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Husband Loosing Job Cant Deal with it

shellbell25 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:51:04 GMT

My husband is loosing his job at the 1st of the year and I cant deal with this. We have been down this road so many times. I don't know how we will make it fnancially. I wish the holidays weren't coming. I am so upset and I my prayers are never answered. Please someone help me.

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Question about a finer point of Mormon doctrine.

IHeartAquinas — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:03:19 GMT

It is my understanding that Mormonism denies that God and Christ were one and the same. Mormons believe that God took a wife and Christ has a god-like "mother." This aside (as I could be wrong about the god-like, non-Marian mother), I am fairly certain that Mormonism teaches, like JW, that Christ is a separate being altogether from God.

That being said, how does this mesh with 3 Nephi :14?

Quote:

(Jesus said) Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.

This passage obviously equates God the Father as being the same essence and same person as Christ the Son. I know there are a few very devout Mormons on this site, and I would appreciate if one or some could either give me an apologetic explanation (similar to the apologetical theme of this entire website) or correct me if I am altogether mistaken on this particular belief of Mormonism.

Thanks! :)

PS--the version of the Book of Mormon I'm using as reference is the 1981 edition copyrighted by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Also, for reference, the section in the beginning followed by the testimonies of the various witnesses states "This edition contains corrections that seem appropriate to bring the material into conformity with prepublication manuscripts and early editions edited by the Prophet Joseph Smith." Nowhere does it say whether these corrections were inserted before 1981 or specifically for the 1981 printing, so I must assume it was the latter (as I received this copy new last summer, and the latest copyright is 1981). I beg pardon in advance from any Mormon who decides to answer this question if the passage cited is different from an earlier edition.

Global warming: Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and emails

didymus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:48:13 GMT

Examiner.com

Quote:

Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and emails

The University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre appears to have suffered a security breach earlier today, when an unknown hacker apparently downloaded 1079 e-mails and 72 documents of various types and published them to an anonymous FTP server. These files appear to contain highly sensitive information that, if genuine, could prove extremely embarrassing to the authors of the e-mails involved. Those authors include some of the most celebrated names among proponents of the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW).

Some of the most embarrassing e-mails are attributed to Philip Jones, the Director of the CRU; Keith Briffa, his assistant; Michael E. Mann of the University of Virginia; Malcolm Hughes at the University of Arizona; and others. One such e-mail makes references to the famous "hockey-stick" graph published by Mann in the journal Nature:
I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline. Mike's series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.

The emphasis in the above quote was added.

As embarrassing as the e-mails are, some of the documents are more embarrassing. They include a five-page PDF document titled The Rules of the Game, that appears to be a primer for propagating the AGW message to the average subject/resident of the United Kingdom. The document suggests that it is a precis of a longer document housed at the Web site of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Hello

mrsklord — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:31:50 GMT

Hello, everyone! I am new to this site.

My husband and I will be moving to the Midwest, right after Christmas, to live closer to his family. As soon as we get there, I plan on visiting the priest at my husband's family's church to finally convert to Catholicism, something I've wanted to do for some time now.

Could anyone tell me anything about the process? I was baptized and confirmed (United Church of Christ) back in the 1980s. I feel like I learned next to nothing back then. Will I need to be re-baptized and re-confirmed?

We want to be re-married in my husband's family's church, anyway, but I am wondering if we will HAVE to remarry? When we got married in 2003, it was by a justice of the peace. I'm just curious.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Have a good day, all! :-)

Old Testament Atrocities

dav3203 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:22:21 GMT

Hello to everyone!

NB I'm seeking direct (explanatory) responses to this particular issue...

Situation:
A common accusation is that the God of the Old Testament is 'evil' - or, to quote Dawkins, "a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully" (from his bestseller :D ) Now this kind of accusation is (like Dawkins') generally accompanied by rhetoric but no real evidence other than a handful of OT quotes (for instance 1 Samuel 15:13).
So naturally this kind of accusation has not really been addressed seriously by most Christians, because it's simply a weak argument. However, despite that truth, it raises a point - those handfuls of quotes certainly don't sit easily with our modern understanding of God.

Of course, exploring the historical and literal context (form criticism) and its implications, will be of key importance in coming to an understanding that allows these quotes to agree with our modern understanding; my question would be how exactly we explain this process. What exactly do these contexts entail?

