[threeonefour]

i am an "inactive" mormon. so while i am not into the church, i have 18 years of going every week (plus 4 years of seminary) under my belt. if you have questions you can pm me.

First, I would like to say that so much of religious writing (both inside and outside of Christianity) is figurative or at least highly dependent on the context in which it was written. like others have said, you obviously aren't going to get the story by going to an anti site.

i am pretty knowledgeable about the church but there are a couple of doctrine's listed in the OP that i am not familiar with including:


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God ("Heavenly Father") has at least one wife, our "Mother in Heaven," but she is so holy that we are not to discuss her nor pray to her.

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iirc the first part is common conjecture but has never been revealed as official doctrine. i have never seen reference to the "so holy" bit and i am guessing whatever source material this was taken from was not official or out of context.

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Jesus Christ was conceived by God the Father by having sex with Mary, who was temporarily his wife.

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i don't really remember the answer to this one, but i think it is somewhat miswritten. Reasonably if Jesus was infact a human then he must have been created through means similar to biological ones. ie sperm + egg, 46 chromosomes, and all that jazz. so i *think* standard doctrine is that god the father provided the sperm in some manner, but i don't think i have ever read a source that states that God stuck his penis in her rather than just making her pregnant by virtue of his omnipotence.


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Christ will not return to earth in any year that has seen a rainbow.


[/ QUOTE ] this one i have absolutely never heard of, unlike all the others. nothing else to say about that really.

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Mormons should avoid traveling on water, since Satan rules the waters.

[/ QUOTE ] this one is true but i'd just like to say that it doesn't mean that mormons are not supposed to go boating or swimming (though it does mean that for missionaries with few exceptions).


in the past doctrines part, the adam god doctrine and the blood atonement i have also never heard of. i guess it not that unusual to be unfamiliar with old doctrine though, i am sure 95% of catholics have little understanding of their churches past policies.


pretty much everything else i have heard of and could speak to the meaning and implications of the doctrines at least somewhat. so let me know if you have any questions.