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RubinHighlander wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 7:56 am
26. Book of Abraham
It would be easy to find 100 silly things in the Book of Abraham. A couple spring to mind:
-Some Egyptian words just happen to be pronounced exactly like, and having the same meaning as, some Hebrew words, and some words from the Adamic language. And some Egyptian words mean entirely different things when copied from one document to fill in a missing gap in another document.
-A libation table is actually Abraham's signature, even though it was drawn 2000 years after Abraham's death
“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” -Mark Twain
Jesus: "The Kingdom of God is within you." The Buddha: "Be your own light."
31-a. Never criticize a church leader, even if the criticism is true.
31-b. This only applies if you are lower in the church hierarchy than the person you are criticizing.
God is Love. God is Truth. The greatest problem with organized religion is that the organization becomes god, rather than a means of serving God.
Being given one chance to walk away from a contract BEFORE you know what the details of the contract are, and being forced to swear to secrecy, and then signing that contract, symbolically, with your blood under penalty of death.
“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” -Mark Twain
Jesus: "The Kingdom of God is within you." The Buddha: "Be your own light."
39. The necromancy rules for "Shake Hands with a Spirit" set forth in D&C 129 are bananas. Have these rules helped anyone in any faith promoting story in LDS history? Let me note that the scripture states:
These are three grand keys whereby you may know whether any administration is from God.
40) If you have to choose between putting food on your table to feed your family or pay 10 per cent of your money to a multi billion dollar corporate real estate company, it is better to pay the corporation and go hungry.