This is for all the Brigham haters out there:
Our enemies are determined to blot us out of existence if they can,” Brigham told the Saints at a special conference in Salt Lake City.
To save lives and perhaps win sympathy from potential allies in the eastern states, he announced a plan to move the Saints living in Salt Lake City and surrounding areas to Provo and other settlements farther south.
The bold move would upend the lives of many Church members, and Brigham was not entirely certain that it was the right choice to make.
“‘Can a prophet or an apostle be mistaken?’ Do not ask me any such question, for I will acknowledge that all the time,” he declared.
“But I do not acknowledge that I designedly lead this people astray one hair’s breadth from the truth, and I do not knowingly do a wrong, though I may commit many wrongs.”
It's ironic that the Catholic Church teaches that the Pope is infallible but no one in that church believes that. But in the LDS Church they teach that their leader is fallible, but no one in the LDS Church believes that. Even after Joseph and Brigham and subsequent leaders have said this on several occasions.
From what I see, most in the LDS active membership believes the Prophet and apostles are infallible. The Church for sometime has been focusing upon the need for us to receive personal revelation, but then we are to follow the prophet. What if what we see does not align with the Leadership? Then do we follow the Prophet regardless of what we see? Is that what JS or BY would have us do?
ReplyDeleteIt is the nature of almost all men to want to control, to fix it, whatever "it" is. It is insatiable. Joesph, from the beginning, was trying to teach people to be self directed and learning to discern truth. If there were those who differed in opinion, Joseph was always willing to hear them out. That sort of structure does not exist today in the Church except to a local leadership who are not Joseph, but are guided by a handbook, which trumps personal revelation.
A family in my ward have a daughter in her 30's, one of my daughter's friends she grew up with, who has had serious cardiovascular issues recently. Any guesses why that is?? I have no idea if the family recognizes the cardio problems are connected to the jabs. Not about to ask that question. You can't really ask. I wouldn't doubt that many members in the Church just cannot connect the two. Cardio issues are not the only problem, sterilization of both male and females where there have been a decrease in births when during and after the pandemic, when we should have seen an increase in births with people being shut up with less mobility.
The Church is already doubling down with warnings about being aware of alternate news information in a past issue of the Liahona. Another issue gives us a 7th grade level civic lesson on the US Government and Constitution. We can agree on such a lesson but how that is practiced is a whole different issue and they will not warn us of where government has strayed. This leaves members to stray when the leftist will tell us this or that which they are supporting are constitutional when it is a bold face lie. They know they can repeat the lie over and over until it becomes our reality of what truth is.