Latter-Day Saint Dad

Sparred for the first time in Karate tonight. Now I’m sitting in bed with a bag of frozen Lima beans around my wrist.

Why does God give us commandments? Is it to see if we can be perfect? He knows we can never be perfect, so is it a trick? Does God expect too much of us? I’ve found that God’s commandments are always for my benefit - they always lead me toward happiness. There’s peace in following God. I can’t work my way to heaven. Nothing I can do can get me there. It’s only through Christ that I can ever return to my Father. I don’t keep the commandments because I’m trying to earn Heaven. Every day I strive and fail and strive anew to keep the commandments because I love God and He asked me to keep His commandments. Over time it has become less about tracking what I am supposed to do or not do. Over time, I have changed as a result of all that striving and failing and striving again to follow God. Over me life, my nature has changed. Which, I think is part of the purpose. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; …I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. - Jeremiah 31:33

Little children have no need for baptism because they have no need for repentance. The Lord has taught: “baptism is unto repentance to the fulfilling the commandments unto the remission of sins.” If little children required baptism then God would cease to be God. But God isn’t changeable.

Scorched earth. Dang

Could it be….

Lies… did you even read what you wrote?

Literally could have used this earlier today with this one account. Will do better.

I believe in Jesus Christ.

Definitely one of my top 10 LDS critic misses. The heart of this argument lies the assumption: “My preferred interpretation of this short phrase means exactly what I think it means, and I don't need to consult context, surrounding scripture, or the actual teachings of the faith I'm critiquing before declaring the entire religion false.”