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Misconceptions, Testimony etc.
[Edited for some glaring grammatical mistakes, and begging for your understanding regarding the remaining ones.]
I’ve been thinking–and of course reading–about the so-called shaken faith thing. What I’m about to say, is given without documentation, just some personal observation. Look forward to my presentation of some of the “hidden” Mormon history (usually “hidden” in the pages of the Internet-readable Ensign!) . I have a specific point to be made of that. (BTW, don’t expect this to be an easily digestible piece–or a quick read, either. 
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One thing to start with: I’m not being “superior” here Read more…
General Conference Saturday Morning
I probably will not have opportunity to watch the afternoon broadcast, but there were a couple of comments I wanted to say about the morning one.
First of all, again, I am grateful for living prophets. I reiterate again, how lost I was and “tossed to and fro” in the winds of human philosophies, so many of them sounding very good, but not feeling like what I could build a meaningful life upon. So many people had thought similarly to what I had thought, but then they’d go way overboard with something else. How was I to know what is worth my while or would bring lasting Read more…
Does a Prophet Always Know Everything?
Lately I have pondered some issues relating to revelation, the privilege of having the Spirit communicate to us things that are sacred in nature, or at least able to help us in ways unseen at the moment.
I ran into the Mark Hofmann story again. If you read the linked Wikipedia story, you’ll learn that he forged documents which he was able to pass as real, Read more…
Following Fallible Prophets
This is another post that was first posted at Nine Moons. You can read comments and post your own here.
One of the things that I’m most grateful for in the framework of the Restoration is restored revelation. And not only the kind of revelation that Joseph Smith received, or pres. Monson et. al. receive. I’m talking about the kind of revelation that Jesus referred to, when he asked the disciples “whom say ye that I am”? When Peter answered that he was the Christ, Jesus said that Peter had that knowledge from the Father (see Matt 16:15-17). In the following verses Jesus talks about the “rock” (with a subtle word play) of foundation for his kingdom – meaning that the rock on which the kingdom would be built is revelation, the same that allowed Peter to know that Jesus was the promised Messiah. By the same revelation I know that Jesus of Nazareth is the Anointed One (or Messiah, or Christ, pick your language), who took upon himself the sins of mankind; who was resurrected on the third day and ascended to the Father; who will come back again, as promised. And who, ultimately, through his grace will let me partake of the divine, if I show my willingness to follow him. Read more…
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