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antsyl · #21 (**permalink**) 08-09-2009, 12:22 PM

Man Ill bet they could teach us a thing or two about Sun Block.
I think maybe I should stick to the Canning and putting up food section of this forum. There are some
crazy topics and thoughts in here.
Really!!!

antsyl · #22 (**permalink**) 08-09-2009, 12:24 PM

I think when we get to heaven God is going to say,"I made it so easy for you and you made it so hard for yourself". These posts indicate either to much free time or to much "my brain is the same as Gods" Its very dangerous either one.

rameumptom · #23 (**permalink**) 08-10-2009, 08:20 AM

Antsyl,

Don't you realize that God is wanting us to seek out His mind and understanding? How else are we to do it? You would wish all to remain ignorant, believing in YOUR understanding of the Bible. God would have us "ask, and ye shall receive..." We cannot be saved in ignorance, which means we each must seek out God and try to understand His mind and will.

My brain is NOT the same as God's, but I need to try and make my brain the same as God's. "Not my will, but thine, be done" is a policy we all need to have in our lives. But how shall we know God's will, if we do not use our own brains to seek it?

Misshalfway · #24 (**permalink**) 08-10-2009, 08:36 AM

I am getting to this thread a little late, but I think the OP BY quote (if it is indeed authentic) is just a snap shot of Brighams wonderings. I think the point he is making is that there is more out in the universe that this earth supposes. So what if he was speculating about inhabitants of the moon. I think such is beside the point.

Hemidakota · #25 (**permalink**) 08-10-2009, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by PassionForHisWord

I read where Brigham Young, the second president of the LDS Church, taught that both the moon and the sun were inhabited by people (Journal of Discourses, 1870, v.13, p.271). Has the Mormon Church ever found scientific evidence of that to be true?

"We are called ignorant; so we are: but what of it? Are not all ignorant? I rather think so. Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon? When we view its face we may see what is termed "the man in the moon," and what some philosophers declare are the shadows of mountains. But these sayings are very vague, and amount to nothing; and when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fellows. So it is with regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. It was made to give light to those who dwell upon it, and to other planets; and so will this earth when it is celestialized."

If the Sun end state is a glorified world, the only level it has reached was Telestial. Not all worlds will reach the Celestial state - like this earth. I had often asked what and where will the inhabitants of the telestial order be? I would turned to the window and state; "Right here...go outside and look at our local Sun."

This is a subject that requires a prayerful consideration in receiving such an answer.

Remember, the Russians or Alan Sheppard was not historically, first men in space. Enoch was given technology to rise up a land mass [City of Enoch] and did not travel far initially. If I am correct, I think Joseph Smith made a short statement on this very subject also. Did you ever wonder why, Nimrod seek to build a tower? To whom was he building the tower too?

Then we have the City of Salem...another missing city who people were removed. Perhaps, others who achieved the state of perfection as a whole received the same.

rameumptom · #26 (**permalink**) 08-10-2009, 10:09 AM

Brigham Young/Moon and sun are inhabited - FAIRMormon

Brother Brigham spent a lot of time speculating? Why? Because he was trying to get the Saints to think and ponder about the gospel. Even today, we can hardly get the members to read their scriptures, much less to actually advance their spirituality by seeking diligently into the mysteries of godliness (D&C 84), which is part and parcel of the Melchizedek Priesthood.

John the Revelator "saw an angel standing in the sun" (Rev. 19:17). Do you think this might be where Brother Brigham got the idea in the first place?