Satan's Little Victories

We've had so many aMaZiNg ReVeLaTiOnS with Russell in power. I wonder what an all-powerful, all-knowing divine being has to share with us this General Conference?

Hopefully, I'm not inadvertently offending the Savior just because it was ok with previous prophets.

Comments

Dropping General Conference

The last remarks of the final talk hung thick in the air, and all I could muster was, “I can’t do this anymore.” I was exhausted. After sitting through yet another 10 hours of the church’s semi-annual General Conference I sat and reflected on what I had just experienced and what I had gained. All I felt was a weariness that had saturated me; it was more than just the mental effort of focusing on so many hours of one somber talk after another. I was spiritually exhausted. I had not been spiritually fed… I was not inspired, uplifted, or edified. There were a couple of talks that offered brief glimmers of hope but were quickly extinguished under the weight of the rest. I was left spiritually drained. A few years ago, I would have blamed myself for not being dedicated enough. I would have placed myself at fault and held myself responsible for somehow failing to be righteous enough to end the conference feeling this way. Everyone around me always talked about how grea...

Follow the Prophet

A Search for LGBTQ+ in Scripture: Just Friends (part 7)

Interpersonal relationships come in a wide variety of forms. The Bible is no exception in featuring a variety of relationships that would be familiar (namely, with a spouse, family, God, neighbor, stranger, etc.), as well as the kinds of relationships that would hopefully not be familiar (for instance, with a slave or a prisoner of war). We will take a closer look at an example of close a relationship between people of the same gender in the Old Testament. The purpose of this segment's examination is not to claim whether or not these individuals were homosexual or bisexual. There is no definitive indication one way or another on any of these individuals' sexuality nor the sexual activity within the relationship. In searching through the scriptures, I came across this relationship that appears to be more than just a mere friendship and had developed an emotionally intimate bond. This is not to say that having an emotionally close relationship indicates the presence of a sexual r...

Mormonistic

Search This Blog