divine. Perfect, always has been, always will be. We God before creating the Earth, before being born of virgin Mary (yes virgin), during mortal life, and post-resurrection. And being a follower of Christ is neither about some eternal...

I did see that news story and found it quite interesting. I also find it having nothing to do with the Book of Mormon (either proving or disproving). We see into the glasswork darkly and so much of this world & history we know only a glimmer about.

I acknowledge your view there, though I passionately understand thing differently.

Again, it's not about coffee being inherently sinful or harmful (though I do know a ton of coffee slaves). Rather it's about one keeping their promises with the Lord.

For the record “Mormons” don’t consider smoking or caffeine to be inherently sinful. We do promise Christ to abstain from smoking and coffee, and when a person strays from that promise its wrong because they are breaking a promise. Such a person is not excommunicated, but rather urged to repent...

Hi 2RM, we’ve met on other forums too. (RE)Welcome!

Extremely proudly deaf ears.

The "Im know more about Mormonism than the actual Mormon whose throughly studied things for decades" routine is very false and one of proudly deaf ears. If you want to cling to the things you "know" I and other 'Mormons' believe, then you obviously have that right-- regardless of whether or not...

Actual "Mormon" here: Jesus Christ is 100% the divine Son of God. Salvation only comes through faith in Him. I could address rat of these misconceptions, but the divinity of Christ & necessity of faith is the most important thing.

A very fair post^. Acknowledges the other person’s view, how you learned something, and explaining your disagreement with it.

Clarifying: ‘Mormons’ very much believe in the importance of remembering Christ’s sacrifice. The Last Supper is the central point of weekly worship services. It’s not viewed as literal blood and flesh being partaken of: rather it’s a symbolic ritual. It does not matter if you use water...

Where is your heart? If your heart is one that’s soft, and you distort to repent, then let’s not worry about the “oh I screwed told a white lie 2 minutes before dying and didn’t have time to tell God I’m sorry!” He already knows that: he knows where your heart is.

Oh, and everyone believed that salvation is a gift from God. And that true faith in God does involve a person taking action- Christ didn’t die for you so you can continue your same-old sinful non-repentant ways.

Honestly, that’s not the best question to ask here: pretty much every group* under the Christian umbrella acknowledges the very real relationship other folks have with Christ. (*Im ignoring the haters here) The biggest differences are theological. In my experience, the biggest question to...

For members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints like myself (nicknamed ‘Mormon’), scriptures (which include the Book of Mormon) are “Thus Saith the Lord”. The “Journal is Discourses” is not remotely scripture, not infallible, not even a central text. For an equivalent example...

"Brigham Young said it" doesn't equate to "Thus Saith the Lord" by any stretch of the imagination. LDS Christians don't believe in automatic infallibility of any person, including leaders. The 'blood atonement' idea is one of those that has been thoroughly shot down as false. (Sorry for the...