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Would anyone be willing to do a thread about LDS beliefs similar to the one that Rivka is doing about Judiasm? I have several questions, and don't know where else I can ask them.
Or, would someone be willing to have a private email/IM correspondence with me on that subject?
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I'd be willing to answer any questions you have. Email me at brinestone@hotmail.com or IM me later tonight (Brinestone).
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Back when this topic was started, I was interested in taking up the role of Mormon Answer-Man, since that is something I have done before on other internet forums. However, since I was/am new here, and there are a lot of oldtimers here who are well-qualified, I didn't want to put myself forward.
Well, now that Rivka's thread is going strong again, and since none of my fellow Mormons jumped at the chance presented (except for Brinestone via e-mail), I am going to go for it.
So I know that those who have participated here for a long time have picked up a lot of good info about Mormonism already. Still, everybody can't know everything, can they? If anybody has any questions, I'll answer them here. And other Mormons, I'm sure, will feel free to put in their two cents as well.
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Rivka's thread was, I think, inspired by Hobbes Mormon questions thread. Now, where is that... *rummages through Hatrack*
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Actually, I think I saw that one quite a while ago. But sometimes it's nice to start afresh, isn't it?
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change the thread title to "Ask the Visiting Teacher" and we might have somewhere to start. I imagine your first question might be: What is a visiting teacher?
Edit: my point is, the other thread is "ask the [Rabbi's wife]". If it were "Ask the Rabbi" the content would be expected to be either authoritative or sarcastic in nature.
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Change the thread title to "Ask the Seminary Teacher" and you'll get all the misinformation you want.
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Actually, kat, my thread was inspired by getting very similar questions from two different people (one via IM and one via email) a few days apart. It just seemed more efficient. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Good question! I think the reason we don't use the terminology of priest (though it is the name of a certain level of the priesthood in LDS doctrine) is because in most churches the term is associated with specific preaching duties and is a specific leadership office. All worthy men in the LDS church can hold the priesthood, wheter or not they have a calling that puts them in a leadership position.
What we refer to as the priesthood is what we believe to be the authority to act in God's name, not a specific position in the church.
Though I'm not the most knowledgeable one in these parts about the specifics of the priesthood. Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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The problem with the old Mormon thread is that everytime I have a question I think about searching through that thread for the answer and get very very tired. But I know I can't ask anyone about it because they'll just direct me to that thread. The end result being that my question is never answered.
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You're about ready to get the sacrament tray, but you watch the toddler in front of you sneeze on the whole water tray. Do you partake anyway?
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blacwolve, I wouldn't care if you asked the same questions, even if they've been asked a hundred times already.
Trogdor: Toddlers are under the age of accountability, so if you get sick, they're not guilty. Also, the water has been blessed. If that's not good enough for you, then you've got bigger problems.
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Wow! I've never heard of that. I mean they're often late by ridicuols periods of time, but... when they're meeting a new investigator they usually make it on time. That stinks. (((GS)))
As for Moses, Mormons believe he was a prohpeh of the Lord, and part of the true Church of Jesus Christ that is the Mormon church today. So yes he was a "Mormon", but only in the sense that Catholics would believe he was Catholic. Well actually I take that back, it goes a little deeper (he was aware that the Son of God would one day come to earth), but that's the basics of it.
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Stood you up for a teaching appointment or stood you up for drinks and a movie?
edit: When I was in charge of setting up meals for the missionaries (oops, almost called them elders) a pair actually stood up this old couple who had fixed them an extra special dinner even though we told them not to go to any extra trouble.
I've actually heard a joke about women getting to hold the priesthood when they hug them. :hands Jon Boy a tissue in advance for his bleeding ears:
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By the way, I saw Trogdor the Burninator scrawled on a chalboard at my daughter's school. He's covering the whole Earth!
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It was actually in the Catholic bible (Latin Vulgate), that when he came back from Mt. Sinai (watch me have gotten that wrong) he had horns growing out from his head. It was supposed to say he had a halo glowing out from his head. At least, that's the story I as I remember it from College Humanities.
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The problem being that the Hebrew phrase is "keren or" meaning "ray of light" (it's in the plural in Hebrew, but I am transliterating in the singular for simplicity's sake). The Hebrew word "keren" can be either a ray (as in a ray of light), or a horn (as in a ram's horn). Hence the confusion.
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The wonderfully ironic thing about the Catholic church is that they universally burninated everyone and did not discriminate on the basis of color, sex, or religion. In a wonderfully sublime display of humanity, they tended on the extremes of either killing or converting.
I have never heard of LDS burning anyone though!
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Is it true that Mormon missionaries kidnap your daughters and hold them captive in the Salt Lake Temple and the only way for them to escape is to jump out the window into the Great Salt Lake?
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AFR - Boy that would be some jump! Especially considering the SLC Temple is nowhere near the Great Salt Lake if you're measuring in jumps.
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I'm about to take this thread and make it serious.
After death, all souls pass a preliminary judgment. Those who have lived the best they could according to their knowledge will go to a place of rest.
Those who have sinned (willingly rebelled against something they knew was right) will go to a place of. . . well, stricture.
It is important to remember that in Mormon theology, your basic personality does not undergo a massive transformation at death. If you are greedy in this life, you will have a tendency to be greedy in the next, for example.
This place of rest or stricture is not the final destination. It is a place for those who've never heard of the Gospel to learn it and either choose to accept or reject it.
All souls in this place view it as a prison because they are without their bodies. In Mormon theology, a spirit without a physical body is incomplete-- and in a sense powerless.
At an undetermined time, souls will go through a final judgment, when everyone, good or bad, will receive a body. This will be a perfected body-- no dying or sickness.
Mormons do not believe in the classic vision of Hell. After receiving a perfected body, souls will be placed according to their willingness to follow the commandments, in one of three 'kingdoms.' Each successive kingdom is marked by it's nearness to God. None are places of torment.
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quote:Each successive kingdom is marked by it's nearness to God. None are places of torment.
Yeah, but I bet the A/C is colder on the higher levels.
And if none of these levels are places of torment, where do they put the banjo and accordian players? In soundproof plastic bubbles?
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Great. I kept checking this thread last night until the last possible moment, and there was no action. Now I log on first thing in the morning, and everyone has gone on without me. No fair!
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No way, KarlEd! Have you looked at a map of Utah lately? Salt Lake City is right smack dab on the lake! They could do it if they had strong legs. And they wouldn't even sink, because the brine shrimp would keep them afloat. Of course they'd all have wedding gowns on by the time they got anywhere near the window, and that would make it harder. Posts: 5957 | Registered: Oct 2001
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Yes, but the hoop skirts we make them wear would act as semi- parachutes. A strong wind and a four story leap should carry them the five miles.
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