My mission presidents behavior makes sense now

[_Mercury]

Here is my vision of Mercury (and a few others posting here) meeting Jesus (just substitute his name for 'Eric').....

How can I meet Jesus when he does not exist?

How do you know? Did the Holy Ghost reveal it to you?

Excuse me, but I think Jesus himself appearing to me would convince me. Otherwise he does not exist. There is no record of his existence that is reliable and his story is similar to many humans that have and will continue to undergo deification in certain cultures. Your god is nothing but a collection of shared behaviors and pieces of paper that help humans make allusions concerning said behaviors.

God damned dirty ape.

[_karl61]

when my companion left me to go jogging, I did what most Mormon males would do if left alone on a mission - I drove to a liquor store and bought a playboy. My companion found it where I hid it - in the bathroom. He started crying and told me how much he loved me. He made me call the mission president which I did and told him what I did. The mission president spoke to me about for about five minutes on the phone and then spoke to my companion for about thirty minutes.

[_bcspace]

Excuse me, but I think Jesus himself appearing to me would convince me. Otherwise he does not exist.

To assume lack of such an epiphany is evidence against existence is quite unscientific. Joseph Stalin never appeared to me yet I believe he existed.

There is no record of his existence that is reliable and his story is similar to many humans that have and will continue to undergo deification in certain cultures. Your god is nothing but a collection of shared behaviors and pieces of paper that help humans make allusions concerning said behaviors.

That multiple cultures may have a similar story to relate speaks more for the existence of Jesus than against.

God damned dirty ape.

So you have intercourse with dirty apes?

[_Mercury]

Joseph Stalin never appeared to me yet I believe he existed.

Do we have photographs of Jesus too? How about recorded history directly relating the existence of Jesus of Nazareth? You do not get this, really? Do you?

That multiple cultures may have a similar story to relate speaks more for the existence of Jesus than against.

Um, sorry Kogome but no dice. The similar stories embedded in Zoroastrianism and other faiths make it LESS likely Jesus ever existed, and if he did then please let me know if you find a practicing Zoroastrian in which to help convert you. Considering you don't get what I am saying I reccomend you play in the corner with some blocks. Hopefully you have been trained not to fling poo.

So you have intercourse with dirty apes?

Nope, the ape (of the human variety) I have sex with is very clean.

[_karl61]

I think Jesus existed - The Gospel of John is likely a primary source but the problem is that they thought it was the end of the world and he was coming back. - Jesus died and likely his story was changed and polished. John was not suppose to die until Jesus came back but the last scriptures in the gospel of John show he did die and then they had to cover for him.If you want to see what likely happened to the gospels or even the books of the old testament just look at what has happened with the LDS church with its scriptures and stories - things were made, up, polished, real history changed, edited, redacted - what you are seeing with the LDS church is just a repeat of history on how people write their scripture.

[_Sethbag]

Maybe he was just a dick. Some people are, you know.

I loved my mission president. He once told me that he would always consider me one of his sons. He's a good man and never acted the way you describe your MP.

I very much liked my two mission presidents too. It wasn't my MPs who were dicks, but one of the GAs who came and railed on us was a complete dick. One of my MPs is now in the 1st Quorum of the Seventy (Hilbig), so I'm sure the CAEMS bit is covered. I haven't met him in person since my mission, so I couldn't tell how he's like now.