as young as 18 sacrifice two whole years of their lives and go where ever they are called to spread the gospel if they didn't know beyond the shadow of doubt that this church is true? They would have come a long way just to tell a lie don't you think?
2007-04-29 14:44:01 · 21 answers · asked by McLovin 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Okay there has been a misunderstanding. I AM LDS lol. And maybe I didn't phrase this question well enough but my point is, the church IS true or these young men wouldn't be doing this!!!!
2007-04-29 14:50:41 · update #1
For "Free To.." .. I believe that the questioner IS LDS and understands it quite well...
Many religions send out missionaries.. but ours have to save up to pay their own way while on a mission...
I believe that many of our young men leave home with a testimony and return after two years with a much stronger testimony because of the constant prayers that they do and the constant studying of the Book of Mormon and the Bible.
2007-04-29 14:54:42 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, too many young men have been going on missions because of family and/or peer pressure, and not because they have an actual testimony of the church. But, I've heard that bishops are supposed to start weeding out these young men.
I have two sons, 20, and 18, and I am not going to put any pressure on them to go on a mission. It must be THEIR decision, not mine!
2007-04-29 22:47:46 · answer #2 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Every young man should gain a testimony before he leaveon his mission. I'm a young woman, 14, who wants to go on a mission and I'm working hard to gain a good solid testimony now so that I'll be prepared when the day comes. I think over their mmission though that they gain a greater testimony. If they don't have a "without o shadow of a doubt testimony" before they left and they truly wanted one and they were serving their mission for the right reasons they should come home with a super strong testimony.
2007-04-29 21:50:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Strongly believing in something to the point of traveling wherever they are "needed" to pass the word of their cult onto those who do not wish to be bothered is hardly proof that what they believe is true.
It is the truth to them because that is what they've been taught to believe. When a terrorist blows himself up along with a bus full of children so he can go to heaven & be met by 72 virgins... Do you think that he's killing himself for a lie? Chances are he truly believes that what he is doing is right & he will get his reward. Do his beliefs mean that he is right? Absolutely not! He's a fanatic just like those young LDS men who feel they need to pound the word into people's heads so they can get their % commission in heaven when their sky daddy takes them in.
2007-04-29 21:50:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
That willingness to give up two years of your life to spread God's word comes from a conviction that the message you bare is God's will and it is his truth.
After Jesus was resurrected, he appeared to Peter and the other apostles who had gone back to fishing. He told Peter three times to "Feed my sheep."
That is what LDS missionaries are doing" Feeding the Lord's sheep.
2007-04-29 22:20:26 · answer #5 · answered by Kerry 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The young women do it also. Why do you care? No one is making you waste two years of your life with a boy-on-boy relationship in the name of religion.
A large percentage of the missionaries I know ... came came and became drag queens, or now live with their boyfriends. LOL.
EDIT: "If you want to know what LDS people believe, ask one of them." Like a Stepford-Wife they will repeat verbatim what they are told they believe. Its eerie!
EDIT: What I learned from the LDS Church was that Christianity, the Bible and God are fiction. Half of my family follow this religion .. and no one questions a thing! Thats one of the ways I figured out that all religion was bunk!
2007-04-29 21:49:33 · answer #6 · answered by Active Denial System™ 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The Church is not just a religious organization: it is a social one. If all of a person's family, friends, neighbors, and schoolmates are part of the Church, it is very hard to resist going along with what they think one should do.
2007-04-29 21:47:55 · answer #7 · answered by Nicole B 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
>>my point is, the church IS true or these young men wouldn't be doing this!!!!<<
There are Catholic missionaries who have spent far more than "two whole years" spreading the gospel; by your reasoning, the Catholic Church must be more true.
2007-04-29 22:06:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Brainwashing is an amazing thing that will make people fly planes into buildings what makes you think it can't get people to waste 2 years of their lives knocking on doors and spouting things they believe to be true but aren't?
2007-04-29 21:51:09 · answer #9 · answered by Atheistic 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I am sorry for my earlier answer. I misread your question.
Two of my sons are getting ready to go on missions this summer. We know that the Church is the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
Thank you for your question.
2007-04-29 21:48:50 · answer #10 · answered by Free To Be Me 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