Comments by "" (@gwengold8154) on "Peter Santenello" channel.

  1. Merry Christmas!! ❤️
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  2. Have you heard of the great commission?
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  3. How does that fit? It doesn't. IMHO, noncommittal makeout sessions are a way some young latter-day saints feel that they can build zion while keeping a foot in Babylon. It is folly.
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  4. It sounds like whomever told you things didn't know what they were talking about. You aren't less than because you got a divorce.
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  5. Have you ever heard of a guy named Joshua? Does "choose you this day" ring a bell?
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  6. @mienafriggstad3360  Yes, I understand about recommends, but before a temple is dedicated, the general public can go through it. The St George temple just had renovation work done on it, so I believe that it was open to the public recently before rededication.
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  7. I'm not sure that you have a clear understanding of the religion. How can everyone be gentiles if they are of the 12 tribes of Israel? Our purpose is to gather the 12 tribes of Israel from their long disbursement. If someone is kind and friendly simply to try to convert another person, then they don't understand the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ at all. Full stop.
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  8.  @intoalivinghope  I looked up the definition of gentile in the dictionary. It is interesting 🤔. I am aware that Jewish people consider latter-day saints (and everyone else) to be gentiles. Latter-day saints, on the other hand, do not see things the same way. We have patriarchal blessings largely for this specific purpose. To tell us directly from God which tribe of Israel we descend from. I don't know if you are familiar with David Alexander. He has a channel. He used to be a Catholic and then an evangelical Christian. He recently joined the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints. He is of the house of Israel. He was when he was evangelical and Catholic also. Do you see what I mean? He really wasn't a gentile even though he hadn't joined the church yet. In the world, there are people who descend from all twelve tribes of Israel. We are desiring to find them and bring them all to the Messiah. The Lord Jesus Christ.
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  9. No. It's definitely not the norm for home meals. If you go to a picnic or a social function, there might be plastic plates, glasses, and cutlery. My guess is that they used them in this instance so that the hostess wouldn't have oodles of dishes to clean afterward.
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  10. Good questions. We don't believe that prophets are infallible. They are human beings, and humans are fallible. However, the Lord will never allow a prophet to lead the church astray. The Book of Mormon says that marriage should only be between one man and one woman unless the Lord commands otherwise. In the Book of Mormon, men were taking multiple wives just because they wanted to, and the Lord strongly condemned this. At times, the Lord commands polygamy for a specific reason. But the standard is always one man, one woman.
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  11. Joseph Smith said that he was commanded by God to practice polygamy, and he dragged his heels on the issue until an angel with a drawn sword appeared to him and essentially said, " Obey God or else!"
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  12. If the fruit is good, the tree is good.
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  13. Yes, we do. Jesus Christ is God the Son. The only begotten of the Father and the only way that leads to salvation.
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  14. Of the church? No. That was the acting president of the quorum of 12 apostles who recently passed. The president of the church is in his 100th year and going strong.
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  15. Hello Martine. LDS stands for latter-day saints. It is a part of the official name of the church. The official name is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We are commonly called "Mormons" in the world, but we don't care for this nickname. Since the official name of the church is quite long, people generally start to refer to it as the LDS church and the members of the church as LDS or latter-day saints. The latter-day saints part simply differentiates us from the former-day saints who existed in Jesus's time. We believe that there was an apostasy from The Church of Jesus Christ of Former-day saints. And that, the church was restored in these latter days. The time leading up to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  16.  @martinepeters9891  You are so welcome, Martine. I'm glad that I could help a little. It does get really confusing with all the churches out there! God bless you 🙏 ❤️
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  17.  @WranglermanLevi  Very true 👍 praying in your heart and mind are also important.
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  18.  @WranglermanLevi  I just wanted to add that prayer on one's knees is not required, but it's a little bit like putting your hand over your heart or removing your hat when the American national anthem plays. If you are physically able, you just can't imagine NOT doing these respectful things.
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  19. I believe that the speaker was referencing the "other sheep" verse in the Bible. We know that the people who were living in America were the other sheep.
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  20. I guess that you have to experience the Holy Spirit to understand it. Having experienced the whispering of the Holy Spirit, you would never forget it. God bless Holland 🇳🇱 ❤
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  21. @VoxClamantisinDeserto-zw2mt  I know of a certainty that I have not been deceived. One day, when we stand before the Lord, you will know that, too.
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  22. You do know that we are a global church, right? Which means that we have members all over the world. Including Africa. Yes, we have many, many black members. In the United States and elsewhere.
