“To Confirm and Inform: A Blessing of Higher Education,” March 11, 2008, BYU Devotional “Have you ever wondered why you were born where and when you were born? Why were you not born 500 years ago in some primitive aboriginal culture in some isolated corner of the world? Is the timing and placing of our birth capricious? For Latter-day Saints, the answer is no. Fundamental to our faith is the understanding that before we came to this earth we lived in a premortal existence with a loving Heavenly Father. We further understand that in that premortal state we had agency and that we grew and developed as we used that agency. Some, as Abraham learned, became noble and great ones. We believe that when it came time for us to experience mortality, a loving Heavenly Father, who knows each of us well, sent us to earth at the time and in the place and in circumstances that would best help us reach our divine potential and help Him maximize His harvest of redeemed souls” — Terry Ball, Dean of Religious Education
Matthew 16:26 “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
You’d think that in this day and age, Mormons would know better than to say, let alone believe, the things they do. Today’s a prime example of how some things never change.
Unfortunately, Mr. Ball wasn’t the first Mormon leader who came up with this nonsense. Very similar words were also spoken by Mark Petersen, Alvin Dyer, Orson Pratt, and Harold B. Lee, to name a few.
Sadly his message was broadcasted to young impressionable people who’ll carry that torch into the next generation.
Pray for the chains of lies to be broken and for Jesus’ intervention.
With Love in Christ;
Michelle
“That your faith should not stand on the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.. Which things we also speak, not in the words of man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual..” (1 Corinthians 2:5, 13)