Apparently I can't say that all of the Saints Unscripted videos are wonderful without raising absolutist red flags, so I'll only say that *almost* every Saints Unscripted video is wonderful and uplifting! 😉Thank you guys! Your work is a wonderful blessing for me!
I converted last January and I have to admit that it bothered me. But I turned to prayer and specifically asked Heavenly Father if all was true. I got my answer when I felt the Holy Ghost surround me. It was a feeling that I hadn’t felt in a very long time. I’m convinced that we could do a whole lot better if we combined with our other brothers and sisters from other faiths by asking them to join us in doing and being more Christ like actions. The only way we will see our future is through being better Christians (yes I’m convinced we of the LDS faith are Christian) and coming together to support God’s works in these last days. While we all might not be missionaries in name, we are purveyors of Jesus Christ’s teachings and His great commandment is to spread His Word throughout our world. I’m glad that Heavenly Father found me again and lifted me above the noise of the world and back into his church-no matter the denomination. I’m convinced that if we all listened, he’d do the same for all of us, no matter if we were apart from Him for a while or a brand new Christian. All it takes is to listen for the still small voice. And it’s a lot easier than listening for a contentious spirit. The first beatitude is Blessed are the Peacemakers for they are called Children of God and that’s the greatest thing that anyone can be called. I say this in the name of Jesus and I believe that it is true! Amen!
Great episode, love your humor and all cartoons and cutaways ,I have been a member for two years, and Love the LDS Church the best thing to ever happen to me is meeting the Missionaries the Restored Gospel saved my life, and Saints Unscripted helped me calm my anxiety, you guys are awesome and very encouraging thank you 😊❤
In my Patriarchal Blessing it says, “in the pre-mortal worlds” . We also know the God has created worlds without end. If Christ’s atonement is infinite and eternal, how blessed are we to have had Christ actually on this earth.
10:05 if you have a hard time thinking about how matter has always existed before now, then consider the consequences of matter we at least think we understand scientifically now. Where does matter go when the thing it is made into gets destroyed? Rust and moth doth corrupt the things of creation. If you look at the lifespan of things, take metals for instance. Let's look at copper. You have formed a copper pipe out of the available elements and now use it for drinking water. In time that pipe will turn green from corrosion. In time that corrosion will turn a once solid pipe into particles of green dust. Where does the dust go? Did the dust of that copper pipe cease to exist? Nope. It is still on this earth, either on the ground, in the water and filtered into your body or floating around in the air for some time. You can do this exercise with all pieces of matter. From what we can hold in our hand to dark matter to particles of light that are eventually filtered out by the things they hit. (This is why stars seem to sparkle.) So in this case study, where do all the pieces go? They continue on transforming into something else. If all matter is continually changing, then how can you expect matter to just disappear some day? If creation was exnihilo, then matter has to eventually end. But, it doesn't. How do we know this? We look back in time in the cosmos and see history of trillions of light years past and we can observe what happened then, because of the amazing results of wavelengths of all sorts. What happens to a star when it dies? It becomes a nebula. What happens to a nebula in a great amount of time? More often then not it turns into a new star. And each color of stars represents a different stage of their life cycles. If matter always changes, when does it end? If it never ends, it that the definition of eternal?❤
I was taken aback by the Spirit I felt in this episode. I never would’ve expected to feel this way when watching a reaction to commenters video. Thank you for everything you did to invite the Spirit.
Your responses are extremely civil. I feel like if I was to respond to some of the insane arguments against the church I would be a little more abrasive. Good job guys!
Our Primary kids had an activity and met with the Temple President of our temple. One of the kids asked, 'What is God made of?' That is really a profound question if you think about it. You can't have a God that is 'made of nothing', so there must be some kind of material for God to be made of that exists at least from the moment God starts to exist. And since we all agree that God has always existed, the 'stuff' God is made of must have always existed as well.
@@kcb5336 You can't expect a 6 year old to know all of Mormon Doctrine 101. The point I was making was about how you can't have God being made of nothing, which is a bit of a problem for non-Mormons who go with ex-nihilo creation. For God to exist, he has to be made of something, so that something he is made of must be as eternal as He is.
Well done gentleman. And I do mean gentleman. I agree, there is so much evil out there let’s stand together and stop bickering about who is right, and who worships the correct God, and who loves the real Jesus. We really could do so much good. In fact we have! You should interview this couple from our ward who went on a service mission to Cypress. They were constantly working with other faiths that had already established a program for the needs of their communities. We simply helped them. So much good was accomplished by working with other faiths. Also, the Show Low AZ Stake has an annual fast at Thanksgiving time that involves several other churches in the community. The community is encouraged to fast anytime they would like during the designated week and donate the money to help the less fortunate in the community around Christmas. Thousands of dollars has been raised. The pastors and leaders of all of these churches get together and decide how the funds are spent. The best part of the week is when everyone meets together for a program where each church has members perform a musical number or two. At the end a combined choir from all the churches perform a number. We hear stories of how people were helped the previous year. It’s always fantastic!
@@suem6004 doctrine isn’t discussed. A pastor from one of the other churches may say a prayer or give a speech. It’s a little different than what we do, but it’s wonderful. That’s the beauty of it. Its just an annual community fast and on a Sunday everyone gets together to enjoy some beautiful music and listening to how we were able to help the community. No one cares about the difference in doctrine. We all care about the commandments to love thy neighbor. One year they had different schools refer families. They were able to help sooooo many people.🥰
I L O V E..... The inserted cartoos🥳💥🎯. NEVER GET RID OF ThOSe👍. I play your videos for nightly scripture study on the side and those little inserts keep my kids interested. They look forward to video time for that reason. They're TEENAGERS TOO so I need all the help I can get😊😊😊😊😊
I am a 65 year old lifelong LDS member in England. (stake patriarch) I watch your shows to try and better understand what young LDS minds are thinking. By and large you are all impressive. Keep it up.
