KevinSim wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 12:50 am
canpakes wrote: ↑Sun Nov 06, 2022 1:15 am
KevinSim, what is it about LDS doctrine that supports this thinking, or enables it to be realized?
Canpakes, I'm not aware that there's
anything in LDS doctrine that supports this thinking. Do you think there should be?
It would seem like a laudable objective to be supported through the Church, even regardless of the importance that you or I would assign it. Wouldn’t you see it as such, if you believe that the Church is God’s required and preferred faith vehicle for mankind?
Realizing it is God's principal function; …
What is this claim based on?
… God uses the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to accomplish it. I don't know how God is doing it, but I believe He is.
You
could as well state that you believe that God is
not ‘doing it’, and that ‘it’ isn’t being done by
anyone in particular, if you don’t know how to recognize such actions or results. Is membership in the CoJCoLDS necessary to participate in something that cannot be identified, promoted or observed to happen through church doctrine?
In other words, what are you doing that you see as unique to the Church and that requires membership within it, that satisfies the ‘preserve good things’ requirement that you may not recognize as being accomplished by the Church itself?