This boy grew up, took 33 women to be his wives (some of them married already to other men) and he was eventually executed to his own visions of granduer.
Decisions decisions!
It frightens me too.
The foundational belief of a Mormon.... A fourteen year old had a vision and saw a physical God the Father and His physical son Jesus Christ (two separate beings) and said all other religions were false and that said boy was the only one chosen of God to restore Christianity to earth since it had all become corrupted and removed from earth shortly after the original apostles died. This boy grew up, took 33 women to be his wives (some of them married already to other men) and he was eventually executed to his own visions of granduer.
To believe Mormonism, Beck must believe this claim. While he’s free to believe whatever the heck he chooses, we too are free to wonder what is wrong with his rational mind.
I wish all intelligent family and friends in the church would pay attention to what he has to say. His honesty about the sorrow he felt when he finally had the courage to admit that he had been too close to the process. His letter to Holland was powerful
....All the while knowing that Beck, if he has been married or "sealed" to his wife in the LDS temple, has taken this oath: "
You and each of you covenant and promise before God, angels, and these witnesses at this altar, that you do accept the Law of Consecration as contained in the Doctrine and Covenants, in that you do consecrate yourselves, your time, talents, and everything with which the Lord has blessed you, or with which he may bless you, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for the building up of the Kingdom of God on the earth and for the establishment of Zion."
