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To: reaganaut
Don’t forget Benson’s speech on the “fundamentals of following the prophet”, one of them is “the prophet does NOT have to say ‘thus saith the Lord’ to give us scripture.”

Sixth: The prophet does not have to say “Thus saith the Lord” to give us scripture.
Sometimes there are those who argue about words. They might say the prophet gave us counsel but that we are not obliged to follow it unless he says it is a commandment. But the Lord says of the Prophet, “Thou shalt give heed unto all his words and commandments which he shall give unto you.” (D&C 21:4.)
And speaking of taking counsel from the prophet, in D&C 108:1, the Lord states:
“Verily thus saith the Lord unto you, my servant Lyman: Your sins are forgiven you, because you have obeyed my voice in coming up hither this morning to receive counsel of him whom I have appointed.”
Said Brigham Young, “I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call scripture.” (Journal of Discourses, 13:95.)

Benson is clearly lying - he is citing JOD which EVERYONE knows isn't canon. And Young was just expressing his opinion about Adam-God doctrine (until 1976). Brigham Young places the honest mormons on the horns of a dilemma. If they claim Young as a true prophet, he must also accept his Adam-God teaching since a true prophet must have a correct theology concerning God (Deut. 13:1-3). If Young's teaching is not accepted, then the mormon must conclude that Brigham Young was a false prophet. Mormons can't have it both ways.

270 posted on 03/25/2009 9:24:19 AM PDT by Godzilla (If the first step in an argument is wrong everything that follows is wrong. ~C.S. Lewis, The Problem)
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To: Godzilla

As a true protestant, you must accept Benny Hinn as a true minister of God!


271 posted on 03/25/2009 9:27:04 AM PDT by Old Mountain man (Blessed be the Peacemaker.)
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