Hey, thanks for joining us. I'm Scott this is Jeff. -Hello hello. -We are a couple of
Mormon men. -Mormon daddies. -Just guys. -Yeah, he's married, he's got a daughter. I'm
married I've got five sons. And much more Mormon than my family. -Well
I'm trying to underscore the point that some people believe that Mormons have
these huge families. -Well, yeah see you've only got five. That's that's... I think
you're supposed to have 14. -My wife comes from a family of 11. -Good. -Good
malee, Ms. Miley, yeah. So, you know but Mormons and Catholics gets kind of the joke. Is that
you know, if you're Mormon or Catholic you probably come from a family of you
know 10 or more.
But anyway, our purpose in and bringing you this video today is to talk a little
bit about what Mormons believe. You've probably asked the question, you know,
"What do we believe the purpose of life is?" -That's a big question. -Where do we
come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? -In fact, that's what I was going to
mention. You know, when I went on my mission, I went to Barcelona Spain.
-He was a Mormon missionary with the shirt and tie and the suit and the name
tag on. -That one we would walk around and you may have been stopped in the street
by a couple more missionaries. And so our dialogue would go something like, "First
of all, what's your name? Second where are you from?"
You know, and they would, we'd chat a little. So, the third question is if we
were able to give you some information that would help you to understand where
you came from, why you're here and what happens after this life, would that be of
interest to you in getting to know and learning about? And people would say, all
the time, they would always say, "No." Which actually wasn't. It was tough.
But that's kind of what we're going to talk about right now is what is the
purpose of life? Where did I come from? Where why am I here and where am I going?
And and so we got some thoughts we want to share with that. -Yeah, yeah. I mean,
again, we're not professional teachers or anything on this subject. But we can
share what we know. We've been members of the Mormon Church for most of our lives.
You were born in the church? -Yeah. -Meaning his parents were already Mormons and he
was kind of born and raised in. I pretty much was. My mother received the
missionaries and took lessons from them and kind of learned about Mormons when I
was 4 or 5. And that was in Michigan and then we we moved out west
to Utah not long after that. But... So, getting right to it. What do we believe
the purpose of life is? Where do we come from? Etc. Mormons absolutely believe in a
pre-life existence. That we were spirits. The spirit children of our
Heavenly Father. And that we were with him and with Jesus who is also our
brother. In a pre-existence and that there, you know, this plan was created in
which we would be able to start to progress and become more like our
Heavenly Father and be able to return and be with him someday how he is in a
perfected and glorified state. We believe that God and Jesus and the Holy Ghost
are 3 separate beings. Part of a triumvirate, an
entity of God. The three of them are God but they're 3 individuals. 3
distinct individuals. And that even Jesus himself needed to come to earth to gain
his body. So that he could become also like the father is. And was at that time.
So, we believe that we were... This World was created that we were sent to the
earth to receive a body, to gain experience, to go through challenges and
trials and difficulties which paints kind of a gloomy picture. -Yeah. -I think of
it that. -It's... And you kind of think it reminds me of Adam and Eve. You know,
they start it all nice and rosy and then all of a sudden the fall happened and
now we got to go out and you know, thanks for your love
Heavenly Father. But honestly how else would
they have learned and had they remained in paradise? Because they didn't know
what it was like. They didn't know that there were opposites in all things, right?
And so, it's the same thing. I mean, if you boiled it down to two main things, the
purpose of life is first of all to gain a physical body because we couldn't
receive a fullness of joy without a body. And then second is to pass through these
tests, see how well we do. If we will obey and live by the commandments that God
has given us. It's... So, it's a testing. Okay, we're going to have physical tests, we're
going to have mental tests, emotional tests and hopefully you know, we do well
enough. And the nice thing about the whole thing that brings us all together
is that we know we're going to make mistakes. Everybody sins. We all know
those scriptures in the Bible. And also in the in the Book of Mormon. That's why
the Savior Christ is so important. -Two things, everybody's going to do it? Everybody's going to
sin and everybody's going to die. -Yeah. -And yeah, that is the role of Jesus Christ
our Savior. Do we believe in Jesus? Absolutely. He's the central principle
figure in our faith, for sure. You know, that he came to earth and his role was
to conquer those two things, basically. One was a free gift.