The last comment response was profound. Since President Nelson's GC talk on being a peacemaker, I have heard the phrase "we are not the enemy" over and over in my mind. Christians of ALL kinds would be an amazing force for good in this world if we were united.
Indeed they copy and paste the same lies. One by the name of Paul Gregersen debunked the Egyptologists by presenting proper interpretation. Paul demonstrates that Joseph Smith was right, the Egyptologists were wrong. What do the haters do? They show up and paste the lie that Joseph Smith mistranslated the Book of Abraham papyri. Even though Gregersen debunked the Egyptologists by presenting proper interpretation.
A well needed topic on how we engage on these things in our comments on line. It is obvious to discern the intellectual honesty when these ad-hominem comments and lack of information to support their grievances exist. It really seems to come down to if our communications are bearing fruit meet for repentance or not? I try to use this formula and it is hard I admit. Nevertheless, like a testimony SHOULD be, tell me why you believe what you do. This appears to lack in many of our communications if we are just expending breath in being right vs being patient, humble, long suffering….you get the idea I hope.
I enjoy watching your videos and learning. I am a Christian and I will say that the fundamental reason why mainstream Christians will not cooperate with the LDS church is because the LDS church teaches a different God, a different Jesus, and a different salvation. The New Testament teaches that we are to separate from false teachers. At the end of the day that is how we view the teachings of the LDS church, a false gospel. I would love to talk to you more about this anytime we could.
I would love you guys to do a video on how wards and branches are drawned. I’m a member of the Meramec River Ward in the St. Louis Missouri South Stake! I lived in the same house and have already been drawn into 4 different wards and three different meetinghouses including my Stake Center!! That’s also the Ward that Pastor Jeff visited months ago but sadly I was on vacation that Sunday so I wasn’t able to meet him!! And in this video, please explain and show examples of why they are drawn the way they are and why people go where they live and now always what building is the closest. Sometimes people request to attend different wards that they don’t live in the boundary line of that unit but I’ve always been told that it going against where the Lord needs us if someone is attending the unit that they don’t live in. I would like to understand this better and I think it would be a great video!! Please let me know if this is possible!!!!👍
Wards are based on priesthood availability, youth distribution, membership distribution. The church evens out these so say one ward has all the youth but not other wards. Youth need friendship and fellowship. Priesthood must be distributed to administer. Cannot have one struggling to get callings filled while another has not enough callings.
@@suem6004 Yes, a lot of it is based on active Melchizedek priesthood holders. And I think it can be quite a process to get changes in boundaries approved.
There are lots of things unknown to all of us. And for someone of another faith believe that they know all things shows them to be wrong about their judgement
14:04 This guy is literally fulfilling a prophesy in the BIBLE!! In Jude it talks about how people will mock us, and that they will HATE our idea of GARMENTS!! THANK YOU JEFF McLEMORE FOR FULFILLING THE BIBLE IN OUR BEHALF!!!!! (its talking about the last days in this specific spot)
Be aware of the false doctrine of the advesary. "I'm not worthy to pray, worship repent, etc." nothing divine will ever teach man to turn away from God. if those feelings come to you, then run into our Father in Heaven"s loving embrace.
Keep fulfilling 2 Nephi 28 3 For it shall come to pass in that day that the churches which are built up, and not unto the Lord, when the one shall say unto the other: Behold, I, I am the Lord’s; and the others shall say: I, I am the Lord’s; and thus shall every one say that hath built up churches, and not unto the Lord- 4 And they shall contend one with another; and their priests shall contend one with another, and they shall teach with their learning, and deny the Holy Ghost, which giveth utterance.
I think the guy who wroted about the Catholic church being true was looking for a chain of custody argument of the Priesthood from Jesus to Peter to the 1st Bishop of Rome (Linus) to ... and how it was (we believe) it was broken like in James E. Talmage's Great Apostasy. I don't know if you address this in another episode though. I love your podcast, nice and respectful.
It has been a day. I'm still shocked at the accusation that a Being who could move a google tons or more of material and have that material obey Him doesn't have power.
Hey I just wanted to say I love these videos! I’m a faithful member, soon to be missionary. I had a question for you and I’ll be posting this on a few videos in hope of a response. I think it’s possible, but do we believe that those who truly believe in Christ, and pray can be involved in miracles. For instance, can we affirm healings done by baptists and Catholics without taking away from our own beliefs?
Yes we can affirm the Holy Spirit; however, beware that Satan can also perform miracles and fraudulent miracles are often presented to gain money and followers. As a missionary, stick to Moroni 7 on how to discern. Very important.
As for the second comment about God being a weak being, in reference to Ex Nihilo.. Its interesting how the acedemic consensus on this gets so ignored, and how Dogma is put over the data, then to bend the Data to fit teh Dogma, then to proclaim that their individual interpretation of their bend Data actually confirmes their Dogma... But apart from that, the God of the LDS at least keeps up to what it states in Timothy, where it says that "God wants EVERYONE to be saved and understand the truth".. Now, if only few select make it into heaven, then either God does not have the dires to offer salvation to everyone equaly, or he is not capable to do so, and both, to me, prove that this God is not quite as strong as a being as the one portrayed within LDS ..... I struuggle with the idea of a God that can and is concerned about keeping his word inerrant and unviocal for thousand of years, but can not apply the same kind ot attitude and power towards his own´, living creations..
how is that weird? God was before everything else - including time and matter, which he created. It does go beyond our understanding of how something that has no beginning could exist, as does how one being can exist as 3 separate and distinct persons. But picture it like this - dip a thimble into the ocean - the ocean is God and the thimble is our understanding of God. While he does explain some things to us, he owes us no explanation of anything.
