Re: Heavenly Mother ? God angered by devotion & worship of the of

On Feb 14, 9:38 am, joseph_daniel_zuki...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 2月12日, 午前6:19, rasqual <scott.marqua...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Would it imperil the celestial salvation of LdS at all, if they
actively rejected belief in HM?

Depends on the individual, the time, and on what said individual might
understand at that particular time (and other issues, which are issues
of context, but which, being called issues of context, lose meaning).

CFR, please?

Some official Mormon teaching on this -- perhaps from LdS.org?

If they believed emphatically that HM
did not exist, and that LdS who believe so are "weak brothers" who are
engaging in frontier superstition -- who need to be humored but gently
encouraged to be turned toward more fundamental matters of greater
import in respect of eternal salvation?

Well, my understanding of things is that pride tends to be other than
a saving influence.

Why would that be pride, whereas summary denunciations of
fundamentalist Mormons by church leaders would not be pride as well?

In general, any time we believe in any principle to the point where we
feel a need to "convert" our "weak brothers" who don't believe the
same we, we have lost our testimonies in the core truths.

So any time a genuinely flighty brother is speculating into the ozone
like some theological Peter Pan, your sense of personal guilt should
keep you silent, on the ground, just watching him float off into the
distance?

Barring issues of pride, I would not see that as a specific
determinant, without correlating it with the individual's continued
focus on the fundamentals. If belief in a heavenly mother (capitalized
or otherwise) leads the individual to faith in Jesus, to repentance,
to prayer (but to Heavenly Father), scripture study, etc., it would
not be an impediment. If it leads away, it would.

How about belief in a heavenly menagerie of pets? I'm not being
facetious. Or what if the price of all those benefits was that this
person would also pray to HM. How could you deny the evidence of
increased faith in Jesus, increased repentence, increased prayer and
scripture study, if enumerated among all these increases was the
simple addition of at least a modicum of prayer to HM?

- S

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