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Deaman, you ask the strangest questions :D
I am a widow, and my husband was a Presbyterian.

Well now.

I'll keep any crackpot conspiratorial speculation to myself.

Unlimited power over the sheep, plenty of money and any woman you want, surely you can work up a little spark of faith?:p

I have a lot of friends who are polyamaorus. Given the scheduling headaches they have to deal with, I think I'd be quite happy with my wife, and maybe a girlfriend we share. There's no need to convert to achieve that.

The financial gain is an attractive idea however.
 
Further to the above, from The Pearl of Great Price, the following outlines the LDS belief ( and consequently also my belief) regarding Adam and Eve:
21 And I, the Lord God, caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and he slept, and I took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in the stead thereof;

22 And the rib which I, the Lord God, had taken from man, made I a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam said: This I know now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.
http://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/3?lang=eng

The problem with the above is that the BoA doesn't say any such thing. It's really just an Egyptian funerary text.
 
Oh no, no, no. You see, we chose this! The spirits that chose another path in the spirit world (ie to follow Satan) didn't come here to earth. We suffering souls are lucky!!

There was a musical called My Turn on Earth that I grew up listening to. One of the songs puts it in good context for you if you're interested in listening to it. It's like six-minutes long, but just the first couple minutes are enough to get the jist:

Empress, the Spirits who followed Satan were cast down to this earth with him, as Spirits... without a mortal body.
 
Thanks for answering, Janadele.

Were your parents of a religious nature? If so, what religion were they?

Were you involved in a different church before your conversion to Mormonism?
I was an active member of the Anglican Church. We were married in the Anglican Church, my first child was a baby when the LDS Missionaries came to my door. My six children were raised LDS... three have served missions, four have married in the Temple, myself and my children have served the LDS Church as teachers, and my sons as Bishop and High Council. As Halley commented, this is posted earlier in this thread.
 
I was an active member of the Anglican Church. We were married in the Anglican Church, my first child was a baby when the LDS Missionaries came to my door. My six children were raised LDS... three have served missions, four have married in the Temple, myself and my children have served the LDS Church as teachers, and my sons as Bishop and High Council. As Halley commented, this is posted earlier in this thread.

Yes, it would take some time to read through this whole thread as it's grown quite long. I am sure you understand.

What was it about the Anglecan Church that you disagreed with, that caused you to abandon faith is them?
 
Yes, it would take some time to read through this whole thread as it's grown quite long. I am sure you understand.

What was it about the Anglecan Church that you disagreed with, that caused you to abandon faith is them?
All Christian Churches have the Spirit of Jesus with them in the truths that they teach, however there are also misunderstandings and human errors... which is why the Restoration was required. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith and in time, through him as Prophet, restored the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Earth.
 
All Christian Churches have the Spirit of Jesus with them in the truths that they teach, however there are also misunderstandings and human errors... which is why the Restoration was required. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith and in time, through him as Prophet, restored the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Earth.

Why doesn't your knowledge of the fraud that is the BoA impact your belief? At this point, your outward denials not withstanding, you know it's a hoax. What benefit is there in maintaining a belief that is obviously incorrect?
 
All Christian Churches have the Spirit of Jesus with them in the truths that they teach, however there are also misunderstandings and human errors... which is why the Restoration was required. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith and in time, through him as Prophet, restored the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Earth.
Which is why Mormons borrowed the Masonic Temple ritual (which are a 14th century phenomenon and without any evidence that the "full gospel" included these rituals). Interesting enough the "full" restoration has been trimmed a bit as the blood oaths in the temple have been done away with.

Here is an interesting point of note, if the "full gospel" could have been lost once before who is to say it can't be lost again? Humans make mistakes and there are many changes in Mormonism that many devout followers believe is an apostasy from the truth and led to many splinter groups.

Who is to say they are wrong? Polygamy was an "everlasting" covenant and now the Church disowns anyone who practices it.
 
Not in her case, her husband isn't Mormon.

It's an interesting situation for her. Mormon cosmology has no real place for her unless her husband is posthumously baptized. Even then, her ascension will be limited because she's bound to her husband and not a good Mormon man.

She won't get her own planet. The husband and his celestial wives would get a planet. The only way she could get in on planet ownership would be if her husband died and she married good Mormon man.

