Opinion: 'Redemption is all-powerful and should remain in place, regardless of skids and bumps along the way,' writes Gordon Monson, about onetime believers leaving The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Rio de Janeiro Temple in Brazil. Salt Lake Tribune Gordon Monson questions the use of worthiness interviews for gaining temple entrance by members.Different reasons exist for onetime believers in the Latter-day Saint faith turning away from that faith, just as different reasons exist for believers staying with it.
Some of the expression expands beyond matters of faith, but the foundation of it certainly relates to the application of church principles, rules, commandments, guidelines, requirements, exhortations and teachings in the lives of believers — to the point where those principles become, in those who struggle, a heavy burden to carry.
“What if you stopped trying to control everything, and instead simply decided to let this moment and your experience in it be all that matters? Many of them know they are good people, living worthwhile lives. But they cannot — or could not — answerAnd those questions are not even an indication of real worthiness.
It’s the constant call, the ever-present insinuation, and, in some cases, hammering, for living a better life, for living a family-oriented life , for a need to repent and for doing better, for doing and being more, that can put a drag on belief — especially when some folks might just be trying to keep their heads above the waterline in an existence that is difficult for them.
And the path to find forgiveness, within the church organization and its processes — confessions, penalties, delays in granting forgiveness — are at times too rigorous, too harsh, too clumsy, not confidential enough, too embarrassing, too harmful, resulting in lasting shame.
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