Matt

I did not land here by accident or inheritance. I have spent real time looking hard at Christianity, scripture, authority, history, and the claims people make about God. The more seriously I looked, the more convinced I became that Jesus Christ lives, that His gospel has been restored, and that truth is worth defending plainly. This account is for that. Real faith for real life. Clarity over fog. Conviction without performance. If you want Christ first, honest belief, and a voice that will not bend every time the world gets loud, you’re in the right place.

Looking for peace in this life and confidence in what’s to come? Spend some time with the Book of Mormon.

@beetle67a I can’t talk with the uneducated, I hope you’ll understand. 👋🏻

@MattTestifies It's all I need.

The Book of Mormon is the most important book in the history of our lives. Why? Because it teaches us who Jesus Christ really is and what He actually did for us. Because it answers the questions we carry but don’t always say out loud. Why we’re here. Why life hurts. Where we’re going. Because it restores truths that were lost over time and brings clarity back to God’s plan. Because it invites action, not just belief. It doesn’t sit on a shelf. It asks something of you. Because it was preserved and brought forth at a cost so we could have the word of God today Because it changes people. Not theoretically. Actually. And if it’s true, it changes everything.

They act like finding out Mormons worship Jesus Christ is offensive to how they worship.

Despite the shocking number of similarities the two groups have, Roman Catholics are actually Christians and Mormons are not.

@beetle67a Oh, come on. That’s really the best you have? 😂

@MattTestifies Oh, come on. CES Letter.

I don’t see it as the Father hurting an unwilling innocent Son. I see it as Christ willingly entering the full weight of mortality to rescue us from what we could never heal ourselves. Forgiveness is not God needing blood. It is God coming down into our suffering, sin, death, and separation, then breaking it open from the inside.

I’ll bite. Sure. Let’s grant that. Why is God incapable of doing something a human can do? Why does God need the blood of an innocent person to forgive His own children? When a child steals from a store, no parent that I know of would require the child to give the candy back, say they’re sorry, and then hurt the child’s innocent brother in order to forgive them. So, why, in all of Gods goodness, does He need to not only us to suffer in terms of consequences, guilt, and shame, but also makes His own Son suffer? No human parent would do such an evil deed. Why is God allowed to be so evil?

As the doorway to agency, growth, redemption, and Christ.

@ThomBradley8 I think that distinction is important. God preserved agency, allowed the Fall, and already had Christ at the center of the rescue. That makes the plan feel even more merciful to me.

@MattTestifies That is true he did plan for the fall however that doesn't mean that he willed it to happen. Adam and Eve had a choice to obey or to disobey. Unfortunately they chose to disobey in the world has been a fouled up mess since. They still had free choice. God still had a plan.

@Caliazor I agree. That’s probably the cleaner way to say it. God planned for agency, mortality, and redemption through Christ. The Fall became part of that plan without making God the author of sin.

@MattTestifies Planned for and wanted are two different things.

@John_Stone_ @MikeDeHart67 Darn. Guess you’ll have to start being obsessed over someone else, huh? I will miss our time together.

@MattTestifies @MikeDeHart67 TIL Matt believes the divine penalty for a white man marrying a black woman is death on the spot. Courtesy of his “true prophet.” And Mormons wonder why everyone thinks they’re freakish cultists.

Me: I’ve got a strong testimony of living prophets. Someone: quotes something Brigham Young said in 1852. Me:

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Mormons are heretics. You can not change my mind regarding this. Happy Sunday.

@EricCMeadows @TheUnderTiny So. Good. 😅

1980s LDS television series were legit. Did I miss any? A 🧵 The Under Rider Starring @TheUnderTiny and KITT the Hearse.

DUN dun dun dun-dun DUN dun dun dun-dun DUN dun dun DUNNNN

@jmbrim3 I would if I was in your class. 💜

Havent taught since March with General Conference! Who’s excited for Sunday School today?

@VernShy Me too, brother. I was joking. 🙃

@MattTestifies I pay 10% , but I also do fast offerings and missionary fund. Been blessed.

I’ve always paid 12% tithing because that’s what the varsity Christians do. 10% is the commandment. The extra 2% is just spiritual gratuity.

@Bobby_Clayson That shift is real. The older I get, the more I realize most of the growth was happening where I couldn’t see it. We plant, love, testify, and trust God with the part only He can do.

We are commanded to labor in God's vineyard. But how much do we actually contribute to others conversion? As a fresh return missionary, I felt like I had contributed a lot. What I didn't anticipate was how time and maturity would change my perspective.

@ThisMomSaid @KatelinHair Taking His name has been hitting me differently lately. It’s not just belief. It’s learning to let His will, His mercy, and His way reshape mine.

How can we become one with Christ? Today as I reflect on this week, I have been thinking a lot about the significance being “one”. When we get married, we become one… we traditionally take one name and have goals that unite us in purpose. We carry different roles and responsibilities. We bring children into our home and they too, become part of the “oneness”. In business we become a company. One name with shared goals. Different roles and responsibilities. In school, sports, and other activities we see the same pattern. One unified approach. Different roles and responsibilities with one shared purpose. So when we decide to take upon the name of our Savior… what are we actually doing? What is our role? Our responsibility? Our purpose? “That they all may be one… as Thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee.” (John 17:21) “I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” (Galatians 2:20)

@chadcluff @parker_andorasu Yes, our ward did this just last week. 🙌🏻💜

@parker_andorasu Yes, I saw someone tweet that they had been released from the calling and a sister called in his place. Maybe @MattTestifies ? I'm sorry I can't remember for sure.

He other English ward in Tokyo just sustained a new, all-female Sunday School presidency. The sister is one of, if not THE, first sisters called/sustained to the position. Has anyone else heard of it happening before today? ?

@MikeDeHart67 @John_Stone_ Easy. True prophet. Next.

@John_Stone_ @MattTestifies Yikes

@scrojohnson @John_Stone_ So you chumps don’t pray in all things as commanded? Yikes. That sucks. Might want to try harder to not… suck.

@John_Stone_ @MattTestifies Yes, the brownies and dirty sodas— Miraculously made nourishing by prayer’s power.

Praying the rosary while calling Latter-day Saints cultists is wild. My brother in Christ, you’re repeating the same prayer 50+ times with beads in your hand. Maybe sit this one out.