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It's Always The End

Ever think that this life will never improve? Ever wonder if this life will become something more than it currently is? Yeah I tend to wonder that at times. I feel like the end is always just around the corner. There doesn’t appear to be anything wrong with that thought, but it makes me shiver at the prospect that life will never be the same. I wish I could make sense of that, but I’m not sure I can. Life will always be there tormenting us to the brink of death, and then we will “get better” as it were, only to go through it all over again. Yes, I know that doesn’t make sense. But when did anything make sense in this life? I don’t know. That’s life for you in a nutshell though. It will always find a way to destroy us no matter what the cost. If I could figure out how to stop that from happening? I would. But unfortunately I do not have a way of doing that. So I must continue on my path to self destruction. However that may turn about, I will have to accept it and forget about it. It w...
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The Cross

I do not wish to give offense to any of my Christian colleagues who use the cross on the steeples of their cathedrals and at the altars of their chapels, who wear it on their vestments, and imprint it on their books and other literature. But for us, the cross is the symbol of the dying Christ, while our message is a declaration of the Living Christ. …

… The lives of our people must become the most meaningful expression of our faith and, in fact, therefore, the symbol of our worship.1

The LDS Church doesn’t believe in using the cross as a symbol. The cross is a representation of the Dying Christ where the LDS would rather focus on the Living Christ. You won’t find a cross in any of the churches, on steeples, or anything of the like.

Until now.

The LDS Church has put up a statue of Jesus carrying his cross in Temple Square. True it is a key component in Jesus’ life. He died on the cross for our sins. But believing in a resurrected living Christ is oh so much more important than a dying Christ.

Is this a hint of changes to come? Only time will tell.

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