"If we are to believe the Book of Mormon — if we wish to honor Moroni’s warning — we believing Gentiles of these final days need to understand that we have been commanded to look, recognize, and fully wake up to the agenda and identity of the members of secret combinations and their hidden works. It is not enough to dismiss these matters along the lines of, “Sure, there’s corruption happening somewhere, by somebody, and that’s a bummer.”
It is folly for Church members to assume that the LDS General Authorities are required to lay all this out for us — to expose and declare everything plainly to us, say, during General Conference. We have the Book of Mormon, we have their prophetic warnings already — to expect anything more from them is equivalent to seeking to place our personal responsibility upon their shoulders. Should LDS members, even a vast majority of them, be deceived by wolves in sheep clothing — whether in government or even within the Church (as J. Reuben Clark strongly implies both) — they cannot expect to be clued into the deception by the leaders of the Church."
Thoughts?
It is folly for Church members to assume that the LDS General Authorities are required to lay all this out for us — to expose and declare everything plainly to us, say, during General Conference. We have the Book of Mormon, we have their prophetic warnings already — to expect anything more from them is equivalent to seeking to place our personal responsibility upon their shoulders. Should LDS members, even a vast majority of them, be deceived by wolves in sheep clothing — whether in government or even within the Church (as J. Reuben Clark strongly implies both) — they cannot expect to be clued into the deception by the leaders of the Church."
Thoughts?
3 comments:
that's a bold statement...
I like it. I think we have been told many times that the Book of Mormon is a type and shadow of things to come. We were just reading yesterday when Alma talks to his son Helaman about remembering the Jaredites and that they were destroyed by wickedness and secret combinations and that he was to tell the people but not reveal all the signs and symbols that these wicked people used. If we stick with the scriptures and follow the commandments as Alma says then we shall not fear. I think we have all the information that we ultimately need.
I'm going to throw in a curve ball and say the personal revelation is also key. the revelation that is available to us so that we can read the Book of Mormon and receive the knowledge that things are happening today. The ability to compare the two and see the warnings for us. Not that that is even a curve ball; more a partner thought.
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