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3 posted on 02/21/2011 3:46:30 PM PST by greyfoxx39 ("This administration has turned off America's beacon to the world for freedom and left darkness")
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“In abandoning sin one cannot merely wish for better conditions. He must make them. … He must eliminate anything which would stir the old memories.

“Does this mean that the man who has quit smoking or drinking or had sex pollutions finds life empty for a time? The things which engaged him and caught his fancy and occupied his thoughts are gone, and better substitutions have not yet filled the void. This is Satan’s opportunity. The man makes a start but may find the loss of the yesterday’s habits so great that he is enticed to return to his evil ways, and his lot thus becomes infinitely worsened. …

How mormonese! When describing sin, "smoking and drinking" come before "sex pollution"...I wonder if that sex pollution definition would be marrying underage girls, other men's wives, polygamy the way Joseph Smith did?

Surely not! The worse sin is drinking a beer while having a cigarette!

4 posted on 02/21/2011 4:07:00 PM PST by greyfoxx39 ("This administration has turned off America's beacon to the world for freedom and left darkness")
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A simple quiz to see if one merits salvation according to mormonism...

http://mrm.org/repentance-quiz


9 posted on 02/21/2011 5:47:58 PM PST by SZonian (July 27, 2010. Life begins anew.)
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