@@millmuv I think you misunderstand me. My point is that God is more powerful than we know, and so for anyone to make a claim of absolute knowledge about His power, His ability, or His methods is vanity; and those who claim that God absolutely did not use existing matter because that somehow underpowers Him are prideful in their thinking, for they're claiming that anything can make God less powerful.
@FaithMurri you reminded me of one other thing. I know LDSs believe God is perfect, but they also believe in eternal progression. My question is if God is already perfect, why would he need to change and progress?
I agree with the person who commented on your cartoon and movie clip inserts. I don’t think they add anything to your message, nor are they particularly amusing.
‘Don’t just tell me I’m wrong, tell me why you are right’ doesn’t seem congruous with the actual comment policy on the channel. I commented a long time ago on a video and that comment was deleted so I decided not to bother. Then David responded kindly to a recent comment of mine so I decided to substantively write about the seer stone episode. A long and excellent discussion which followed last night was then expunged. I don’t think the hosts here really want detailed critiques or pushback. Allowing more room for difficult discussions would be an improvement. Another echo chamber for LDS dogma is less needed.
Hey Salvatore -- Did your comments that are no longer showing up include links? Any comments with links from non-moderators are automatically deleted, to keep people from posting inappropriate material. I don't generally moderate comments so I'm not sure why yours would have been deleted but I'll try to look into it. Feel free to message me on facebook and I'd love to have a personal chat with you about your feedback.
@@salvatorecollura2692 unfortunately it's the world we live in. Alright I've been looking into this -- none of our moderators (that I'm aware of so far. I'll keep looking, but I've asked the main ones) have deleted any of your comments. Our main moderator (who has been around for the last few months) keeps incredibly detailed records and your name doesn't show up once as someone whose comments have been moderated. Could it be that you were commenting under someone else's comment, and that user deleted their comment (subsequently deleting all responses)? Or could there have been any language used that would have been flagged and taken down as inappropriate? I'll keep digging.
@@davidsnell2605 My comments were direct and critical but certainly not inappropriate. And I commented first, though others replied later. I appreciate your efforts to allow more open dialogue if sincere.
25 And the Lord said unto me: Marvel not that all mankind, yea, men and women, all nations, kindreds, tongues and people, must be born again; yea, born of God, changed from their carnal and fallen state, to a state of righteousness, being redeemed of God, becoming his sons and daughters; 26 And thus they become new creatures; and unless they do this, they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God.
Exactly what we as Latter Day Saint Christian’s believe … we are born again, changed from our fallen states by the power of the Holy Ghost… become new creatures in Christ as we take on His name. We not only believe we’re saved by grace, we believe we’re changed by grace as well - by His power, not ours.
8:25 bruh Critics dont know what they are talking about. If God cannot create beings that can become Gods, then He is not all powerful. And if He is not all powerful ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN CLAIM, Then he is NOT God. So critics saying we cannot become like God is just hypocrisy. That means God is bound to not being able to do that which makes him not God. They have no clue what they are talking about half the time. Same how critics say that the Book of Mormon and Bible contradict each other. But then also say the Book of Mormon copies from the bible. How can it contradict but be copied. Critics have no clue what they are saying, they just resurface the same old arguments from Joseph Smiths times that have already been debunked.
You guys are really active in your viewers comment. There will be always opposition in all things. That why I love to hear both sides before making a conclusion. I can't listen to one side because there will be some truths being told not all. By listening to both sides then it make things unbiased. I compare the Early Christian belief with the Nicene Christians. I found out they have different beliefs.
@@SaintsUnscripted Just wanted you guys to know I grew up in the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. I baptized when I was 8 years old. I am very sorry for comparing Early Christian teaching. But even though I compared it to the church I grew up it really has the early Christian teaching. Your channel help me to come out the confusion of the book that I read. Thanks for your help.
It’s important to say that it’s not just non-LDS who post hateful, anger-charged comments on the internet. I understand you are trying to defend yourselves, but I have tried to have respectful conversations with LDS online and have been met with several hateful, disrespectful, unGodly members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Some have caused me to cry. One went so far as to say he felt sorry for my husband to be married to such an ugly wench. There’s nothing like the internet that brings out the sin nature in all people.
I am sorry people pretended to be members and say such things to you. As LDS I have been called the most despicable, sexist, bigoted, vulgar things in the chats; however, I have a thicker skin. I know the truth and dont listen to the losers out there.
@@suem6004 Oh they weren’t pretending to be members, they were definitely members (unless they were lying on their Facebook pages, which I’m not sure they could get away with). But thank you, I appreciate it :)
@@Serve24 I'm not 100% sure, but I think Suem might be saying that they aren't real members because they are so disrespectful. But agreed, the internet is a tool for both good and evil, but there sure is a lot of evil.
It's funny to me how many arguments literally don't even matter in the grand scheme of things. Like, for example, the creation argument. The creation happened, and whether it happened from nothing or from preexisting material, does it even matter? We're here now either way and God is God either way, and Christ is our Savior either way. Haha
This is a question for the commentor who scolded us for having bad philosophy and those who agree with him. Where in The Bible does it say we must have good philosophy according to the philosophy and wisdom of men? It doesn't so I don't care about being deemed good by the wisdom of man. If you do, it looks like you are placing man before God.
