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"Don't bother me with what the Bible says. After all, we're the only people who even know anything about the world...

...about man...
...about the afterlife & preparing for it;
...in fact, we're the only ones who are saviors...
...who know how to save everybody who lived in generations before us...
...who know how to save ourselves now...
...who know how to save folks in the future...
...we're it!"

SOMEbody needs to reconcile these two opposing veiwpoints!

President Gordon B. Hinckley in the August 4, 1997 issue of Time magazine...

In response to Time's question as to whether or not it is a teaching of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that "God the Father was once a man," President Hinckley is quoted as replying,

"I don’t know that we teach it. I don’t know that we emphasize it ... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don’t know a lot about it, and I don’t think others know a lot about it."

(page 56)

Gordon B. Hinckley: “I don’t know a lot”

Professor Robert Millet: “Gordon !!!! You already know MORE about God and Christ and the plan of salvation than any who would ATTACK you.”

SOMEbody needs to reconcile these two opposing veiwpoints!

One -- Taylor -- was spoken to the inner circle. The "meat-after-milk" approach in which the more obscure & deliberately tucked away teachings are stressed. The other comment -- Hinckley -- was spoken to the world with a deliberate PR spin in mind: ("Oh we don't want to alarm the world with our meaty teachings before they drink their milk. So we're just going to tuck them away.")