Sheri Dew byui devotional
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 2:20 pm
I don't usually watch these devotionals, but on occasion I do as a barometer as to what the current challenges are that the church is concerned with.
Obviously from her talk, the church is still carrying on the fight with losing young members to doubt.
Something I thought/hoped the church was past was blaming the victim and telling stories of the disasters that come from leaving the faith. But Sheri told of a young unmarried woman, a student who had become pregnant because after doubting the church she didn't feel the need to obey the commandents any longer.
To quote Sheri, this young woman "used her questions to justify her immoral behavior."
So that's it. She really just wanted to sin and didn't really want to make the effort to keep her testimony and was now on a "perilous spiritual path."
I would never condone pregnancy out of wedlock. I feel compassion for anyone who chooses that path and only hope the best for them.
But the story of this young girl was used as the melodramatic "boogie man" of what happens to those who leave the church for understandable reasons. Does everyone who leaves the church fall under the curse of God or the power of Satan? I don't think so.
Sheri also reinforced the "ask only inspired questions" and they have to be asked "in faith" (meaning you already know that whatever the answer is it will be in the affirmative for the church) and ask your questions ONLY from those who SPEAK ONLY TRUTH. Only an authorized truth speaker can give you the correct answer.
She quoted Eyring, stating that logic and reason aren't enough. Only faith and revelation will get you where you need to go.
I halfway agree with Eyring here. But isn't that how leadership teaches that Satan decieves us; with half-truths? Reason and logic are God given attributes for a purpose. Propositions especially religious ones, are expected to, at the very least reach a certain amount of empirical adequacy.
Credulity shouldn't be strained on every level. Joseph's story is SO full of holes, even Swiss cheese is embarrassed by it.
By the way, Sheri confesses that she's still looking for a husband; wondering who and where he is.....
Really? Really? I'm probably way out of line here and will probably get some blowback from this but in her particular case, one begins to wonder what the height of the criterion must be that she, at age 65 couldn't find SOMEONE who would love her enough to qualify.
Obviously from her talk, the church is still carrying on the fight with losing young members to doubt.
Something I thought/hoped the church was past was blaming the victim and telling stories of the disasters that come from leaving the faith. But Sheri told of a young unmarried woman, a student who had become pregnant because after doubting the church she didn't feel the need to obey the commandents any longer.
To quote Sheri, this young woman "used her questions to justify her immoral behavior."
So that's it. She really just wanted to sin and didn't really want to make the effort to keep her testimony and was now on a "perilous spiritual path."
I would never condone pregnancy out of wedlock. I feel compassion for anyone who chooses that path and only hope the best for them.
But the story of this young girl was used as the melodramatic "boogie man" of what happens to those who leave the church for understandable reasons. Does everyone who leaves the church fall under the curse of God or the power of Satan? I don't think so.
Sheri also reinforced the "ask only inspired questions" and they have to be asked "in faith" (meaning you already know that whatever the answer is it will be in the affirmative for the church) and ask your questions ONLY from those who SPEAK ONLY TRUTH. Only an authorized truth speaker can give you the correct answer.
She quoted Eyring, stating that logic and reason aren't enough. Only faith and revelation will get you where you need to go.
I halfway agree with Eyring here. But isn't that how leadership teaches that Satan decieves us; with half-truths? Reason and logic are God given attributes for a purpose. Propositions especially religious ones, are expected to, at the very least reach a certain amount of empirical adequacy.
Credulity shouldn't be strained on every level. Joseph's story is SO full of holes, even Swiss cheese is embarrassed by it.
By the way, Sheri confesses that she's still looking for a husband; wondering who and where he is.....
Really? Really? I'm probably way out of line here and will probably get some blowback from this but in her particular case, one begins to wonder what the height of the criterion must be that she, at age 65 couldn't find SOMEONE who would love her enough to qualify.