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Has anybody seen this Feb 2013 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR3uxbxRUz8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR3uxbxRUz8” class=”bbcode_url”> I can’t say that talking with my wife went anything like this. She (in TBM fashion) doesn’t want to know anything and can’t understand why I even “look at any of that stuff.”
I just watched it. I like the main premise that one needs to get to a point where there is room for faith.
There are some demonstrably false assumptions/teachings in the church. If we sweep all those away and come to a place where there is room inside our own heart to believe or disbelieve then we can make the choice to believe. It makes no sense to believe that the moon is made of cheese (as a silly example) – that would not fit within the rest of our mental framework of what we “know” about how things operate and would cause cognitive dissonance. In my experience the “place” where there is enough room to believe is different for different people. For some it is the divine authority of the LDS priesthood, for others it is the mission of JS as divinely appointed (even if errors and mistakes followed), for others it is in Jesus Christ, for others it is in God/or a higher power, for still others it is in the value of goodness for its own sake.
Whatever that “place” is for the individual – once they find it they are free to build an individualized faith structure/mental framework that is not necessarily dependant on stuff the church does.
Even here deciding to “stayLDS” isn’t easy because there are still entire lessons devoted to what to the individual may seem to be demonstrbly false ideas and teachings but the path is available… at least for some. (I would not make the claim that all could maintain this path as each individual is unique)
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