For your consideration, we used several of the insightful comments from this board along with some additional research:
http://www.mormonthink.com/essays-mother-in-heaven.htm
Bill
MormonThink reponse to Mother in Heaven essay
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The hearsay doctrine of a Mother in Heaven (or mothers) married to a polygamous Father in Heaven that birthed the spirits of the entire human-race is sheer lunacy. Every time some random Mormon proclaims this nonsense, I am wracked with laughter.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
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Tobin wrote:The hearsay doctrine of a Mother in Heaven (or mothers) married to a polygamous Father in Heaven that birthed the spirits of the entire human-race is sheer lunacy. Every time some random Mormon proclaims this nonsense, I am wracked with laughter.
You have no other choice. LDS teaching is clear that to create and populate worlds you must be married. Plural marriage is what is practiced in the hereafter per the doctrine - even though Hinckley said "Polygamy is not doctrinal".
You can't be a father without a mother having been involved somewhere along the way.
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Re: MormonThink reponse to Mother in Heaven essay
Of course there is a choice. The temple ceremony clues you in if you pay attention. We are spirit children of Celestial beings saved before. Not all the children of a single father and set of mothers as the dimwits would teach.SuperDell wrote:You have no other choice. LDS teaching is clear that to create and populate worlds you must be married. Plural marriage is what is practiced in the hereafter per the doctrine - even though Hinckley said "Polygamy is not doctrinal".
You can't be a father without a mother having been involved somewhere along the way.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
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Hear say doctrine? The hymns are part of canon. Pay attention next time you sing all of the verses to "O my father"
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~Bill Hamblin
Re: MormonThink reponse to Mother in Heaven essay
SteelHead wrote:Here say doctrine? The hymns are part of canon. Pay attention next time yoy sing all of the verses to "O my father"
Now song lyrics are what Mormons are expected to believe. Does that include jingles?"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
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Re: MormonThink reponse to Mother in Heaven essay
What part of the hymns are canon did you not understand?
It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
Re: MormonThink reponse to Mother in Heaven essay
Hans Aspberger wrote:SteelHead wrote:Here say doctrine? The hymns are part of canon. Pay attention next time yoy sing all of the verses to "O my father"
Dallin H. Oaks
November 1994 Ensign
The singing of hymns is one of the best ways to learn the doctrine of the restored gospel.
Boyd K. Packer
November 1991 Ensign
If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!
Re: MormonThink reponse to Mother in Heaven essay
SteelHead wrote:What part of the hymns are canon did you not understand?
Oh, I understood just fine. I think your assertion is patently ridiculous. For example, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir often sings "Jolly Old Saint Nick". Next you'll be asserting that Mormons need to maintain the belief that Santa Claus is real.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
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I'm on the spectrum wrote:SteelHead wrote:What part of the hymns are canon did you not understand?
Oh, I understood just fine. I think your assertion is patently ridiculous. For example, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir often sings "Jolly Old Saint Nick". Next you'll be asserting that Mormons need to maintain the belief that Santa Claus is real.
"Jolly Old Saint Nick" isn't a hymn.
The hearsay doctrine of...
"I don't have the slightest idea what hearsay means," Tobin said.