http://blog.mrm.org It's forbidden, but it's good! Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:32:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The LDS Church embraces four volumes as scripture: the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price. Following are ten statements from Mormon sources explaining how the LDS Church and its members view the Bible. “I believe the Bible as it read when it came from ... http://blog.mrm.org/2008/07/the-bible-through-mormon-eyes/ One hundred and seventy-six years ago yesterday (that is, on July 20, 1832) Joseph Smith began writing a history of his life. This was his first attempt at recording his history. He worked on it for several months while living in Kirtland, Ohio, but abandoned the project in November of ... http://blog.mrm.org/2008/07/joseph-smiths-1832-handwritten-history/ [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/v/k4vMgl36a8U,425,344[/SWF] Ron Huggins' entire talk, “Those 'Abominable' Creeds”, is now available for $2.99 on MP3 audio and $3.99 on MP4 video. His suggestion on the use of "homoousios" between Mormons and Christians is particularly interesting. This talk was really helpful to me. Just yesterday I used three different things from it ... http://blog.mrm.org/2008/07/mormonism-has-a-tribal-deity/ Last month (30 June 2008) the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle ran a short article profiling four Latter-day Saints from the Rochester, New York area. Dorothy Holmes was one of the Mormons interviewed. The article mostly covered Mrs. Holmes’ family and her life-long activity in the LDS Church, but she is ... http://blog.mrm.org/2008/07/if-lds-doctrines-were-wrong/ [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/v/4BJl5wtuxmo&hl=en&fs=1,425,344[/SWF] http://blog.mrm.org/2008/07/evangelists-at-the-twin-falls-temple/ The LDS Church continues the effort to distance itself from Mormon Fundamentalists. In a July 10, 2008 article printed in the Salt Lake Tribune, LDS spokesperson Scott Trotter is quoted as saying, "there is no such thing as a Mormon fundamentalist or a Mormon polygamist. Regrettably, those who suggest otherwise only ... http://blog.mrm.org/2008/07/mormon-history/ [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/v/ZhqteR_UOqw&hl=en&fs=1, 425, 344[/SWF] Bryan Hurlbutt's entire talk, "Discerning the Wind: Responding to the 'Trump Card' of Mormon Personal Religious Experience", is now available for $2.99 on MP3 audio and $3.99 on MP4 video. I love his description of true Christianity as a "dance" between objectivity and subjectivity. "In an LDS culture personal ... http://blog.mrm.org/2008/07/god-is-not-honored-by-blind-faith/ [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/v/CC8IP6XdJeU&hl=en&fs=1,425,344[/SWF] The eleven minute mark was particularly interesting to me. Discuss! http://blog.mrm.org/2008/07/who-does-tom-mcdevitt-remind-you-of/ On 9 June 2008 Fox News carried an Associated Press story from Hawaii. It seems that three men from Oahu have been charged with stealing rocks from a protected Maui beach, to be used in an underground cooking pit at their church – The Church of Jesus Christ of ... http://blog.mrm.org/2008/07/my-bishop-made-me-do-it/ [SWF]http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=948605920993957621&hl=en&fs=true,400,326[/SWF] Richard Packham's video is also available on YouTube Publicly exposing the Mormon temple ceremony takes away the superficial power of secretiveness and mystery and helps people face reality. The power of mystery is largely sapped with a simple YouTube video. Obeying God's commandments is a form of Christian worship. God's word tells ... http://blog.mrm.org/2008/07/the-duty-to-expose-a-shameful-ceremony-is-infinitely-more-sacred-than-a-shameful-ceremony/