zeezrom wrote:I suppose we could fix the Joseph problem by making him heavenly father in the flesh. Sort of a disguise?
That was the tendency at the time.
Heavenly Mother was based on a misunderstanding of Catholicism. That is why Heavenly Mother became Eve.
But that would mean Adam slept with his mom....eeeeoooowwww...!
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
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Drifting wrote:But that would mean Adam slept with his mom....eeeeoooowwww...!
In the new BY book, as he consolidated his power after the death of Joseph Smith, he temple adopted many people into his family. Such adoptions, done to reduce the Smith family's claims, amounted to institutionalized incest. He apparently saw nothing wrong with this.
Huckelberry said: I see the order and harmony to be the very image of God which smiles upon us each morning as we awake.
MCB wrote:In the new BY book, as he consolidated his power after the death of Joseph Smith, he temple adopted many people into his family. Such adoptions, done to reduce the Smith family's claims, amounted to institutionalized incest. He apparently saw nothing wrong with this.
This reminds me of King Tut's family.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
zeezrom wrote:This reminds me of King Tut's family.
What else can you expect with a religion that started with "reformed Egyptian"?
Is this like Egyptian that saw the error of its ways and so turned over a new leaf?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
BartBurk wrote:Heavenly Mother can be whoever Mormons want her to be since they know nothing about her.
They know as much about Heavenly Father.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
But you can address prayers to her, right? (latria, dulia, hyperdulia and so on, but basically you can pray ...).
Indeed.
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
Chap wrote: But you can address prayers to her, right? (latria, dulia, hyperdulia and so on, but basically you can pray ...).
Indeed.
Madeleine,
I really shouldn't address these kinds of questions to a Catholic out of respect. I am trying to address the issue of lack of imagination within Mormon theology.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)