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Discussions will include the Bible, Inspired Version of the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Lectures on Faith and the Journal of Discourses and other sources for original doctrines of this religion.

We believe in the freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own consciences and allow all men and women this same freedom; formerly a church belief.   We may not agree with everyone else; but, they are free to ask questions and make respectful comments of course. 


Questions others have raised for our and your consideration:

1. The church formerly published the 17 points of the true church which included a statement that the church was to have NO paid ministry.  Well, since the seventys and the church apostles are all travelling ministers according to Joseph Smith Jr. and since they are paid, the church should publish that "formerly they were the true church of God.

2. One reader feels to mention that page 110 of Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith (TPJS), an LDS church publication, makes it clear that no high priest can become a seventy since this is against the order of heaven and yet, all of the present seventys are also high priests.  Surely this must be offensive to God and an eye opener to the 20 % of the church members who are even active!

3. One reader pointed out that yes, the majority of members are not active and the actual membership figures should more accurately be stated as perhaps approaching 3 million members.  Of those, there are few who are still active in temple attendance.

4. Have you considered that administering to the sick is done by nurses and others all the time and that the word administer means to look after someone or to give them a measured amount of something as in a religious ceremony.  Does anyone think that just because someone redefines a word like administer that this fools everyone?

Deacons and teachers are not to administer the sacrament but, they do so by passing the sacrament to members and then to make it worse, they hand the trays to members and let them administer to those sitting beside them in their rows.   Thus, non-members, women and children, adulterers, murderers and whoever, can thus administer the sacrament these days.  Shocking!

5. To the women:  Another pet peeve is that women have gone to the temples and therein been married to their husbands and have covenanted with God, not to have intimacy with anyone else; which is nice.   Most of these women get divorced and then get re-married again and often these marriages are perfomed by the church but, they are not in temples the second time.  Well, the church has a policy of not releasing the women from the first sealing unless they get married again in the temple, so they are really putting the ladies into an awkward situation.

The women will have intimacy with their new husbands and according to the temple covenants this will amount to adultery.  The church is thus promoting and manipulating its people into adulterous relationships by not cancelling their former sealings.  Is this wicked practice done to control the ladies or exercise unrighteous dominion over them?  Stand up for your rights and demand a release, ladies.  And since this situation exists, you should be questioning everything else the leaders are doing as well!


Given to President John Taylor (Sept. 27, 1886).  (Formerly published in the Doctrine & Covenants, Danish and German printings)

My son, John, you have asked Me concerning the New and Everlasting Covenant, how far it is binding upon My people.  Thus saith the Lord, All commandments that I give must be obeyed by those calling themselves by My name unless they are revoked by Me or by My authority, and how can I revoke an everlasting covenant; for I the Lord am everlasting and My everlasting covenants cannot be abrogated nor done away with; but they stand forever.

Have I not given My word in great plainness on this subject?  Yet have not great numbers of My people been negligent in the observance of My law and the keeping of My commandments?  And yet have I born with them these many years, and this because of their weakness, because of the perilous times, and furthermore, it is more pleasing to Me that men should use their free agency in regard to these matters.

Nevertheless, I the Lord do not change, and My work and My law do not.  And as I have heretofore said by My servant Joseph, All those who would enter into My glory must and shall obey My law, and have I not commanded men that if they were Abraham's seed and would enter into My glory, they must do the works of Abraham?  I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting, and those who will enter into My glory must obey the conditions thereof, even so, Amen. 

Lectures On Faith 
    
Sixth Lecture, Verses 3 - 8

3.  Having the assurance, that they were pursuing a course, which was agreeable to the will of God; they were enabled to take, not only the spoiling of their goods and the wasting of their substance joyfully, but also, to suffer death in its most horrid forms;  knowing (not merely believing), that when this earthly house of their tabernacle was dissolved, they had a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.  (2 Corinthians 5.1).

4.  Such was, and always will be, the situation of the saints of God.  That unless they have an actual knowledge, that the course they are pursuing is according to the will of God, they will grow weary in their minds and faint.  For such has been, and always will be, the opposition in the hearts of unbelievers and those, that know not God; against the pure and unadulterated religion of heaven (The only thing, which insures Eternal Life), that they will persecute to the uttermost all, that worship God accoding to His revelations; receive the truth in the love of it and submit themselves to be guided and directed by His will. 

And drive them to such extremities, that nothing short of an actual knowledge of their being the favorites of heaven and of their having embraced the order of things, which God has established for the redemption of man, will enable them to exercise that confidence in Him necessary for them to overcome the world and obtain, that crown of glory, which is laid up for them, that fear God.

5.  For a man to lay down his all, his character and reputation, his honor, and applause, his good name among men, his houses, his lands, his brothers and sisters, his wife and children and even his own life also - counting all things but filth and dross for the excellencey of the knowledge of Jesus Christ - requires more than mere belief or supposition that he is doing the will of God; but actual knowledge, realizing that, when these sufferings are ended, he will enter into eternal rest, and be a partaker of the glory of God.

6.  for unless a person does know that he is walking according to the will of God, it would be offering an insult to the dignity of the Creator were he to say that he would be a partaker of his glory when he should be done with the things of this life.  But when he has this knowledge, and most assuredly knows that he is doing the will of God, his confidence can be equally strong that he will be a partaker of the glory of God.

7.  Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation; for from the first existence of man, the faith necessay unto the enjoyment of life and salvation never could be obtained without the sacrifice of all earthly things.  It was through this sacrifce, and this only, that God has ordained that men should enjoy eternal life; and it is through the medium of the sacrifice of all earthly things that men do actually know that they are doing the things that are well pleasing in the signt of God.  

When a man has offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truth's sake, not even withholding his life, and believing before God that he has been called to make this sacrifice because he seeks to do His will, he does know, most assuredly, that God does and will accept his sacrifice and offering, and that he has not, nor will not seek His face in vain.  Under these circumstances, then, he can obtain the faith necesary for him to lay hold on eternal life.

8.  It is in vain for persons to fancy to themselves that they are heirs with those, or can be heirs with them, who have offered their all in sacrifice, and by this means obtain faith in God and favor with Him so as to obtain eternal life, unless they, in like manner, offer unto Him the same sacrifice, and through that offering obtain the knowledge that they are accepted of Him.