UncommonYield

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@John_Stone_ @Manhattva They will never stop

A map included in an atlas published in Philadelphia in 1818, and printed in London even earlier than that, identifies a place on the Arabian peninsula containing the consonants NHM. So, it’s just wrong and misleading to assert that this was unknown to the world before German archaeologists supposedly “discovered” it in 1988, and it’s just wrong and misleading to assert there was no possible way for Joseph Smith to have known this. I hope LDS apologists will henceforth cease and desist from spreading this falsehood. It’s not a good look.

This is one of my favorite Book of Mormon evidences. Justin is doing some great things.

@Manhattva NHM doesn’t necessarily mean Nahom

@DanShaha I test my feelings but sometimes they are right

@UncommonYield Hey, if you put in the work to read, study, and sincerely pray about the Book of Mormon, and that's the conclusion you drew, that's cool. At least you put in the effort.

I had an interaction with a critic of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the other day that has fundamentally changed my views on the Church and the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. After some back and forth about one of a dozen recycled anti-Mormon tropes he asked me a question; what evidence did I need to see to prove that Joseph Smith was false prophet and that the Church was founded on a lie? I had to pause and think about my answer. I don’t want to tie my testimony of the Restored Gospel to an event, person, or policy. That seems like an easy way to have my convictions undermined. But I also don’t want to come off as a zealot acting on blind faith, either. After thinking for a while I answered; I would need to have a significant spiritual experience equal to or greater than the experience I had when I first read The Book of Mormon, or the first time I went to the Temple, or when I got married, or when I first held my kids. I’d need an experience so significant that it would outweigh my previous experiences. The conversation ended there. My testimony of the Restored Gospel comes from God, as revealed through the Holy Ghost. God is the objective source of all truth. I may not have all the answers. Some of my beliefs may not make logical sense. But God has made it very clear to me that objective, eternal truth is found in the Restored Gospel and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

@primerelic They ruined the GX….

The new GX 550 looks like a Land Cruiser that went to finishing school. Lexus really beat the aftermarket at their own game with the Overtrail!

@PackageGuy747 @stackerco If everything is corrupted even prophets there is no way to know what is true

I think Jesus Christ died so we can live again. I’m not sure about the Atonement. It seems he was doing his own work (suffering). I’m just not sure he suffered for all our sins (by proxy). I believe Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon story. Modern prophets. Not so much. Local leaders being called and inspired by God. No chance. Some prophets have been better than others. But over the last 20 years they have a terrible track record. The endowment is basically all made up. Plus the Bible narrative was written by men and is inaccurate. Satan didn’t rebel. He volunteered to take on the role of darkness along with 1/3 of heaven. We all go back to God. Hell and outer darkness are temporary. I think there is something to the sealing ordinance. It feels the most real and tangible. But even then I think it is a comforting myth. We all belong to God and will go back to Him. Our obsession with the sealing ordinance is used against us if we aren’t obedient.

I love Mormon history and the theology and dedicated my life to it. It is a beautiful religion with new mythology that ties the ancient world with the new, and a purpose to become ultimately as God is. I’m angry that it’s not true. I wish it was.

@antiantimormon @StrykerStryker5 Temple ceremony changed in 1990 youtu.be/3sa_9fVYht8?si…

@StrykerStryker5 You would like to believe that wouldn't you.

If Joseph Smith was a fraud trying to gain followers, why so much focus on the temple? And how did he know so much about ancient temple worship that was not understood in his day? Why Temple Focus? Joseph lived in Protestant America. In the upstate New York and New England religious world that shaped his early life, the population was overwhelmingly Protestant. Catholics were a tiny minority (less than 1%), and Jewish communities were almost nonexistent in that region. The dominant religious culture was Bible-centered Protestantism. Faith in Jesus, Bible, preaching worship services. But liturgy, ritual, priesthood ordinances, sacred clothing, and temple worship were generally viewed as things that had been fulfilled, replaced, or done away in Christ. In other words, Joseph lived in a culture of religion without temple liturgy. So if he was simply trying to attract followers, why introduce strange, foreign-sounding temple practices? Wouldn’t that make his movement harder to sell? And yet, from the beginning, the restored Church was pointed toward temples. When there were barely 1,000 members in Kirtland, the Saints began building a temple after being rebuked by the Lord multiple times for delay. When the Saints gathered in Missouri, they were immediately commanded to build a temple there as the center piece of Zion. This was a difficult, inconvenient expensive, demanding strategy if it was something Joseph was just making up. How Did Joseph Know So Much About The Temple? The Bible gives only limited detail about ancient temple worship. Much of the tabernacle system belonged to a lower law after Israel rejected the higher law. And by the Second Temple period, many scholars argue that Israelite religion had already changed dramatically from its older temple roots. Methodist scholar Margaret Barker has argued that Jesus came as a restorer of lost temple religion. Her research points to ancient temple themes involving the Holy of Holies, the everlasting covenant, the Atonement, Melchizedek, anointing oil, divine sonship, and the transformation of human beings into divine beings. Her work also identifies early Christian temple imagery involving sacred clothing, washings and anointings, new names, creation, the Garden of Eden, temptation, and special garments. Some of Jesus’s most significant moments happened around the temple. He taught there. He cleansed it. He called it His Father’s house. Clearly, the temple mattered to Him, though not in the corrupted way some religious rulers were using it in His day. Additional research by modern scholars also shows that early Christians retained elements of temple worship that closely align with the Latter-day Saint temple today. So how and why did an uneducated farm boy focus so much on the temple? Because he was not inventing something new to gain followers. He was doing what he was commanded to do. He was restoring ancient truths, covenants, ordinances, priesthood authority, and temple worship that allow mankind to be exalted through Jesus Christ. Joseph Smith was a prophet.

