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This week as I have been thinking about my time in the LDS Church and the blessings I’ve experienced since leaving, I have been drawn to the odd healing story in Mark 8:23-25. “23 He took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside of the village. Then he spit on his eyes,…
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A few weeks ago, my wife and I visited the open house for the Feather River California temple. The temple was once one of my favorite places in the world. But since leaving the Church I have felt very differently about the temple. But I was looking forward to the temple open house experience, as…
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One comment that I have heard from several Latter-day Saints over the past year is that they can see the appeal of Protestantism, but just cannot get behind the Trinity or a view of God that does not see the Father as an embodied human being . Each of these are complicated topics that I…
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One of the things that led me towards Biblical Christianity was reading the New Testament’s repeated claims that Jesus was God before the foundations of the world were laid. My favorite such passage is Col 1:15-17 “The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven…
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Latter-day Saints revere several books of scripture in addition to the Bible. There are many verses in these books that are consistent with the Bible and that I find stirring and powerful even though I no longer believe they are scripture. But there is one verse in the Doctrine and Covenants that stands out to…
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I longed to dwell In temple walls forever Adorned in white Kneeling across altars When father and family forsook me I sought refuge Seeking his face Finding refuge and solace Now those walls are suffocating No longer filed with his presence But my heart still tells me: “Seek his face.” And so I will continue…
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In Latter-day Saint discussions about the Atonement of Jesus Christ, someone will almost inevitably point to Boyd K. Packer’s parable of the Mediator. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for 14 years, I thought or participated in many lessons where we would mention or discuss this parable. I loved…
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Since leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for Evangelical Christianity, I have been trying to figure out how to best convey to people the difference that my embrace of salvation by grace alone through faith alone has had on me. This can be really hard to do. When I would hear Protestants…
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When I was an LDS missionary I taught people about the Great Apostasy all the time. Many of the people I taught were Christians who were very upset about the claim that the true Church of Christ fell away from the earth. But I would reassure them that this did not mean that there were…