Misperceptions About The "Holy Spirit"

 Yeah I've heard it many times. But Mike I feel that I'm supposed to be right here in the church, with the main body, following the leadership. 

Let truth lead you. You have to first understand your own psychology and physiology. What you feel, your emotions, found in the back of the brain, your amygdala, are secondary, and are after effects, of the logical thinking that's going on in the prefrontal cortex of the logical portions of your brain. And how you think about something depends on how you translate or interpret whatever it is you're thinking. Some negative emotion that comes from a thought you were having in your mind, is not proof that the Holy Spirit is communicating to you. 

Jesus came to teach against the Jews who did have the priesthood and who did have their own temple. Truly most of them felt negative emotions, when He did so. You can see the outcome of their anger.

When Samuel the Lamanite got up on a wall and preaches against the church going Nephites who were idolatrous, and had carried on Aaronic priesthood also, surely they felt negative emotions when he preached the truth to them. They shot arrows.

The same with Isaiah and Ezekiel and Jeremiah and the many others who preached against the fallen Israelites. Who also lost their chance at the fullness of the gospel and a full restoration of any Zion or fullness of priesthood. 

Just because you feel negative feelings in your amygdala, as I have just proven to you, that you can't depend on that. 

What matters is intelligence. Truth. Light and knowledge. God wants every one of us, to search for it constantly. You pray for it. For it to be revealed to you. You set aside your own preconceived ideas. Like a child does. Fully open to learning. And accepting the truth regardless of whatever they feel about it or personally think about it. Faith is believing God will answer and teach you knowledge and truth. It is not a scapegoat or a way to avoid digging in and searching and praying for the answers. We can't just say we will just have faith or believe that the LDS Church or any other organized religion on this earth, is somehow correct. You have to know for a surety. 

On a personal experience I had, when the Lord told me in November of 2015, that plural marriage was allowed to a few ancient prophets and patriarchs in the Old testament, but that it was not eternal, and not the image of God, which is found in the family of Adam and Eve, a king with a queen forever. Do you think I felt good when I heard that? It went against all of the research and conclusions I already had on the topic for decades. My preconceived ideas was that I had that all figured out before. It might have been possible to a few, but it's not eternal. We are supposed to get away from those things. Not get back to them like the church leaders and its entire line of historians and authors think.

You churchgoers, need to understand that the truth is coming into the church, from the bottom up. From the meek and humble. Even from the relief society fellowship who hold no priesthood. Regular moms, regular researchers, sitting in pews. Learning the truth about those things, because they actually dig in. They do the research. They publish it. And they suffer the social consequences for doing it, because of the blind leading the blind ordeal. 

And you can apply the same line of thinking, to what this church has done, in regards to its false doctrine of blacks and the priesthood. And many other topics they were wrong about, and flip-flopped on. 

And I will tell you another thing. The D&C does say that when the Lord speaks, using words, instead of impressions or glimpses of visions or actual visions, that you'll know because you will feel it in your mind and in your heart. There is energy and vibration, that does light up the heart and the mind when He speaks. And more so when the Father speaks. That is something different than your amygdala making you feel warm fuzzies when you like something that you hear when processing in your mind. 

You have to understand your own physiology and psychology or else you will mis-apply what you thought were answers from God, when they were simple emotional processing going on. 

If you reject the message of Christ, whether it comes from his own mouth, or one of his actual servants, one of His actual messengers, filled with His words, that they share with you, you are in fact rejecting the Holy Ghost. You are rejecting the Lord who Himself acts in all of the many different levels of the "Holy Spirit".

Seriously, use your head. Use your logic. Seek and search for it as the Lord also commands. This is light and knowledge, or truth. Always be a truth-seeker, a revelation seeker, and a face-of-God seeker. The answers can and do come. Trust Him to tell you, show you and reveal why things are the way they are.