@antiantimormon JS was a Freemason and lots of parallels to ceremony there Second you are making an assumption everything in the temple is true and right with no basis Fraud

@TripDynasty @beefalo123 @AaronAsher11 Feelings are hurt I see So sensitive

@UncommonYield @beefalo123 @AaronAsher11 Grow up a bit, then come back and talk. Maybe you won’t be as weak.

No honest soul can read The Book of Mormon and conclude, with any integrity, that it’s “demonic”

@beefalo123 @TripDynasty @AaronAsher11 Yes with 4 kids

@UncommonYield @TripDynasty @AaronAsher11 Are you married?

@beefalo123 @TripDynasty @AaronAsher11 Having an entire basis of belief based on feelings is weak

@UncommonYield @TripDynasty @AaronAsher11 So you think having feelings is weak? I mean i would consider myself a man’s man and I’m pretty devout.

@TripDynasty @beefalo123 @AaronAsher11 If you think that’s a winning line of reasoning that’s impressive delusion But you are a Mormon so I shouldn’t be surprised

@UncommonYield @beefalo123 @AaronAsher11 You lose an argument, and turn into a middle schooler. Impressive.

@TripDynasty @beefalo123 @AaronAsher11 Explain relevancy here

@UncommonYield @beefalo123 @AaronAsher11 Can’t answer, or won’t?

@TripDynasty @beefalo123 @AaronAsher11 Mormons are truly dumb

@UncommonYield @beefalo123 @AaronAsher11 Everything about marriage is about how you feel. Otherwise, you’re divorced.

@TripDynasty @beefalo123 @AaronAsher11 Ugh marriage is about a covenant - it also doesn’t care about how you feel

@UncommonYield @beefalo123 @AaronAsher11 That’s how it is an a marriage as well… or any relationship, for that matter.

@TripDynasty @beefalo123 @AaronAsher11 Random my guy

@UncommonYield @beefalo123 @AaronAsher11 So would you say it’s demonic to be gay, or trans? Or an illegal alien?

@beefalo123 @TripDynasty @AaronAsher11 If you don’t give Jesus his full due as eternal God of the universe then it is demonic

@UncommonYield @TripDynasty @AaronAsher11 Very demonic. Someone how testifying of Christ and his gospel is demonic.

@beefalo123 @TripDynasty @AaronAsher11 Everything is about how you feel in Mormonism

@UncommonYield @TripDynasty @AaronAsher11 How so?

@alanliddell_ @plasmarob That all sounds emotional and not a rational Feelings don’t trump facts

@plasmarob Maybe it was that God continues to speak to His people through prophets, or that the Old Testament strangeness that had been sanded down by 20 centuries of rationalization was still alive, or that I could be with my family (all of them) forever in the eternities. There's so much.

I grew up evangelical, the weird kid who constantly studied his Bible. I converted to Catholicism at 20. I went to adoration & prayed the rosary. I found the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 37. I’ve already seen what Rome and Geneva have to offer. I choose Zion.

@sstaedtler8787 @RossDellenger @YahooSports Yea we need more blowouts - that’ll fix it

@RossDellenger @YahooSports No deal unless at least 2 or 3 of those 24 are G6 teams that won their conference.

The coaches have spoken: In a vote last week, the AFCA Board swung its support behind (1) a playoff with the max participants (likely 24); (2) discontinuing conference championships; and (3) ending CFP by second week of January, they tell @YahooSports. bit.ly/4talivj