Noah Gallagher

What is #Arcreonis? It is a new mythology, an epic fantasy saga in 5 parts. The tale of a great and fallen people, the Relmé, who dwell on Aeruul, a world of magic, adventure, and cyclical rise and ruin.

We had an exmo in church today. He got up to bear his testimony about how he left the church 7 years and did so very angrily. But its okay, because hes not angry anymore, and he has found God in another church. So parents with wayward kids, dont persure them too hard, dont push them too hard, they might find God somewhere else. He closed in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. And the whole ward said "amen". I just can't

@thesanityrevolt Stop Read this And try again

If simply saying Joseph Smith wasn’t a prophet is “Mormon hate”, then the LDS teaching Jesus wasn’t divine is Christian-hate.

❤️ So proud this is my dad.

Believe in Hell, and that these people are going there.

@pimomormon @stackerco @ByJimbob No one in the history of Twitter/X has ever been persuaded by anything you've said on your embarrassing anonymous whining account

@Arcreonis @stackerco @ByJimbob Projection

Every Mormon is their own Joseph Smith

@stackerco @ByJimbob It's actually pretty simple to hear from God. It's a little bit like how Satan talks to you

@ByJimbob There is a good amount like this experiencing religious psychosis.

The idea that comedy should be funny is nothing but right wing propaganda. The true purpose of comedy is to educate people into having the correct political views.

yes, i am a bad person

The only drawing of Sauron made by Tolkien himself.

If you actually knew the history of Christianity, you'd see why Latter-day Saints don't accept the Trinity the way other Christians define it. And why that's a totally reasonable position. Start with the timeline. For the first 300 years of Christianity, there was no Nicene Trinity. The word "trinity" wasn't even used until around 200 AD, by an early Christian writer named Tertullian. Early Christian writers had all kinds of different views about how the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost related to each other. They didn't agree. Many of those views wouldn't match the formal doctrine that came later. Same goes for the body of God. The Bible describes him with face, hands, and form. The idea that he's bodiless came from Greek philosophy, not from scripture. So what changed? In 325 AD, the Roman emperor Constantine called a council at Nicaea to settle the argument. The argument was about whether Jesus was fully divine or a created being. Bishops were told to sign the creed or get exiled. Even some of the bishops who signed it didn't fully agree with it. That's how the Trinity became official. Not because the Bible spelled it out. Because an emperor needed unity. The same thing was happening with how God himself was described. The Bible talked about God in physical terms. The councils used Greek philosophical categories to settle the question. The Bible's more physical language about God got reinterpreted in those abstract terms. Here's where Latter-day Saints actually land. We believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. We pray to the Father in the name of the Son. We baptize in all three names. What we don't accept is the philosophy added later, that they're "one substance" in some Greek metaphysical sense. That part isn't in the Bible. It was developed later by theologians working out questions the Bible didn't directly answer. We also read the Bible's language about God's body the way the original audiences did, instead of reinterpreting it to fit Greek philosophy. And this isn't just a Latter-day Saint argument. Mainstream Bible scholars say the same thing. A Jesuit priest named Edmund Fortman wrote that there's "no formal doctrine of the Trinity in the New Testament writers." Harper's Bible Dictionary says the formal Trinity doctrine "is not to be found in the New Testament." Here's a way to think about it: Imagine a grandmother passes down a recipe. Three hundred years later, her descendants argue about whether she meant a pinch of salt or a teaspoon, and whether butter or olive oil is acceptable. One branch of the family writes up an "official" version and says anyone who doesn't follow it isn't really making grandma's recipe. The original recipe didn't say. The official version was added later. That's the situation with the Bible and the Trinity. The Bible has Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The specific Nicene formula came centuries later. The disagreement didn't end at Nicaea, either. For over 1,000 years, Catholics and Orthodox have argued about whether the Holy Spirit comes from the Father alone or from the Father and the Son. That's a fight about the nature of the Trinity itself. Two ancient Christian traditions, two different views, both still considered Christian. So the idea that there's one fixed Trinity test for being Christian doesn't hold up. To be clear, none of this is a shot at people who believe the Nicene Trinity. Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, all of them are sincere Christians. Their faith is real. They have every right to worship how they see fit. The point here is just that Latter-day Saints reading the Bible and reaching a different conclusion isn't weird, dishonest, or anti-Christian. It's a position that fits the historical record. There's also a contradiction worth noticing. A lot of people say "the Bible alone is enough," and then turn around and say "you also have to accept the creeds to be Christian." Those two ideas can't both be true. Either the Bible is enough or it isn't. Early Christian art reflected the same uncertainty. Different communities pictured God in different ways for centuries before a unified image took hold. So here's the bottom line. Reasonable people read the New Testament and land where Latter-day Saints land. So did a lot of early Christians before the councils made one view official. You don't have to agree with us. Just understand that our position has roots in actual Christian history, not in some random departure from it. Believe the Trinity. Don't believe the Trinity. The history is what it is. Knowing it doesn't threaten anyone's faith. It just clears up why other Christians read the Bible the way they do.

