tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749424911811197625.post7469217894562534818..comments2023-11-02T02:15:55.933-07:00Comments on Daughters of the Shadow Men: Defining the principles that I live byGerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00771917880182186281noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749424911811197625.post-49374081436812348382010-08-01T21:54:34.805-07:002010-08-01T21:54:34.805-07:00I think all of our early years surely shapes what ...I think all of our early years surely shapes what kind of life we'll have. Faith plays a big part also.<br /><br />Have a good week.Missiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16602020006220886071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749424911811197625.post-38684747361256167072010-08-01T20:55:03.073-07:002010-08-01T20:55:03.073-07:00Amrita, I also studied the New Testament a full ye...Amrita, I also studied the New Testament a full year in Mormon Seminary and Jesus was a big part of my belief system too, as I always thought of him as suffering little children to come unto him. But once you have come to doubt the doctrine of the church you were born into you are just not going to be able to accept all religious beliefs, or at least I couldn't. The Mormon Church is a Christian church accepting Jesus as God I believe with the prophet adding polygamy for example to his revelations which later had to be abandoned in order for Utah to be accepted as a state. I see belief as quite flexible although I know that for some people who accept Jesus as God incarnate belief is not flexible. Utah is a very big territory and to tell the truth I think the intense beliefs about Jesus somewhat got lost among the other beliefs Mormons promoted as unique to the Mormon faith. We just did not talk a lot about Jesus in Church which I attended as a child. In fact, I was quite shocked at how Christians thought and acted in regard to Jesus when I left the state and investigated other Christian churches. I thought some of them terribly extreme. I had devised beliefs of my own in regard to Jesus as well, which I retained after I left the church. I more or less thought of him as a great man but not necessarily God. He has certainly been a God figure for many people but I am not sure what I think I he really is. Mormon belief accepts him as God, but I left that church for not understanding the problems I was dealing with. I did think he would help by virtue of having been a powerful leader on earth and being obviously a man of great power.Gerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771917880182186281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749424911811197625.post-79620177704915285922010-08-01T20:28:59.642-07:002010-08-01T20:28:59.642-07:00Your early experiences have pretty much sha...Your early experiences have pretty much shaped your life Gerry. <br /><br />I am glad you believe in God.<br /><br />God is not someone we can conjure up according to our beliefs. We can see Him in the face of Jesus. Jesus is God incarnate.<br /><br />I want to encourage you to read the 4 gospels.Amritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04887884977787790642noreply@blogger.com