So we're put here on earth, 99+% of us are born into non-LDS families. Our task is to find the ONE TRUE CHURCH to bring us back to the presence of our HF.
But there are a gazillion churches and religions out there with only one of them being the true church--our task is to find it.
Imagine if the DMV/DOT ran things this way. Imagine you are driving down the highway and there are signs of all different colors and shapes. Red signs, blue signs, green signs, yellow signs, big signs, triangular signs etc.
Imagine that all the signs say different things--different max and min speed limits, different instructions about what lane to be in etc. Further imagine that only one special color and shape of sign is the correct one. Your job is to figure out which set of signs is the right one. And there are cameras all over the roads writing out tickets for those who disobey the TRUE signs.
That's the best Elohim could come up with in running his world.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/27/2013 07:59PM by baura.
Elohim: Jehovah go unto Peter, James and John. Instruct them to to go down and grant unto Adam and Eve a drivers license to be carried on the left shoulder. This is a class C license intended for non-commercial vehicles weighing 26,000 pounds or less GVW except motorcycles. Instruct them to give unto them the laws of traffic, and cause these to be received by covenant. Jehovah: It shall be done Elohim. Peter, James and John: go down and grant unto Adam and Eve a drivers license to be carried on the left shoulder. This is a class C license intended for non-commercial vehicles weighing 26,000 pounds or less GVW except motorcycles. Give unto them the laws of traffic, and cause these to be received by covenant. PJJ: We will go down Jehovah...
Adam and Eve may eventually get up to a full CDL to be carried on the right shoulder.
This would actually be easier, because you could deliberately and methodically test all the road signs. Once you discovered the consistent pattern of transgression and punishment, you would have it made (you would simply ignore all other road signs).
The problem in the gospel is, even if you test it methodically, you get different results. Nothing is repeatable. Not only that, but the one true signs always change (both inter and intra dispensation). So now you've got signage that randomly changes and punishments (or rewards) arbitrarily being applied across the board. Oh, and certain drivers are being profiled. And some don't even get to drive, until revelation is received permitting them to obtain diver's licenses. It is just so fucked up, basically.
It just goes to show that you CANNOT test/experiment on the word, so to speak, the same way you can test any natural phenomena. The rules of science don't apply--can't apply, because the system is arbitrary and therefore requires faith to accept those things which are inconsistent with the claims. Dumb, dumb, dumb. They need to take that falsely scientific language out of the BoM, because it is bull.
However, I am sure I would immediately be able to recognize the roads that Big Elohim wanted me to take because they would be toll roads that cost you ten percent of your gross, and on top of that you would need a signed permission slip from your bishop proving you paid the toll to go on them.
And if I ever did not know which sign was the correct sign, I could just pray and H.G. would tell me.
And add to this idea the fact that you only find out you're supposed to be seeking THE ONE TRUE CHURCH *after* you've found it. The other 99+%, the ones who don't know which sign to follow, have no way of knowing they're even supposed to be looking for the right sign!