http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501081.html
Posted on 05/04/2007 5:46:36 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy
hint hint tell me what goes on in the temple...
Why should you care Netizen, it seems you are only impertinently curious which the Lord frown upon that of behavior.
I only went and found that stuff because tantiboh was suggesting I lied or that the people I knew years ago had lied. Looks like others had the same non existent problem!
Have it your way. The Dems might not be so condescending.
You don't think the Lord frowns on churches that take advantage of poor people? What Celestial blessings do they lose by not paying their tithe and not being allowed to attend temple?
The secret handshakes are real. They are called ‘tokens.’ It is these sacred (secret tokens) that get you into heaven. But no need to believe me....cuz the Mormons Church is just another Christian Church. /sarc
They did remove the oaths to spill your bowels and slit your throat rather than expose the sacred (secrets) of the Temple ceremony back in 1990, but hey, that is just ancient history like denying black men the priesthood right?
Believe it or not!
Zina Diantha Huntington.
Google it.
WOW and it’s post 666.
Gives me cold chills.
There seems to be a book out. The 4 Zinas.
Zina had three husbands. There were more. I was simply pointing out an example. Isn’t that what you asked for? If not I apologize.
The Church as only recently admitted to this example.
No bishop, no missionary should ever hesitate or lack the faith to teach the law of tithing to the poor. The sentiment of “They can’t afford to” needs to be replaced with “They can’t afford not to.”
When one understands the need of tithing it is more than paying the money it is a way of keeping the Lord in one thought’s when they are tempted to live beyond their means.
You are forced to focus on the Lord and lean on him to build that spiritual muscle.
When one really ponders it, they are learning to make the mental transition of living in the Celestial kingdom someday.
If our thoughts are not bridled they will not instantly switch over after you die for it is a discipline.
So it is true “They can’t afford not to.” If is their goal is to live with Heavenly Father someday.
Mormons who have not paid tithing will be denied a temple recommend and will be considered “unworthy”. However; Mormons who pay “back-tithing” (some as much as $5000 or more) are instantly found to be worthy and can receive their temple recommends back once the money has been paid.
I have had a struggle with tithing early in my life and really never understood the full lessons to be learn from it, I just knew the precept but not understood the principal.
This year for the first time in my life I took the time to study it because I wanted to understand the law of consecration, which some LDS have been practicing this law on their own for years. As I studied it I realized right than that a even a poor person could not afford not to practice it.
I am the type of person that is motivated by the Lord to do things or I am not that much into it. I was watching the BYUTV online and one day there were these talks on the Law of consecration and I was pleasantly surprised to have a glimpse into that world enough to cause me to do research on it. It truly is a sacred ordinance and a bountiful blessing
Mormons who claim that tithing is purely “a personal choice” are deceiving themselves and outright lying.
Yes it is a personal thing because it is between you and your Lord and he knows our hearts and minds and that reasoning it is selfish etc.
Is there a level of poverty so low that sacrifice should not be expected or a family so destitute that paying tithing should cease to be required?
One reason the Lord illustrates doctrines with the most extreme circumstances is to eliminate excuses. If the Lord expects even the poorest widow to pay her mite, where does that leave all others who find that it is not convenient or easy to sacrifice?
No bishop, no missionary should ever hesitate or lack the faith to teach the law of tithing to the poor. The sentiment of “They can’t afford to” needs to be replaced with “They can’t afford not to.”
One of the first things a bishop must do to help the needy is ask them to pay their tithing. Like the widow, if a destitute family is faced with the decision of paying their tithing or eating, they should pay their tithing.
We are free agents and to decide hopefully it will be to keep one covenants they made with the Lord.
To think that the poorest can’t pay their tithing or starve is a myth for there is the Bishop storehouse which one can get food until they become solvent. This enables one to take the opportunity to learn how to walk with the lord yes some use it as a free ride but they will pay dearly in the end on judgment day if they did not grow like in the parable of the Ten Talents.
You are right. It would open a can of worms.
I would assume the Prophet Joseph Smith would have the option of claiming her in the Celestial Kingdom. If he didn’t, then I suppose Prophet Brigham Young would be next in line, if he didn’t call her new name through the veil, then I suppose her first and legally married husband Henry Jacobs would have option to her.
But of course this hasn’t been hashed out in Mormon Doctrine. It is no different than if I am sealed to my husband, and my children are sealed to me, will they my daughters live in eternity with my husband and I, along with our parents and our in-laws, or will my daughters live with their husband’s parents, in-laws and cousins . . ad infinitum. Those questions cannot be answered.
The same way polygamy was practiced in Mormonism from 1831 to 1852 without official proclamation, and public knowledge. In secret.
Polyandry was never widely practiced and you simply asked for examples that it WAS practiced. I have given you that example.
You forget CC that at one time those who with Moses not all held the priesthood because the Lord was displeased with them.
That the Lord even withdrew the priesthood from the earth for over thousand of years.
And most of all CC, you forget the Priesthood belongs to the Lord and he will give it to whomever he pleases no matter how you try to spin this to put the Church in an unfavorable light!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501081.html
It is amazing how quickly civil rights actions goaded God into giving men with African descent the priesthood.
God indeed moves in mysterious ways. Civil and legal action against the Church also goaded God into ending the practice of polygamy.
Believe me resty, when it comes to Mormonism, it is simply very hard to forget these things.
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