Remember “LET EVERY MAN BE A LIAR, and GODS WORD BE TRUTH”.
There is only one God and one Bible.

Peace out !

BYU is the Lord’s University.

The Eurythmics song “Missionary Man” was because Dave Stewart met the missionaries. Steve Martin, Lionel Richie, etc etc.

I always tell my wife that her mum is hot, as she will be when she’s her age. That’s ok, isn’t it??

KoTX – glad to hear you wouldn’t say it to your wife!

If you have more faith, God will give you a baby.

Cannot tell you how many times I (an infertile woman) have heard that.

It’s freakin’ ridiculous.

The symmetry you are talking about is based on the Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section or Phi. http://goldennumber.net/beauty.htm

Of course not a doctrine but I heard an EQ President teach this in quorum as the most valuable lesson he learned on his mission from a companion of his.

Since I’m an accountant, I spent the next little while in quorum meeting figuring out how many times I would have to double my contributions to make my income the size of our country’s Gross National Product. It wasn’t very many years and my income wasn’t very much……

I have been taught about half of the false doctrines I have read on there. This is mainly because: a) my mom was a single mom and very close to the missionaries age (who were all from large mormon families from Utah). b) My mom loved to hang out with people who just worshiped the sacred soil of Utah and held as holly any b*llsh*t as long as it was divine words coming from a member in SLC.

Anyway, one that has not been mentioned here and that may be a very french thing:
“You can lead a perfect life but if you sin just before you die you won’t get exalted (talk about pressure!)”

Marriage is between one man and one woman.

Plural marriage will lead to longer life and better health.

Monogamy was at the root of the fall of the Roman empire, and is responsible for abortion, infantacide, prostitution, and divorce.

Monogamy has always been the standard of the church.

Plural marriage is the only way to reach the highest exaltation.

The manifesto ended plural marriage.

I recognized that not all of these are currently held by members of the church. But they’ve all been taught at some point in the history of the church.

Of course, as the Book of Mormon makes clear, when we ascribe to ourselves a righteousness because of our wealth or success, we move into the another part of the pride cycle. “The people of the church began to wax proud, because of their exceeding riches, and their fine silks, and their fine-twined linen, and because of their many flocks and herds, and their gold and their silver, and all manner of precious things, which they had obtained by their industry; and in all these things were they lifted up in the pride of their eyes.” Alma 4:6. The real problem seems to be, not that these folk doctrines are true or false, but that we believe they are true and act in accordance with this belief rather than viewing ourselves as “less than the dust of the earth.” Mosiah 4:2; Hel. 12:7.

One other thing, if I add Tatiana list of “intelligence, kindliness, courage, energy, faithfulness, work ethic, humor, strength, fortitude” to the definition of hotness, my wife is super-hot — but I am still a slacker.

“Speaking as one of the hot wives who was also a damn fine missionary, I don’t think I ever heard this bit of false doctrine”

They just never tell the ladies about that one!

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Some of the points here aren’t doctrines but just policies and practices. For example the white shirts, no beards for bishops and men doing the first prayer in sacrament are things the authorities push as unwritten rules but not scripture based gospel doctrine. I don’t know why, maybe they want uniformity across the church.

Another is the asking the husband for a calling for the wife but not the other way around. But its good management practice due to some men objecting to another man interviewing their wife without him knowing why, some don’t care off course or [better] trust their wife but one comes across husbands in church who do object. So its always smarter to mention that one will interview the wife for a calling in primary or whatever to gauge what the husband will do, if he will support her or be annoyed and make his entire family inactive.

When a man is called bishop or other highly visible calling you can be sure that the wife will be consulted too and permission sought but it usually doesn’t happen for quorum callings or other auxiliary callings, true.