Spirituality
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Finding Truth: Response to “8 Anti-Mormon Tactics That Satan Uses To Attack The Latter-day Saints”
In March of 2017, MyLifeByGogoGoff published a piece entitled 8 Anti-Mormon Tactics That Satan Uses To Attack The Latter-day Saints. The piece was then reblogged by LDS Living. I am certainly no…
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Eyes vs Heart
There may be those that attack a 14yr old boy prophet, the Book of Mormon prophets, living prophets, and a living Christ. There were those that accused, and today accuse, Jesus Christ of…
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To peek behind the curtain: weighing the decision to investigate LDS truth-claims
Why notinvestigate? From the perspective of a believing member, there are many valid reasons to avoidcritically1investigating the truth-claims of the Church.2 Lack the time, energy, interest, or capability To investigate requires time…
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Five Key Facts
This is a very short summary of what I view as the 5 most important facts in understanding alternative models for LDS truth claims. To the best of my knowledge, every point…
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Testimony, Spiritual Experiences, and Truth: A Careful Examination
1Introduction 2Do spiritual impressions teach truth? 3What’s behind a spiritual experience? 4Testimony, bias, and propaganda 5Circularities: pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps? 6Conclusions 7Additional reading (note: This article is an updated version of…
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I Desire to Understand
Years ago when my son left the church, I chose to dig deep and find the answers to the difficult questions about church history and its doctrine. I went into this venture…
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An Evening with Zhenya
For the LDS Ventura California stake Relief Society on 17 March 1992In commemoration of the 150thanniversary of the Relief SocietyWritten and performed by Eugene Kovalenko - Listen to the recording of the event using the…
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Series: Leaving the Church - Eric NelsonLeaving the Church, Part 13 — Testimony, Truth, and the Holy Ghost
This entry is part 13 of 13 in the series Leaving the Church — Eric Nelson 1. Background: Despite my doubts and concerns about various aspects of LDS doctrine and history, I remained…
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The Holy Ghost is a …
The Holy Ghost is a pussy. Oh yea, I said it. The holy ghost sucks my ass. He is a loser. He is selfish and he obviously does not do his job.…
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Eyes Opened by my Mission
10 years ago today I left to become a full time missionary for the LDS church. In doing so I left behind home, family and my teenage sweetheart Tamara for a 2 year period…
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Epistemological Considerations
(or how do we know what we think we know) I am by no means a Philosopher, but I think it is crucial to address this topic here. It can get quite complicated,…
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Navigating Death
One of the hardest things to try to come to terms with — NOT knowing. Is there life after death? Will we see our loved ones again? It wasn’t as scary when…