Dummkopf the Wise

@jaredadairbell @StStymie What’s your favorite sermon/discourse given by Brigham?

Pioneer Day/Mormon Mafia Edit

@Manhattva 10000% Who you marry is the most important decision you can make in life. I’ve seen rich men treated as if they were nothing and I’ve seen poor men treated like kings.

Facts. Given a binary choice, it’s better to be poor and struggling with a good wife, than rich with someone who destroys you.

@TheProjectUnity Yes

Is anyone else having increasingly stronger, more frequent, and more memorable dreams?

I’m incredibly grateful to @joerogan and his team for the opportunity to sit down and explore some truly fascinating topics. We discussed ancient Cambodia’s mysterious LiDAR discoveries, India’s 1,000-ton granite Bahubali statue, extraordinary lathe-turned stone pillars and a number of ancient mysteries that I think will be new to many people ✨✨

@ThoughtfulSaint If the LDS followed the teachings of Paul more closely, it would be the perfect religion IMO.

So I have been studying Paul in context. And I have come to realize essentially every Protestant proof text totally misunderstands Paul because they don’t understand what questions and issues Paul was actually trying to address. Also Paul is mega based. Anyone who dogs on Paul only does because they think Protestants actually read him correctly (which they don’t) but to be fair, Paul also destroys many Catholic, Protestant and even some LDS ideas. I love Paul.

@kjohnson_35 @nicoraytruth Not true. Each culture may vary in its expression, but there is most certainly a common thread that connects them all.

@dummkopfe48320 @nicoraytruth Art and church design are relatively odd / subjective points as they vary drastically across cultures, geographies, centuries, etc.

What I believe: 1. The LDS are right about temples. 2. Catholics and the EO are right about the Real Presence in the Eucharist. 3. Catholics and the EO are right about confession. 4. The LDS are right that charismatic gifts still belong to ordinary members. 5. The LDS are right that priesthood blessings and real spiritual power are given to the members, not reserved for a clerical class. 6. The LDS are probably right about some form of premortal existence. 7. On the Trinity, probably no one has it 100% right and it's an ineffable mystery. Jesus clearly did not think the metaphysics mattered enough to spell out. 8. The EO are right that papal supremacy is an error. 9. The LDS are right to make missionary service the rite of passage into adulthood. 10. The EO are right to refuse innovation and to never submit to modernity. 11. The EO are right about fasting as a normal discipline, not a relic. 12. The EO are right that the atonement heals rather than merely acquits. 13. Catholics are right about Mary. 14. Catholics are right that the Church needs one voice in some form. 15. The LDS are right about eternal marriage and the family lasting beyond the grave. 16. The LDS are right about continuing revelation and an open canon. 17. The LDS are right about a lay clergy that works for free. 18. The EO are right that liturgy should feel like heaven, not a concert. 19. Protestants are right that ordinary people should know their Bibles cold. 20. The LDS are right that the dead are not beyond the gospel. Peter said Christ preached to the spirits in prison, and someone ought to take him at his word.

@ThoughtfulSaint @ThoughtfulSaint Isn’t this ultimately a leadership problem rather than a membership problem? Doesn’t the responsibility rest with the prophets and apostles Are you comfortable saying they aren’t leading the church properly?

Confusion creates division Division creations contention …Or… Clear communal mission creates clear communal purpose Clear communal purpose creates clear communal identity Clear communal identity creates belonging We want belonging… but do we know what actually creates it? Do we know what destroys it?

@RigdonNancy3 @ThoughtfulSaint

@ThoughtfulSaint So you are telling me that one of your alt accounts is William Dummköpf.

A recent investigator with his wife and 5 children attended a ward. Why do I speak up?…. because this sort of thing is happening more often than many realize and it demonstrates moral confusion rather than moral clarity. People go to church seeking moral clarity. I don’t think people in the church realize how different the church can be in some parts of the U.S.

@therealkimsmit1 @ThoughtfulSaint Yeah. He sounds like an idiot tbh.

@ThoughtfulSaint I am doubting his story. He is also a polygamy denier who trusts the testimonies of those in the RLDS church over Brigham Young and the rest of the prophets .

This.

What do you see when the Yin Yang spins fast?

@Manhattva He’s like an old school democrat who wants to use the government to help people. I disagree with him, but his heart is in the right place.

Fetterman definitely has his flaws, But he really seems to be a decent man.

@ThoughtfulSaint Calvinist are the most consistent Christians from a creedal perspective

God does not love you?

@jaredadairbell St Paul: Therefore let no one sit in judgment on you in matters of food and drink, or with regard to a feast day or a New Moon or a Sabbath. Mormons: *hold my water*

@nicoraytruth Exactly. Also, why should we think only one tradition has all the truth?

You do not lose your faith by studying another tradition seriously. You lose it by studying nothing seriously.

@jaredadairbell Most Christian denominations believe in miracles and personal revelation. What sets the LDS apart is their belief in ongoing public revelation — where God is unfolding new scriptures to the world. I was wondering what was the last public revelation from your church?

@dummkopfe48320 Not sure what you mean by “new revelation” but give this a try: churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/…

Do away the principle of direct revelation, and we do away the religion of the Bible, and have nothing left but atheism. Do away the principle of direct and continued revelation, and you have not a witness on earth that Jesus is the Christ. Do away the pinciple of continued revelation, and there is not a man on earth who knows his sins forgiven, or that can get a call to preach the gospel. Do away the principle of continued revelation, and you worship a DUMB and changeable God, and have no communion with the angels, nor with the Holy Ghost.