05-05-2006, 07:59 PM | #1 |
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Temple recommend question.
I have a friend who went on a mission for all of three days (after the MTC), then came home and gave her virginity away (and kept giving it away) within a matter of weeks. Her bishop gave her recommend back after just two months. Is it wrong for me to feel like something's not right here? To go from a tawdry love affair to the temple in two months' time doesn't seem fair nor right to me. I'm not judging her, because she is a friend, and everyone makes mistakes... but how can one possibly be repentant enough after a month of regular premarital intercourse to be able to go to the temple within two months?
Tim
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We as a mormon culture think there are time restraints, time cushions between a sin and forgiveness.... The atonement can work instantly and a change of heart and forgiveness can happen overnight. One need look only to the scriptures and the many examples of overnight forgiveness.... |
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05-05-2006, 08:09 PM | #3 |
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My answer would be this: I don't know that there would be a circumstance under which I, if I were the bishop, would let somebody in that quickly. However, being in the fortuitous position of not being the bishop, I don't have to wonder why that bishop let her in so quickly.
I.E., probably not, but that doesn't mean I'm worried about it. It's between her, the Bishop, and the Lord, and if the three of them decided that it was OK, I'm not going to argue.
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Wow. I guess it just depends on the ecclesiastical leader. I was under the previous impression that fornicating after going through the temple was an automatic disfellowship and no temple for a year...
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Doesn't imposing time limits on forgiveness seem inconsistent with how the scriptures read? |
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I find it reasonable to assume that Alma the younger and the sons of Mosiah had a good understanding of the gospel, because of who their fathers were. But despite being "endowed" with this knowledge, and despite their likely having been baptized, they were actively apostate.
Within three days of said behavior, they were teaching the gospel. I doubt Tim's friend saw an angel after swapping knocking doors for knocking da boots, but I don't know her well enough to doubt that two months time was not sufficient for a true change of heart. |
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By the way, the Church isnt bound by what is in the scriptures in its governance. It says in the Church handbook that getting a sex change is automatic excommunication. Where is that in the scriptures? Again, I am not taking a hardline stance on this. I tend to think that mercy should be emphasized over the law in repentance, if that makes any sense. |
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