Sunday School Lesson Chart

[_Tarski]

LOL
Excellent. Very concise. Isn't that one of the main take away lessons of the Book of Mormon distilled down?

[_The Nehor]

The problem I have with this, and this has always been my problem with a god that "tests" his children. Is why would he test children that he knew couldn't handle his test? And when I say children, I mean CHILDREN. Young children. Why would he do this? Is it absolutely possible that it is not a test but life just sucks because God is not there and life just sucks? I like to believe if God was a part of my life as a young child he would have never tested me. Or any of the children of Darfur or anywhere else where they call out his name and there is the awful echo of silence.

I see people bless God for having enough money to pay their rent or return their kitten. But yet, he'll test a child to endure rape? No. I don't buy it. Either God is not here or he hates some of us.

I came to the conclusion early on that he just hated me. :)

The whole self-discovery thing. He shows his children who do pass what they're capable of. He shows those who fail how they failed and in some cases like those above he shows people that with a little power they turn into monsters.

Healing someone of injuries they've suffered is not difficult for Christ. In any case when it is all over mortality will be a short nightmare and then we wake up. Then for some the real nightmare begins when they realize that with almost no power they turned into villains and they will not become gods....thankfully.

[_Gadianton]

The roadsign to the Telestial Kingdom is pretty funny in that chart. You can kind of see lying and adultary, but what kind of problems has the church had with sorcerers over the years?

[_Blixa]

There's also a big fence missing from the pre-existence.

[_truth dancer]

Hi Gad...

Very nice!

I have another chart that I think would be helpful.

You pray
You do not pray
You get what you want
You do not get what you want

If you pray and get what you want, God is blessing you
If you pray and do not get what you want, God is testing your faith, God has something better for you anyway
If you don't' pray and don't get what you want, you are not getting what you want because you didn't pray.
If you don't pray and do get what you want, you are just lucky

Simple! ;-)

~dancer~

[_The Nehor]

The roadsign to the Telestial Kingdom is pretty funny in that chart. You can kind of see lying and adultary, but what kind of problems has the church had with sorcerers over the years?

Last I read the word translated as sorcery in the Bible and possibly the Book of Mormon can also mean those who use drugs to contact the dead or to achieve greater enlightenment.....like Larry my old neighbor.

[_Lucretia MacEvil]

The problem I have with this, and this has always been my problem with a god that "tests" his children. Is why would he test children that he knew couldn't handle his test? And when I say children, I mean CHILDREN. Young children. Why would he do this? Is it absolutely possible that it is not a test but life just sucks because God is not there and life just sucks? I like to believe if God was a part of my life as a young child he would have never tested me. Or any of the children of Darfur or anywhere else where they call out his name and there is the awful echo of silence.

I see people bless God for having enough money to pay their rent or return their kitten. But yet, he'll test a child to endure rape? No. I don't buy it. Either God is not here or he hates some of us.

I came to the conclusion early on that he just hated me. :)

The whole self-discovery thing. He shows his children who do pass what they're capable of. He shows those who fail how they failed and in some cases like those above he shows people that with a little power they turn into monsters.

Healing someone of injuries they've suffered is not difficult for Christ. In any case when it is all over mortality will be a short nightmare and then we wake up. Then for some the real nightmare begins when they realize that with almost no power they turned into villains and they will not become gods....thankfully.

Mormunlogic. It was already bad enough and you just keep making it worse.

[_Blixa]

The roadsign to the Telestial Kingdom is pretty funny in that chart. You can kind of see lying and adultary, but what kind of problems has the church had with sorcerers over the years?

Last I read the word translated as sorcery in the Bible and possibly the Book of Mormon can also mean those who use drugs to contact the dead or to achieve greater enlightenment.....like Larry my old neighbor.

Sorcerers = Rodsmen and peepstoners.

[_Doctor Steuss]

The roadsign to the Telestial Kingdom is pretty funny in that chart. You can kind of see lying and adultary, but what kind of problems has the church had with sorcerers over the years?

Last I read the word translated as sorcery in the Bible and possibly the Book of Mormon can also mean those who use drugs to contact the dead or to achieve greater enlightenment.....like Larry my old neighbor.

Sorcerers = Rodsmen and peepstoners.

"Rodsmen and the Peepstoners" = Fantastic name for a psychedelic 70's band.

[_silentkid]

...those who use drugs to contact the dead...

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