All I Possess

Lately, Rychen and I have been discussing lines of logic that leads to various conclusions. And I’ve been pondering this literal Father God thing lately. It used to be so familiar, so comforting. Home. But what are the fruits of this doctrine? Where do the lines of logic actually lead? The first and most obvious,… Continue reading

In church we talk about surrendering our lives to God. Think about that word, surrender. That’s a warfare word. Surrender means you were enemies, but now you admit defeat. The other party won. They are stronger, mightier. You fought them for as long as you could. You tried to do things your way. You tried… Continue reading

“Learn of me and listen to my words” is a well-known LDS injunction (memorable to me because of a Young Women’s song we sang) from the D&C. The “Learn of me” part is Biblical 👍 Matthew 11:29: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart” Anyhow,… Continue reading

We frequently quote Genesis 15:6 and Paul’s references to it: Abraham believed the Lord and it was credited to him as righteousness. We use this to demonstrate saving faith. But what does the word faith mean, in this instance? It does not mean merely a belief in God. This isn’t faith that God exists; this… Continue reading

When I was growing up, my parents liked to play The Messiah soundtrack a lot. I was too young to understand what it was, but certain parts stood out to me and sounded funny. Like the song that said we are like sheep. I would go around the house singing “We like sheep! All we… Continue reading

Time for me to expose another silly thing I believed as a Mormon. Except this one isn’t a weird random thought, it’s actually mainstream. It’s a commonly held belief and a commonly expressed attitude. In fact, I heard it just recently as a response to one of my Facebook posts. And this was someone who… Continue reading

Weird Mormon thought of the week #2: Bear with me. Hear my logic on this. In Mormonism, our souls have always existed. God didn’t actually create us. We existed via this little thing called an intelligence. As the story goes, we were “intelligences” when God found us and plucked us up, and then He made… Continue reading

Weird Mormon thought of the week #1 Yeah, you’ll think this is weird. But follow my logic. As I attended the LDS temple pretty much every day it was open, fall 2023, God began to point things out to me. I went there to seek Him and be close to Him, so naturally He showed… Continue reading

As a follow-up to my discussion on good works defining Christianity, today I want to probe a bit more on how humans do good things, to what extent that qualifies a Godly person, and what exactly God wants from us. I have a friend who believes in universal salvation. She frequently remarks the common maxim,… Continue reading

“See how much money Mormons raised for the shooter’s family! See how Christlike we are? How could anyone say we aren’t Christian?” Well, it all comes down to what definition of “Christian” you want to use.  If you use the definition of being a forgiving, compassionate person or doing those sort of actions, then many… Continue reading