To you it seems this is a LDS privilege but to the LDS it is a sacred covenant from the Lord!
I think the two of you are overlooking your need to know is in conflict with a commandment that the Lord gave his Children and you are asking us to break our vows for your self satisfying pleasure.
If so, then it is WRITTEN DOWN somewhere.
Show us, and the world, just WHERE it is!
Otherwise, you are merely relying on 'a tradition' of the LDS organization that HAS NO BASIS IN SCRIPTURE!!!
You as a nature man would do expediently ignored that which is written down somewhere!
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Matt 7
6 ¶ Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Prov. 23:
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Matt. 15: 26 (
26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.
D&C 6: 12
12 Make not thy gift known unto any save it be those who are of thy faith. Trifle not with sacred things.
D&C 10: 37 (36-37)
37 But as you cannot always judge the righteous, or as you cannot always tell the wicked from the righteous, therefore I say unto you, hold your peace until I shall see fit to make all things known unto the world concerning the matter.
D&C 41:
6 For it is not meet that the things which belong to the children of the kingdom should be given to them that are not worthy, or to dogs, or the pearls to be cast before swine.
Show us, and the world, just WHERE it is!
Otherwise, you are merely relying on 'a tradition' of the LDS organization that HAS NO BASIS IN SCRIPTURE!!!
When you do someday meet the Lord and stand before his judgment bar, it will be interesting to watch you explain why you always delighted to play devil advocate on earth!
As LDS are council not do anything like it for the prince of this world hath nothing in me!
For it is not of the Lord as the Lord said in
John 14
30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
D&C 59
6 Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Thou shalt not steal; neither commit adultery, nor kill, nor do anything like unto it.
which would include playing devil advocate.