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

  1. @AVoiceCryingInTheWildern-vt6ed This is not true. We believe that we are called by the great commission commandment to preach the gospel to all the world and offer baptism. Regardless of what path people choose, we still serve. We are the hands and feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. To symbolically die with the Lord in baptism and to symbolically rise with Him means that we are dead to the old natural man, and we we are committed to living FOR Jesus Christ. Would our Lord Jesus Christ serve and help people regardless of their denomination? Yes, He would. So we try to do likewise.
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  2. I loved your comments. ❤️
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  3. @jjoflower6811  Joan, please don't apologize for your long response. I absolutely loved hearing a bit about your life! I am a wee bit jealous that you get to spend time in Nauvoo and see the pageant and all. 😉 It is on my bucket list to make it there for a visit. I'm so happy that you got to experience it, though. Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a synod Lutheran church? I've heard of Lutherans, of course, but I don't know what the synod part means. It must be SO confusing for a non-member to understand all our beliefs and even our vocabulary! I think that you have such a beautiful heart to even want to learn. You have such a kind heart to have sympathy for our troubles in Missouri. I can tell that you are a true Christian by your love for your fellow humans ❤️. The Lord must be truly pleased with you. Don't worry about learning everything. What I mean is that it is a lifelong learning process for all of us. Every time I read the scriptures, I am truly humbled because I see how little I actually know and how much I have to learn! It can feel overwhelming. But line upon line and precept upon precept. That's a helpful mantra. 😀 My father got dragged around to numerous churches as a child. His mother was apparently on a quest to find a church she liked. When he was 12 years old, he was sent to a Sunday school class. There, he heard the story of the first vision, and he believed it immediately and asked to be baptized. He still had a lifetime of learning ahead of him, though. He got many, many religious books by LDS authors whom he admired and read constantly. I asked him one day how he got to be so smart. I wasn't being flippant. My dad was the smartest person I ever knew! He was so intelligent about everything. He thought for a minute and replied, "Well, I got old!" It made me chuckle. 😆 I guess I better end before I write a literal book! Lol. Thanks so much for your kind spirit. 😊 May God bless you forever and ever. xx
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  4.  @andrewmohlman7857  That was so beautifully said. 😍 Thank you for your wonderful contribution to the conversation.
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  5. @andrewmohlman7857  When I listen to someone like David Alexander, I see why he eventually found the Lord's church and was not ultimately deceived. Because he understood the Bible so well and was truly looking for that apostolic structure that is in the Bible.
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  6. Hi Lauber! Guten Tag! ( sorry, I don't know any Swiss)
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  7. No proxy baptism is allowed to take place unless the person is deceased.
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  8. We aren't saving money and food, etc. FOR the second coming of Jesus Christ, but rather for the hard times leading up to the second coming. The scriptures prophesied about wars and rumors of wars and earthquakes and many tumultuous things happening as we get closer and closer to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are wise to try and prepare as best we can for those hard times. You are correct about what most Christians call "the rapture." The earth will burn at His coming. Either literally, or from the brightness of His full glory. The wicked will not be able to abide it and many will die. This earth will be transformed to its terrestrial glory, and the 1000-year millennial reign of the Lord Jesus Christ will commence. So, there will be people on the earth, but only those who can abide at least a terrestrial glory. I hope that this helps you understand. 😊
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  9. I'm not sure that I answered your "what is he coming to do" question. The Lord Jesus Christ is coming to reign on the earth. Satan and his angels will be bound, and there will be 1000 years of peace and joy. No one will hurt anyone. We teach that it won't just be latter-day saints alive during this magnificent reign. It will be good and just people of many religions. No one will die and be put in the ground. They will pass from life to death in seconds and be resurrected. It will be an amazing time.
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  10.  @AngelGarcia-mr4pl  You are so welcome. 😊 I'm happy that I could help.
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  11. ​@VoxClamantisinDeserto-zw2mt Latter-day saints are definitely not atheists. We do, however, respect all people. Including atheists.
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  12. Thanks for pointing this out because I only learned that last year! I always thought that the cross was a symbol of the dead Lord to Protestants, but I guess that isn't so.
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  13. The Jehovah's witnesses don't vote or get involved in any politics.
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  14. We believe in a spirit world (or a world where people in their spirit form exist). When people die, we believe that they go to this spirit world to await resurrection and the judgment. We do not believe that people are instantly judged and sent to hell or heaven upon their mortal death. That is what Brock meant. We believe that life in the spirit world is similar to life on earth, except spirits do not have bodies. We believe that the gospel of Jesus Christ is still being preached in the spirit world, and people can hear it and accept it if they choose.
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  15. We do not believe in reincarnation.
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  16. Your mom sounds like a wonderful person. ❤️ I don't know if you believe in the Bible or read the Bible, but the last thing Jesus Christ said before he accended to heaven was to instruct His followers to go into ALL the world, preaching the gospel of salvation to every person and baptizing every person. It's called the Great Commission. That is why religious people are always wanting to share their religion with you. They are commanded to do so and they will be in trouble with God if they don't! Please try not to think poorly of them for it. It comes from a place of duty to God and genuine love for you. If you aren't interested, just tell people.
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  17.  @Roggen45  Oh yeah, I totally understand. No means no. I get it. Religious people can be quite pushy at times. Thanks for treating everyone well like your mom taught you. <3
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  18. I loved your comments. I noticed how he seemed quite hurt by the "lazy learner " comment, but he couldn't list many basic tennets of the faith. I don't mean to be rude, but it did strike me as a lazy learner, not to know those things.
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  19. @marct8326  Thanks 😊 I'm not sure that Todd is watching general conference. I am 100 percent sure that he is parroting the talking points of John Dehlin. Todd mentioned the group sessions called Thrive. Those are the babies of John Dehlin, the person most determined to destroy the church of Jesus Christ. John has thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of followers who support his mission of destroying the Lord's church who do watch conference talks and intercept church memos and everything else they can do to try and find ammunition against the church. If Todd knew the scriptures as well as David Alexander does, then I might not think he was a lazy learner. But he doesn't seem to understand them very well.
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  20.  @awatchman-um7vy  Jesus Christ said blessed are ye if men revile you and say all manner of evil against you. For they hated and killed the prophets that went before you.
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  21. This is something that seems to bother a lot of people. We have more than enough money right now. That is true. But we don't know what things will be like the closer we get to the second coming. We truly believe that the 1st presidency and quorum of 12 apostles are prophetic. Maybe they see things we do not know. There are 17 million members of the church thereabouts, and if something catastrophic happened, the money might not go as far as people think towards caring for the church. Our church does donate millions of dollars and goods each year to help all over the world.
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  22. You ask some very good questions. It's hard to give a full answer in a format like this, but I'll say a little. We have a person called a patriarch. One for each stake usually. Patriarch is an office in the priesthood. You go to him specifically to get your patriarchal blessing. During the blessing, he has it revealed to him by God which tribe you are from. No DNA testing is involved. :-) The point to all of this is that we believe that the Lord is setting His hand to the gathering of the 12 tribes of Israel from their long disbursement as He has promised to do repeatedly in scripture. We are actively gathering all 12 tribes. I guess we are all different. You seem to have found the Joseph Smith story very hard to swallow, yet my own father heard it as a 12 year old boy and knew it was true immediately and asked to be baptized. :-)
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  23. I had a roommate in college who served a mission in Finland 🇫🇮! Much love to the Finnish people ❤️
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  24. That's wonderful 😊 Your English seems to be impeccable. Greetings to Moldova 🇲🇩
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  25. No, in fact, if you practice polygamy, you would be excommunicated. You can not be a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints and practice polygamy.
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