Comments on: Crazy Things You Believe

By: telson

telson — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:02:12 +0000

Many syncretistic religions formed gnosticism. Gnosticism was rivaling against Christianity and gnosticism held itself better religion as Christianity was. Word gnosticism comes from Greek word gnosis, which means knowledge. Gnosticism had various effects, for instance, some Gnostics taught that divinity can be achieved through unity of the man and woman. This thought led some Gnostics to reach for divinity through sexual intercourse between the man and woman. There existed also some Gnostics, who abstained from sexual intercourse. When we know the fact that Gnostics held Christians as their enemies and that Gnostics held themselves better as Christians and that Gnostics wanted to show in every way that Gnosticism was better as Christianity, so Gnostics made so called gnostic gospels were they twisted, slandered and misrepresented the real gospels. Gnostics went so far in this misrepresent that they wrote â€œnew gospelsâ€ by faking the real gospels. In these faked gospels Gnostics wrote that Jesus Christ was an ordinary man who has a sexual relationship with Mary Magdalene.

http://koti.phnet.fi/elohim/marymagdalene.html

By: SpeakingUp

SpeakingUp — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:29:34 +0000

By the way: A quick comment about soul mates:

My mother’s story: She prayed and prayed and prayed about who to marry (she had no one in mind.)

She took a cruise and saw a man smoking and drinking and despite herself being a Mormon, she says that the Spirit told her, that was her husband.

She then walks up to him and the first thing out of her mouth is: “You’re suppose to be my husband”.

11 dates later; they are married. He converts about a year later. And a year and a day after they are sealed, along I come.

Now my mom is from North Carolina and dad, from Illinois. So this was not some crazy Utah thing where they go along and proclaim prophetically to each other that its time to be married. Also, my mom converted as a teenager, so she wasn’t indoctrinated with that Utah crap either.

So in their unique case, I honestly believe that they were “soul mates”.

By: SpeakingUp

SpeakingUp — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:17:54 +0000

Crazy things believed:

1) The Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church did pretty well overall in not apostatizing as much as the Roman Catholic Church. The more I learn about them, the more impressed I am.

2) The polygamy doctrine was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, and the LDS Church still pays for this, despite not practicing it and its own persecutions of those who do practice it.

3) John Taylor did set apart those Polygamists and gave them the keys to continue. He feared the church would capitulate and he created a way for it to continue. (Note: He did so wrongly in my opinion, but I still believe he did it.)

4) JJ Strang’s Mormon church would had been more successful (measured in membership) than the current Mormon church had it steered away from polygamy as he originally started. Also, I believe he would had made US President had he steered away from polygamy. I also believe the US government was behind his murder. And I believe he was even more charismatic than Joseph Smith (which is amazing!) I believe he did not appoint a successor, since he thought it was time for the charade to end; and this of course killed his branch of Mormonism.

4) Bishop Koyle’s story amazes me and seems more true by the day, especially with the current state of the economy.

5) James McCanney is right about comets! They are NOT DIRTY SNOW BALLS!!! And his work on the universe is very interesting.

6) Jesus understood quantum physics and used this to perform most miracles.

7) Light is intelligent, but has no memory, hence the results in the split-slit experiment in quantum physics.

8) I find the story in Acts about Anani’as with his wife Sapphi’ra to be apocryphal.

9) The law of consecration did not ever work. Not in Enoch’s day or Melchizedek’s day, or ever. It is functionally impossible for it to ever work.

and last, craziest belief…….

10) I would not be surprised to find after I died (so I only kind of accept this as a remote possibility) that my whole life was “lived” in some kind of Matrix like computer program. That it was all some kind of strange experiment.

By: V the K

V the K — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:59:36 +0000

I believe that robots are stealing my luggage.

By: Hal

Hal — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:11:45 +0000

This post is nearly impossible to resist.
I believe in ‘proximate inspiration.’ That is, the bishop is inspired to change the YW president and that the new president should be able to teach the young woman these particular qualities – But the bishop gets to decide who it is. Or, an apostle is inspired that Elder Smith should be assigned to the far east, but the apostle decides which mission he goes to. I also believe that sometimes the inspiration/revelation is spot on and detailed.

By: Matt W.

Matt W. — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:02:45 +0000

Awesome Jacob.

Enjoy Thailand. For the record. Misson Calls are processed by a committee which includes 70s and Apostles. They flash your data up on a projector, along with open calls, and pick where you go. I’m not sure how much say the computer has in refining their search. I am assuming they do have some sort of filters built into the database though.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:02:31 +0000

1. I think blacks and the priesthood was not a divinely instituted ban.
2. I DON’T think that the Prophet has a batphone or anything even close to similar.
3. I don’t know if Prop 8 was an actual divine mandate.
4. I believe Jesus Christ also felt a fullness of our joy in the atonement.
5. I believe the the line between false and real doctrine is a fine, fine line.
6. I believe mission calls are processed by a computer that has divine inspiration- I am going to Thailand in June.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:06:15 +0000

I believe Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.

By: Seth R.

Seth R. — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:34:54 +0000

I believe that polygamy WILL be practiced in the afterlife and that those who insist it will not be are close-minded poo poo heads.

Hey, you asked for “crazy” right?

By: Matt W.

Matt W. — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:05:46 +0000

Thanks C Jones, I always like when you comment around here.