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  23. So true! Now, you have arrived at the very heart of the issue that sent a young boy into a sacred grove to follow the admonition of James and "ask of God."
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  24. @adamr149  okay, fair enough. I've experienced both sides in my life. Some wards make you feel welcome, and some don't at all. And I am LDS, so I don't know how it is to be a non-member. In fairness, though, wouldn't it be similar in any community? For example, if I moved to a very predominantly Catholic area or a predominantly protestant area. I wouldn't have that sort of "in" with the community even though they might be superficially friendly.
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  25. @adamr149  Oh, thanks for sharing that. I thought that certain areas of the country would be comparable. Like the Bible belt, perhaps? Maybe not, though.
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  26. They probably don't want to get caught on camera shoveling pizza in. Lol. That would make me nervous.
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  27. That is 100 percent true. There are many good people who aren't religious. Our aim is not just to be good people. Our aim is to return to live with our heavenly parents again.
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  28. What do you make of Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Solomon, and King David? All polygamists. We have no idea the ages of the wives. King David even had to steal another man's wife. Should we throw out the Bible?
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  29. Why would you ever watch Mormon stories podcast to find out about us? It's like asking Judas about Jesus Christ or Nero about the Christians.
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  30. @wendyfilice7274  Yes, I understand that Joseph Smith was not in the Bible. My point is simply that prophets or kings in other times have practiced polygamy. So the idea of Joseph Smith practicing polygamy is not that shocking to me.
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  31. @wendyfilice7274  I watched Mormon stories for a while. I actually had sympathy for John Dehlin and why he got kicked out of the church and everything. My friends were dismayed that I was watching it, but I told them that it actually strengthened my testimony! It did, truly. I can't watch it anymore though. I developed such a poor opinion of John Dehlin and the program.
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  32.  @wendyfilice7274  do you mind if I ask what Christian beliefs you grew up with and what made you need to deconstruct them?
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  33. @wendyfilice7274  No, I don't agree with the information that they share there. John Dehlin has an agenda. The people who go on there seem a bit childish to me. I don't mean to be insulting. It's just kind of like Paul said. They see through a glass darkly. They seem as children who can't quite comprehend the big picture yet.
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  34. @user-fc7pr5yc8c  It's rather impossible to express my feelings in full in a format like this, but let me just boil it down to this, the guests have something wrong and/or something hard happen. Or they hear things that they hadn't heard before. Instead of asking for wisdom and guidance from the Lord directly, they use their own judgment and their own wisdom to storm out of the church. To me, it feels a little bit immature. Akin to tantrum throwing you'd see in a small child. I remember once in my own life being SO angry at a bishop. It make me actually shake how angry I felt. I went home and immediately went on my knees to cry to my heavenly father about it. I was like, this is YOUR bishop, and how is it OKAY with you that he is behaving like this, etc. Well, my anger calmed, and a peace came over me. I felt like the judgment of this man would be handled by the Lord. To leave the church is to leave the Lord. When people have an issue with a mortal bishop and in response leave their God over it....well, it really is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It is completely unwise and detrimental. We have to be spiritually mature enough to see the long game. Don't remove yourself from the field before the game is won. Even if you get tackled and bruised along the way.
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  35. @user-fc7pr5yc8c  I just wanted to add another story. My sister gave her tithing (in cash) to her bishop. Apparently, there wasn't a record of it, and she became certain that the Bishop had stolen her tithing for his personal use. The anger and disillusionment seemed to literally consume her. She told everyone around her. It affected her testimony of tithing and of the church. It didn't help that our brother refused to believe her. He is naive enough to believe that church leaders never do anything wrong. Anyway, I just never really understood her reaction. I get that it made her angry and disillusioned. I would be too! But I didn't understand the part where she let it eat at her until it destroyed her. I kept assuring her that the Lord KNOWS she paid her tithing. It has nothing to do with her anymore. If that bishop stole her tithing, it's on him. I'd hate to be him on the day of judgment. I can't recall the exact scripture verses now, but there are many verses in the Bible about how anyone in leadership roles over others will be accountable to God for how they discharged their leadership. And God is pretty clear about the consequences if they exercise unrighteous dominion. I take the Lord at his word. I don't understand why my sister can't take the Lord at his word. God sees everything. Even the thoughts and intentions of our hearts. Plus, all of our actions. We don't have to leave Him because someone did evil. Yoke yourself to God and stay there. That is ultimate wisdom. ❤️
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  36. @wendyfilice7274  I don't know what you have heard, but we believe exactly what you were talking about from the podcast that you listened to. In the Book of Mormon, there is a strong condemnation by God of people who were practicing polygamy just because they wanted to. God says marriage should be between one man and one woman unless He commands certain men otherwise. That's a doctrine in the Book of Mormon, and it's absolutely what we believe. We aren't certain of the reasons why the Lord commanded certain people to practice polygamy in the early days of the restoration. ( the church as a whole never practiced polygamy) David Alexander speculated on his channel that it was in fulfillment of a passage in the Bible that he had wondered about all his life. (He's a new convert to the church. He spent 47 years in the protestant world.) His theory seems plausible, but it's only a theory. We don't know. It is a myth about having to practice polygamy to go to the highest heaven. Wonderful, godly men like my own father, had only one wife, and wanted ONLY one wife, and I fully expect to see them in the celestial kingdom.