It's not the opposition's job to provide an alternative. I know this is a common response to opposing views, but the reality is: it doesn't matter. If the church's truth claims are bunk, then they are bunk.
I think they’re saying byu architectural findings means the movie: Ancient America speaks explaining the physical evidence of the history of the Book of Mormon.
10:05 🎉 if you have a hard time thinking about how matter has always existed before now, then consider the consequences of matter we at least think we understand scientifically now. Where does matter go when the thing it is made into gets destroyed? Rust and moth doth corrupt the things of creation. If you look at the lifespan of things, take metals for instance. Let's look at copper. You have formed a copper pipe out of the available elements and now use it for drinking water. In time that pipe will turn green from corrosion. In time that corrosion will turn a once solid pipe into particles of green dust. Where does the dust go? Did the dust of that copper pipe cease to exist? Nope. It is still on this earth, either on the ground, in the water and filtered into your body or floating around in the air for some time. You can do this exercise with all pieces of matter. From what we can hold in our hand to dark matter to particles of light that are eventually filtered out by the things they hit. (This is why stars seem to sparkle.) So in this case study, where do all the pieces go? They continue on transforming into something else. If all matter is continually changing, then how can you expect matter to just disappear some day? If creation was exnihilo, then matter has to eventually end. But, it doesn't. How do we know this? We look back in time in the cosmos and see history of trillions of light years past and we can observe what happened then, because of the amazing results of wavelengths of all sorts. What happens to a star when it dies? It becomes a nebula. What happens to a nebula in a great amount of time? More often then not it turns into a new star. And each color of stars represents a different stage of their life cycles. If matter always changes, when does it end? If it never ends, it that the definition of eternal?❤
its a;lways funny when we get told we pray an other jesus; or preach an other gospel. to wich i answer : whats in your church that is in the bible? then i list priesthood,temple, ordinances , baptism ,gift of the spirit etc etc.
Wait. Our ideas can't be right because they don't agree with someone else's? Nothing in the Bible points to God creating Himself. People just speculate outside of it and make assumptions. Philosophy: what must is be first anything Science: matter is neither created nor destroyed, only changed. Uh-oh. Sounds like SOME people are anti-science. For God to create all reality, God must first exist outside of reality, in a DIFFERENT one. But isn't that still reality? Just a new dimension of where?
Keep up with science. There was a time when no protons or neutrons existed so no such thing as elements with mass. Astronomy is constantly changing so keep up. The James Webb telescope has recently toppled science upside down. So who is being anti science? Get with the 21st century.
The only similarities between christianity and the Mormon religion you have stated are “We both believe in Christ.” Which your version of Christ is not the same as Christians, no other similarities.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, "let there be light" and there was light. And the prior verse Genesis 1:2 it says that the Earth was formless and darkness covered the Earth. Light is not matter it is immaterial. So in the first three verses it tells us that God created something out of nothing. It says that he spoke it into existence. The only thing that God created from something else was man, from which he created from the dust of the ground which DA DA DAAA He created. The beliefs that the LDS hold are chock-full of logical fallacies. The LDS faith is a man-centered faith not a Jesus censored faith. Joseph Smith is their golden calf.
Apparently I can't say that all of the Saints Unscripted videos are wonderful without raising absolutist red flags, so I'll only say that *almost* every Saints Unscripted video is wonderful and uplifting! 😉Thank you guys! Your work is a wonderful blessing for me!
I converted last January and I have to admit that it bothered me. But I turned to prayer and specifically asked Heavenly Father if all was true. I got my answer when I felt the Holy Ghost surround me. It was a feeling that I hadn’t felt in a very long time. I’m convinced that we could do a whole lot better if we combined with our other brothers and sisters from other faiths by asking them to join us in doing and being more Christ like actions. The only way we will see our future is through being better Christians (yes I’m convinced we of the LDS faith are Christian) and coming together to support God’s works in these last days. While we all might not be missionaries in name, we are purveyors of Jesus Christ’s teachings and His great commandment is to spread His Word throughout our world. I’m glad that Heavenly Father found me again and lifted me above the noise of the world and back into his church-no matter the denomination. I’m convinced that if we all listened, he’d do the same for all of us, no matter if we were apart from Him for a while or a brand new Christian. All it takes is to listen for the still small voice. And it’s a lot easier than listening for a contentious spirit. The first beatitude is Blessed are the Peacemakers for they are called Children of God and that’s the greatest thing that anyone can be called. I say this in the name of Jesus and I believe that it is true! Amen!
Great episode, love your humor and all cartoons and cutaways ,I have been a member for two years, and Love the LDS Church the best thing to ever happen to me is meeting the Missionaries the Restored Gospel saved my life, and Saints Unscripted helped me calm my anxiety, you guys are awesome and very encouraging thank you 😊❤
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In my Patriarchal Blessing it says, “in the pre-mortal worlds” . We also know the God has created worlds without end. If Christ’s atonement is infinite and eternal, how blessed are we to have had Christ actually on this earth.
I have a lot of Catholic friends that never said anything like that.
I loved the thought of what we could do if we united…. That is truly the key ❤
Thay violate Church teachings when they talk that way.
10:05 if you have a hard time thinking about how matter has always existed before now, then consider the consequences of matter we at least think we understand scientifically now. Where does matter go when the thing it is made into gets destroyed?
