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wayfarer wrote:
As for me, I have come back into full fellowship with the Church. I’m even considering a higher level of ‘orthopraxy’ than I have been wont to do. I have a deep and abiding testimony of what the restored gospel means to me. But I cannot return to the state where I believed historical fiction as if it were fact, and I will look forward with faith, but not knowledge, for those things unknowable. I will also not impute that every word uttered in conference is the gospel, but as both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young challenged LDS to do, I will try their words by the spirit.
I think there is something about the way back that is really moving forward with the way things are, but finding peace in it the way it is.Heber13 wrote:
I think there is something about the way back that is really moving forward with the way things are, but finding peace in it the way it is.To me that means finding peace with the truth(gospel/doctrine) no matter where it leads and comfortable with what I don’t know and have faith in. That is my way back.
Forgotten_Charity wrote:To me that means finding peace with the truth(gospel/doctrine) no matter where it leads and comfortable with what I don’t know and have faith in. That is my way back.
:clap: brilliant!I also think “A Way Forward” is more accurate a description than trying to find a way backwards to a previous point in our faith. We might circle around to belief in similar concepts, but they are always from a new perspective. We are taking a journey forward towards our eternal destiny, building the story of our exaltation and merge into the “celestial” reality. Going backwards doesn’t really fit into the story of eternal progression. We are moving forward.
Brian Johnston wrote:I also think “A Way Forward” is more accurate a description than trying to find a way backwards to a previous point in our faith. We might circle around to belief in similar concepts, but they are always from a new perspective. We are taking a journey forward towards our eternal destiny, building the story of our exaltation and merge into the “celestial” reality.
Going backwards doesn’t really fit into the story of eternal progression. We are moving forward.
Just remember Marty McFly.
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