General conference rumors - a whole lotta nothin

[_Sanctorian]

Admittedly my GC consisted of Twitter and reddit but from what I can tell, nothing happened on the list of rumors floating around. Personally, I think that speaks volumes to the drag of GC that rumors generated so much buzz from the members. It also subconsciously shows the members know things like the word of wisdom no longer make sense in a world where science trumps mystical beliefs.

[_Shulem]

It sucks to be a MORMON, a boring and no-fun religion where you pay 10% of your income and do what you're told to do. Looking back I don't know how I ever put up with that nonsense. What was I thinking? How could I have been so stupid?

Life is so much better outside the church. Life is free and wonderful without being tied down the rules of the cult.

I swear, I promise, I affirm: I will never, ever, so help me gawd, ever, go back to the church. No way.

[_Shulem]

It sucks to be a MORMON, a boring and no-fun religion where you pay 10% of your income and do what you're told to do. Looking back I don't know how I ever put up with that nonsense. What was I thinking? How could I have been so stupid?

Life is so much better outside the church. Life is free and wonderful without being tied down the rules of the cult.

I swear, I promise, I affirm: I will never, ever, so help me gawd, ever, go back to the church. No way.

I say this in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

[_cwald]

What were you expecting?

[_Res Ipsa]

What were you expecting?

The Spanish Inquisition?

[_Shulem]

What were you expecting?

An announcement that a temple is going to be built in Jackson County Missouri and the assurance that Jesus Christ will return sometime within the next 500 years as the so-called latter days wind down.

[_Res Ipsa]

What were you expecting?

An announcement that a temple is going to be built in Jackson County Missouri and the assurance that Jesus Christ will return sometime within the next 500 years as the so-called latter days wind down.

Oh Shulem, what do you think this is, 1972?

[_Mormonicious]

BULL crap! There was a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT during the Borefest.

SALT LAKE CITY — Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, offered some tough love during the Sunday morning session of the faith’s 189th Annual General Conference.

Speaking of those who’ve left the church or haven’t been willing to investigate its truths, Nelson warned that time was running out.

“Now, as president of His church, I plead with you who have distanced yourselves from the Church and with you who have not yet really sought to know that the Savior’s Church has been restored,” he said. “Do the spiritual work to find out for yourselves, and please do it now. Time is running out.” https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/ ... 7e0d3.html

Oh and by the way, that ole Biblical Jebus talk about everyone getting the Resurrection prize, well it ain't that good . . . "Nelson also said that while the Savior did promise, “In my Father’s house are many mansions,” those who choose not to make the necessary covenants with God are “settling for a most meager roof over your head throughout all eternity.”

Nelson disabused the notion that all people will be with their loved ones after death. Resurrection assures that all will live forever, but “much more” is required for the privilege of exaltation with family, he said."

[_Lemmie]

From Mormonicious' link:

Nelson disabused the notion that all people will be with their loved ones after death. Resurrection assures that all will live forever, but “much more” is required for the privilege of exaltation with family, he said.

“The spirit in each of us naturally yearns for family love to last forever,” Nelson said. “Love songs perpetuate a false hope that love is all you need if you want to be together forever.”

However, “While salvation is an individual matter,” he said, “exaltation is a family matter.”

For a family to be exalted forever, Nelson reminded members that they must qualify for it by making covenants with God, keeping those covenants, and receiving essential church ordinances.

Nelson said he weeps for friends and relatives who — despite their generous gifts of time, energy and resources in this life — have ignored Christ’s pleadings to “Come, follow me.”

“They need to understand that while there is a place for these hereafter — with wonderful men and women who also chose not to make covenants with God — that is not the place where families will be reunited and given the privilege to live and progress forever,” he said.

So Mormons teach that families who are NOT Mormon will NOT be together forever.

[_Res Ipsa]

Nice little family you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it...