*If God commands us to do something, then the very fact of his command is reason enough to explain the change of the moral status of an action, even an action which may originally have been immoral. Thus, for example, Abraham's action to sacrifice Isaac - in the absence of a command from God - would indeed have been atrocious. But the very fact that God issued his command to Abraham, changes the situation altogether. What was originally an immoral action is now an act of submission, of obedience toward God. Thus Abraham commits no wrong.*
Now there isn't anything illogical about this, and I have taken it out of the full context of his argument (it's only a small part of his talk) but even as a whole, this argument and others don't appear to be satisfactory. I know that many things don't have a satisfactory answer, but answers like these really don't cut it.>

So, what are some of your responses?

most common surnames?

didymus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:29:29 GMT

I work at a shelter for homeless families and over the years I've noticed that among our clients Williams and Johnson are the most common last names, with Miller a close third.

Just wondering how things are in your statistical universe (customers, clients, suspects, whatever), what names do you encounter most often?

Resources re: Vatican II changes, Latin/English, etc.?

milkbar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:59:07 GMT

I'm in RCIA at the moment. If we're going to cover these things, we haven't yet. And anyway, I do better with reading than with listening.

I have almost no prior experience with the Catholic church, its traditions, culture, history, etc. I hear about Vatican II all the time. Is there a Cliff's Notes type thing where I can get a broad outline of what the significance of Vatican II is/was to those practicing at the time, what changes were made, what's different now, why some people seem to be miffed about this or that..? Some people seem to see it in a positive light, others not so much. I don't really want to start up a discussion here because I gather it might be a hot-button issue... but links to resources you know are accurate would be helpful... hopefully, unbiased resources aimed at someone like me who knows close to zilch at this point.

Also, the same re: Latin vs. English. Why does it matter to some people and not to others? I don't know Latin yet. I'm thankful I know what's being said at Mass, seeing as how I was raised in a Protestant church where I understood what was being said. Unbiased links re: why the change, why some people like it and others really, really don't?

Thanks in advance. Please don't yell at me if these are things best not spoken of. I want to know what fish swim in the Tiber and if any have sharp teeth..

Pirates Kill Ship Captain

fultonfish — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:18:33 GMT

Looks like the Muslim pirates have escalated the violence.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ory?id=9136207

[When are we going to stop the "gun control" and start fighting back?]

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Heaven

w_stewart — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:56:52 GMT

The book of St. Faustina, testimonies of Don Bosco and many other saints, detailed the true nature of hell. But I have yet to read books and testimonies of the saints about heaven.

Are there recorded revelations of the actual state of heaven by God through his saints similar to the detailed narration of Don Bosco as to the nature of hell?

Augustine, Aquinas, and and Orthodox Theology?

InquisitiveCath — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:47:20 GMT

St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas are generally the two figures who loom large in the Western theological (and philosophical) mind of the Catholic Church.

Given the critical importance to the intellectual history of our Church, i've always wondered what exactly our Eastern Orthodox brethren thought of them. What i've encountered is a gigantic "bandwidth" of opinion ranging from rather conciliatory accounts to outright accusations of heresy and theological folly.

My mind is reeling, and i have to ask the question if anyone might clarify just what is found to be objectionable in the theological ponderings of either saint and to whom does the Orthodox Churches turn to in setting up their alternative theology?

Prayer of Peace Day 290

Sherriesalinas — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:35:10 GMT

Dear Lord please continue to wrap your warm loving hands around precious mother earth. Guide us Dear Lord to have peace within us always. May we always have you in our thoughts when we go about our day. May we think/walk and be peaceful to all. Dear Lord please hear my prayer. Amen. May all that care for world peace please pray for peace for all.

Prayer For The Precious Unborn Souls Day 280

Sherriesalinas — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:30:29 GMT

Dear Lord help us to help others to understand that the precious unborn souls are meant to be born. We will continue to help others to understand that the unborn are being sent down to precious mother earth to have their lives and to do your will. Dear Lord please hear my prayer. Amen. May all that care for the unborn please pray they are born.

Am I just being selfish?

kittery — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:30:25 GMT

I don't know if my frustration is borne of selfishness, or if it's a normal response to this situation.... My husband is from a very large family (one of 15 kids). A couple of his sibs only call us when they need something- it could be straight up asking for cash that they do not intend to pay back, to a week-long place for a kid or two of theirs to stay, to using our truck to make loads to the dump or to the metal recycling place. My husband does not turn down any of their requests, although he has told one sibling a few times that we could not afford to give the amount of cash he was requesting.

What's irking me most lately, is that about a year ago, we bought a used truck and ever since, his family has used it more than we have. Recently, however, he's been asked to come over to help two different sibs in particular to clean up junk. He goes and helps and ends up driving to the dump and paying for the dump fees to boot! We never get paid gas or anything like that either?

Selfish of me to feel irked?