I don't think that would be the official answer, but it's a good question. Needless to say, my wife is in the same position, and the way she's always explained it to me, is that if she remained a faithful Mormon, upon her death, there would be two options:

1) I would have a chance to convert after my death, whether or not baptism-for-the-dead was done for me. (edited to add: it's my understanding that people are told baptism for the dead is necessary for the dead to be converted, but it's my understanding that this is fudged, because of course there are many people for which there are no records of their existence, and they shouldn't be punished for being born into a pre-literate society, for example. So there's something about all records being available in the end times so everyone can be baptized. So I mean that baptism for the dead doesn't need to be done now, but would be done eventually, but of course it would certainly be encouraged for a spouse to do it for their deceased non-Mormon spouse).

Option #1 is usually promoted as the most likely option, because of course after I die and see that everything is happening just as the Mormon church predicted, why would I still not believe? So she and I would remain married in the afterlife and be god and goddess of our own planet, and have children then although we have no children now. Presumably I would also have the option to take another wife too, if she agreed and I wanted to. (Edited to add: It's my understanding that if I converted after I died, I'd have all the privileges as if I converted while alive.)

2) I would not convert, but because she was faithful, she would be rewarded with a faithful Mormon husband. She and he (and his other wives if he had them) would be god and goddess same as above, and part of my "punishment" for being a non-believer would be being separated from her as well as from God.

She's not here right now or I'd ask. I could go googling LDS scripture, but anyone care to comment if that sounds right or is way off base?

Edited to add: Apparently that's "meat," not "milk," LOL! Ironically, in a quick google, I'm getting way more hits about temporal concerns than eternal ones, when googling things like what if an lds member marries a non-member.
 
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I don't think that would be the official answer, but it's a good question. Needless to say, my wife is in the same position, and the way she's always explained it to me, is that if she remained a faithful Mormon, upon her death, there would be two options:

*snip for brevity*

She's not here right now or I'd ask. I could go googling LDS scripture, but anyone care to comment if that sounds right or is way off base?

I just asked my mother and she pretty much concurs on these points. She had my father, who was Catholic, baptized after he died (I think my oldest brother was his proxy) and was sealed to him in the temple. Presumably, he is now aware of the truthfulness of the Mormon religion and has converted.

As such, assuming my father and mother are worthy, they will be gods and goddesses with their own planets in the next life, even though my father was not Mormon in this life.
 
Father Vajda, a Catholic priest and scholar, whilst preparing a serious thesis on the topic of human divinization, researched deification and the divinely restored nature of LDS doctrine. Subsequently, in 2004 he joined the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and abandoned his previous career plans.
 
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Bully for Father Vajda. Is is supposed to make the problems with the hx of the BoM or the fraudulent nature of the BoA go away somehow simply because your church managed to fleece one more?
 
Father Vajda, a Catholic priest and scholar, whilst preparing a serious thesis on the topic of human divinization, researched deification and the divinely restored nature of LDS doctrine. Subsequently, in 2004 he joined the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and abandoned his previous career plans.
Anecdotal evidence. Many Mormons leave and go to other churches for many of the same types of reasons. Truth isn't a popularity contest and it's not based on anecdotes.

FTR: Your post is begging the question. You are stating facts not in evidence i.e. "divinely restored nature". That's a claim that you have not and will likely not demonstrate. There are multiple accounts of the first subsequent visions. If it was so divine one would think that it would not be so contradictory. One would think that the church would not need to rely on people lacking informed decent (milk before meat).
 
Father Vajda, a Catholic priest and scholar, whilst preparing a serious thesis on the topic of human divinization, researched deification and the divinely restored nature of LDS doctrine. Subsequently, in 2004 he joined the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and abandoned his previous career plans.
Ahhh man, Looks like I'll have to stop writing my non-serious thesis on the topic of human divinization, researched deification and the divinely restored nature of LDS doctrine.
 
It is a long story which requires the recipient to attempt to understand.
You have been here nearly a year and are participating in a thread you created that has nearly 7,000 posts. How long do you need? You even have about the same number of posts as me and I've been here over a decade. If you ever decide to tell the tale you have the thread in place and obviously have the time to do it.
 
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Further to the above, from The Pearl of Great Price, the following outlines the LDS belief ( and consequently also my belief) regarding Adam and Eve:
21 And I, the Lord God, caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and he slept, and I took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in the stead thereof;
22 And the rib which I, the Lord God, had taken from man, made I a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam said: This I know now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.
http://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/3?lang=eng

How do you reconcile this with where Eve came from in the other part of Genesis?
 
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