Everyone will resurrect because of his resurrection. Good, bad or otherwise.
Everybody will be resurrected eventually. And then at that point, is really where
are these tests and challenges and overcoming sin and and some of our other
vices and habits come into play. He made it possible
through his sacrifice, through his atonement. Which there's a lot going on
there. But just to kind of keep to the the theme here. He made it possible for
us to overcome sin if we follow him, if we take his name upon us, if we receive
of His grace and if we repent. It's kind of one of the defining
points that you know, that separates us from other Christian faiths is many
Christian faiths believe that grace alone is good enough. That you just
simply say, "I believe." -I hope I'm picked. -I believe in you Jesus, I
believe in you. And now I don't have to worry about anything else.
Yeah, because his grace is it completely will save me and completely... It's
absolutely true that we can't do anything without His grace. We will never
be saved without his grace no matter how many great works we do. We believe that.
But we also believe that our works are important. That they're critical. That we
do good things. Why would he give us Commandments if he didn't want us to do
them and follow them? Why would he say, "Come follow me?"
Those are things that are actions. He wants us to do... He wants us to live like
him, to talk like him, to be like him, to the best of our ability. And as Jeff said,
nobody's perfect. But because of his grace, if we will do those things, we then
can leave this life eventually. And where that resurrection is free, you know what
comes after this life is also free but it is dependent upon some of the
decisions that we've made in this life. And we believe as Mormons that there are
certain steps we have to take in order to be able to really return and be with
God according to the plan that he set out for us back in that pre-existance.
-You know I can say personally, that as I've tried to follow those steps, I'm
happy. -Happy here. -You know, yeah, here. The purpose of life (That's a big thing) is to
be happy. We know we're going to go through incredible challenges that you know, we
wish we couldn't. But you know, as we work through them and go through
these things, they're still happiness available and possible. And sometimes I
look back on past experiences that I went through that we're
miserable at the time. And now, I look back on those and I'm like, "I'm glad I
kind of stuck to it." And stuck with my beliefs and had friends like Scott
and and family members to help me through those times. Because it has added
to my overall happiness and joy. Having made through those things. So, yeah. It's
just... I feel very lucky. -Yeah. So, if you were to... If we were to kind of
you know, sum up what we believe the purpose of life is, I like the way you
said the purpose of life is to be happy. You know, there's a scripture that we
believe in that that's from a book called The Pearl of Great Price. Which
are other... There was a... Within the Dead Sea... Not the Dead Sea Scrolls. But there
was... There was some Scrolls that came into the possession of the Prophet
Joseph Smith in the 1800's. That he translated. And some of them have to do
with the writings and teachings of Moses and other. Abraham, were the kind of the
scrolls. But there's one in a book called Moses where he says that the Lord says
"This is my work and my glory. To bring, to pass the eternal life and salvation of
man." Men and women. Mankind basically. That his purpose is for us to eventually
return and to be with him someday. And we believe truly that we can
accomplish two things. We can do that through the Savior Jesus Christ. And
as Jeff mentioned, we can be happy while we're doing it. While we're enduring
challenges and trials. We can put our full trust in the Savior. And if we're
obedient and diligent and do our best. And repent when we need to. That we can
be happy here. And you know, the chances are really good that we'll be able to be
with him and glory later. And we believe there's an awful lot of different ways
that, that can happen. And that those... That heaven, after this life is
not just one place where all the good go and hell is one place or all the bad
will go. It's not quite that kind of... -Ride huh? -It's not quite... Well,
it's not quite that simple. You know, there's... -Yeah. There's you know,
my father's house are many mansions. You know, there's a lot of different places
for people of varying degrees of faith. Then they'll all be glorious. But I think
in this life, take advantage of the time, do good things, follow some steps. And if
you wonder what those steps are, you should probably go to lds.org. -Yeah. And
and kind of peruse the different pages there. Or talk to some missionaries whose
job it is is to teach these things way better than we would ever teach them. Any
comments? Just let us know. Questions that you may have now in your mind from what
we talked about just now. Write them down. We'd love to answer and make them maybe
even a topic for our next video. Thanks for joining us have a great day, week,
month, year, life. -Slash, Eternity.
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