Rust and moth doth corrupt the things of creation. If you look at the lifespan of things, take metals for instance. Let's look at copper. You have formed a copper pipe out of the available elements and now use it for drinking water. In time that pipe will turn green from corrosion. In time that corrosion will turn a once solid pipe into particles of green dust. Where does the dust go? Did the dust of that copper pipe cease to exist? Nope. It is still on this earth, either on the ground, in the water and filtered into your body or floating around in the air for some time.
You can do this exercise with all pieces of matter. From what we can hold in our hand to dark matter to particles of light that are eventually filtered out by the things they hit. (This is why stars seem to sparkle.)
So in this case study, where do all the pieces go? They continue on transforming into something else. If all matter is continually changing, then how can you expect matter to just disappear some day? If creation was exnihilo, then matter has to eventually end.
But, it doesn't. How do we know this? We look back in time in the cosmos and see history of trillions of light years past and we can observe what happened then, because of the amazing results of wavelengths of all sorts.
What happens to a star when it dies? It becomes a nebula. What happens to a nebula in a great amount of time? More often then not it turns into a new star. And each color of stars represents a different stage of their life cycles.
If matter always changes, when does it end?
If it never ends, it that the definition of eternal?❤
Because Mormons aren’t Christian
Sounds like they try to isolate their followers. At least they allow them to read the scriptures now.
Y'all were following President Nelson's counsel better than the commenters.
God knew who we are and who we would become when HE gave us this blessing. We will never be unworthy of our blessing
I like that our church agrees with Science in that matter can neither be created or destroyed.
Thank you brothers for reminding me to agree to disagree instead of getting upset at people who come after the church .
I was taken aback by the Spirit I felt in this episode. I never would’ve expected to feel this way when watching a reaction to commenters video. Thank you for everything you did to invite the Spirit.
The FORCE OF THE HOLY GHOST IS TRANSFORMATIVE, BUT GENTLE.
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Your responses are extremely civil. I feel like if I was to respond to some of the insane arguments against the church I would be a little more abrasive. Good job guys!
This channel is very interesting. I’m not LDS but I’m curious about what they truly believe and so far I’m enjoying what I’m learning
Welcome to our channel!
Is there ever a time you are too lost to look at a map? God always knows how to reach us if we turn to Him❤
Our Primary kids had an activity and met with the Temple President of our temple. One of the kids asked, 'What is God made of?' That is really a profound question if you think about it. You can't have a God that is 'made of nothing', so there must be some kind of material for God to be made of that exists at least from the moment God starts to exist. And since we all agree that God has always existed, the 'stuff' God is made of must have always existed as well.
God is made of flesh and bones This is Mormon doctrine 101.
@@kcb5336 You can't expect a 6 year old to know all of Mormon Doctrine 101. The point I was making was about how you can't have God being made of nothing, which is a bit of a problem for non-Mormons who go with ex-nihilo creation. For God to exist, he has to be made of something, so that something he is made of must be as eternal as He is.
@@crewsayer we teach them
My point is a 6 year old can understand this easily
Thank you guys for doing what you’re doing with your channel! 🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank YOU for watching!!!
Well done gentleman. And I do mean gentleman. I agree, there is so much evil out there let’s stand together and stop bickering about who is right, and who worships the correct God, and who loves the real Jesus. We really could do so much good. In fact we have! You should interview this couple from our ward who went on a service mission to Cypress. They were constantly working with other faiths that had already established a program for the needs of their communities. We simply helped them. So much good was accomplished by working with other faiths. Also, the Show Low AZ Stake has an annual fast at Thanksgiving time that involves several other churches in the community. The community is encouraged to fast anytime they would like during the designated
week and donate the money to help the less fortunate in the community around Christmas. Thousands of dollars has been raised. The pastors and leaders of all of these churches get together and decide how the funds are spent. The best part of the week is when everyone meets together for a program where each church has members perform a musical number or two. At the end a combined choir from all the churches perform a number. We hear stories of how people were helped the previous year. It’s always fantastic!
Sounds nice but many times LDS concede to others doctrines and ways. How often do they defer to LDS?
@@suem6004 doctrine isn’t discussed. A pastor from one of the other churches may say a prayer or give a speech. It’s a little different than what we do, but it’s wonderful. That’s the beauty of it. Its just an annual community fast and on a Sunday everyone gets together to enjoy some beautiful music and listening to how we were able to help the community. No one cares about the difference in doctrine. We all care about the commandments to love thy neighbor. One year they had different schools refer families. They were able to help sooooo many people.🥰
Good vibes as usual guys, nice responses. I love the cartoon and movie clips BTW. My family who are not members, would love them. 💗
Love your kindness and consideration ! Thank you!
I L O V E..... The inserted cartoos🥳💥🎯. NEVER GET RID OF ThOSe👍. I play your videos for nightly scripture study on the side and those little inserts keep my kids interested. They look forward to video time for that reason. They're TEENAGERS TOO so I need all the help I can get😊😊😊😊😊
You are both so gracious. Thank you for being good examples
I am a 65 year old lifelong LDS member in England. (stake patriarch) I watch your shows to try and better understand what young LDS minds are thinking.
By and large you are all impressive. Keep it up.
You both responded very civilly and like water off your backs to the trolls.
The last comment response was profound. Since President Nelson's GC talk on being a peacemaker, I have heard the phrase "we are not the enemy" over and over in my mind. Christians of ALL kinds would be an amazing force for good in this world if we were united.
The haters are mostly anonymous and just copy and paste the same lies.
Plus they never say which church to join
Indeed they copy and paste the same lies. One by the name of Paul Gregersen debunked the Egyptologists by presenting proper interpretation. Paul demonstrates that Joseph Smith was right, the Egyptologists were wrong. What do the haters do? They show up and paste the lie that Joseph Smith mistranslated the Book of Abraham papyri. Even though Gregersen debunked the Egyptologists by presenting proper interpretation.
