Mormons are capable of loving and caring about people without embracing their bad choices. We are all sinners and we can all sympathize, but we know that righteous actions lead to lasting happiness.
The Atonement of Jesus Christ is at the heart of LDS beliefs. His anguish and death save us from punishment for our sins and allow us to grow. We will live again.
Several months ago, my toddler son found a lot of joy in ripping the internet cable out of the wall. Not just the cable, mind you, but the entire faceplate with the cable still attached. I started having him sit on my lap with his arms forcibly folded right after he did it. [...]
Q. Why do you think smoking is so bad? Why is everything so bad?
You sound like a struggling nicotine addict I knew, who wanted me and God and his conscience to stop pestering him to straighten up. By demanding from me an ever-better-but-never-good-enough reason to quit, he was really making for himself [...]
Q. I am a non member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but looking into it. What is the belief Mormons have on becoming a member of the church: do you have to repent before you are baptized?
Yes, you do. The fourth article of faith states, “We believe that the first [...]
