tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956057989227103850.post5707201430417497918..comments2023-10-19T09:36:41.506-05:00Comments on A Mormon Enigma: A voice from the pastAbelard Enigmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166049686152203530noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956057989227103850.post-5672212120877577982010-06-12T23:26:07.515-05:002010-06-12T23:26:07.515-05:00Your blog post could have been written by me. Like...Your blog post could have been written by me. Like you, I joined the Church as a young man and found that my faith did not heal the yearning in my heart for intimacy with another man.<br /><br />Over the years my testimony of the Gospel, like that of most people, has ebbed and flowed. I've come to the conclusion that while the Gospel is true, the Church sometimes is not.<br /><br />The Lord Clive Durhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13429000026909551119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956057989227103850.post-3576266075056736922010-06-05T23:28:36.394-05:002010-06-05T23:28:36.394-05:00Thank you, Abe. Whatever you did, MoHo directory h...Thank you, Abe. Whatever you did, MoHo directory has returned to how I knew it, loved it, and could use it. :) Thank you SO much!<br /><br />Happy night!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956057989227103850.post-72077206363826443812010-06-05T20:17:13.953-05:002010-06-05T20:17:13.953-05:00Aah- what happened to the MoHo directory? A lot of...Aah- what happened to the MoHo directory? A lot of those blogs no longer exist, you can't tell which one has been updated- help?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956057989227103850.post-70068367960078137452010-06-05T11:14:46.408-05:002010-06-05T11:14:46.408-05:00"But God let him down." Really?
I susp..."But God let him down." Really?<br /><br />I suspect you're saying this with great irony, realizing that your expectations of what God would do for you were fundamentally flawed, and now this 'truth' learned further down the path is kind of bittersweet. That is where I'm at. But as I see it, God has also held us up, given us great blessings of family, and He is still GeckoManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846438788253129899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956057989227103850.post-70713786803787205122010-06-05T00:47:10.543-05:002010-06-05T00:47:10.543-05:00Abe, as you may know, over the course of several y...Abe, as you may know, over the course of several years, I totally lost the faith of my youth. The past few years, I've had the blessing of building/reconstructing faith as an adult. My faith is actually much simpler and yet stronger than ever before. <br /><br />Some things I once believed or took for granted, I no longer 'know' to be true. I am comfortable admitting that I don&#Bravonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02762204502534599107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956057989227103850.post-32580072763511550502010-06-04T15:19:36.088-05:002010-06-04T15:19:36.088-05:00It's not either this or that truth. If it is ...It's not either this or that truth. If it is truth, (and both of your examples are IMHO) it remains truth. And you need to live by BOTH until you acquire more truth... that is the real dilemma before you.Beckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06159223254071653666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956057989227103850.post-20406363577980846962010-06-04T10:36:35.219-05:002010-06-04T10:36:35.219-05:00One of my favorite verses from one of my favorite ...One of my favorite verses from one of my favorite books: "In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." (Ecclesiastes 1:18). <br /><br />And FWIW, I agree with Sean. Any Latter-day Saint who doesn't just pay lip service but really believes the 9th Article of Faith and the principle of continuing revelation must also agree that everyone's Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02992194211469009236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956057989227103850.post-4107066354012407982010-06-04T10:03:41.145-05:002010-06-04T10:03:41.145-05:00Truth doesn't evolve. We evolve to understand ...Truth doesn't evolve. We evolve to understand Truth at a deeper level. Just as one cannot negate Truth or supplant one Truth with "new" Truth. For all Truth is circumscribed in one eternal whole and is inexcusably bound together. <br /><br />The Truth 18yo Abe discovered is just as real an important as the Truth the middle aged Abe discovered about himself. Truth embraces Truth Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03828931862423178491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956057989227103850.post-8971774557852821692010-06-04T10:01:26.764-05:002010-06-04T10:01:26.764-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03828931862423178491noreply@blogger.com