The Restored Church

Joseph Smith naming someone else’s kid:

Polygamy

Temples

Word of Wisdom

Underwear

The Book of Mormon

The Reasons we are Actually Weird:

God is our literal father

there is no such thing a hell but it is understandable why y’all believe in it

Heaven continues family dynamics so like we also got a Mother but we don’t talk about her cause everyone drags God’s name through the mud and God doesn’t want his wife to be disrespected in that way cause its love

God went through some sort of experience similar to ours here on earth and from there we can gather that he probs worshiped a God during his time who was his father so like there’s a pantheon of sorts but we just worry about the one cause he is our dad.

Aliens are totally a thing and they look just like us cause they’re also God’s children. 

God created ‘worlds without number’ so like of course he didn’t put all the creatures he made here on just this one.

Earth is like the ‘main’ planet in his entire plan because we are the only ones who ever got ‘wicked’ enough to crucify Christ so like we’re living through the worst of the worst

Back to no Hell, we believe in 3 heavens that are all better than earth so like everyone will be happy cause God is a good father who isn’t going to punish his kids forever cause we fought with our brother. 

We like dedicate buildings and stuff, and we have church camps that we dedicate and I know one that we had to ‘rededicate’ because some girls brought a Ouija board and played with it.

Think about it we straight up believe in Ouija boards and that yes, they can be used to communicate with spirits but like…. thats bad and you don’t wanna do that

A fancy spiritual place was contaminated by a thing that is seen as a child’s toy and we took it serious

We fully believe in ghosts and talking with the dead, but like not in the way most people think 

God created science so like, yeah, the Big Bang and evolution are legit even if the Bible doesn’t mention them

I’m not exactly sure how but Adam and Eve are actual people who lived and aren’t just some myth

I have no idea how dinosaurs fit into the timeline of creation but there were for sure dinosaurs at some point

The ‘7 days’ it took to create everything weren’t actual days but just periods of time that probs were millions of years and probs did happen how science has figured out the earth was created

The Book of Mormon is a record of history in the Americas, like no it doesn’t cover everything it just covers the fact that they also believed in Christ and that he visited them 

Like we don’t know exact locations but through Archaeology and Anthropology you are able to see things where they could very easily inter connect. The built amazing cities that were destroyed or mostly destroyed? Yeah. There’s even record of some of the peoples straight up just disappearing from existence which is an actual thing we have evidence of

The Last Supper

Matthew 26:17-30 NLT

17 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do you want us to prepare the Passover meal for you?”

18 “As you go into the city,” he told them, “you will see a certain man. Tell him, ‘The Teacher says: My time has come, and I will eat the Passover meal with my disciples at your house.’” 19 So the disciples did as Jesus told them and prepared the Passover meal there.

20 When it was evening, Jesus sat down at the table with the Twelve. 21 While they were eating, he said, “I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me.”

22 Greatly distressed, each one asked in turn, “Am I the one, Lord?”

23 He replied, “One of you who has just eaten from this bowl with me will betray me. 24 For the Son of Man must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago. But how terrible it will be for the one who betrays him. It would be far better for that man if he had never been born!”

25 Judas, the one who would betray him, also asked, “Rabbi, am I the one?”

And Jesus told him, “You have said it.”

26 As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take this and eat it, for this is my body.”

27 And he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it. He gave it to them and said, “Each of you drink from it, 28 for this is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God and his people. It is poured out as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of many. 29 Mark my words—I will not drink wine again until the day I drink it new with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”

This is where it was heading.

Remember all of the wonderful stuff at Christmas? Angels, shepherds, wisemen, a newborn king?

This is where it was going the whole time. Good Friday.

All that “God with us” stuff? It sounded so sentimental, so warm and fuzzy back then.

This is what it really means.

God with us, when we can’t see a way out.

God with us, when we did it to ourselves.

God with us, at our worst.

God with us.

God with us, carrying our load.

God with us, though we don’t deserve it.

God with us, doing what we could never do on our own.

In everything, especially the worst things, we are never alone. God will never abandon us.

Even if we can’t feel it in the moment. Even when it hurts too much to feel much of anything. Even when we’re angry with God. Even when we doubt God.

That changes nothing.

God loves us too much to abandon us.

There’s this idea that too many of us have, that Faith means nothing ever goes wrong. That if you believe hard enough. That if you’re good enough. That if you’re holy enough, nothing bad will happen to you.

I don’t know where that idea comes from. It certainly wasn’t Good Friday.

Because today, we see the perfect person. Sinless. Someone who raises the dead, heals the sick. Fully God and fully man. Someone who is literally as good as it gets, as holy as it gets.

Murdered. In the public spectacle of a government-sponsored torture killing.

And here’s the thing – being fully God and being aware that all of that was going to happen. Being fully human and being terrified by all of the suffering that would entail.

He went through with it anyway.

This is why I say, this is how I know that God loves us too much to abandon us.

One more thing.

All of this is personal. He did this just for me. He did this just for you.

If everyone else was sinless. If you or I were the only person who ever needed saving in all of history.

Good Friday would still have happened.

Because God loves you too much to abandon you.