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if other people saw and handled the plates then the SP episode was wrong on that count
and Downtown made a pretty good case for Mormonism being less weird when taken to its spiritual conclusion without being fundamentalist and missing the point.
I quoted this from some other thread.
I'm just curious, not looking for a fight, but how can you defend that idea? (Mormonism being less strange.)
We don't eat babies.
Actually, I don't know what was meant by this (not being weird). But something I've heard more about recently is that our detailed doctrines about the afterlife bring and hold more converts that most of our other doctrines. So, whether or not they're weird, apparently some of our key differences with mainstream Christianity are also what attract people to us.
Can you say what you would mean by weird?
Well, to an outsider at least, Mormon doctrine does seem "Stranger" than non-Mormon doctrine.
But of course people want to be God, this is natural human nature and doesn't really prove anything (Unless you mean something OTHER than the Mormon doctrine of Godhood.)
I quoted this from some other thread.
I'm just curious, not looking for a fight, but how can you defend that idea? (Mormonism being less strange.)
Of course that whole "being together as families" part strongly disagrees with Christ's explicit teaching that there is no marriage in the resurrection.
I think he was talking about my explanation about the LDS view of judgment and the afterlife. If we assume that completion of some sort of ordinance (baptism?), and a belief in Christ is important for salvation, then there needs to be something in place for people who had no idea who Jesus was (if we don't make that assumption, whats the point in being Christian?). Mormons believe that spiritual progression continues after the grave, and that all who have ever lived will have the opportunity to accept or deny the gospel. That idea isn't so weird.
Are there some parts of LDS culture that are kinda weird? Hell yeah there are...but theres stuff with Catholicism and the Southern Baptist convention thats weird too, or any church really...we worship a zombie who turned water into booze after all.
It's not even all that explicit, in the context of the quote. The whole point of the story was that Jesus was teaching that resurrection happens, not what the exact limitations on it are.
Speaking of that particular passage, what is the LDS doctrine on a widow who remarries? I hate to ask because I sound like the Pharisees but I'm genuinely curious--would she have two husbands in the afterlife?
She can't be *sealed in the Temple* to both men. She can marry whoever she wants, but she is wants to get remarried to another guy in the temple, they'd have to undo the first one.
To be fair, the gospel might be explicit. Best guess is that, by then, the quotation had played two rounds of telephone.
that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers
Another question: Does the spiritual progression at the end of life ever end somewhere? Or is someone always advancing? If the latter, wouldn't everyone be saved eventually?
Another question: Does the spiritual progression at the end of life ever end somewhere? Or is someone always advancing? If the latter, wouldn't everyone be saved eventually?