Tag Archives: families are forever

Church Handbook Reveals Shunning and Uncertain Chaos in Mormon Heaven

07 December

Isaiah 45:22 “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” General Handbook of Instructions, 1999, pp. 67, 75; “Members Whose Close Relatives Belong to Apostate Groups Bishops and their counselors must take exceptional care when issuing recommends to members whose parents or […]

October 2016 Visiting Teaching Message

02 October

This month’s message teaches us about the importance of eternal families, the role they will play in eternity, and touches on how The Fall made it all come together. Mormons are all about the earthly, biological family we all have, and keeping those families intact throughout eternity. “Families are Forever” is one saying they like […]

August 2016 Visiting Teaching Message

01 August

The Visiting Teaching Message in August focuses on church members nurturing their families. Anytime I hear Mormons talk about the importance of families, or recall their old commercials that ended with the line “families it’s about time” (remember those?), I shake my head in disgust and disbelief because I know that’s not what they truly […]

The Complicated Relationship of Mormon Polygamy

29 May

The LDS Church has a few things in common with a rather obscure creature from the animal world; the chameleon. The chameleon can change colors to blend in, and they’re usually solitary creatures unless they’re seen with a group of other female chameleons. Historically speaking, the LDS Church has isolated itself from the Christian community, […]

Family Share

07 May

A few days ago while on Facebook I noticed numerous pages by a group called Family Share. At first glance the titles of the pages seem unassuming, and with titles like I love my family, I love my mom, and I love my dog they sound more like something a child would create instead of […]

Mormon Dilemma 870 No Planets for Godhood Status

02 March

Gospel Topics, “Becoming Like God”; “The desire to nurture the divinity in His children is one of God’s attributes that most inspires, motivates, and humbles members of the Church. God’s loving parentage and guidance can help each willing, obedient child of God receive of His fulness and of His glory…The teaching that men and women have […]

Tip of the Day, September 15

15 September

September 15 – Mark 12:23-25; “In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.  And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?  For when they shall rise from […]

Mormon Dilemma 373

12 September

 Not Having Kids Means No True Salvation Teachings of Harold B. Lee, pg 283; “There are those among us who think (if it can be called thinking) that having a large family of children is old-fashioned and an evidence of those who are unsophisticated and don’t know better. No more pernicious doctrine than that could […]