The Second Book of Nephi is alive today!

The second book of Nephi in The Book of Mormon is alive today.  I have been studying this book for the last few weeks now and as I read Chapter 28, I am very aware of the world around me these days.  The subtitle alone,  in the book says so much. 

Chapter 28

Many false churches will be built up in the last days—They will teach false, vain, and foolish doctrines—Apostasy will abound because of false teachers—The devil will rage in the hearts of men—He will teach all manner of false doctrines. About 559–545 B.C.

As I have read the verses in this chapter I am drawn to certain comments and post on Face book. 

The LDS church once again is under attack for our firm stand on gay marriage. Although we are a tolerant loving people, we still need to be firm on the truth. The world is finding anyway they can not to be accountable for their sin. No one wants to be guilty of sin, nor admit it is sin. Instead they seek to try and make their sin normal and those who do not agree with them are being told we are not Christ like. Since when is Christ tolerant of sin? 

Recently I saw this picture on the Internet. I was not only sadden by it but also disgusted that the changes to two definition in the LDS Church handbook have lead to such a horible picture. 

How could someone turn truth into such slander? 

Christ loves all his children. We are all sinners, that is why we came her, bled in the garden of Gethsemane and died on a cross and was ten resurrected for us. He did that for every man, child, sinner, parent and brother. He does not pick and choose who he loves. HOWEVER if we want to return to our Father in Heaven then we do need to come unto Christ. Obey God's commandments and atone for our sins often. We can not expect to be rewarded in heaven for sin. He is perfect and no unclean thing can enter his house. 

The truth on these  changes in the LDS church are as follows. 

The handbook now includes being in a same-sex marriage under the definition of apostasy and as a circumstance that requires the convening of a disciplinary council. The handbook also clarifies that the ordinance of naming and blessing a child may not be performed for children living with a parent in a same-gender relationship.

The new section of the handbook is listed under the heading "Children of a Parent Living in a Same-Gender Relationship." It states that "a natural or adopted child of a parent living in a same-gender relationship, whether the couple is married or cohabiting, may not receive a name and a blessing." Deseret news Published: Thursday, Nov. 5 2015 9:10 p.m. MST

The video should be watched! People are taking truth and turning it into something they can mock and changed to suite their own situation. This is where the church stands and this is what I choose to follow. The church is doing this to protect a child not to be cruel! 

Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained the changes.

https://youtu.be/iEEMyc6aZms

• 9 Yea, and there shall be many which shall teach after this manner, false and vain and foolish doctrines, and shall bepuffed up in their hearts, and shall seek deep to hide their counsels from the Lord; and their works shall be in the dark.
•  10 And the blood of the saints shall cry from the ground against them.
•  11 Yea, they have all gone out of the way; they have become corrupted.
•  12 Because of pride, and because of false teachers, and false doctrine, their churches have become corrupted, andtheir churches are lifted up; because of pride they are puffed up.
• 15 O the wise, and the learned, and the rich, that arepuffed up in the pride of their hearts, and all those    who preach false doctrines, and all those who  and pervert the right way of the Lord, wo,wo, wo be unto them, saith the Lord God Almighty, for they shall be thrust down to hell!
•  16 Wo unto them that turn aside the just for a thing ofnaught and revile against that which is good, and say that it is of no worth! For the day shall come that the Lord God will speedily visit the inhabitants of the earth; and in that day that they are fully ripe in iniquity they shall perish.
•  17 But behold, if the inhabitants of the earth shall repent of their wickedness and abominations they shall not be destroyed, saith the Lord of Hosts.
• 26 Yea, wo be unto him that hearkeneth unto the precepts of men, and denieth the power of God, and the gift of theHoly Ghost!

•  27 Yea, wo be unto him that saith: We have received, andwe need no more!

The entire chapter should be read and studied. The Second book of Nephi is all prophecy from the book of Isiah and can not be ignored. Now is the time for Latter day Saints to take a stand and be stead fast to the teaching of Christ.