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Posted by: mormonista ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 10:34AM

Miracle of Forgiveness?

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Posted by: ness ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 10:46AM

What do you mean by sex violators?


My husband was required to read it back in 2005 for pre marital sex.

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Posted by: mormonista ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 10:49AM


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Posted by: ConcernedCitizen ( )
Date: September 14, 2013 06:33PM

...it all depends on what the meaning of "is" is.

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Posted by: darkshadow ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 10:53AM

It is the Mormon version of the rosary.

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Posted by: happyhollyhomemaker ( )
Date: September 14, 2013 04:40PM

darkshadow Wrote:
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> It is the Mormon version of the rosary.


A rosary takes about 20 minutes...the miracle of forgiveness lasts forever. ;P

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Posted by: stillburned ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 03:16PM

Yes, I know someone who committed adultery and instead of being ex'd, their bishop had them read MoF. They let me borrow the book...from what I can tell, if you ever get forgiven by the LDS church, it really is a miracle.

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Posted by: drilldoc ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 03:19PM

My thoughts as well.

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Posted by: anon for now ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 03:17PM

This was in the mid to late 1990s.

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Posted by: forbiddencokedrinker ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 03:18PM

Could you please use something other then the term sex violators? It makes it sound like we are talking about pedophiles, or rapist, like the first two Mormon prophets, instead of healthy normal sexually active adults.

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Posted by: stillburned ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 03:51PM

Good point. How about adulterers, fornicaters, and masterbaters?

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Posted by: ness ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 05:18PM

I was a bit confused, too.
I was thinking "rapist" or some thing.

My husband had to read it for premarital sex, but I did some sexual "sins" before I got married. It was not sex, so maybe that's why I didn't have to read it?

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Posted by: mormonista ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 09:22PM

of the way Kimball portrays sex in his book, and the way the church sees it outside of marriage in any form. I mean ,seriously, we are talking about sex in the context of the church, not the real world. It was a choice of words that I stand by....

I still want to know if it is still required reading for sex violators, and for the religiously correct, that means ,for masturbaters, fornicators and adulterers.

I know it was required as of 2005, but is it still today?

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Posted by: spwdone ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 05:17PM

That is just getting a little ridiculous, stillburned, sorry.

When I had my Bishops interview before my mission, I admitted to "making out" with a few different boyfriends over the years. Before I could send in my mission papers, I too, was told to read "TMOF."

Seriously, one of the craziest and most boring books I've ever read and yes, I read it. Still have my dad's 1956 copy. Got some weird *#it in there, let me tell you.

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Posted by: stillburned not logged in ( )
Date: September 13, 2013 07:23PM

Sorry...couldn't help it... I think I understood the OP was just talking about garden variety stuff, not pedos and other pervs...TSCC seems to think they're all equal. Either way, having read it, I think MoF is a very damaging book...if you take it seriously (which, of course, I don't).

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Posted by: rhgc ( )
Date: September 14, 2013 04:20PM

Gee, it can't be as boring as the BoM. Be glad the bish didn't require re-readinn the BoM, etc.

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Posted by: stillburned ( )
Date: September 14, 2013 04:29PM

No, I didn't think it was as boring as the BoM, to be sure.

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Posted by: wmsmith11 ( )
Date: September 14, 2013 03:13AM

That's funny, all these years I thought it was my bishops idea to have me read this book...

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Posted by: GNPE ( )
Date: September 14, 2013 03:26AM

more Unrecognized LDS Irony:

their use of the word "Forgiveness".

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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: September 14, 2013 01:47PM


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Posted by: squeebee ( )
Date: September 14, 2013 06:43PM

I thought they made you read Song of Solomon.

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Posted by: Makurosu ( )
Date: September 14, 2013 06:43PM

I think it would be funny to return the challenge. "Bishop, I'll read Miracle of Foolishness if you'll read The True Believer by Eric Hoffer."

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