Exiled wrote:
Holy Ghost wrote:
Going verbal, however, will make it hard for charlatans to misuse me. If I say, "God wants you to be nice to each other and every creature upon the land or in the waters", how does a missionary convince you that means I am saying the Book of Mormon is true? It will also make it harder for Me to be misunderstood. When I say treat every kid as you would the kids of Ozzie and Harriet, how can Nelson and Oaks wriggle out of that one and think I meant to exclude kids of lgtb from baptism and Aaronic Priesthood?
Good point. Those in power need to be able to say that Elohim, JC and you are on the side of power at all times. How else could have all those wars been waged throughout history? Your silence sure helped there. Also, the Q12/FP and other religious leaders would have been exposed a long time ago. Society needs religious fraudsters?
Anyway, how old are Elohim and Jesus? They seem to be children by the way they've acted throughout history. Creating Mormonism certainly seems to have been the work of child gods. Maybe it was just a prank to see how much nonsense could be pushed on believers?
Ah, shucks, you give me too much credit. Wars are how we thin out the earth's population, now that medicine has developed to the point it has and the plagues don't do as much. Better to move those souls on to the next weigh station in the progression. As mysticism is receding in the face of scientific advancement, the need for religious 'fraudsters' is decreasing. There was a time, but not needed so much anymore. How old are Elohim and Jehovah? In their current form, Jehovah is about 1985 years since His ascension. He's existed in prior forms, such as 33 years as a semi-mortal. Before that, as a non-bodied spirit, since he was spiritually born from being just an intelligence. As a non-bodied spirit, about 5 billion years. As an intelligence before a spirit, ad infinitum. Elohim is about 10 billion years older, but this is his first rodeo with his own planet. Joseph Smith, Jr. really added a lot of his own crap or baggage. No intentional prank in creating Mormonism, unless you count the selection of Joseph Smith, Jr. as the prank.