Posted on 03/05/2010 4:53:40 PM PST by greyfoxx39
“The Holy Ghost Testifies of Truth,” Ensign, Mar 2010, 10–11
The Holy Ghost is the third member of the Godhead. He is a personage of spirit, without a body of flesh and bones (see D&C 130:22). He is often referred to as the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of the Lord, or the Comforter. He works in perfect unity with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.1
As a personage of spirit, the Holy Ghost can be in only one place at a time, but His influence can be everywhere at the same time.2
President Joseph Fielding Smith (1876–1972) taught, “Through the Holy Ghost the truth is woven into the very fibre and sinews of the body so that it cannot be forgotten.”3
It is also through receiving the Holy Ghost when we repent and are baptized that we may be sanctified. Sanctification is the process of becoming free from sin—pure, clean, and holy—through the Atonement of Jesus Christ (see Moses 6:59–60). We are sanctified as we yield our hearts to God (see Helaman 3:35).
1. The Holy Ghost “witnesses of the Father and the Son” (2 Nephi 31:18). It is only through the power of the Holy Ghost that we can receive a sure testimony of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.4
2. The Holy Ghost testifies of truth, and it is through His power that we “may know the truth of all things” (Moroni 10:5).
3. The Holy Ghost teaches us all things and brings to our remembrance all we have learned of the Lord and His gospel (see John 14:26).
4. The Holy Ghost will “show unto [us] all things what [we] should do” (2 Nephi 32:5). He can guide us in our decisions and protect us from physical and spiritual danger.
5. As we hunger to know the words of eternal life and allow these words to sink deep into our hearts, the Holy Ghost will open our minds and hearts to greater light and understanding.5
6. We are blessed with gifts of the Spirit through the Holy Ghost. These gifts bless our lives and the lives of those we love and serve. (See 1 Corinthians 12:1–12; Moroni 10:8–18; D&C 46:11–33.)
7. The Holy Ghost is known as the Comforter because He can fill us with “hope and perfect love” (Moroni 8:26).
8. Adam was the first on earth to be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost (see Moses 6:64–66).
9. Through the power of the Holy Ghost, we become sanctified as we repent, are baptized and confirmed, and strive to obey God’s commandments (see Mosiah 4:1–3; 5:1–6).
To learn more about our basic beliefs, visit Mormon.org (available in many languages).
“The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion, and thy scepter an unchanging scepter of righteousness and truth; and thy dominion shall be an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow unto thee forever and ever” (D&C 121:45–46).
After I, Nephi, having heard all the words of my father, … which he spake by the power of the Holy Ghost, which power he received by faith on the Son of God— … I, Nephi, was desirous also that I might see, and hear, and know of these things, by the power of the Holy Ghost, which is the gift of God unto all those who diligently seek him” (1 Nephi 10:17).
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Hey the mormons are now (after the fact) claiming that their mormon god warned one of them about the Chilian earthquake and they just told their own missionaries that it was coming ...
and didnt tell the Chilian non-mormons so that they could be prepared also...
Well an American mormon missionary got himself beat up by some chilians who say that America caused the earthquake...
1. Why didnt the mormon god warn him ahead of time ???
2. were the Chilians angry because they werent told by the mormons ahead of time ???
3. In a way, the American mormons did cause the earthquake by keeping vital life or death info to themselves...they could have stop it from being so bad and people dying and injured by sharing what they knew...
Selfish mormons...
Still the teacher’s pet?
Cool!!
Is this sarcasm?
If not how embarrassing for lds that they let all these people die when they could have helped.
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No they’re quite proud of themselves...
Check out that latest LDS devotional ...
The Lord’s Earthquake Warning...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2463718/posts
I asked in #4 “If he knew, why didn’t he tell everyone. Lives could have been saved.”
It got deleted...
This is similar to Islam. He ripped off Muhammed.
Galmonging Cylon lover...
“As a personage of spirit, the Holy Ghost can be in only one place at a time,”
The Holy Spirit is God, as the father is God, and Jesus Christ is God - omnipotent, omnipresent. Omnipresent - ubiquitous - everywhere at the same time.
I saw that. If this mission president knew ahead of time (by revelation) then he could have saved other lives, but apparently he and his wife prepared the missionaries and not much else.
Yeah; what’s up with TEACHERS these days?
Who ever HEARD of such things - teachers hitting on students - when WE were young?
What is this; a HANDBASKET I find myself in?
And just WHERE is it going?
The MORMON god chose NOT to warn JS about going to that jail; so why should he (she - it) change it's mind these days?
Sorry; not yesmen, but Quorum of Twelve.)|
1. The prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything.
Ezra Taft Benson (From 14 points speech - given Tuesday, February 26, 1980 at Brigham Young University) |
What is even more amazing is that the posters to this thread celebrated the selfishness.
You've been reading the Deseret Noose agin, haven't ya?
LOL...new one?
“Don’t forget the fourth member of the Godhead the Divine Mother. Without the Mother there is no Son.”
Without a sarcasm tag some might take you blasphemy seriously.
I never said that the Divine Mother was a Model 6, did I? You're confusing me with Dr. Gaius Baltar...
Seriously, now, who’s the Holy Spirit supposed to be married to? Mormons have Jesus + Mary Magdalen, Holy Father + Holy Mother, Holy Spirit + ?
Of course, the Holy Ghost doesn’t have a body, which is supposed to be a requirement of godhood, too.
The Divine Mother is quite the opposite of a ghost, she reperesents all that is physical. While the Holy Ghost is the comforter for our spirit, the Mother is the comforter for our physical existence. She is revered in Catholicsm as the Blessed Virgin, and in the East as Shiva or Parvatti.
As an interesting aside to this, speaking in broad terms,the GOP is representive of the Father (law givers), and the Democrats are representative of the Mother (care of the poor and children). Extreme perversions of the Father are anarchists and conspirists, who are anti-father (anti-Bush). More accepted perversions are corporate greed and profligate spending.
Extreme perversions of the Mother are gays and pornography.
Established perversions are entitlement programs.
The more out of balance the parties (and ergo the people) get, as a result of rejection of Jesus Christ, the more precarious our country becomes, as a free society is dependent on moral underpinnings.
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