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[MTGinTN spews] Thanks for providing the evidence that you don't read the materials posted quoting your founders and teachers ... or were you just lying for the lord to protect your religion from exposure? I wonder if you actually know what your religion really is all about, since you don't know what your religion teaches about the Momron jesus: Tennessee Nana -- MORMONS WON’T TELL YOU that they believe the mormon jesus had at least three wives and children while he was on this earth. |
[Stourme chuckles]
The Journal of Discourses is not Church doctrine. Nor is it taught as doctrine.
The Journal of Discourses is a collection of writing, sayings, and personal speculation. But it is not doctrine.
It's cool reading though. It's interesting from a historical perspective ...
So what I said:
True. The missionaries won't tell you this. Because we don't believe this. I've never even heard it before.
Is absolutely true.
I was taught it and believed it when I was LDS,as did most LDS I knew both in CA and Utah. It is taught and believed by a great many rank and file LDS.
It was also one of the things that my mission prep professor told us NOT to teach or admit to on our mission.
The Journal of Discourses is not Church doctrine. Nor is it taught as doctrine.
The Journal of Discourses is a collection of writing, sayings, and personal speculation. But it is not doctrine.
“The Journal of Discourses deservedly ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every rightminded Saint will certainly welcome with joy every number (issue) as it comes forth.“ (President George Q. Cannon, Journal of Discourses, Preface, Volume 8.) “Each successive Volume of these Discourses is a rich mine of wealth, containing gems of great value, and the diligent seeker will find ample reward for his labor. After the fathers and mothers of this generation have made them the study of their lives their children’s children will find that they are still unexhausted, and rejoice that this Record has been handed down from their fathers to also aid them in following the way of life.” (Apostle Orson Pratt, Preface. Volume 3.) “It is impossible to give monetary value to the past volumes of this publication, … Those who read the utterances of the servants of God, contained in this book, under the same influence by which the speakers were inspired, cannot fail to receive profit from the perusal.” (President Joseph F. Smith, Preface, Volume 18.) “We take great pleasure in presenting to the Saints and the world the … the Journal of Discourses, which they will find contains rich treasures of information concerning the glorious principles of Eternal Life, as revealed through God’s anointed servants in these last days. All who read the discourses contained in this Volume are earnestly recommended to adapt them to their lives by practice, and we can confidently assure them that, in doing so, they are laying up a store of knowledge that will save and exalt them in the Celestial kingdom.” (Apostle Albert Carrington, Journal of Discourses, Preface, Volume 15.)