Do Ex-LDS have issues believing the Bible?

[_The Nehor]

Oh, well. Whatcha gonna do?

I think I'm going to keep planning my afterlife surfing party. Wanna come?

Sure.
Will you surf perfectly in the afterlife? Will I?
Or will I be stuck with renting 8 ft. boards because I suck.

The Big Mud'cahuna

Resurrected beings don't need boards. It's a subtle combo of levitation and riding the wave. I just need to design a pure ocean planet to have this on. Excellent muscial suggestion Will, now to figure out how to make the wind play that song. Will work on it.

[Guest]

Those are pretty pictures.

as to the Bible - this is my take. Picture twenty two houses on a street all three to four hundred years old. each one has a history. Through out those centurys rooms have been added, walls taken out, gardens added, painted, repainted etc. Each has a history of it's own and each has had a decorator. The first ones started out as two bedroom and one bath and they are now ten bedrooms and five baths. Some have the same decorator. One person at the end had all the houses picked up, and transported two miles down the road so they were all on the same street.

my pitch for the year: Robin Fox Lane's book The Unathorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible.

the biggest influences in the Bible: the Deutorominist - likely Jeremiah who put everything up to Kings together and likely wrote Deutoromony through 2nd Kings.

And the Chronicler - who put everything together most likely Ezra.

[_krose]

... in the minds of the exmormon extremists who congregate here ...

What is an "exmormon extremist" and how does she/he differ from a regular ex-Mormon? I'm just trying to determine whether I am one.

I suppose I'm "extremely" ex-Mormon in that I have been one for many years (so I've got duration going for me), and that it would take a divine visitation to convince me to believe and rejoin (so I'm committed to being out). Other than that I can't think what you mean.

[_Canucklehead]

You're x-treme if you can dunk or ride your mountain bike down a set of stairs for Jesus.

[_Tarski]

... in the minds of the exmormon extremists who congregate here ...

it would take a divine visitation to convince me to believe and rejoin.

You would let yourself be suckered by a visitation? Apparently they are a dime a dozen and easily accounted for by fantasy and/or neurological anomaly.

[_The Nehor]

... in the minds of the exmormon extremists who congregate here ...

it would take a divine visitation to convince me to believe and rejoin.

You would let yourself be suckered by a visitation? Apparently they are a dime a dozen and easily accounted for by fantasy and/or neurological anomaly.

I certainly wouldn't. I also distrust the whole, "I think, therefore I am." rubbish. Existence is an illusion and we're all the products of a deranged imagination. I'm the madman among us who knows the truth but know that it is too horrible to contemplate for long before going mad. Live in ignorance my friends. Live in blissful ignorance.

[_TAK]

I lost my testimony in Christ and God long before I lost my testimony in Mormonism.

I don't quite follow how any "testimony in Mormonism" could stand if a belief in god and Christ is gone??

I can see the desire to remain a cultural Mormon for family/other reasons which I suspect many do. The other? No way...

[_Jason Bourne]

I am an evangelical, and have noted there are several Ex-LDS on the board. My wife and her family are LDS and I have discussions with them from time to time about our differing faiths. One thing I note, is that there isn't a lot of stock put into the Bible....(its mistranslated, books missing, etc..) I am not saying they don't hold is Scripture, that would be a gross misrepresentation of their beliefs...but I do believe they see it much differently than I.
There are many, like myself who have a different opinion of the Bible.

So because Mormons interpret the Bible differently than you they don't but much stock in it? Hogwash. They just understand it differently.

[_silentkid]

You're x-treme if you can dunk or ride your mountain bike down a set of stairs for Jesus.

LOL! I was watching some MMA the other night and one of the fighters had a banner beside him with a website name on it: jesusdidnttap.com. Hilarious. MMA fighters for Jesus!

I'm an X-treme X-mormon because I drink Mountain Dew and drive a Nissan X-terra.

[_krose]

it would take a divine visitation to convince me to believe and rejoin.

You would let yourself be suckered by a visitation? Apparently they are a dime a dozen and easily accounted for by fantasy and/or neurological anomaly.

I'm afraid I would, タルスキーさん.

If seeing one means I've been neurologically compromised, then what's the point of trying to be rational? Of course, I don't think anything supernatural exists that could visit, so I'd say the likelihood of that happening is nil.

But I'm willing to be suckered by an angel, a deity, or a genuine, grade-A miracle. Give me a corpse raising or a reattached limb, and I'm your guy. Better yet, let me see you heal my sister so she can walk and see normally again, and you can have not only my eternal allegiance, but a 100% tithe (extra-virgin olive oil and the priesthood sure couldn't do it).

What can I say? I'm a seeker after a sign.