The Truth Process

The doctrines are medical school. Your bishop is a doctor. You are the patient.

never. Now let me explain. There are doctrinal reasons and pragmatic reasons not to blame God. Ill start with the pragmatic reasons. Blaming people-- anyone, (including yourself and God) is a self defeating behavior. If there is something about your life that you don't like, placing blame will make it worse. It makes it worse for at least three reasons: 1. Once you can attach your unpleasant circumstances to someone else, it fuels emotions of hatred towards them. Fueling hatred will make you more unhappy. So unless your goal is to be more unhappy, its pretty ineffective to do something that will cause you to feel hate and be more miserable. 2. It directs your attention to the problem, which distracts your mind from the solution . If there is something in your life that you dont like, focusing on that thing in non-productive ways will enlarge your experience of it. If being happy is your goal, try to think about things that bring you happiness. Try to think of ways...

The title may cause some confusion because I both agree and disagree with the statement of the title. It depends on what is meant by it. Members of the church often say that “the church is true”.  Language is a funny thing in that any word can mean so many things.  What is the church? Is it the leaders? The History? The teachings? All of the above? And what about truth? What is truth? Is it being free from error? Is it a kind of completeness? Is it that the descriptions of the doctrines and the perspectives all accurate? So what does it mean for the “church” to be “true”? When many people state “the church is true”, they think VERY different things, and I disagree with most of them. I do not think that the leaders are free from error. I do not think that the church history is free from sin or error, nor do I think it is complete. I do not think that the teachings are complete, or understood completely, or are free from error. I do not thin...