All I Possess

Leaving behind false traditions in search of the true Jesus

  • The Value of a Good Catch Phrase

    When I was growing up, my parents liked to play The Messiah soundtrack a lot. I was too young to understand what it was, but certain parts stood out to me and sounded funny. Like the song that said we are like sheep. I would go around the house singing “We like sheep! All we Continue reading

  • Calculus and Kindergarten

    Time for me to expose another silly thing I believed as a Mormon. Except this one isn’t a weird random thought, it’s actually mainstream. It’s a commonly held belief and a commonly expressed attitude. In fact, I heard it just recently as a response to one of my Facebook posts. And this was someone who Continue reading

  • When I Realized Heavenly Father isn’t Even My Real Father

    Weird Mormon thought of the week #2: Bear with me. Hear my logic on this. In Mormonism, our souls have always existed. God didn’t actually create us. We existed via this little thing called an intelligence. As the story goes, we were “intelligences” when God found us and plucked us up, and then He made Continue reading

  • When I Realized I Couldn’t be Exalted Without Satan

    Weird Mormon thought of the week #1 Yeah, you’ll think this is weird. But follow my logic. As I attended the LDS temple pretty much every day it was open, fall 2023, God began to point things out to me. I went there to seek Him and be close to Him, so naturally He showed Continue reading

  • Beyond Being Good: Surrendering our Lives to God

    As a follow-up to my discussion on good works defining Christianity, today I want to probe a bit more on how humans do good things, to what extent that qualifies a Godly person, and what exactly God wants from us. I have a friend who believes in universal salvation. She frequently remarks the common maxim, Continue reading

  • The Problem With Defining Christianity By Behavior

    “See how much money Mormons raised for the shooter’s family! See how Christlike we are? How could anyone say we aren’t Christian?” Well, it all comes down to what definition of “Christian” you want to use.  If you use the definition of being a forgiving, compassionate person or doing those sort of actions, then many Continue reading

  • Mormons Don’t Understand the Gospel

    Yesterday I discussed whether Christianity can rightly be defined by the doctrine of the Trinity, or if that doctrine came after the establishment of Christianity. Today, here’s another angle. Let’s just say the Trinity vs Godhood is arbitrary and doesn’t matter, and that’s not a good issue to define Christianity. So then, can we use Continue reading

  • Did the Nicene Council Invent the Doctrine of the Trinity?

    Is a belief in Trinity theology necessary to be a Christian?  Let’s talk about the doctrine of the Trinity and the Nicene Creed which was deemed “an abomination” by Joseph Smith. I was raised with the idea that the idea of the Trinity originated a couple hundred years after the Bible, and thus was adding Continue reading

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  • What Makes a God?

    We know that Mormonism is a works based religion, and we know that Mormons believe in exaltation, their word for becoming a God. Do works make a God, according to the LDS church? Actually, no. Mormonism is far more sinister than that. Yes, Mormons must obey the Word of Wisdom, a food law similar to Continue reading

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  • Eternal Marriage & The Bride of Christ

    One day a woman approached Jesus with a very pressing, personal question. She had been widowed several times. But after having so many husbands, she wasn’t sure which one she’d be with in the afterlife. So she came to Jesus.  What was his response? (A) whichever one you get sealed to in the LDS temple  Continue reading