Ask a Mormon Anything...but please be polite :)

Thank you again for your answers! much appreciated!

 

No problem, always happy to help.

 

Mom and Dad were married in a civil ceremony years earlier. They wanted to be married in the Temple. I had graduated highschool and was in Salt Lake City in 1956 working for an Uncle. They picked me up and we drove to the temple.

 

Wow,that was a long time ago.

 

He knows plenty. And is accurate. As he says, we do not have hierarchy. I never thought of a Bishop as the boss. I have had him help me do physical things and worked aside me and not in charge. We get no orders from the church. To receive a calling is an honor and we are free to accept or reject with no consequences. When he speaks of teaching a sunday school class, that was a calling.

 

Well, I am 78 now. Since Aug 23 last. I was still young enough to put in long days working for my Uncle.

I always saw 78 as darned old. But having got here, It is what you make of it. I fortunately am in good health and not as fit as when I was 17. Maybe since I chat with some who are in their 90s, I try to keep a live presentation. Don't act old is my motto.

 

Joseph Smiths mother stated he had but one wife. Brigham Young had a number. There was more of a reason than you expect. We lost men to the trip to Salt Lake area. Then it was not developed. Life was very difficult. Women who were widows could do what? Brigham and others married the women to keep them from suffering alone. It was not that he specifically had to have many wives. Around 1890, our church discontinued that. The church using our name that is into polygamy is a tiny sect. They may number a few hundred. We have millions. We do not marry more than one woman. If we divorce, the next wife is the only wife. Women in our church are our equals.

 

What part of California are you in?

 

It appears the BoM has established its own tithe. Thanks.

 

Well actually, in combination with modern revelation, it has extended tithing to our day and age by God's will. Oh, and by the way Jesus did approve of tithing. See the story of the Widow's Mites. Mark 12:41-43, or Luke 21:1-4.

 

The tithe was not specific to the Levites, they were the ones who collected the tithe. Why? Because they were the priesthood order in Israel and were the only ones authorized by God to do so. See the following scriptures:

Numbers 18:25-26
Nehemiah 10:35-39
Hebrews 7:5

 

Do the Mormons have the latest revelation from God?
Does that makes God's previous revelations obsolete? Such as the book of revelations in the bible?
Or does that make Mohammads revelation from God for Islam obsolete?

 

San Francisco Bay Area, southern end of the bay. Just a bit north east of San Jose.

 

it does indeed. I thank you. I hope people take the opportunity to learn rather than harass. its just free education you are offering.

 

Thank you for being understanding, it is greatly appreciated.

 

I am convinced. he's doing good work here. It takes patience as teaching always does, especially if some of the students do not come to learn.

 

I am an agnostic atheist myself, but it is always nice to know someone in a faith that I can ask an ignorant question. I know a rabbi on another political forum that tries to do the same for Judaism. Incredible patience with some very aggressive posters with agendas. We need an non-theist and a Muslim version of one of these threads here too. but one has to have the right attributes and knowledge base to carry it off.

 

You need to be a jerk?

 

You obviously just refuse to see sexism and/or just don't know what it is OR your church told you there is none so you think there is none.... or just don't care that everyone in your religion is treated differently depending on if they have a penis or a vagina..........

Post 64 showed you what sexism is but since you're religious and your church told you it isn't sexist you can't see it...

 

From afar, Joe Smith looks like the dopey individual who started something that was later taken in hand by people who actually knew what to do. From this period on we see a considerable diminution of the early days' outrageous stuff.

 

I don't know if that question came up - I didn't read all of the thread, and didn't want to lose my point.

As you likely know, the Mormons are one of the world's main authorities in term of genealogy, with a database that is un-rivalled. That's because Mormons "convert" (for lack of a better term) dead people to their church, with not much regards for their or their successor's wills.

What do you think about this practice? It is ethical?

 

Smith (Mormanism) reminds me of Asimov and scientology.

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

 

He will defend sexist, but since I am also a Mormon, we do not see women as second class. We are not part of relief society so does that make men inferior to the women there?

You seem to express that you are not content with how we Mormons conduct our affairs. The women from all appearances do not think that way.

Suppose what we do fits your definition of sexist. Can you proclaim that there is no organization you ever attended or will attend does not have roles a woman may play, with more skill or mercy or ??? than a man? Are women sexist to have just women on the soccer teams? I have been the ASA representative to a Women's fastball softball team, the greatest women's softball team ever, and saw no men on their team. Was that team sexist? If so, why do you care?

The Stratford Brakettes I am proud to tell you, I had the privilege in Hayward, CA of being their go to person over tournament events and their lodging and I helped them have a good time in the SF Bay Area.

If I was sexist by recognizing a truly great women's team, I sure don't apologize.

1977 Raybestos Brakettes, Stratford, CT Hayward, CA Sarver Sabres

http://www.brakettes.com/national_tournaments_asa.htm

 

How did you become a Mormon, did you convert from another faith?

 

Since I have worked in the Family History center, let me help here. Just to do work for relatives, takes a bit of doing. We have to state we are a legal relative. My parents did a lot of work for the Dead.

This is done at a Temple. Our Temples are growing in number all over the world.

We scaled way back who gets baptisms, meaning the dead.

Suppose you had unfinished business and died. Would you mind being helped post death?

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How so?

This is interesting to me. to learn why my religion reminds a poster of Asimov and scientology?