Tag: mormon
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When I was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I believed that the Book of Mormon helped to clarify the Bible. One of the ways that I thought it did this was by offering a more accurate, easy to understand, and inspired version of the text of the Isaiah chapters…
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Latter-day Saints revere the Book of Mormon as sacred scripture, and as the “most correct book of any on the earth.” They view it as the “keystone” of their religion. But there’s a significant problem. The Book of Mormon does not teach key LDS doctrines, such as temple ordinances, postmortem repentance, or the three degrees…
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Two years ago I made the difficult decision to step away from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I had spent several intense weeks wrestling with deeply conflicting emotions. As I’ve written about previously, in a pretty short time, God had opened my eyes both to Biblical truths regarding grace and the nature…
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(Image created using OpenAI’s DALL-E tool via ChatGPT.) I saw Wicked today and really loved it. For me, Wicked has been more than a musical—it’s been a companion through some of the most formative and challenging moments of my life. So it was so powerful to see a show that I have loved for nearly…