Ah one of my favorite series.
A well needed topic on how we engage on these things in our comments on line. It is obvious to discern the intellectual honesty when these ad-hominem comments and lack of information to support their grievances exist. It really seems to come down to if our communications are bearing fruit meet for repentance or not? I try to use this formula and it is hard I admit. Nevertheless, like a testimony SHOULD be, tell me why you believe what you do. This appears to lack in many of our communications if we are just expending breath in being right vs being patient, humble, long suffering….you get the idea I hope.
Majority of Bible scholars believe creatio ex nihilo isn't in the Bible.
I enjoy watching your videos and learning. I am a Christian and I will say that the fundamental reason why mainstream Christians will not cooperate with the LDS church is because the LDS church teaches a different God, a different Jesus, and a different salvation. The New Testament teaches that we are to separate from false teachers. At the end of the day that is how we view the teachings of the LDS church, a false gospel. I would love to talk to you more about this anytime we could.
I would love you guys to do a video on how wards and branches are drawned. I’m a member of the Meramec River Ward in the St. Louis Missouri South Stake! I lived in the same house and have already been drawn into 4 different wards and three different meetinghouses including my Stake Center!! That’s also the Ward that Pastor Jeff visited months ago but sadly I was on vacation that Sunday so I wasn’t able to meet him!! And in this video, please explain and show examples of why they are drawn the way they are and why people go where they live and now always what building is the closest. Sometimes people request to attend different wards that they don’t live in the boundary line of that unit but I’ve always been told that it going against where the Lord needs us if someone is attending the unit that they don’t live in. I would like to understand this better and I think it would be a great video!! Please let me know if this is possible!!!!👍
Wards are based on priesthood availability, youth distribution, membership distribution. The church evens out these so say one ward has all the youth but not other wards. Youth need friendship and fellowship. Priesthood must be distributed to administer. Cannot have one struggling to get callings filled while another has not enough callings.
@@suem6004 Yes, a lot of it is based on active Melchizedek priesthood holders. And I think it can be quite a process to get changes in boundaries approved.
I think you are doing a fantastic Job.. keep it rolling
There are lots of things unknown to all of us. And for someone of another faith believe that they know all things shows them to be wrong about their judgement
14:04 This guy is literally fulfilling a prophesy in the BIBLE!! In Jude it talks about how people will mock us, and that they will HATE our idea of GARMENTS!! THANK YOU JEFF McLEMORE FOR FULFILLING THE BIBLE IN OUR BEHALF!!!!! (its talking about the last days in this specific spot)
I can wrap my head around a universe which always existed. I don't see what is so hard about that.
I worry about y'all with all of the negative comments I see on your videos. Glad to see smiles on your faces reacting to some of these 😅
I love how you take on hard questions. Well done.
Be aware of the false doctrine of the advesary. "I'm not worthy to pray, worship repent, etc."
nothing divine will ever teach man to turn away from God. if those feelings come to you, then run into our Father in Heaven"s loving embrace.
Read Brad Wilcox's talk called HOGMET; what to do when people say its not true. G stands for generalization which we hear a lot of.
Keep fulfilling 2 Nephi 28
3 For it shall come to pass in that day that the churches which are built up, and not unto the Lord, when the one shall say unto the other: Behold, I, I am the Lord’s; and the others shall say: I, I am the Lord’s; and thus shall every one say that hath built up churches, and not unto the Lord-
4 And they shall contend one with another; and their priests shall contend one with another, and they shall teach with their learning, and deny the Holy Ghost, which giveth utterance.
I think the guy who wroted about the Catholic church being true was looking for a chain of custody argument of the Priesthood from Jesus to Peter to the 1st Bishop of Rome (Linus) to ... and how it was (we believe) it was broken like in James E. Talmage's Great Apostasy. I don't know if you address this in another episode though. I love your podcast, nice and respectful.
I always thought this 💩was soft serve chocolate icecream 😆
Hahaha!
Early on, I did too! I have heard others say the same.
Soft serve chocolate ice cream stains? 😅
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It has been a day. I'm still shocked at the accusation that a Being who could move a google tons or more of material and have that material obey Him doesn't have power.
A lot of these comments against the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are spoken in lack of knowledge on their part
When I get comments from people who are belligerent I submit their names to the temple prayer roll.
Hey I just wanted to say I love these videos! I’m a faithful member, soon to be missionary. I had a question for you and I’ll be posting this on a few videos in hope of a response. I think it’s possible, but do we believe that those who truly believe in Christ, and pray can be involved in miracles. For instance, can we affirm healings done by baptists and Catholics without taking away from our own beliefs?
I think we can affirm their miracles because God loves them too.
Yes we can affirm the Holy Spirit; however, beware that Satan can also perform miracles and fraudulent miracles are often presented to gain money and followers. As a missionary, stick to Moroni 7 on how to discern. Very important.
Splendid job at maintaining grace under pressure! More power to cartoon emojis!
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You fixed the color correcting! :D
Unusual for Catholics to be like that
Correct he was taught not to say those things.
