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Frogmo comes closest for me.

FReedom (loving) One Gift Mormon

— Freedom Respecting One Gift Mormon

Brother Smith was only given one .

[High Spy]

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OG Mormon

I us OG for many things. My husband likes to correct me and state that OG stands for Original Gangsta which probably fits for some. The new Meaning of OG ~ "Authentic or Old School" fits much better.

People often ask me if I am a Mormon. I smile and tell them that I am a Cristian. One in the same or miles apart depending on your outlook.

I like JuneBug's "Disciples of Christ" ... as we are called to serve!

(DoCs)

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FReedom (loving) One Gift Mormon

One commenter here suggests it stands for "Fully Reliant On God", which I approve of; it works on its own while also incorporating the zoomerism "on God", meaning "truthfully".


Mind you, these Twitter users (or at least "Rational Prepper", as well as "Dem Saints" who he's quoting) are actually anti-frogmo, they reckon people who think the First Presidency have been acquiescing to wokeness are "nuts" ——>

Very Vague whereas Freedom Respecting One-Gift Mormons provides roots to the Freedom and similar Forums where people are FREE to discover Brother Smith’s One-Gift and how he buggered things up via what Dan Vogel identifies as the Pious Fraud theory.

OG was revealed and you miraculously added revelatory content.

Content is king as per Frogmo.com where a frog may be seen clutching a bunch of balloons like a scene out of a book at SlogFrog.com. No wonder, seeing how said book was narrated by a PTP that played a friend of the friend of God on TV. Why did people follow Jesus.

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Maybe we should make up a term

Frogmo, but what does F & R represent.

OG is One Gift was given, and only One Gift is Fully Recognized.

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Head coverings in church
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The Orthodox understanding of faith, works, and salvation goes something like this:

We rejected God, and God is life. We chose death. By rejecting God, we rejected life. And we chose that out of the freedom that He gave us - He gave us enough freedom to reject Him, and we did. So, basically, God becomes man and tries to reclaim us: He says, "This is the path of salvation", teaches us, leads us, and is killed in the process. Then He rises from the dead in his human body and places humanity at the right hand of the Father in heaven.

Salvation for us means uniting ourselves to Christ as much as we possibly can because Christ has united humanity and divinity in Himself - He is both God and man. He is "the door" (John 10:9) by which we humans have access to heaven. He is "the Life" and "the Resurrection" (John 14:6) So we "put on Christ" in Baptism (Galatians 3:27), we take communion (literally "union-with") His body, and we strive for the rest of our lives to better our relationship with Him because He is the only thing that is life-giving and death-destroying.

Regarding faith and works: Christ is salvation, so we are not saving ourselves. Nevertheless we still have to open the door when He's knocking and receive the salvation He's offering ("Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him" - Rev. 3:20). Think of it like a woman going to the pharmacist: she isn't the doctor, she didn't make the medicine, but she still needs to drive herself there. She still needs to take the treatment. It's the same with us: we don't have life in ourselves, but Christ does, so we both believe in Him and do what we can to receive Him more fully every day. As Paul says: "clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh" (Romans 13:14). It takes a long time and we grow slowly. So in summation we see no contradiction between faith and works: if we believe that God can heal us from our sinful and death-bringing habits, we will do things to invite Him more into our lives.

Really great post, thank you! I'm curious about your story, did you convert to Orthodoxy from LDS, or something else? Are there specific reasons that convinced you?

Absolutely in Abijah’s Arboretum.