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... that isn't 100% consistent with my faith's doctrine.
Yesterday I had the most bizarre argument I've had to date with my sister in law. We were talking about Norse mythology, and I could remember Asgard was the world of the gods, Midgard is where we live, and that there was another one below that that I couldn't remember.
I mentioned, I know it is the same idea as the Telestial kingdom in Mormon doctrine (Mormon doctrine has three kingdoms, Celestial, where God the father lives, Terrestial, where we live, and Telestial which is a lower kingdom).
And she flipped out that how dare I compare her true faith to a Norse myth.
I pointed out that it was a common belief and if anything it supported her doctrine, that it was something that for a long time people understood to be true, that your doctrine has taken that existing understanding and added/discovered more of the true nature of things.
You'd think that would be a good thing.
Nope, that just made her even more irate, how dare I insinuate that the true church grew out of the myths of an ancient and unenlightened people. After all, the doctrine says there can only be one truth... I still fail to see how other people working to understand that truth you now understand somehow lessons that truth, but okay, I won't try to agree with some of the tenets of your faith.
Yesterday I had the most bizarre argument I've had to date with my sister in law. We were talking about Norse mythology, and I could remember Asgard was the world of the gods, Midgard is where we live, and that there was another one below that that I couldn't remember.
I mentioned, I know it is the same idea as the Telestial kingdom in Mormon doctrine (Mormon doctrine has three kingdoms, Celestial, where God the father lives, Terrestial, where we live, and Telestial which is a lower kingdom).
And she flipped out that how dare I compare her true faith to a Norse myth.
I pointed out that it was a common belief and if anything it supported her doctrine, that it was something that for a long time people understood to be true, that your doctrine has taken that existing understanding and added/discovered more of the true nature of things.
You'd think that would be a good thing.
Nope, that just made her even more irate, how dare I insinuate that the true church grew out of the myths of an ancient and unenlightened people. After all, the doctrine says there can only be one truth... I still fail to see how other people working to understand that truth you now understand somehow lessons that truth, but okay, I won't try to agree with some of the tenets of your faith.
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