Damned for believing too much?

I woke up this morning, too early to get up, and chose to listen to an audio book —  Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration.

My daughter bought it, we share accounts and I needed something new. Plus, I have been reading about “vibrations” — specifically that higher beings vibrate at a higher level, and lower ones at a lower level. I suppose I’ve lost some of you. Or you think I’m off my rocker. It’s also called high frequencies and low frequencies.

In fact, as I was praying over my list of names, and when I said one person’s name, the high frequency I was hearing, dropped significantly lower. I was so surprised, because I was not even aware of the frequency — only the very sudden change. I felt to believe that this person was in need of help at that moment. I hesitate to share this, but my blog is also a recording of my progression — hence the name of the blog, Eve out of the Garden — how I find my way back to Eden.

I’ve been reading Denise Mendenhall’s account of her NDE at the age of 10, when she went into a diabetic coma. (My best friend got diabetes at that age too — it was scary.) The book is called “In His Arms,” and she shares things I’ve never heard of in a near death experience. But I’m not going to be like those who once told Brother Nibley,

“Well, I’ve never heard that before!” — meaning, it can’t be true, since I’ve never heard it.

Denise shares her understanding that Jesus is at a high vibration/frequency level and therefore you cannot endure His presence — you have to be transfigured as were his disciples when they saw Him in His glory. Denise says that Christ can lower His level — which He did for her as a child so she could see Him and talk with Him.

We ask investigators to suspend their unbelief, or their thinking, and give the gospel a try  — the fruit of the gospel of Jesus Christ, as brought back by Joseph Smith. We ask them to believe in the angel Moroni and that God has a body of flesh, separate from Christ’s body of flesh — mind-bending requests if you’ve grown up believing in the trinity, or that the Bible is a perfect, closed book. We ask them to get a witness for themselves, not just believe the missionary.

My point, is that we often need to suspend our own disbelief. We must ask the Lord to show us our own unbelief. I’m afraid that as Mormons, we often think we have everything, all that is necessary, and have no need to look for any unbelief in our thinking.

Last night, as I read Denise’s book, I texted my daughter — “wow, really?” — Denise’s book is best described as an eye-opener, and I pray that I have eyes to see and ears to hear the mysteries of God. It’s not a book for the Mormon who clings only to their Sunday School lessons that they have learned to “parrot back” during Gospel Doctrine. Denise talks about things that fit into our beliefs, though they are not talked about much anymore.

“I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.”¹⁰  says Joseph Smith (History of the Church, 6:477; from a discourse given by Joseph Smith on June 16, 1844, in Nauvoo, Illinois, Grove East of Temple; reported by Thomas Bullock)

Back to my morning, I turned off the book on frequency, and a song popped into my head (and I am not musical, I can’t carry a tune in a bucket, have not been hearing this song, or  anything). But here it is — this verse,

“Oh it is wonderful, that He should care for me enough to die for me, Oh, it is wonderful, wonderful to me!” (I Stand All Amazed)

I had to look for the hymn, I didn’t know where that verse came from.

And then I opened the mail on my iphone and read a blog over at LDS Perfect Day  titled, “Are You Truly Awake?”

Then, I got ready for the day, and facing east, with the Sun on my face, offered up my prayer of thanks to God for his Son.

Since I wrote this, I now understand that Denise is part of the Denver Snuffer group — which I feel is the wrong way back to God. I investigated his writings, but believe that he is not the correct path. He mixes Truth and error, and thus it is very difficult to determine who is a true prophet and who is a fraud. Even Eve had a hard time with that — but I believe Denver is a false prophet.

 

Further Reading:

• The Joseph Smith quote about not being damned for believing too much is also found in The Words of Joseph Smith compiled by Ehat and Cook, you can’t buy this book anymore unless you want to over pay for it. But you can get a Kindle edition bundled with other books. Words of Joseph Smith – Deluxe Study Edition including the LDS Standard Works, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Lectures on Faith, History of the Church, History of Joseph by His Mother, and More
• Denise Mendenhall, In His Arms is found for a good price at Confetti Books
• Receive the Godhead