As for the second comment about God being a weak being, in reference to Ex Nihilo.. Its interesting how the acedemic consensus on this gets so ignored, and how Dogma is put over the data, then to bend the Data to fit teh Dogma, then to proclaim that their individual interpretation of their bend Data actually confirmes their Dogma... But apart from that, the God of the LDS at least keeps up to what it states in Timothy, where it says that "God wants EVERYONE to be saved and understand the truth".. Now, if only few select make it into heaven, then either God does not have the dires to offer salvation to everyone equaly, or he is not capable to do so, and both, to me, prove that this God is not quite as strong as a being as the one portrayed within LDS ..... I struuggle with the idea of a God that can and is concerned about keeping his word inerrant and unviocal for thousand of years, but can not apply the same kind ot attitude and power towards his own´, living creations..
Kinda weird that the same people who deny eternal matter, somehow claim to not deny an Eternal God in the same breath 🤔
how is that weird? God was before everything else - including time and matter, which he created. It does go beyond our understanding of how something that has no beginning could exist, as does how one being can exist as 3 separate and distinct persons. But picture it like this - dip a thimble into the ocean - the ocean is God and the thimble is our understanding of God. While he does explain some things to us, he owes us no explanation of anything.
@@millmuv I think you misunderstand me. My point is that God is more powerful than we know, and so for anyone to make a claim of absolute knowledge about His power, His ability, or His methods is vanity; and those who claim that God absolutely did not use existing matter because that somehow underpowers Him are prideful in their thinking, for they're claiming that anything can make God less powerful.
@FaithMurri you reminded me of one other thing. I know LDSs believe God is perfect, but they also believe in eternal progression. My question is if God is already perfect, why would he need to change and progress?
@@millmuv study the nature of infinity and you'll find your answer. Some infinities are bigger than others.
To the people that have doubts based on scientific beliefs should listen to Dr. Sy Gartes' talks or read His book titled " the works of his hands "
I agree with the person who commented on your cartoon and movie clip inserts. I don’t think they add anything to your message, nor are they particularly amusing.
I love the poop stain comment haha some people are nuts! 😂
‘Don’t just tell me I’m wrong, tell me why you are right’ doesn’t seem congruous with the actual comment policy on the channel. I commented a long time ago on a video and that comment was deleted so I decided not to bother. Then David responded kindly to a recent comment of mine so I decided to substantively write about the seer stone episode. A long and excellent discussion which followed last night was then expunged. I don’t think the hosts here really want detailed critiques or pushback. Allowing more room for difficult discussions would be an improvement. Another echo chamber for LDS dogma is less needed.
Hey Salvatore -- Did your comments that are no longer showing up include links? Any comments with links from non-moderators are automatically deleted, to keep people from posting inappropriate material. I don't generally moderate comments so I'm not sure why yours would have been deleted but I'll try to look into it. Feel free to message me on facebook and I'd love to have a personal chat with you about your feedback.
@@davidsnell2605 no I’ve learned by sad experience never to put links in comments.
@@salvatorecollura2692 unfortunately it's the world we live in. Alright I've been looking into this -- none of our moderators (that I'm aware of so far. I'll keep looking, but I've asked the main ones) have deleted any of your comments. Our main moderator (who has been around for the last few months) keeps incredibly detailed records and your name doesn't show up once as someone whose comments have been moderated. Could it be that you were commenting under someone else's comment, and that user deleted their comment (subsequently deleting all responses)? Or could there have been any language used that would have been flagged and taken down as inappropriate? I'll keep digging.
@@davidsnell2605 My comments were direct and critical but certainly not inappropriate. And I commented first, though others replied later. I appreciate your efforts to allow more open dialogue if sincere.
@@davidsnell2605 I’ve posted screenshots of the deleted comments in my community tab in case you want to see them.
25 And the Lord said unto me: Marvel not that all mankind, yea, men and women, all nations, kindreds, tongues and people, must be born again; yea, born of God, changed from their carnal and fallen state, to a state of righteousness, being redeemed of God, becoming his sons and daughters;
26 And thus they become new creatures; and unless they do this, they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God.
Exactly what we as Latter Day Saint Christian’s believe … we are born again, changed from our fallen states by the power of the Holy Ghost… become new creatures in Christ as we take on His name. We not only believe we’re saved by grace, we believe we’re changed by grace as well - by His power, not ours.
8:25 bruh Critics dont know what they are talking about. If God cannot create beings that can become Gods, then He is not all powerful. And if He is not all powerful ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN CLAIM, Then he is NOT God. So critics saying we cannot become like God is just hypocrisy. That means God is bound to not being able to do that which makes him not God. They have no clue what they are talking about half the time. Same how critics say that the Book of Mormon and Bible contradict each other. But then also say the Book of Mormon copies from the bible. How can it contradict but be copied. Critics have no clue what they are saying, they just resurface the same old arguments from Joseph Smiths times that have already been debunked.
I'm a big fan and thank you for your videos.
Glad you like them!
You guys are really active in your viewers comment. There will be always opposition in all things. That why I love to hear both sides before making a conclusion. I can't listen to one side because there will be some truths being told not all. By listening to both sides then it make things unbiased. I compare the Early Christian belief with the Nicene Christians. I found out they have different beliefs.
We love a good discussion!
@@SaintsUnscripted Just wanted you guys to know I grew up in the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. I baptized when I was 8 years old. I am very sorry for comparing Early Christian teaching. But even though I compared it to the church I grew up it really has the early Christian teaching. Your channel help me to come out the confusion of the book that I read. Thanks for your help.
Don't hate the players (cough Lds CHRISTIANS), hate the game (ways of the world).
It’s important to say that it’s not just non-LDS who post hateful, anger-charged comments on the internet. I understand you are trying to defend yourselves, but I have tried to have respectful conversations with LDS online and have been met with several hateful, disrespectful, unGodly members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Some have caused me to cry. One went so far as to say he felt sorry for my husband to be married to such an ugly wench.
