Hi all
I recently saw a PBSprogram on Mormons which prompted questions. I would love to get feedback on these!
on Tithing...
how is this 10% arrived at, is it on the honour system or do you have to show them pay stubs/tax returns? alot of churches have anon. envelopes...but I understand Mormons have meetings, does one need to provide figures?
I know the church does not provide public records of spending...does anyone know or suppose the LDS may actually fund the FLDS church they supposedly shun? -just how connected are the two?
on mysticism/magic
Joseph Smith used scrying & devining, how sympathetic is the church to others who have such abilities or utilize divination methods?
on family....
what if one does not want to be sealed to family? -for example my family of origin was quite abusive. On imediate family .....What if one's significant other is not Mormon, are you then shunned? Can you be sealed? Does it make a difference if this marriage happened before one converts? What if there is dispute on how/in what religion to raise the family? Does a woman really require her husband to "awaken" her in the spirit life/post mortem with a secret name?-if so what about the unwed....or is all that FLDS?
On freethinkers...
Is the church still anti feminism? How many working Moms (outside home) did you know of? How many people held a temple recomend that actually secretly (or overtly) had notions that challenged traditional gospel/ritual's interpretations/validity?
On temple...
is there an outer court/temple for newbies & an inner court/temple for adepts/longstanding faithful? The program I saw had so many regulations required for a temple recomend, to gain entrance.....but the temple neer me is keen to invite anyone in. -hence this incongruity created questions re. the nature of temple/worship/fellowship.
On sexuality....
Are gay people automatically ex-comunicated if they live an expression of their sexuality? Are married couples expected to only have procreative sex?
Ok thanks for your time & thanks for your participation.....I'm sure I'll have more questions, I'll post more as I think of them if you all don't mind?
I recently saw a PBSprogram on Mormons which prompted questions. I would love to get feedback on these!
on Tithing...
how is this 10% arrived at, is it on the honour system or do you have to show them pay stubs/tax returns? alot of churches have anon. envelopes...but I understand Mormons have meetings, does one need to provide figures?
I know the church does not provide public records of spending...does anyone know or suppose the LDS may actually fund the FLDS church they supposedly shun? -just how connected are the two?
on mysticism/magic
Joseph Smith used scrying & devining, how sympathetic is the church to others who have such abilities or utilize divination methods?
on family....
what if one does not want to be sealed to family? -for example my family of origin was quite abusive. On imediate family .....What if one's significant other is not Mormon, are you then shunned? Can you be sealed? Does it make a difference if this marriage happened before one converts? What if there is dispute on how/in what religion to raise the family? Does a woman really require her husband to "awaken" her in the spirit life/post mortem with a secret name?-if so what about the unwed....or is all that FLDS?
On freethinkers...
Is the church still anti feminism? How many working Moms (outside home) did you know of? How many people held a temple recomend that actually secretly (or overtly) had notions that challenged traditional gospel/ritual's interpretations/validity?
On temple...
is there an outer court/temple for newbies & an inner court/temple for adepts/longstanding faithful? The program I saw had so many regulations required for a temple recomend, to gain entrance.....but the temple neer me is keen to invite anyone in. -hence this incongruity created questions re. the nature of temple/worship/fellowship.
On sexuality....
Are gay people automatically ex-comunicated if they live an expression of their sexuality? Are married couples expected to only have procreative sex?
Ok thanks for your time & thanks for your participation.....I'm sure I'll have more questions, I'll post more as I think of them if you all don't mind?
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on what happens after death...
I know some if not all Jewish people believe in reincarnation.........& some more spiritist types of x-tians I know believe the "being born again in the spirit" to be a phrase in support of the theory of reincarnation. What is the offical thought of the mormon church on this? -are there freethinking temple going mormons that believe in reincarnation?
on baptism....
Do they rebaptise converts who were baptised in another christian denomination?
Do they assume that the spirits of the dead accept baptism on their behalf automatically, or in theory is there still room for these departed spirits to decline? Does the baptism wash all sin/transgressions from when the decesed was alive?
-I would honestly like to hear the mormon perspective on these issues, please note this is not to flame/argue, thanks again
