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    AFTER ALL we can do - Comprehensive List. Hundreds of Mormon Rules

    After All We Can Do What is required for Mormons to receive saving grace? The Book of Mormon makes it clear that Mormons only receive grace after they do all they can do. In the Book of 2 Nephi 25:23 it says: (emphasis added) "... it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do."...
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    "keep an open mind"...what does that really mean?

    Yep. Good to know your own biases though that way you won't fool yourself for 40 years like I did.
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    "keep an open mind"...what does that really mean?

    Open Minded to me means that you will listen and evaluate objectively. We can try to be as objective as possible or think that we are being objective. But humans are not machines. We have biases that shape our decision making process. en . wikipedia . org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases Here...
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    How can Christianity and Judaism both exist?

    I tried that. It doesn't work.
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    Is baptism essential to salvation??

    That's irrelevant to the question of if the Messiah needed to be baptized or why Jesus thought he needed to.
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    Is baptism essential to salvation??

    I was wondering if something was missing because Jesus is always quoting from the OT. And when he tells John he has to be baptized to complete all things I was wondering where in the OT it talks about the Messiah needing to be baptized. Or that anyone needs to or why Jesus was inclined to do it.
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    How would alienlife fit into Christian Worldview?

    Just my opinion but I think it would be egotistical of us to think that we are the sum of all of God's creation. He is infinite so I can only imagine that there is other life out there.
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    Is baptism essential to salvation??

    Was baptism common before John? Did he start it or just popularize it? I've always wondered that because I don't remember baptism being talked about in the OT
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    How can Christianity and Judaism both exist?

    When that happens how will he prove his lineage? Isn't the genealogy far to muddled now to ever fulfill prophesy?
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    Did Jesus say he was God???

    I was expecting to see the math somewhere to explain those odds. I don't really know how you can quantify a prediction with odds.
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    Did Jesus say he was God???

    That's what I figured. But I'd still like to read about and understand all sides before I just give up.
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    Did Jesus say he was God???

    I can't guarantee I will figure it out, only that I'm open to new ideas. I just can't accept that they are two separate beings anymore which would be polytheism. (as per 1st vision), Nor do I understand how they are "one God" as per Mormon 7:7. I can't explain it, not sure if I ever will be...
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    How can you prove something that is invisible is real?

    You don't. And the bible warns about that:
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    Did Jesus say he was God???

    @Mark2020 Looks interesting, I'll read it.
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    Did Jesus say he was God???

    Please help me out here. I only converted to Christianity a month ago. Before that I was a Mormon. As a Mormon I believed that Jesus was the son of God but not actually God incarnate. I'm struggling with what I now believe which is that I don't know what to believe. I see nothing in...
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    True or Useful?

    This thread caught my attention because of a quote by Mormon Apostle: Boyd K. Packer, "The Mantle is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect," Address to the Fifth Annual CES Religious Educators' Symposium, 1981; see also Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1991), 101-122...
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