Mormon church
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Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain
As I learned more about the “true Jesus” compared to what the Mormon church teaches, and how blasphemous it is to make Him small, relatable, just the same generation as us, with all the same potential as us …. (Need I say more?) ….It became very clear to me that the name of the LDS Continue reading
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No Accountability: All We Like Sheep
Many Mormons are very patriotic. We love our founding fathers and constitution! But it never occurs to them that the single most important thing in the U.S. Constitution is missing from the LDS church: checks and balances. Any US History student knows why governments need accountability. Big problems and corruption happen when you have leaders Continue reading
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The Importance of a Core Book
In Leadership Education, the philosophy I lean on to homeschool my kids, there is a very important concept called the “Core Book.” Your core book is your measuring stick, your litmus test, to measure all truth claims against. It protects you from being deceived. This concept should sound really familiar — it’s the basis of Continue reading
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Does the Book of Mormon Teach Mormonism?
This is the title of a great episode on the Clairity podcast. Finally! Someone points out all these things I’ve been catching myself! As it turns out, the Book of Mormon really does not teach Mormonism (meaning the Mormon church). The book and the institution are not a match. And the other branches of Mormonism Continue reading
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Priesthood Power…or Lack Thereof
Where was the “Priesthood” in 2020? You know, the “power and authority of God” that supposedly has the power to heal? (If not that, then at least to stand boldly against the deceptions of man and the corruptions of government?) But seriously. Show me once when Jesus stood 6 feet from a leper or an Continue reading
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I, I am the Lord’s
The Book of Mormon has many passages about judgment. They are all in agreement with each other — and none of them agree with modern LDS church doctrine. In the Book of Mormon it is taught that the righteous go to heaven and the wicked go to hell. (Check it out yourself — Mosiah 15:26-27; Continue reading
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I Owe it All to Jesus
This is one of the songs that really struck me when I started attending The Well. My first few weeks, I was open to feeling but I was mostly thinking. I would watch the words on the screen and think seriously about the lyrics — because these lyrics are pretty different from the hymns I’m Continue reading
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Untangling
It was 4 months after I “found Jesus” and started going to my new church. My husband had been super concerned and weighed down about my change. He said he felt like the contract we made at marriage was being altered, and I wasn’t being true to the terms of the contract (Basically that we’d Continue reading
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Smithereens and Anger
Last night, I was reading the appendix at the back of Lynn Wilder’s book Unveiling Grace. It’s great to see compilation all in one place about the Mormon doctrines that are contradicted in the Bible. Most of them I already knew. A lot of them I just rolled my eyes and I don’t care about, Continue reading
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Rituals
One thing I’ve discovered is that I am not a ritual person. I was always OK with the temples, almost as an intentional defense. Like “Some people think temples are weird, but I won’t! I’ll understand it! I’ll be righteous!” I always had explanations for everything. I took pride in that. “The modern world has Continue reading
All I Possess 