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Why We Shouldn't Procrastinate Repentance

If this is true then killing someone immediately after they repent but before they have the opportunity to backslide would guarantee them eternal happiness. That would logically be the best thing that you could ever do for someone you truly love.
 
jrhowell said:
If this is true then killing someone immediately after they repent but before they have the opportunity to backslide would guarantee them eternal happiness. That would logically be the best thing that you could ever do for someone you truly love.
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And the converse would also be true - just ask Hamlet.
 
But the big question is - should we repent procrastination?
 
Well, Billy, how about this:

If atheists mind their own business, is that a sin?
 
Dunno about J. Smith, but

wollery said:
But the big question is - should we repent procrastination?
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the catholic crutch thinks that procrastination is a subset of sloth, in that it's a waste of our precious finite time, & therefore a sin against life itself, it said on the third Wiki hit from the top.

Christianists and, I suppose, Mormonists are told to love God like little children. If that means like simpletons, then glory jee to bezuss.
 
wollery said:
But the big question is - should we repent procrastination?
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Yes, absolutely! But here we are wasting time talking about 'preparing for eternity' instead.

Billy Baxter said:
It is important that we don't procrastinate repentance because this life is the time given to us...
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...to use while we have it. Nobody knows how long they have, so It is important that we don't procrastinate because once we are dead that's it.

If our works have been evil, our reward will be spiritual death and endless misery. If our works have been good, our reward will be eternal life and endless happiness.
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That's where you are wrong. After death there is nothing for us - neither misery nor happiness - just nothing. Which is also a reward - no pain, no misery, no worry, no regrets - for eternity.

But what we leave behind isn't nothing. If our works have been good they will last beyond our death, as will any evil. When I am on my deathbed I want to look back at my life and see that I have done good, not procrastinated and left things undone. If I can achieve that then I will die happy knowing that my life wasn't wasted.

A good friend of mine who I hadn't seen for 30 years died last week. He was a skilled woodworker, talented musician, mechanic, electronics engineer and dressmaker - all self-taught - and highly productive, but generous and humble. He was also a good father to his two sons who are following in his footsteps. His family held a service that was to be a 'celebration' of his life, with people remembering the things he had done and the effect he had on our lives.

I was hesitant to attend at first because I don't handle funerals well and had no grief of my own to assuage, but decided to go for the sake of others. I'm glad I did because by the end we were all feeling happy. One thing in particular helped immensely with that - not a single mention of God or the afterlife - such a relief after previous events which I had to endure (including my mother's funeral which she specifically asked the priest not to push the God angle, but of course he did anyway).

A wise man once said "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. I do not want to be one of those people who allows evil to flourish, so I vow to repent all procrastination - starting tomorrow. :)
 
Delvo said:
What source is that quote from?
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Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 4.

What's great about the Book of Mormon is that we don't have to speculate, we know that it's a total fabrication, narrated by a known conman and prodigious liar.

In 1823, he said he was visited by an angel, who directed him to a buried book of golden plates inscribed with a Judeo-Christian history of an ancient American civilization. In 1830, Smith published the Book of Mormon which he described as an English translation of those plates.
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Smith's claims of experiencing a series of visions could at least theoretically be true, but this stuff isn't.

"And thus a religion was born..."
 
Alma 34:32-35, Book of Mormon

32 For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.

33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.

34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.

35 For behold, if ye have procrastinated the day of your repentance even until death, behold, ye have become subjected to the spirit of the devil, and he doth seal you his; therefore, the Spirit of the Lord hath withdrawn from you, and hath no place in you, and the devil hath all power over you; and this is the final state of the wicked.
 
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There are two main commandments on which hang all the Law and the Prophets: Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, might, and strength; and Love your neighbor as yourself.

Love is the Law.

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And enough about Job, okay?
 
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