@conservmillen We are begging you to spend five minutes and read the Doctrine & Covenants Section 76 Verses 71-80

I had no idea LDS members would balk at this very basic, central belief about hell, heaven, and who goes where. Yes, all Christians believe in hell and that we deserve to go there. That’s the bad news. The good news is, through Christ, we can be saved from hell and instead spend eternity with him. This is not accomplished through ordinances, church membership, or claims of apostolic succession, but through Jesus’s sacrifice alone. The good news is that there is nothing you can or must do to earn your way into God’s Presence. Rather, Jesus’s blood is sufficient in making us clean and acceptable before God. You are free to believe that access to eternity with Jesus can only be accomplished through following LDS ordinances, and that non-LDS members will only have a degree of glory (but not God’s presence) in the afterlife. It’s just not a Christian belief. For a believer in Christ, there is nothing good about the news that we non-Mormons will live forever in a “better place” but without the presence of Jesus. That is not heaven. Jesus is the prize! And our place with Him is secured by grace through faith in Him. Hallelujah! “For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”” Romans 10:13

It is not a traumatized view of sex. Here's what Bradley doesn't realize. Every action you take is communicating something. Hence we talk about "body language." The Christian stance on sex is this: in all of the gestures of consensual sexual union filled with goodness, you are saying "I am my beloved's, and my beloved" is mine; we are one, and we belong to each other." That act isn't for the eyes of anyone else. You are saying it to the one to whom you are joined. This is why even non-Christians would stop and cover themselves up if someone walked in on them having sex; to some extent, they know they are saying things with their bodies that are only meant for each other. But this is why sex in marriage alone is beautiful: the covenant of marriage is the only context in which you are telling the truth. You do not truly belong to one another, body and soul, without a union that binds you together as much as your own body is bound up together. The covenant of marriage is where God joins a man and a woman so closely like this. It is the only place where everything you are communicating in sex--whether you realize what you are saying or not--is actually truthful.

@conservmillen Wrong. But you don't really care about that, do you? Everyone who wants to follow Jesus and doesn't disobey His commandments will be with Him eternally.

Who goes to heaven, according to Mormonism? Jacob Hansen, LDS apologist, argues that, according to Mormon teaching, one must be a part of the LDS church to spend eternity with Christ. Here’s my response:

@SXR123 Didn't they start that in the second episode? That's as far as I got. Couldn't stand to watch any more after that.

Seeing this scene and remembering that in the live action series they swapped Roku for Kyoshi as Aang's guide when she has like, what, maybe 4 scenes in the original series? They also made him more of a joker instead of the calm and wise guide he was in the show. We also lost the first real instance of just how ridiculously powerful the Avatar State can be, with Roku making the volcano erupt to destroy the temple. And what a guide she was. She tells Aang he has to master all the elements to get strong and to master the Avatar State, not for any other important reason (sozin's comet). He asks her "what is the Avatar?" and she says "I can't tell you that, every Avatar is different." Then he tells her he's afraid of hurting people along the way and she practically yells at the 12 year old kid for running away—something he already deeply regretted. Watching the Live Action scene again, holy hell, she is a horrible guide. Roku is a calm and supportive guide in the original series. He conveys the importance of why Aang needs to master the elements, the Avatar's role being to keep the balance, gives Aang his vote of confidence when he's doubtful and sets up the ending fight in like 2 minutes. Kyoshi is just an ass and practically bullies him and tells him to toughen up, when he's only woken up from the iceberg barely a week prior. Also, he's a kid. I know he's the avatar but a little bit of delicacy couldn't hurt.

Me reading the Bible & realizing I have a lot in common with this fool it keeps mentioning

@HedgeHog168897 @latterdaylaura You can shorten it to the Church of Jesus Christ, or just the Church when everyone in the conversation already knows what church it is that's being talking about. It is so absurdly non-difficult to do, it is inexcusable to remove the name of Christ.

@latterdaylaura It’s because it’s prohibitively long. Simple as that I would imagine. Same reason why members shorten it in the same way.

Incredible how many times she said “LDS church.” Our detractors always refuse to say the full name. Very interesting. Like it’s so apparent in this clip

Animation by James Baxter* | Medusa (canceled) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

A tough moment is when you realize these violence-celebrating nutjobs aren’t just some fringe online leftists. They’re teachers, printers, former journalists, and your local small business brewery. A significant number of Americans want their fellow countrymen dead.