CTD:
Well, I'm reading it now & I'm willing to make such peace as we can. I don't honestly know what to expect, but in time we'll find out.

Jeanie: Thanks CTD. I appreciate it. I'm not gonna respond to the message before this one....going to ignore it and take it from here with this you just wrote. I'm done fighting. Personally I just want to start fresh at this point as much as possible. Its out in the open now...you don't agree with some doctrinal specifics and that's fine. If we do discuss in the future, please just be careful how you might word things instead of insinuating I don't believe in the Bible or whatever because I do. I just don't interpret it the same as "mainstream" I suppose you could say on certain points, at least. But we are Christian. It's ludicrous that it would be assumed otherwise. If we sat down and compared interpretations specifically I'm sure we'd disagree on more than just the point that spurred this on, too. But the variations in that are what caused to me to search this out in the first place.

I appreciate what you said about "leaving Mormons be." I am not a "classic" Mormon.... I did not grow up in this faith, wasn't "indoctrinated" in my youth but made some serious sacrifices as much as the early saints did in the beginning to join this faith and believe in it with all my heart mind and soul. It does conjour up a lot of passion and emotion when I feel the need to defend it because I do believe in it so strongly... (Not equating myself to a saint such as a Catholic would see one...its a difference in the terminology used...The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). But I have respect for all faiths. My husband had a guitar student who's mother was such a devout Catholic she went to Rome when the new pope was put in and brought us back some blessed miraculous medals. I was fascinated when she taught me about Catholacism. (sp?) My sister is Baptist, now. My mother is Lutheran, etc. etc. In fact, I got ticked about a month ago when the woman teaching our women's organization was kind of sarcastic about some stuff regarding other religions and I made it known I didn't feel it was appropriate to the whole room. (I think this girl was raised in the church and is trying to make sense of other's viewpoints now that she is out of UT - and she is young). But that is not appropriate for anyone...and I would defend anyone (just as I have Pwcca - but I really don't know what his religion does or believes). I've seen the other side of the coin when I went to school in UT and DID feel the superiority some of them feel and it made me mad! There are some wonderful people in UT, but I don't like the culture and think they are in a pride cycle there. In general.... I am a convert so am very sensitive about this issue. I come from country family who are salt of the earth people just like the good people John just played for last night in Franklin, NC. The band (army) performed "Proud to be an American" by Lee Greenwood and the whole audience literally stood!!! It wasn't even a military concert per se...it was the army rock band. It was so touching! These are good people. I don't consider myself spiritually superior. I've been humbled, in fact, by the devotion many of you on here have shown to your faith. The only difference with us is that we believe we have MORE of the truth. We believe in modern day revelation and all that brings with it... I guess you could say all the puzzle pieces fit to me now. I know the Adam and Eve thing could sound kind of weird, but I will try and explain it like I told SoSick I would. (I likely shouldn't even have brought that up when I did, but it seemed pertinent at the time). Anyway, I turned on the computer to check for subbing jobs and it opened right up to this on my laptop (I guess I didn't close it out when I left) so I read this first but need to settle in.

CTD, I really am sorry if I seem to have come off that way. To you or anyone..... Jeanie