Posted by:
baura
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Date: July 05, 2016 06:50PM
I posted this elsewhere, but I think it deserves its own thread.
We're told about how the Bishop etc. has the "power of
discernment." I remember home teaching an artist guy who had
some business dealings with Boyd K. Packer. And he stopped in
the middle of telling me the story and said, reverently, "you
know, these guys can look straight through you."
Discernment--it comes straight from the scriptures:
"27 And unto the bishop of the church, and unto such as God
shall appoint and ordain to watch over the church and to be
elders unto the church, are to have it given unto them to
discern all those gifts lest there shall be any among you
professing and yet be not of God."
--D&C 46:27
See, they can discern "lest there shall be any among you
professing and yet be not of God."
The "Guide to the Scriptures" clearly states, in defining "Gift
of Discernment:
https://www.lds.org/scriptures/gs/discernment-gift-of?lang=eng#
"To understand or know something through the power of the
Spirit. The gift of discernment is one of the gifts of the
Spirit. It includes perceiving the true character of people and
the source and meaning of spiritual manifestations."
See, Church leaders can perceive "the true character of people"
and can tell if people are only claiming to be "of God."
Here are the top church leaders showing their sacred powers of
discernment in action:
http://www.utlm.org/images/newsletters/115/115cover_hofmannchurchleaders.gifFrom left to right:
Mark Hofmann (liar and forger and future murderer, and
currently, full-time criminal, secretly atheist since age 14,
while claiming to be a believing Mormon, presenting a forged
document to the leaders of the Church. Hofmann passed all his
priesthood worthiness interviews for advancement through the
priesthood, mission, and temple marriage)
N. Eldon Tanner (member of the First Presidency)
Spencer W. Kimball (prophet, seer and revelator and President
the Church)
Marion G. Romney (member of the First Presidency)
Boyd K. Packer (Apostle)
Gordon B. Hinckley (member of the First Presidency and future
President of the Church who paid $10,000 to Hofmann for a
forged document about Joseph Smith, and who then promptly hid
the document from the rest of the world).
Yeah, these guys really have that discernment mojo.