Comments on: Sitting Down Together http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2006/04/sitting-down-together/ Truth Will Prevail Thu, 24 May 2012 14:56:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kimball Hunt http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2006/04/sitting-down-together/#comment-131103 Kimball Hunt Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:03:51 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3082#comment-131103 Other members of my family posses fully formed understandings of the workings of Christ's Atonement but its workings have always escaped my understanding. And in fact, I always saw religion as my doing x, y, and z without guilt and if I didn't then such guilt's leading me to learn just to stop. So maybe I've always been in an extended way a tribal Mormon qua a jewish sort within my adherences to our Scriptural canons qua an an exponentially heterodox talmud. And to go on here within this Semito-philic theme, I've also always been jealous for example of Seders' of necessity being observed in Jewish homes and of course outside of the Temple's precincts. In my youthful conception of it (which is no doubt false) this would enable me to commune with my deity in my own family's space without concern about the crazy adherents at Church who care about certain alleged Gospel facets (short hair, bogotry towards blacks) I myself didn't believe to be absolutely essential tenets of Mormonism. I also liked and like the concept I perceived of RABBIS imparting religious knowledge in YESHIVAS (i.(-d) e.(-st) qua more of a reality than can be done here in the bloggersphere; if you'll pardon my trying to impart the legalese QUA into memory by randomly throwing it into sentences-- ) and, to stretch the analogy even further, how if Community of Christ were qua "Reform"-style Restorationism, wouldn't it be really cool were there to be some spin off from it (comparable to "Conservative Reform") which could then accomodate disaffected Mormons? Who'd then be able to say "Yes, we're 'mormon': just not particularly observant"? However if you can forgive this 'jack above, I actually very much appreciated Ben's putting the context of the Last Supper into the Saints' sacramental observance for me: a context and feeling I literally FELT as I read it. Other members of my family posses fully formed understandings of the workings of Christ’s Atonement but its workings have always escaped my understanding. And in fact, I always saw religion as my doing x, y, and z without guilt and if I didn’t then such guilt’s leading me to learn just to stop. So maybe I’ve always been in an extended way a tribal Mormon qua a jewish sort within my adherences to our Scriptural canons qua an an exponentially heterodox talmud. And to go on here within this Semito-philic theme, I’ve also always been jealous for example of Seders’ of necessity being observed in Jewish homes and of course outside of the Temple’s precincts. In my youthful conception of it (which is no doubt false) this would enable me to commune with my deity in my own family’s space without concern about the crazy adherents at Church who care about certain alleged Gospel facets (short hair, bogotry towards blacks) I myself didn’t believe to be absolutely essential tenets of Mormonism. I also liked and like the concept I perceived of RABBIS imparting religious knowledge in YESHIVAS (i.(-d) e.(-st) qua more of a reality than can be done here in the bloggersphere; if you’ll pardon my trying to impart the legalese QUA into memory by randomly throwing it into sentences– ) and, to stretch the analogy even further, how if Community of Christ were qua “Reform”-style Restorationism, wouldn’t it be really cool were there to be some spin off from it (comparable to “Conservative Reform”) which could then accomodate disaffected Mormons? Who’d then be able to say “Yes, we’re ‘mormon’: just not particularly observant”?

However if you can forgive this ‘jack above, I actually very much appreciated Ben’s putting the context of the Last Supper into the Saints’ sacramental observance for me: a context and feeling I literally FELT as I read it.

]]> By: Ben H http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2006/04/sitting-down-together/#comment-130430 Ben H Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:56:37 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3082#comment-130430 Fun to see you here Jeannie! Fun to see you here Jeannie!

]]> By: Jeannie Van Orden http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2006/04/sitting-down-together/#comment-130394 Jeannie Van Orden Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:49:35 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3082#comment-130394 Thank you for that beautiful Easter message. I often contemplate how difficult it is to grasp something even when we are told straight out because our experience lags behind the message. Truly the sacrament can be a salve to the sorrowing soul who awaits the day when experience and revelation finally converge and bring healing. Thank you for that beautiful Easter message. I often contemplate how difficult it is to grasp something even when we are told straight out because our experience lags behind the message. Truly the sacrament can be a salve to the sorrowing soul who awaits the day when experience and revelation finally converge and bring healing.

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