Gospel Discussions

I love gospel discussions with non-members. Absolutely love them no matter how challenging their questions are. In fact, I even like hearing their opinions. I learn how they think, why they think the way they do, what they've been taught, and how they live their lives.

Tonight, one of my Mom's friends, that is also my friend on Facebook, had posted a link to a magazine article. It was talking about President Packer's latest talk at General Conference about homosexuality. A lot of people in society as well as members of the Church were disturbed by his comments. I haven't gotten a chance to read it yet, so I will do that before I go to bed.

But there was a guy who had commented on her post and said he squirmed at the term 'modern prophet'. Oh that man, why did he say that? Did he not know he set me off on a rocket? Our good friend who is LDS commented back to him first and said that a Prophet allows us to have truth that has not been corrupted by society. I agree. He was still a little squirmish. And then someone else responded... and then he responded.. and then I responded.

Let me tell you a little bit about how I work with Spiritual discussions. I've been told by my Mom, I'm a lot like my Dad. I like to debate in the sense that I like to ask a lot of questions back to the person. I find physical evidence in the scriptures to back up what I am saying and then see what they can offer in return. However, this young fellow does not read from the King James Version of the Bible so his reference was very confusing to me and very construed. The more that the talked, the more confused I got. The more his terms of 'the law' and 'the Church' seemed muddled and contradicting the further I read. I know when to conclude my comments and when he said that the Book of Revelation was the end of "Prophets" speaking I knew my job was done.

I am grateful that he decided to say his opinion without debating. I think the whole thing was handled very well. I was not offended, more confused and I hope he is the type of person that respects differing opinions and learns something from them. I thought it was a fun missionary activity. Even when I live in Utah, I can always find ways to share the gospel.

Jessica