How to Get the LDS Church Growing Again
to Actually Gather Israel
If the true
gospel of Christ is such a great eternal program, the entire reason for the
earth's existence, why isn't that church growing quickly and positively
affecting the nations, as it reliably meets their needs on many levels? The truth is that
what is now being presented as the one true church is really nothing much more than
the old law of Moses, not the original gospel of Christ. Today's tithing, paid
ministry, and fixation with super-expensive physical temples identifies it as
only slightly different from the old law of Moses elements of rigorous tithing supporting the Levites, Priests,
Scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, Sanhedrin, and the Temple of Herod, all controlling
the Jewish culture of Christ's time, the very ideology and society he condemned
and very emphatically replaced. Classic Mosaic Judaism did not go viral in its own time, for very good reasons, and we should not expect the modern version to do any better.
With the
sacrament and individual charity as the only remaining practical religious duties, Christ's church quickly grew from a small beginning until it became the religion of Rome
and of the Holy Roman Empire, and finally the basis for our freedom-loving
Western Civilization. Over centuries, that original church deteriorated, was eventually restored, and then deteriorated again, which brings us down to today. Only
another major cleansing and simplification can get us back to the original
version and allow the gospel to have the full effect intended – to prepare the
earth for the millennium. The New Testament vigorously promotes charity, while today it is almost forbidden, lest individual charity by members interfere with the centralization of tithing monies.
(See MormonAudit.com for a book-length (unpolished and unpublished) treatment of the many relevant issues.)
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Participate in anonymous responses to survey questions. There are preselected and preconstructed answers provided that can be chosen. These standardized answers make possible tabulating the results for analysis. Those results can then be put in report form periodically. In the optional comment blocks, more detail can be added, or other issues can be brought into the discussion, but it is done anonymously.
Go to Qualtrics website to participate in those anonymous surveys.
Qualtrics survey
Option 2: Personal comment on this blog
Participate in personally identifiable "eponymous" responses. This allows for more detail on some topics or for bringing in other issues not included in the standardized questions. This can be done directly on this website.
Option 3: Longer comment or article on separate blog
For truly free-form issue exploration about any and all LDS-related topics, go to MormonOpenForum.blogspot.com blog where you can say whatever you have on your mind. I assume this material will be moderated. It needs to be kept civil and non-profane or you might get bleeped or deleted.
A few
possible answers:
Choose the one or ones that best match your opinion or
reaction (you may offer comments in the space provided if you wish to clarify
your answer)
1. The statement
above is crazy.
2. The statement
above is apostate to even consider.
3. As an
ordinary member, I see these sorts of questions as none of my business. It is
"above my pay grade." I leave all doctrine and policy matters to
church leaders.
4. I would
rather pay tithing and leave it up to the leaders as to what to do with it than
worry about how to be individually charitable to others with that money under
New Testament rules, even when the church pays out as humanitarian aid less
than 1% of the tithing it receives from members.
5. I accept
current church policy, and disagree with the statement above. The law of Moses
is completely compatible with the law of Christ, even though Christ condemned
and ended the law of Moses. All of the Old Testament is compatible with all of
the New Testament, and mixing them is fine. A paid ministry like the Levites in
the Old Testament, and the ones that Nehor and Korihor tried to start in the
Book of Mormon, and today's thousands of paid church employees are just fine,
even though the Book of Mormon condemns paid ministry/priestcraft without
exception. See Alma 1. Some paid ministries are fine and others are not. Paying
tithing is an adequate replacement for exercising generous personal charity. 1
Cor. 13 is just a suggestion, not the heart of the new law.
6. I am
inclined to accept the statement above as accurate, but I am not willing to do
anything to encourage any changes in church policy or behavior.
7. I
believe that this should first become a public issue and later become an action
item within church circles.
8. All of
the above.
9. None of
the above.
10. Other (describe):
