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Re: Knowledge enough to sin [message #516 is a reply to message #509]

Tue, 19 June 2012 08:57

Seeker
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"Dragon"

2. The church already has too many inactive members on the roles. They are working hard to reactivate all these inactive members.

LOL, I heard of a BYU Statistics professor who was jabbing at how the church membership and growth statistics given in general conference are so high while the government census have very different results. He said, "At the rate the church is growing, by the year 2025 everyone on earth will be inactive Mormons."

"Primary Teacher"

This is why I do not think it is bad to let the missionaries teach children and have them get baptized even when there is very little chance that the parents will continue to bring them to church.

Hey Primary Teacher, glad to see you back!

The good thing about baptizing children of "less actives" is that it puts them on the church records. Then the church can legally stalk them and track them. Where as before they could only track the parents. As the children grow up inactive, the missionaries have more people to visit under the guise of a preexisting relationship. Also, the children will always remember being baptized, and this memory will nag at them on and off until they are ready for religion. This is more powerful than, "My parents were Mormon."

Aside from that, baptism does nothing for someone who is not ready to start following Christ. Children are so easily led to do as is expected of them and as the adults tell them to do. Some children like the one Dragon told us about are.

I was not converted until I was 13 even though I was baptized at 8. But I had all the tools that I needed when I was 13 so that when I was spiritually ready, I was prepared with the knowledge of what to do, how to pray, etc.

~ Seeker

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		Knowledge enough to sin By: Amonhi on Tue, 03 May 2011 20:01
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Seeker on Fri, 06 May 2011 13:13
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: JulesGP on Sun, 17 June 2012 02:03
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Primary Teacher on Sun, 17 June 2012 11:47
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Dragon on Mon, 18 June 2012 16:53
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Seeker on Tue, 19 June 2012 08:57
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Seeker on Sun, 17 June 2012 12:03
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Dragon on Mon, 18 June 2012 17:02
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Seeker on Tue, 19 June 2012 09:36
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Dragon on Tue, 19 June 2012 21:57
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Amonhi on Thu, 21 June 2012 10:30
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Dragon on Thu, 21 June 2012 11:49
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: JulesGP on Thu, 21 June 2012 13:15
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Dragon on Thu, 21 June 2012 19:07
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: JulesGP on Thu, 21 June 2012 19:56
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: scootd28 on Fri, 22 June 2012 07:11
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Amonhi on Sun, 24 June 2012 23:09
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Ashleyd on Fri, 06 July 2012 12:18
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Ashleyd on Fri, 06 July 2012 12:35
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: kenh on Sat, 07 July 2012 18:29
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Dragon on Sun, 08 July 2012 01:53
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: kenh on Sun, 08 July 2012 12:11
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Dragon on Sun, 08 July 2012 16:42
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: kenh on Sun, 08 July 2012 17:52
		Re: Knowledge enough to sin By: Amonhi on Thu, 19 July 2012 18:28

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