Posted by:
dinah
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Date: December 19, 2014 01:52PM
Here's the issue I'm struggling with lately....
I feel like this comes up a lot - Mormons tell each other how wonderful it is that we know God's plan, how wonderful that we have "access" to the atonement, how wonderful that the sealing power is on the earth, how wonderful that we know where we're going after this life (and we have the covenant pass to get to the best place).
Part of leaving Mormonism for me is leaving behind this fairy tale of having all the answers. Based on other posts here lately, I'd guess that some of you know what I mean when I say that even though it's just a fairy tale, I remember when it felt like a nice fairy tale.
I think that for many, part of the logic that gets you to the conclusion that "the church is true" is the reasoning that God, being good, would naturally give His children the clear truth. Voila! - prophets do that for us.
Because this issue comes up so much in my conversations with members, I'm trying to find better responses or reasons why creating or requiring a church is NOT the most loving, benevolent action a God would take for His children.
Does that make sense? Do you agree? Any thoughts?