Category: witness
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Cinnamon and Vanilla
Cinnamon and Vanilla is the best flavor combination. A little sugar or a little salt on something crunchy is perfect.
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Radical Islam
Trigger Warning: This post may not be legal where you live. I believe that at its heart Islam is a religion of peace. But there are 7th century ideas that do not have a place in the modern world. Killing apostates is murder. Even if it is allowed where you are God will punish you…
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The Long Walk
There’s a little comic book tract called “The Long Walk” (you can read it online). It talks about a man who thinks for himself and puts off converting to Christianity until a later date. He meets a guy on the spacious highway who tells him he’s right, and that he doesn’t need Christianity yet, because…
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“Mormon bad. Smith bad. You Cult.”
I got called a cultist yesterday. My skin is getting thicker about the accusation. I’m starting to realize it usually comes from people that don’t actually want to engage in theology. If someone says Protestantism is better and wants to make a positive argument about grace, salvation, or the trinity it is possible to have…
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Who’s Christian?
I can’t go a day on the internet without running into a few people who try to declare definitively that Mormons aren’t Christians. To me that seems pretty hypocritical for someone who claims to follow Christ. It is ultimately up to Jesus whether he says “Well done good and faithful servant” or “Depart from me.…
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Personal Witness
I am occasionally asked online to give evidence of God. On a regular basis I am told that a personal witness does not count as evidence. With strangers on the internet this is absolutely true. Me sharing my visions doesn’t supersede another person’s witness. But the closer two people become the more their life and…
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Sacrament Dream
This morning after changing a diaper and falling back to sleep in real life, I dreamed that I was in Sacrament Meeting and falling asleep there. I was leaning against another brother who didn’t seem to mind. When I woke up I was playing a racing game on my cellphone, but I had to stop…
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Identifying as Christian
I had a long conversation today with a friend who is worried that I find it hard to identify as a Christian. We typed about how the things I actually believe probably indicate that I am not a Christian at all. It only makes sense that I don’t pretend to be something I am probably…