café crema wrote:Nightlion wrote:By the unwarranted flattery heaped upon all member and even children younger than 8 that they are already righteous, chosen, choice, children of God, who only need to enhance that righteousness to move forward and follow the path set before them. It not only hinders true spiritual progress it stops it dead in its tracks. God CANNOT open to and receive anyone who stands at the door and knocks when they have given to themselves or received it from the preaching of others that BEFORE they ever came unto Christ, however earnestly, they assumed some degree of righteous worthiness. This is hypocrisy and the same hypocrisy that crucified Jesus Christ. Never shall he open to hypocrisy.
Those who are more determined beat themselves to spiritual death trying to advance against a sealed door. I see the carnage of it everywhere. Horrific abomination unmatched in all time that has been before. How I hate their blind, ignorant, inexperienced, and incompetent arrogance.
The Hebrews knew better even in the old testament when the High Priest Eli implored his sons to no more be the children of Belial and come to know the Lord. They refused. Somehow the wisdom of the Hebrews knew better than to tell their children that they are already good before the come to know God. (Of course i do not mean just learning about God but getting the mighty change of heart from God that the Ancient Hebrews called having circumcised the foreskin of their hearts that God might put his love upon them. Making them a new man as was King Saul. Same gospel as all the Book of Mormon teaches.
Have I made my point? Do you see it? Am I right?
I am tired and busy and distracted when ever I'm "here" and reading your posts. I need what you say spelled out with out emotion, in short sentences and paragraphs (like bullet points) I sense what you say, it brushes me and flits away along with a feeling that I understanding and am in agreement, but I'm not sure. Have I made sense?
Sorry, Just Me, as I derail a moment. café Crema, you get tired, busy, and distracted when ever you read my posts? Well, what do you think is going on with that? Sounds like you resist them and that would account for all three. What good is a bullet point. I can see that it would lesson your weariness by way of brevity alone, however, my passion keeps me stoked against the abject apathy of my generation. And i do not believe anyone competent to fill in the gaps left behind from bullet points. Sorry to offend. But a host of Nightlions should have emerged from LDS competency, if such ever existed. So far I remain helped by none.
I cannot do without my license of amusing myself just to keep my momentum going. What else have I got? I suppose the Lord never intended me to convince a people that willfully rejected the fullness of the gospel in preference for the things of the world. Just hold them to account.
I am the most unsuccessful preacher of all time. Really, who did worse than I and my forty years of crying in and out of the wilderness?
ETA: I read through my post and failed to see emotion and even my usual passion. Rather straight forward I'd say. I think the emotion is yours too on this one. Maybe you deep down want to get passionate about it and just don't know how to go about doing it.