There’s nothing like the internet that brings out the sin nature in all people.
I am sorry people pretended to be members and say such things to you. As LDS I have been called the most despicable, sexist, bigoted, vulgar things in the chats; however, I have a thicker skin. I know the truth and dont listen to the losers out there.
@@suem6004 Oh they weren’t pretending to be members, they were definitely members (unless they were lying on their Facebook pages, which I’m not sure they could get away with).
But thank you, I appreciate it :)
I’m so sorry that you were treated that way. That’s despicable and wrong. All hateful commenters are in the wrong, wherever they come from.
@@Serve24 I'm not 100% sure, but I think Suem might be saying that they aren't real members because they are so disrespectful. But agreed, the internet is a tool for both good and evil, but there sure is a lot of evil.
I agree, one thing I really like about LDS is that they are both nice online and in person but there have been some rude ones online
It's funny to me how many arguments literally don't even matter in the grand scheme of things. Like, for example, the creation argument. The creation happened, and whether it happened from nothing or from preexisting material, does it even matter? We're here now either way and God is God either way, and Christ is our Savior either way. Haha
So true
This is a question for the commentor who scolded us for having bad philosophy and those who agree with him. Where in The Bible does it say we must have good philosophy according to the philosophy and wisdom of men? It doesn't so I don't care about being deemed good by the wisdom of man. If you do, it looks like you are placing man before God.
I did on Facebook 😅
Thanks
Joseph b worthlin used to talk a lot about Christ in his general conference talks .
It's not the opposition's job to provide an alternative. I know this is a common response to opposing views, but the reality is: it doesn't matter. If the church's truth claims are bunk, then they are bunk.
Except the church is judged by Moroni 7... brings people to Christ ergo is of God.
@@suem6004 not really relevant to my point.
But if you don't back up your claim, how is someone supposed to believe your claim?
I dont like the cartoons in the edits either.
My are you always right?
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@@SaintsUnscripted You guys are a beacon of light!
I think they’re saying byu architectural findings means the movie: Ancient America speaks explaining the physical evidence of the history of the Book of Mormon.
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🎉 if you have a hard time thinking about how matter has always existed before now, then consider the consequences of matter we at least think we understand scientifically now. Where does matter go when the thing it is made into gets destroyed?
Rust and moth doth corrupt the things of creation. If you look at the lifespan of things, take metals for instance. Let's look at copper. You have formed a copper pipe out of the available elements and now use it for drinking water. In time that pipe will turn green from corrosion. In time that corrosion will turn a once solid pipe into particles of green dust. Where does the dust go? Did the dust of that copper pipe cease to exist? Nope. It is still on this earth, either on the ground, in the water and filtered into your body or floating around in the air for some time.
You can do this exercise with all pieces of matter. From what we can hold in our hand to dark matter to particles of light that are eventually filtered out by the things they hit. (This is why stars seem to sparkle.)
So in this case study, where do all the pieces go? They continue on transforming into something else. If all matter is continually changing, then how can you expect matter to just disappear some day? If creation was exnihilo, then matter has to eventually end.
But, it doesn't. How do we know this? We look back in time in the cosmos and see history of trillions of light years past and we can observe what happened then, because of the amazing results of wavelengths of all sorts.
What happens to a star when it dies? It becomes a nebula. What happens to a nebula in a great amount of time? More often then not it turns into a new star. And each color of stars represents a different stage of their life cycles.
If matter always changes, when does it end?
If it never ends, it that the definition of eternal?❤
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its a;lways funny when we get told we pray an other jesus; or preach an other gospel. to wich i answer : whats in your church that is in the bible? then i list priesthood,temple, ordinances , baptism ,gift of the spirit etc etc.
Wait. Our ideas can't be right because they don't agree with someone else's?
Nothing in the Bible points to God creating Himself. People just speculate outside of it and make assumptions.
Philosophy: what must is be first anything
Science: matter is neither created nor destroyed, only changed.
Uh-oh. Sounds like SOME people are anti-science.
For God to create all reality, God must first exist outside of reality, in a DIFFERENT one. But isn't that still reality? Just a new dimension of where?
Keep up with science. There was a time when no protons or neutrons existed so no such thing as elements with mass. Astronomy is constantly changing so keep up. The James Webb telescope has recently toppled science upside down. So who is being anti science? Get with the 21st century.
Those who false accused of of limiting God were putting limits on Him. Not able to make share His power is a limit. You critics have a limited God.
The only similarities between christianity and the Mormon religion you have stated are “We both believe in Christ.” Which your version of Christ is not the same as Christians, no other similarities.
Debating religion is a foolish waste of time.
Plz try to talk to asian lds
Credulity on steroids? Credulity is belief without proof ie Faith and if it's on steroids therefore greater faith?
Genesis 1:3
And God said, "let there be light" and there was light. And the prior verse Genesis 1:2 it says that the Earth was formless and darkness covered the Earth. Light is not matter it is immaterial. So in the first three verses it tells us that God created something out of nothing. It says that he spoke it into existence. The only thing that God created from something else was man, from which he created from the dust of the ground which DA DA DAAA He created. The beliefs that the LDS hold are chock-full of logical fallacies. The LDS faith is a man-centered faith not a Jesus censored faith. Joseph Smith is their golden calf.
Is light physical?
According to physics, that is a very difficult question to answer
@@johnwright2217 well what do you think?
@@johnwright2217 the question isn't is light physical? The question is, is light matter? And the answer is no. Light is energy.
The word Formless means: Without a clear or definite shape or structure. Not that there is nothing there.