The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints(aka Mormons) recently held their 179th Annual General Conference; a semi-annual event where church leaders (knows as prophets) speak to the members of the church to give them guidance to let them know what the Lord would have them do in these times. Latter-day Saints believein modern day revelation; where God communicates with the prophets of the church to convey His will to the people.
One of the speakers at this conference, Elder Quentin L. Cook, had something interesting to say about the non-believers out there.
Nonbelievers find it hard to accept the miracles of the Old and New Testaments and the Savior’s virgin birth and Resurrection. They view these events with the same skepticism as the appearance of God the Father and Jesus Christ to the Prophet Joseph Smith. They are not open to the possibility of a heavenly plan presided over by a supreme being. They do not have faith.
May I ask the question, should someone NOT have skepticism when it comes to miraculous claims? A 14 year old boy, about 200 years ago says that God and Jesus appeared to him and told him to start a new church, because all others were wrong. That’s quite a claim, and there better be a damn good reason to believe it.
“They do not have faith”. Why should someone have faith in this kind of claim? There needs to be a compelling reason to believesomething that has no evidence, or even contrary evidence, which is what faith is.
Elder Cook went on to say some things about those un-beleivers.
My principal concern is for the honorable people on the earth who are open to religious faith but have been discouraged or confused by incorrect doctrine.
So apparently people that aren’t open to believing in the fairy tales are not honourable. Apparently it is more honorable to shut off your brain and ignore things you know to be true, than it is to have honest questions and reservations about extraordinary claims.
Thank you Mormon Apostle, for helping me feel better about having left the church.
Yay! Today marks the day of Zombie Jesus, the day that Jesus rose from the dead to atone for the sins of the world. The resurrection of Jesus is key to the Christian faith, if it didn’t happen then there was no atonement, and Jesus wouldn’t have been God in flesh. How do we know that the resurrection really happened? Well, we don’t, it’s one of those things that need to be taken on faith. Faith, belief in things without evidence, or things for which there is evidence against. No thanks.
Don’t forget that this also marks the Hebrew holiday of Passover, which marks the time that God decided to kill all of the first-born children in Egypt. That is unless you killed a lamb and spread it’s blood on your door post, as the Hebrew slaves had done, in which case the spirit of the Lord passed over that home and didn’t murder children.
God is good? God seems to be pretty focused on killing people that don’t obey his word to the letter of the law, sometimes on the pain of death. What is it that is supposed to be appleaing about these religions?
Answering to a leader called Queen Antoinette, they denied a 16-month-old boy food and water because he did not say “Amen” at mealtimes. After he died, they prayed over his body for days, expecting a resurrection, then packed it into a suitcase with mothballs.
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