So........who replaces him? I'd guess Whitney Clayton or Tad Callister. TSCC will show off its incredible diversity by appointing a rich, old, white male from Utah
DAMN!!! Ya'll beat me to it! I was going to say someone old rich and white! Maybe they'll stretch a bit and pick a Canadian, or an Anglo South African.
Yes, I'm convinced that if I'd stayed in, I would have been the first Brown apostle, and I would have popularized "orale" as the new conference opening greeting.
They'll just have to wait for ghawd to tell Monson who he wants as a special witness to his name. ...no sense speculating, as if it were up to a vote...
Looks like you don't have to wait until conference. Holland was appointed and then voted on after taking up the role. Apostles also recommend a load of names and someone "wins". Basically a power struggle
Looks like you don't have to wait until conference. Holland was appointed and then voted on after taking up the role. Apostles also recommend a load of names and someone "wins". Basically a power struggle. No surprise
He'll be replaced by someone whose proven himself to be a company man. A true believer who'll do whatever it takes to believe and is completely bought into the delusion.
After all, how can you fool other people if you can't even fool yourself?
So, Hales is at the judgment bar of God sipping on his third pina colada. It's a beautiful joint, but he wonders why the waitresses are topless. Turns out it's Joe's place.
So if Tommy receives a revelation from the lord regarding the next special witness to Jesus name, and that person, for example, me, accepts, but Tommy dies before conference, can the new prophet pick some other, obviously less brown, person, and can I sue?
I think that they are holding off until Tommy gets better or kicks the bucket. They already have one guy lined up. His name is Givens. They are trying to get the other one cleared. His name is Druthers.
How can they chose ANYONE? Clearly, the "prophet" is not competent! Unlike the US Constitution as amended, there is no way without the death of Monson that someone can be picked. The FP is not able to. The C12 can't. The Seventies can't. If Monson dies, of course the C12 can appoint.
Ballard was chosen the month before Kimball's death,and Hales the month before Benson's death...surely no one seriously thinks the long-unseen church presidents were the prime movers in those appointments?
Ballard's wife even said straight out that in an interview just before the October 1985 conference,Hinckley (then second counselor and informally dubbed acting president) "called him as an apostle"...not told him that Kimball had done so.
Wealthy white businessman and/or attorney, related to other general authorities by blood, marriage, friendship, and/or business ties. This will be yet another chance for them to change, but they won't. Just like when they had the chance last time, but went with the familiar, instead.