Posted by:
Tauna
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Date: March 17, 2011 10:56AM
Here's the link
http://www.mormontimes.com/article/20103/Guessing-leads-to-knowingAnd here's the part that made me go, huh????
"In the early days of the church, many of the Saints, marveling at the great new vistas that Joseph Smith's teachings had opened to them, could not help but wonder about many things.
They speculated, making guesses about how this or that newly revealed idea might fit with older teachings or with new ideas from the world outside the church.
And they tried their guesses out with other people, testing them. In those exciting early days, their speculations ranged so far that some ideas fell off the edges of the gospel, and we no longer consider them even possible as doctrines. I won't list them here; if you're a student of church history, a nice list of those rejected speculations has already popped into your mind.
When we read those early talks and speeches, diaries and letters, articles and books, we must keep in mind that much of what we're reading may be the results of thought experiments, guesses, attempts to make new ideas fit.
We're no different today — our minds are going to ponder and question and wonder, because that's what human beings do. The only danger comes when we forget that the ideas that come to mind are only guesses. We tell our friends or colleagues or students, and the idea appeals to them as well. What if. But as the idea gets repeated, the "what if" drops off and people start talking as if it were doctrine.
That's a natural part of the way public knowledge grows. When many people around us speak as if something is true, our brains automatically move the idea into the "truth basket." But as soon as we store something there, we stop doubting it.
So we must be careful that when it comes to the gospel, nothing slips into the "truth basket" without having been approved by the prophets who have been appointed guardians of the doctrines of the church."