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To: Elsie

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199 posted on 11/12/2007 5:53:53 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
If you grow up in the LDS church, you learn, in primary, Sunday school and seminary, many wonderful things that prophets did.
The miracles of Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon Prophets, and the prophets and apostles in the Bible.

Your expectations build up. You can imagine a modern prophet having the same powers as previous ones. You expect to see miracles as a normal course of things.

When the people in the Book of Mormon found records they couldn't read they brought them to the Prophet and he translated them. When hearing about the Dead Sea Scrolls, you wonder why the Prophet didn't translate them for us.
 
You wonder why the church used scholars instead of inspiration. Wasn't that the problem with the Bible?

When hearing about Spencer W Kimball's operation for throat cancer,  you wonder about the gifts of healing and why we've never heard of our apostles healing people like the apostles in the New Testament.

You wonder about the gifts of discernment over the Hoffman scandal.

You wonder why any doctrine could be unclear in the bible after Joseph Smith retranslated it and why that disclaimer about the bible not being translated correctly was still in the Articles of Ffaith.

You expect the Prophet as a spokesman for God on earth, would say something that God would say to everyone - not just the church. Especially during real troubling times.

You expect the Prophet and the President of the United States to be talking regularly like they did in the Book of Mormon. Either clashing like Abinadi and Noah or collaborating like Moroni and Alma during the wars.

You never expect any Prophet to have lead people astray or to have to apologize or discount the things former Prophets did.
 
 
What kind of doubts do YOU have???
 

200 posted on 11/12/2007 6:19:27 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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