Easy tool to check if the church is true

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_karl61
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Easy tool to check if the church is true

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cast lots
I want to fly!
_The Nehor
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karl61 wrote:cast lots


Just did it, Church is true.
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Tried another tool, got back, "All indications point to yes."
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Re: Easy tool to check if the church is true

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who lost out?
I want to fly!
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karl61 wrote:cast lots



Dowsing rod might also work. Or if you can find the right stone...
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karl61 wrote:who lost out?


Well, I just checked out Scientology and got back, "Outlook not so Good."

Asked whether I need to live polygamy: "As I see it, Yes."
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Than again, why would it be any less likely for God to communicate through a lucky-8 ball than through lots, stones, dowsing rods, steel compass-like objects etc. ?
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Re: Easy tool to check if the church is true

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Eeeny, Meeny, Minee, Mo...
Is this church true I want to know.
To get to heaven I must pay
Ten percent every day?
My momma told me to pick the very best one and you are NOT it!

KA
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Re: Easy tool to check if the church is true

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I think casting lots was mostly a tool used for picking early apostles.
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Re: Easy tool to check if the church is true

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moksha wrote:I think casting lots was mostly a tool used for picking early apostles.

And in the next turn for excom them.
And pick again.


See http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints :
Journals, Diaries, Biographies and Autobiographies of Some Early Mormons and Others Who Knew Joseph Smith, Jr. and/or His Contemporaries.

A number of journals relevant to this collection may be found in the Mormon missionary diary collection at Brigham Young University.

See http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/Kirt-Elders.html :
Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record 1836-1841
Edited by Lyndon W. Cook and Milton V. Backman, Jr. Provo, Utah: Grandin Book Co., 1985
Source: Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record, RLDS Archives
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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