Aye aye aye. I just can’t seem to catch my tail today. The movie Ground Hog day comes to mind.
None of them will ever answer that question lest they see the shortcomings of their sect and see the true Word and realize they are living in darkness no matter how good a person Mormonism has made them.
... and seeing how I just started a 6 month project that must be finished in 2 months...
...And as my conundrum is the same as 3 Nephi 7:17 “... all of them cannot be written, and a part of them would not suffice, therefore they are not written...”
I am bowing our of FR, at least for the next couple months. If you have something urgent that you genuinely would like me to respond to, please FRmail me. I will check that periodically. There are many LDS folks that can and have answered for me. Many thanks to them and I’d say keep up the good work, but I’m not so sure it’s a good work... Here’s why...
As it stands, I ask you all a rhetorical question, something that you can think about.
1. What is the source of your interest in my faith? Your own curiosity/study? Questions which arise from your observation of my life? Or does it come from what you’ve been told by detractors, multiple web sites, your own dissatisfaction with the Church, or even the FR feeding frenzy that happens every time a Romney or Mormon thread is created? Ask yourselves where you’re coming from!
2) Why do some folks spend so much time/energy putting down what is sacred to others? That effort comes at the expense of promoting what they themselves find to be praiseworthy or of good report... love and faith in Jesus Christ and his Christlike example to all of us. At times, I have been caught up in the back and forth bashing, and for that, I have tried to repent and be more like the Savior. I sincerely apologize to those of you I have offended. Sometimes we get caught up in ourselves to the point of belittling others.
It FR ever became a place where the spirit of the Lord was made manifest instead of the spirit of contention, I might find it a more worthwhile endeavor, but since my time is not my own right now, and since FR has become not so free, where those who don’t support Fred 100 percent and post things against him are banned or suspended nearly at the drop of the hat, I must temporarily depart.
If Mitt wins Iowa or New Hampshire, perhaps I will pop in in January, to watch FR melt down, unless of course I have been banned for this post.
I wish you all very well. Thanks for your friendships or at least acquaintances.
For those who's lifes' passion it is to belittle my faith, I leave you with this from Acts 5:
38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Till we meet again...
Sevenbak