Introduction
I am a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This blog is to give my voice as a testament for the church, but not on behalf of the church--I am acting completely on my own by creating this blog. There are too few people who offer their stance, unabashedly, in defense of our beliefs--and even more voices are to go silent, soon. So, my blog, here, is an attempt to give strength to those who are weak in their faith. As far as I am able.
Please, don't misunderstand: I'm not going to be citing scripture, and I'm not going to be referring directly to the messages of church leaders. I'm not one who has authority to bring those messages to the reader. This is a blog about thoughts, and the ideas herein will lead the inspired to seek out the references that will be omitted, which omissions are calculated to avoid giving the impression that I am, myself, a prophet, seer, and revelator.
What's missing in the lives of unbelievers is action, especially with an attitude of exactness and submissiveness. Those who stand to oppose the church through logic are playing on a winning field, because their argument comes from within the limits of human thought. The church and its teachings, however, extend beyond the limits of human thought, even without the limits of human thought, and can't be reached without acting on faith and through willing obedience. They will always be right until they prove themselves wrong.
It's a contest they will forever win without belief, because everything in the gospel can be refuted with language and reason. Through language and reason the gospel is ridiculous, even silly and childish. They who employ language and reason to refute the truths of those who believe are right, in that the believers can't prove the gospel through language and reason, alone. However, the gospel isn't contingent on language and reason. Both are fallable and extend only to the tips of their tongues. One has to feel the gospel. The dark, empty despair that houses reality as can be sensed - - like a blank vapor filled with people, living things, and objects all sealed to the ground - - is all that language and reason can describe, and is all they will allow. The feeling of hope and enlightenment is what comes from the truths of the gospel. The creature is afraid of what it can't comprehend as well as what it discerns to be something that interferes with its habits and comforts, and its desires and pleasures. All four gently lie the creature down to a miserable rush of hearing the bell strike the hour before their death, and suddenly the past fills their minds with longing because they've never sought for anything that would take their hearts beyond the moment, because the moment felt too good. While there's not anything necessarily wrong with feeling good in the moment, it can take only a moment for someone to forever distance themselves from the gospel and, therefore, from hope and enlightenment. What's wrong is that the darkness becomes the reality, and the distant can't possibly see beyond that darkness, and they use language and reason to merely describe what they see, because they can't percieve that there could be anything beyond or without what they see.
This realization is at the core of my faith, and is the engine of my belief.
If you seek Jesus Christ in the gospel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and you set aside your pride and suspicions, you will find the hope and the joy that can be found in its teachings.
But I speak from experience, and I can't communicate experience.
Please, don't misunderstand: I'm not going to be citing scripture, and I'm not going to be referring directly to the messages of church leaders. I'm not one who has authority to bring those messages to the reader. This is a blog about thoughts, and the ideas herein will lead the inspired to seek out the references that will be omitted, which omissions are calculated to avoid giving the impression that I am, myself, a prophet, seer, and revelator.
What's missing in the lives of unbelievers is action, especially with an attitude of exactness and submissiveness. Those who stand to oppose the church through logic are playing on a winning field, because their argument comes from within the limits of human thought. The church and its teachings, however, extend beyond the limits of human thought, even without the limits of human thought, and can't be reached without acting on faith and through willing obedience. They will always be right until they prove themselves wrong.
It's a contest they will forever win without belief, because everything in the gospel can be refuted with language and reason. Through language and reason the gospel is ridiculous, even silly and childish. They who employ language and reason to refute the truths of those who believe are right, in that the believers can't prove the gospel through language and reason, alone. However, the gospel isn't contingent on language and reason. Both are fallable and extend only to the tips of their tongues. One has to feel the gospel. The dark, empty despair that houses reality as can be sensed - - like a blank vapor filled with people, living things, and objects all sealed to the ground - - is all that language and reason can describe, and is all they will allow. The feeling of hope and enlightenment is what comes from the truths of the gospel. The creature is afraid of what it can't comprehend as well as what it discerns to be something that interferes with its habits and comforts, and its desires and pleasures. All four gently lie the creature down to a miserable rush of hearing the bell strike the hour before their death, and suddenly the past fills their minds with longing because they've never sought for anything that would take their hearts beyond the moment, because the moment felt too good. While there's not anything necessarily wrong with feeling good in the moment, it can take only a moment for someone to forever distance themselves from the gospel and, therefore, from hope and enlightenment. What's wrong is that the darkness becomes the reality, and the distant can't possibly see beyond that darkness, and they use language and reason to merely describe what they see, because they can't percieve that there could be anything beyond or without what they see.
This realization is at the core of my faith, and is the engine of my belief.
If you seek Jesus Christ in the gospel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and you set aside your pride and suspicions, you will find the hope and the joy that can be found in its teachings.
But I speak from experience, and I can't communicate experience.
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