Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: February 17, 2021 09:09AM
Because so much of what we thought the church was teaching has proven to be untrue, the changes that have and are being made are designed to get the church into a position of being a bit more 'Truish' than it used to be.
It's what passes for Revelation nowadays: take the pulse of the congregation and react accordingly.
As an example, here's a link to the 1988 temple survey. The results of this survey 'swayed' the lord to make the 1989 changes in the temple ceremony.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/76542947/1988-Temple-SurveyAnd remember, while ghawd may know the contents of your heart, of everyone's heart, he apparently won't share that information with his servants, the people making a living off of your tithing. Maybe the lord thinks they already have it too easy?
Who was it who went to the lord in earnest prayer to raise the issue of perhaps some elements of the temple ceremony being unpopular? And was it the lord's direct response, "Well, while I know everything, and I do giveth liberally and upbraideth not when asked properly, but in this case, you guys figure it out yourselves, 'k? What's that? How can you figure it out? Try a survey! And if people criticize you, just tell them that I, the lord, am mysterious in my ways... Yeah, that's the ticket!"
Mormonism, running on empty since before Jackson Browne was born.