Posted on 08/05/2012 12:37:13 PM PDT by Colofornian
I never thought it would be me. Yet there I was, sitting across the bed from my husband while he told me that he no longer had a testimony that the gospel was true.
...my husband just didn’t believe in the gospel anymore. He didn’t even know if God really existed.
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This wasn’t supposed to happen to me—not my husband, not my marriage. In my naiveté, when I had read or heard of accounts where a spouse turned away from the Church, I thought, “Thank goodness that would never happen to our temple marriage...."
...Despite the abundance of spiritual experiences that we had shared since our courtship, the daily personal and couple prayers, the faithful fulfillment of every calling, full tithes, generous fast offerings...it was gone. My husband admitted that he no longer believed. He had no desire to attend church beyond helping me with the kids. And he no longer wanted to pay tithing...
...The one desire I had maintained stronger than any other in my life was to have an eternal marriage...I had done everything I could in my life to live worthily, to marry with unmistakable surety, to keep my covenants, to attend the temple, and to dedicate my life and my home to the Lord. Would Heavenly Father really deny me the righteous desire I longed for the most, when I had done everything He asked to attain it?
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Initially, I was upset that I had been deprived of the spiritual blessings I had sought so diligently to obtain....the opportunity to seek a celestial marriage is still right in front of me...I have realized that either I can focus on what my husband’s choices have taken from our temple marriage, or I can strive even more to develop a celestial relationship with him...
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A short way of sizing up my last post: THE KEY CLAIMS of Christianity -- are things that had the Jerusalem Gazette been around circa 30 A.D. -- would have covered: The death on the cross of Jesus Christ; the empty tomb & claims of His resurrection while appearing to around 500 individuals...& claims of His ascension.
That's why Christianity focuses on the "Good News" -- the literal meaning of the word "Gospel." It's NEWS...not just "Good dogma based upon blind faith."
(And that was what I was addressing...the subtle insinuation that our faith is somehow "blind" & operating only in the dark)
The apostle Paul told the Corinthian church that if Jesus wasn't resurrected, that we were still in our sin and to be pitied among all men as having an empty faith.
No resurrection, no Christian faith.
No incarnational Jesus, no Christian faith.
I agree with the points raised in our posts. That said, while the arguments and evidence work for you and me, if they were that undeniable all thinking people would be Christians. When humans are involved manipulation of facts is possible.
Well, often have you heard of strong prosecutions by the D.A. resulting in either hung juries (comparable to spiritual agnostics & those who "rule against" the "conviction" of the Holy Spirit) or even acquittals???
May I be so bold as to suggest that perhaps you misunderstand the Christian gospel?
But what i was saying is that religion has nothing to do with it, God knows if he is in our our hearts or not.
As for the things he told us to do like do unto others as you would have them do unto you, which is the works of faith and covers most of what he told us also has nothing to do with religion.
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