Milk before meat and tent cities

[_Mudcat]

As I've dialogged with different LDS. I find the "milk before meat" concept a little disturbing. In my own faith all doctrine is on the table from the get go.

However, my faith does not incorporate a system of spiritual value for the individual as LDS do. With us, its either 'on team Jesus' or 'not on team Jesus'. We don't have a 'team Jesus quarter back club" etc..

Regardless of this "m before m' concept in its relation to the CoJCoLDS.
From the outside, it has the appearance of a bait and switch.
You can be baptized into the LDS church with what I would call very similar requirements to other Christian faiths. From my understanding you don't need a testimony of the Book of Mormon, etc.. However, can you receive the Aaronic or Melch. Priesthood, a temple recommend for that matter without secondary testimonies beyond that of a resurrected Lord?

[_The Nehor]

The meat of the Gospel is as easily if not more easily learned by simply spending time in the Scriptures (the source of much of it) and time in your knees listening to God (the source of the rest).

I do however think it is funny how the fringe views the meat of the Gospel. To me it is the understanding of the nature of God, the secrets to applying the Atonement, the methods of opening oneself to revelation, and the knowledge needed to develop virtue. Somehow to these people the meat of the Gospel is making sure you have a tent. I don't deny that someone might receive such an instruction but the idea that preparing to live in tents is the meat of the kingdom sounds as outlandish as the Word of Wisdom nuts and those convinced the devil is behind UFO sightings.

This is illogical. The phrase "milk before meat" would make zero sense under your formula.

Using milk and meat connotes how easily digested something is, not how nutritious or important it is. So the milk has to come before the meat because an infant (new or weak convert) is able to digest (ie, accept without a struggle) the "milk" (easily accepted ideas, normally easily accepted because they larger host culture accepts them as well), whereas the infant would regurgitate the more difficult to digest "meat" (weird parts of Mormonism).

I'm pretty sure my usage is what Paul meant when he said it. At least in every commentary and interpretation I've read.

[_Mercury]

I am going to take a wild guess and say these guys are connected with a food storage/survivalist type MLM.

LOL! You're probably right! :)

by the way....Merc....completely off topic here...PLEASE change your avatar. Seeing Michael Ballum every time you post is creepy.

Run and Hide! Father is coming and you don't want to be seen associating with a creepy avatar, do you?!!

Eat the apple Liz.

Ah, but for this analogy to really work properly, we would both be naked and I would be handing that apple to you. ;)

Change your avatar and we'll talk.

TEEHEE

I'll change it eventually. For now though I have run out of funny things to day parodying Lucifer/Balam.