zeezrom wrote:LDS needs to have an interview with the bishop to start the repentance process.
1. Step 1: feel godly sorrow for the mistake you made 2. Step 2: be honest and confess to doing wrong 3. Step 3: ask for forgiveness 4. Step 4: rectify the problems caused by your mistake 5. Step 5: forsake the sin 6. Step 6: recieve forgiveness
If he does step three twice can he skip step four? Maybe there is a flaw in the system that can be exploited.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
I've concluded that the safeguard consists solely of an old man in a quiet room kneeling and praying that it won't happen again.
This safeguard has been continually in use, unsuccessfully, since 1996...
“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
Clarification: LDS = the Mormon church organization and its leadership.
Not to be confused with the OP author.
:)
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)
Morley wrote:I admit that I'm stunned. Thanks, LDST.
I would be more stunned if there actually were safeguards.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
zeezrom wrote:LDS needs to have an interview with the bishop to start the repentance process.
1. Step 1: feel godly sorrow for the mistake you made 2. Step 2: be honest and confess to doing wrong 3. Step 3: ask for forgiveness 4. Step 4: rectify the problems caused by your mistake 5. Step 5: forsake the sin 6. Step 6: recieve forgiveness
I didn't make a mistake. Ergo, no repentance required.
H.
"Others cannot endure their own littleness unless they can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level." ~ Ernest Becker "Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death." ~ Simone de Beauvoir
zeezrom wrote:Clarification: LDS = the Mormon church organization and its leadership.
Not to be confused with the OP author.
:)
LOL - gotcha - I still didn't make a mistake, everything I did was intentional.
H.
"Others cannot endure their own littleness unless they can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level." ~ Ernest Becker "Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death." ~ Simone de Beauvoir
I remember meeting with a guy who desired to do the temple work for someone dead for which the rules would be broken if done. Advice was given to him by his Bishop. The advice was to reserve the name but before doing any temple work for this deceased person to submit the name to the prayer-roll of the temple.
The Bishop stated that if he did this, along with praying, fasting and listening intently to what may be the desires of the deceased person, he would know what to do. I am assuming that the guy went through this and probably received a spiritual confirmation that the act of saving souls beyond the veil is much more important than abiding by a rule that would deny it.