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  37. @wendyfilice7274  If you're interested, you can just search David Alexander polygamy, and it should pull up the one where he talks about it. If not, that's okay too. 😀
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  38.  @WendyFilice-p9i  Yes, many men have thought that they were called to practice polygamy. If it makes you feel any better, I don't know of a single person currently in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints who wants to practice polygamy. We hope that the reasons for it have been accomplished and there will be no more polygamy.
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  39. @user-fc7pr5yc8c  The thing is, we don't have to worry about things of the past. It is the Holy Spirit who converts people. When you gain a testimony of truth through the Holy Spirit, then you just know the truth. David Alexander harps on this quite often! Lol. He worked in orchards a lot, and he said that if you have a tree that is glorious and producing the best fruit you ever tasted, who in the world would say that we have to dig up the roots of that tree and inspect if they were rotten. He said that if you suggested that people would seriously think you were mental! 😆
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  40. See the JST in reference to this verse
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  41. @samsmom400 blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God. Peter is a peacemaker at heart. Maybe you can comprehend the statement now.
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  42. The evangelical talking point is that we can't be Christian because we worship a "different God" and a "different Jesus." It's nonsense, of course. There is no such thing as a "different Jesus" but they don't know that yet. 😊 They feel that to say Jesus Christ was an offspring of God the Father means that he was "created" and they balk at that. They feel that he always existed and there never was a time when he was born. They have huge issues with the idea of Satan being a son of God and thus the brother of Jesus Christ. This is such heresy to them that they can't wrap their heads around it. They also embrace the trinity, which we do not. All these reasons are why they keep insisting that we are not Christian and the Jesus Christ whom we believe in is not the "real" Jesus.
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  43. Have you heard of the great commission?
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  44.  @denningfamily2145  True thing. The majority of my ancestors come from England and Wales. They came to America to be with the majority body of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints.
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  45. I think he meant the same thing that Joshua told the Israelites. "Choose you this day...as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." You can't serve two masters. A house divided against itself will fall. It is that kind of side picking. I totally agree with you that in politics and other areas, there are shades of gray and things you may like or dislike about both sides. The talk he referenced was one where our prophet was encouraging everyone to gain their own testimony. Sometimes people are in a religion because their parents believe, or someone they admire subscribes to those beliefs or that it is a nice social environment. The prophet said that that might have worked in the past, but in these last days, everyone needs to know what they themselves believe or they can not stand.
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  46. Why do you have to believe? I don't believe in what the orthodox Jewish community believes, but I thought that Peter's videos about them were beautiful and moving and inspiring.
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  47. Jesus Christ did indeed visit the American continent. We just don't know if it was modern-day America or South America somewhere. One day, we will know.
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  48. " Upon this rock," we believe that the rock is the rock of revelation. Not Peter. Prevail means ultimate victory. This is true. It may look like Satan is winning at times, but he will never ultimately prevail against the Lord's church and kingdom. We believe that the beloved apostle John. Aka John, the revelator, is still living. Therefore, wouldn't HE be the natural heir of the apostolic keys that Peter held upon Peter's death? In Acts, it is quite clear that the apostacy had already begun. Paul said that he had only Timothy left who stood by him and hadn't defected.
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  49. I wondered that also. It's not usual. I think that maybe the lady of the house just didn't want to do all those dishes later!
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  50. Your comment made me chuckle 😃 as a people, I think we do eat waaaay too much pizza! 😆 We have a health code to live by, and we are meant to treat our bodies like a temple, but a lot of us struggle with this. Myself included 😌. I'm going to take your comment as impetus to do better and try harder! ❤️
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