Nightlion wrote:Seriously, who ya gonna offend with Universalism? It sort of writes itself doesn't it? What ever you want you got it!
I promise I didn't get any accolades on the LDS Freedom Forum where the mere suggestion that one could even repent in the next life was decried as a Nehorism (D&C notwithstanding). The reception at MDDB was also not enthusiastic although some were willing to discuss the merits of the concept.
In all truth you have granted unto yourself the option of getting the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost any where along your journey, in this life of in the next. Since I know how this occurs it is simply NOT FAIR that I had to lay it all on the line and sacrifice all my time and talents and ambition and goals and dreams and prospect and advantages for a wonderfully fulfilling carnal life and undergo the hazzard of being hated and cast out and evil spoken of by all my dear family, friends, church, leaders, and compromised with my wonderful wife's confidence and all my five children who cannot hold to me either against the weight of the entire world that seeks to call good evil and evil good just to keep on winning at life, again, it is NOT FAIR that to obtain the prize and be accepted of God in this world I had to subject ALL unto Christ's name to take his bit into my teeth and go "gee" when he called "gee" and go "hah" when he called "hah" at great personal loss in the honors and bounty of this worlds treasures, and YOU get to breeze along, all, "la de da" scattering sunshine everywhere you go, and trip into the next life where you can EASE on into full subjection and oneness with the Father.
A couple of points:
1. The gospel isn't about being fair. The gospel is about bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. Those who cry out for fairness would do well to remember that the prodigal's elder brother remained outside the feast.
2. God is just. If you follow the path He defines, you arrive at the destination. Period. That is just. Arbitrarily delineating a cutoff date, especially in light of the inequity of when, where, and into what culture we are born on earth would be the act of a capricious God. That god would be unworthy of our allegiance and would cease to be god by the logic of Alma. For mercy would fail to claim the penitent based on nothing more than the passing of an arbitrary deadline?
WHAT POOP!
I respect your right to that erroneous opinion.
And you're are gonna see eye to eye with the great? I know the parable of agreeing with the master to work for a penny and one works all day in the heat of the day and another only works and hour for the same wage.......yet even these both worked in the same field and there is not inter dimensional shenanigans going on just to open up a door with a million excuses behind it to ease the conscience of the wicked against the day of judgment. In fact, if I am right you have utterly done away with any sort of day of Judgment. Right?
"The Great"? Do you mean you? Or is this a reference to God?
I have not done away with a day of judgment. I've simply said that your day of judgment may not be the same day of judgment as everyone else on the planet. If you have experienced the things you claim, then surely you already know that for some judgment comes sooner than others and that this judgment is highly individualized.
"In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry across my life." ~ David N. Elkins, 1998, Beyond Religion, p. 81
The fact that folks are friendly to me doesn't mean they agree with me.