sock puppet wrote:At best, it will be the announcement of TSM taking emeritus status,
Make it so.
and BKP ascending to the Throne.
Well, I'm pretty much gone, anyway....
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Dr. Shades wrote:But you still believe in it, don't you?
I believe in God, not BKP.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
sock puppet wrote:Assuming Schryver's information is correct, what could the Church announce tomorrow that would make a doubting 19 year old choose to go on a mission?
He can take his girlfriend to be his companion and their parents will pay for it for 2 years?
All worthy young men's missions will be funded by the Church.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
If this raw speculation (that's what it is at the moment) is correct, then it would solve two imminent problems: possibly having, in future, to accommodate gay marriage by law. And it would solve the problem of "unworthy" relatives feeling left out of temple marriages.
sock puppet wrote:Assuming Schryver's information is correct, what could the Church announce tomorrow that would make a doubting 19 year old choose to go on a mission?
He can take his girlfriend to be his companion and their parents will pay for it for 2 years?
All worthy young men's missions will be funded by the Church.
That could be. It would then replicate military service in that you don't have to save up to pay your way while doing it. The transition could be awkward. The LDS Church could ask that all savings by pre-missionaries be turned over to the Church now.
If this raw speculation (that's what it is at the moment) is correct, then it would solve two imminent problems: possibly having, in future, to accommodate gay marriage by law. And it would solve the problem of "unworthy" relatives feeling left out of temple marriages.
Oh, I bet that is it.
We'll see.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
If this raw speculation (that's what it is at the moment) is correct, then it would solve two imminent problems: possibly having, in future, to accommodate gay marriage by law. And it would solve the problem of "unworthy" relatives feeling left out of temple marriages.
After having told tens of thousands of people that their unworthy parents or other close relatives could not attend their temple weddings, not the Church would say nevermind, your wedding did not need to be in the temple, we just required this in America until now--but there was no spiritual reason the wedding was in the temple, just a sealing ceremony.