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From the article: The Truth in Love billboard featuring a despairing woman follows studies about depression by Mental Health America - formerly the National Mental Health Association - and Express Scripts... Mental Health America ranked Utah as the most depressed state... The Express Scripts study showed that Utah residents are prescribed antidepressant drugs at twice the national average.

Well, aside from the hectic pace of having to uncover everybody who's ever lived birth & death info, temple rituals, seminary school for high schoolers @ ungodly hours, large-family care, extra work to pay for all your children's missionary work, countless do's & don'ts, etc.

When you look up "worthiness" (a key Lds concept) in the 1977 "Topical Guide to the Scriptures of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" published by church-owned Deseret Publishers, you find verses like Doctrine & Covenants 59:4: "And they shall also be crowned with blessings from above, yea, and with commandments not a few, and with revelations in their time--they that are faithful and diligent before me."

"Commandments not a few"? -- sounds like a long checklist to me.

In Lds "prophet" Spencer W. Kimball's book, "The Miracle of Forgiveness," he said if Mormons "repent" of a sin -- but then re-commit that same sin...guess what? Well, that person never really repented of that sin in the first place! Imagine all the LDS "young people" who have "repented" of the sin of lust. But then they lust again. (Well, the LDS "prophet" said that then they never really repented of it to begin with -- they're all back to ground zero).

It's like imagining a spiritual game of Shoots & Ladders where most of the contestants always wind up back @ the bottom. Why? 'Cause it's a "game" based entirely upon the ability of somebody to self-will and self-repent once & for all from every single sin out there. Sins of commission. Sins of omission. All thousands of the types of sins out there. Catalogued 1 by 1.

Now that's depressing!

5 posted on 12/29/2009 10:42:47 AM PST by Colofornian (If you're not going to drink the coffee, at least wake up and smell it!)
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Those who live by salvation by works must live miserable lives trying to keep account of EVERY single sin that they may or may not have sinned or even trying to remember it all... what a mess that is.
There are sin's that we are not even aware of that we commit ( go ask JOB ) .....
Thing is ? those who live by salvation by works sin more than those who live by salvation by grace because they are not aware of their sin of pride ( Self Righteousness ) and never have repented of their pride in their self righteousness.
Those who live by salvation by works ? guess what ? you shall live by the law and keep every jot and tittle of the law and you shall be judged by the law... and shall not BREAK any part of the law if that is how you want to live, but ? the problem is ? NO ONE is capable of keeping all of the law no matter how much we try.
14 posted on 12/29/2009 11:30:39 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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