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majick275
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well the “scorecards” didn’t work so well. back in the old days they commissioned sidney rigdon as “spokesperson” for the church to write a series of doctrinal lessons called “lectures on faith”. these were used in joseph smiths “school of the prophets” to teach the highest leaders. it was so great that they placed in the scriptures (D&C) which was of course approved by a vote from the church. many years later it was finally realized that it directly contradicted other mormon doctrine which was now being “emphasized” more. so it was quietly removed. no vote. to this day the D&C has a refernce to it in the introduction explaining how it wasn’t really scripture but that it is “profitable for instruction”. good luck finding the Lectures on faith being used for instruction in any current LDS teaching manuals.
Then back again in the old but as old days they commissioned orson pratt to write a series of articles in LDS periodicals teaching the “deep doctrines”. this was later collected and published as “the seer”. it was so controversial that BY later asked for it to be taken out of circulation because of its “errors”. he never specified what parts were error. To this day Mormons will use that as reason to disregard the seer, BUT you still see quotes from it in LDS teaching manuals although they credit the periodicals where it first appeared as the source.
then again in that same period they decided that since BY and these other early leaders were in effect creating the doctrine of this new church they decided that their talks given in general conference were really pretty much the same as scripture and should be written down. this resulted in the many volumes of the Journal of discourses. years later many of these teachings were every bit as radical (if not more so ) as(than ) the seer. that relegated this set of works to a very obscure status of extremely limited publication. it is still referenced in LDS teaching manuals but it is not widely distributed and is often avoided by mormons as “opinion”.
of course then there is also the debacle known as Mconkie’s Mormon Doctrine but that at least was never presented as scripture.
Then back again in the old but as old days they commissioned orson pratt to write a series of articles in LDS periodicals teaching the “deep doctrines”. this was later collected and published as “the seer”. it was so controversial that BY later asked for it to be taken out of circulation because of its “errors”. he never specified what parts were error. To this day Mormons will use that as reason to disregard the seer, BUT you still see quotes from it in LDS teaching manuals although they credit the periodicals where it first appeared as the source.
then again in that same period they decided that since BY and these other early leaders were in effect creating the doctrine of this new church they decided that their talks given in general conference were really pretty much the same as scripture and should be written down. this resulted in the many volumes of the Journal of discourses. years later many of these teachings were every bit as radical (if not more so ) as(than ) the seer. that relegated this set of works to a very obscure status of extremely limited publication. it is still referenced in LDS teaching manuals but it is not widely distributed and is often avoided by mormons as “opinion”.
of course then there is also the debacle known as Mconkie’s Mormon Doctrine but that at least was never presented as scripture.
In the comments section of the Salt Lake Tribune article,a lot of people are saying “no big deal” and “they didn’t break the law.”
