I am amazed at how strong the Church in spite of y'all
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Please stay a while viriatu. I love the theater.
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Viriatu wrote:Anyone who stumbles across this place might get the impression that The LDS Church is dying. Anyone who spends a lot of time here might have the same thought.
Are you going to address any of the data and references put to you?
Answer any of the reasonable questions asked of you?
Provide any objective evidence of your own?
Or just carry on trolling?
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
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IHAQ
Are you going to address any of the data and references put to you?
Answer any of the reasonable questions asked of you?
Provide any objective evidence of your own?
Whoa. you are asking an awful lot of a Mormon believer aren't you?
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Re: I am amazed at how strong the Church in spite of y'all
Viriatu wrote:Anyone who stumbles across this place might get the impression that The LDS Church is dying. Anyone who spends a lot of time here might have the same thought.
Sure they might get the impression the church is dying, but what have you said here that would do anything to suggest differently? I am not saying the church is dying, but you didn't do anything more then state your belief the church is doing fine. Vague statements of belief like this do little to inspire anyone.
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Viriatu wrote:I am sitting in Stake Priesthood Leadership meeting right now and am struck by how strong the Church is. The Spirit is strong in this meeting and we who are here are being lifted and inspired.
Must have been a damn boring meeting if you felt the need to surf and then post on some heretical internet forum rather than pay attention. Some third member of the godheard that can't hold your attention. You need to repent of your apostate ways.
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Craig Paxton wrote:Viriatu wrote:Anyone who stumbles across this place might get the impression that The LDS Church is dying. Anyone who spends a lot of time here might have the same thought.
Haha you are living in a make believe alternative universe...the Mormon church claims 15.8 million members but has less than 1/3 of that number who actually participate in the church. Please show me any organization where 2/3s of its membership have walked away that can claim to be strong? You're refusing to acknowledge reality and living in la la land. The church can't even keep its coverts, 80% leave within a year of baptism dude your church is on life support and in denial
At this point it may well be well to consider that Jesus himself taught that strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Even after they may have at one time entered through the gate.
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“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
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mentalgymnast wrote:
At this point it may well be well to consider that Jesus himself taught that strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Even after they may have at one time entered through the gate.
Regards,
MG
Why? What does that have to do with the concepts being discussed?
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Nazism and Communism were strong for a long time as well.
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MG
At this point it may well be well to consider that Jesus himself taught that strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Even after they may have at one time entered through the gate.
Meh. He was just speaking as a man. Everyone has their own opinions.
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