~”You guys slip and slide out of everything through “new revelations”.”~
Yuh-huh. The problem here is that a discredited document is being taken by some as evidence, then hyped. This is known as “sensationalizing.”
Let’s see... the long list of things where the practices of the LDS Church have changed...
1. Plural marriage
2. Blacks in the Priesthood
3. Temple ritual modernization
uh... I think that’s about it. And all these had very good reason attached. Of course, all around us are swirling denominations that are “evolving” in their interpretations of the Bible. Interesting that you find such “slips and slides” acceptable.
I submit that we’d be in much better shape in regards to slumping morals if Orthodox Christianity “slipped and slid” as much as the LDS Church has.
> Let’s see... the long list of things where the practices of the LDS Church have changed...
I don’t think we should go there. Other Christian faiths have... ummm... had a Voyage of Discovery too. It wasn’t so long ago that witches were hanged or burned at the stake, or heretics were tortured, or Jews forceably baptized.
As Christians our walk is difficult and fraught with opportunity to get things wrong. That is why it is a narrow and twisted path that we follow.
Sure, Mormons have plenty to be ashamed of in their past and rightly so. So do Catholics, so do we all.
Evangelicals too: anyone remember Jimmy Bakker? The sinningest holy man ever since St Paul, yet he eventually came right. Or Jimmy Swaggart? A sinner if ever there was one.
Which of us can say we are any better than them?
I wish everyone would just shut up and follow Our Lord and Master as best we can, and nevermind about the other fellow.
*DieHard*