I love these more pointed questions posed in this study:
Check it out. When consuming milk all the time, we become spiritually anemic. This has led to the current crisis of faith in the Church. They cut out (censored) the difficult topics like polygamy and topics that indicate that there is a spectrum among God’s children. Heaven forbid that there was One who had excelled to the point that He just needed a body to be perfected, and who had attained a status in the pre-mortal world where He could be responsible for creating the world He would be later called to save! And next in line Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Isaiah, etc. Then 50th percentilers like myself on down to those who squeaked out the privilege of qualifying for a tabernacle of flesh. There is a spectrum out there, folks! I can see it within the microcosm of my own family and ward and town. I see it in the high school. Varying levels of diligence and valiancy. Why is that so politically incorrect to talk about?? Fact is, not everyone gets a trophy!
Yes, the “everyone gets a trophy” crowd took over the curriculum dept., so now everyone has turned into a “mediocre, mushy in the middle” that can bear no wind of scrutiny or difficult or deep doctrines. We have been co-opted by the Millennial Mentality.
And this has led to our current crisis. It started in 1890 and was reinforced in 1978 and when they finally cave on the Family Proclamation, it will be time for the setting in order wherein basic doctrines are restored after the tares are burned. It cannot happen soon enough. We can barely scrape along with telestial doctrines - and we expect greater things??
Not quite, amigo!
I don't think they will cave on the Family Proclamation, for the following reasons:
ReplyDelete1890: There was precedent for polygamy and for monogamy. The Book of Mormon specifically singled out the reason for polygamy: To bring more seed unto the Father. Once there was sufficient seed the spigot was turned off.
1978: There was precedent for limiting and expanding who could hold the priesthood.
2025 Hypothetical: There has never been precedent for God at any time accepting a marriage between two men or two women. In fact, if one reads the Scriptures clearly, it was one of the reasons cited for why God sent the flood in the days of Noah. Also Cain's secret combo was essentially homosexuality and incest (They knew every man his brother). You have even alleged in an earlier post that Satan is probably gay. While the Scriptures are not clear on that your postulation on that was most interesting and on point.