Open to changing my mind | 22 | Latter-day Saint, Ecomodernist, (Casual) Musician, Indie game dev | Projects, Writing, Science, All things interesting
Idaho, USA
Joined January 2018
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How do you know your sect is correct?
You’ve had authentic experiences w/ scripture, revelation, visions, dreams, NDEs, spiritual gifts, indescribable peace & joy, sermons (reverent and guided by Spirit), nature, art, music, miracles, healing, angels, even demons
But the sect?
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Reminder that the history of creedal Christianity is way worse yet more widely defended than LDS priesthood-temple ban, blood atonement, penalties, etc., even adjusting for 10x the timespan. Danites, Mountain Meadows, FLDS aren’t comparable since they were insubordination. I like to focus on what people get right but the replies prompted this response :/
Oof. This is an infallible declaration of the Catholic Church.
Do you all really believe this?
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The Council of Florence In Cantate Domino (1442), the council declared:
"All those who are outside the catholic church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the catholic church before the end of their lives."
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Critical to this shift was understanding the nature of revelation. Big thanks to @BSpackman @ThoughtfulSaint among others :D
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I realized there was less conflict in the sciences with my faith than I thought. It became fulfilling to be more open to academia while testing my assumptions to see if they are supported by the Restoration. Of course, I still think there’s plenty of Satanic influence… ↓
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Overall pattern: Once I was convinced of macroevolution (e.g., phylogeny reconstructed from genomes + fossil record), I considered that God can do what He wants. He still guided the entire process to make this amazing universe, even if temporarily able to decay ↓
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Mesoamerican core but Lehites populated an uninhabited continent → Accepting mainstream consensus of peopling of Americas, seen as compatible w/ later small-group Near Eastern migrations + subsequent acculturation per the Sorenson model w/ additions from Gardner + Grover… ↓
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