Is This a Silly Question? (The answer started my fade)

journey-on

Me at 20: "Wasn't the Urim and Thummim like a Ouji Board? If it's wrong to use a Ouji Board, wouldn't it have been wrong for God's people to have used the Urim and Thummim? Isn't God the same today as yesterday and tomorrow? Would the same rules apply?

Elder: "That's a silly question. If you have to ask something like that, then you're obviously spiritually weak."

Me, again: "The Bible says that God had to put angels at the entrances to the Garden of Eden to keep Adam and Eve from returning to eat of the Tree of Life, and, thus, be able to live forever. Does this mean that if they had been able to get back in and eat of this tree, they would have been able to override God's punishment?"

Elder: Another silly question.

PSacramento

Quit with the silly questions and drink the kool-aid, its good for you and very refreshing.

choosing life

Nope, not silly at all. I wondered about them too, but tucked them away as a good dubbie.

Another one was, Would man have been able to accomplish anything (there is nothing that would be unattainable for them) if God would not have confused their languages?

Exactly what was God afraid of?

journey-on

PSacramento: I never was a big kool-aid fan, although we "drank" tons of it when I was growing up...It's NOT good for you. Too much sugar and no real nutrients (if you know what I mean).

choosing life: Yeah. That's another one I wondered about, but after being humiliated for asking the first two, I shelved that one.

I would still like to know how a different elder would have answered my questions.

IronHill

Those questions are not silly at all...

I too used to ask myself the second question all of the time, it just made no sense whatsoever.

Heaven

And if you noticed.... they didn't answer your questions.

I was told years ago that all my questions would be answered. They never have been.

journey-on

They also like to throw around the not-supposed-to-speculate card. If a question requires something more than doctrinal explanation, they simply say any answer would be mere speculation and tell you not to dwell on it.

If you still want some kind of explanation (even if it is just speculation), they label you as argumentative and spiritually weak. They don't realize that some of us have a need to find a place in our mind to put those kinds of things. That kind of brush off really annoys me and makes me realize how shallow and inept many elders really are.

It's like a parent that won't allow you to voice an opinion and discuss possibilities with you and simply says, "end of discussion." You are left hanging with no voice about the matter or intellectual closure. Very frustrating, not to mention humiliating.

oompa

i liked a post here that mentioned why the hell god invented the sword........adam and eve prob did not have one........so god gives them the prototype of swords that would hack men to death for centuries..........oompa

gubberningbody

Actually the linguistic origins of "silly" was a word that meant blessed or happy in the 11th century. Then it mutated going through pious, innocent, harmless, pitiable, feeble, feeble minded before finally ending up as foolish or stupid.

White Dove

Oompa,

Which came first, the sword or the war? There was no war in heaven yet and since Adam and Eve were perfect, there was no marital war, either. Good thought! Just shows who really wrote the Bible, getting all that stuff out of order.

Is This a Silly Question? (The answer started my fade)

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