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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Please don't take this the wrong way. I'm sick of fighting with everyone here. I am just trying to help.
I have some friendly advice for you because I feel you're not just throwing out a thread starter and you're being sincere. If you are just starting a discussion I apologize and carry on.
Here's my advice: I'd stop wasting a second cluttering your head with such nonsense. Just block it out; erase these thoughts. The issue you raise has not the remotest connection to how life and the cosmos really work. I challenge you to look at the world in a completely different way. It will set you free.
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SU I don't want to offend you (I say that sincerely), but I think this last paragraph is a bunch of crap. You sound so arrogant, like this "looking at the world in a different way" is a league of thought that only wise-men follow like yourself. I call B.S. I think everyone has the opportunity to look at the world differently, despite prior notions you have made to Mormons being blind sheep (that is not a quote). That is the wonderful thing about all of us being individuals, and making our own choices, we do get to look at the world how we want, WHEN we want to, and we get our own brain to think about it with.
I do believe that "sinners" can receive inspiration. Aren't we all sinners, and how can you really gauge worthiness? Haven't we already discussed in other threads thatg temple recommend interviews can seem totally bogus (though they are all we got). You can take a sip of alcohol and walk out stripped of a recommend, but have your judge-pants on 24-7 and you are still considered Peter-priesthood. *I certainly feel like "the wicked" might not be in the right frame of mind as much as another to hear and act upon inspiration but I think Heavenly Father has more mercy then you are all giving him credit for. Heavenly Father wants to reach out to us anyway He can and if there is even a small space for him to fit into, he wants that - even in a sinner's life. Very few people are banished from the use of the Atonement and from God's good graces and to me that includes being able to receive inspiration from the Spirit (see *). I don't feel like God can work through us when we turn our backs on Him, but if we are sinners and still open to receiving inspiration along with instinctual feelings, then I think He will always be there. Even I have fallen into that category before. Who hasn't? Man, God is good, isn't he?