Prophecies of God and From God Are True

    The debate and discussions of the existence of God goes back millennia. The relatively recent histories of us humans keeping records and writing is full of all the "ologies", and perhaps a few fancy words like exegesis. How to interpret texts. Eschatology, tautology, teleology. Each one with its meaning and import, its extended implications and connotations.

    There is a lot of competition, this is certain. A very smart person from my home county has dedicated himself (from all I know) to the higher-browed world of philosophical dialogs, from what I know secular, arguments and truths, ramifications and considerations. From what I intuit he does not believe in God, or at least officially lives his life to reflect that he does not have any faith in any formal or informal belief system. I have not spoken to him for a while, but I very much respect his intellect and thoughts. This since the 1980s, when we had a few conversations and I saw into his mind, a little bit, his interests. Then he would serve a mission for my faith, and I was of the understanding that he like many of my religion would stay true to the beliefs under which we were raised in southern Indiana. I do not think it went that way. 

    And thus, we are free to believe and understand things in the way that we wish. We all agree that free will and freedom of belief, assembly, and the rights and privileges of believing as we want are crucial, fundamental, existential. We crave and depend on the power of independent thought and belief. We all appreciate and deserve logical, rational, sensible, tenable systems of understanding: beliefs and creeds, philosophies and methodologies. We need sensible things to live and thrive on.

    Many consider that the beliefs in super-normal or non-empirical ideas and formations of thought, i.e. religious or supra-natural statements and practices, are full of holes, false hopes and weak links of credibility, and understandably so. It is hard to believe what we cannot empirically measure. Or for some of us, harder to believe. Some of us more intuitively or naturally believe in God, or the gods, or the prophets of them.

    I choose to believe in them. At least the ones that I grew up with. The ones that I believe trace themselves back to the first Prophets, holy men and women of ancient Mesopotamia, a few thousand years before Jesus Christ, and parallel to prophets of the Book of Mormon, and then come to fruition in the 19th century, bridging over to the 21st in current times, most of them having the Priesthoods of God, and insight to the wisdom and prophecies of all generations. Well, not all generations, per se, but the ones preceding the current state of hierarchy and belief and practices under which I fall: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    We have a prophet entitled and privileged with prophecy for all the world; all of us may receive prophecy and revelation for our own stewardships.

    So caveat emptor, and choose wisely. We can pray in order to know better what to believe, in whom to trust. 

    And, what are the major prophecies to go by?

    

    Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. By accepting Him and His plan, we can be redeemed and live forever during and after this life. We have to follow His commandments, and always repent of sins, to be covered by His plan of love and grace. 

    Sounds constricting to some, liberating to others. False and to unnatural to some, true and uplifting to others.

    We are free to see it and implement it differently.