Black Moclips wrote:If there is personal God who actually cares for and helps guide people's lives, I find it entirely possible that he would lead people into different churches depending on what they need to learn and experience. Of course, this goes against the assumption that God is bound to ALWAYS tell a person the LDS church is true and the one to join. But based on how different wards can be, and how imperfect the people can be, I think its very likely that that best place for some people is "somewhere else".
I don't think life is about hoops to jump through and ordinances to check off the list, as Mormons would have you believe. Because if you aren't truly Christlike, those are ordinances are null and void anyway. So developing the person is first in my book, then if there are legal hoops and technicalitlies to take care of, let them be done when they can.
The older I get, the sillier the concept of a God who cares about ordinances gets. It's like the Mormon idea of heaven is a Celestial DMV. Make sure these documents are stamped, hole punched, signed here here and here, make sure you show three forms of ID... why would God even care?