Posted by:
pollythinks
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Date: January 02, 2018 09:27PM
Posted by: SEcular Priest ( )
Date: January 01, 2018 06:56PM
Re: "Our Bishop Starts the Year Reading a Letter The Bishopric Wrote [and]...The second counselor spoke of the need for the restoration".
P: Q: Restoration of what?
"SEcular Priest: I did note a couple of things. He said when the apostles died off the Priesthood was taken from the earth."
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P: As I have written many times, Jesus' apostles did not "hold" the priesthood, and, his N.T. apostles were not priests, period! They were apostles, witnesses of Jesus as divine.
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In the Old T., only the tribe of Aaron, as appointed by Moses, were priest--with Aaron as the--single (only)--High Priest of this group.
Therefore, J.S. and O.C's. claim that Peter-James-and John bestowed on them the priesthood, is pure MYTH!!!! (Not even the Pope claims to have see PJ&J, or any other angelic entity as far as that goes.)
You can't 'bestow' something on someone that you don't have yourself.
Even so, most Mormons presume otherwise. They believe men 'hold' the priesthood, and can bestow it on each other--which is absolutely not true!! (Hence, all the women in the church who reverence pd holders, or want to hold the pd themselves, are but pining for something that was made-up, and therefore, are spinning their frustration wheels in vain.)
If 'Mormons' want to restore "Mormonism" on each other, help themselves--even though the BofM, and Mormon (a made-up person) is as false as the doctrine Mormon's currently teach each other re. 'holding' the pd.
Mormon's can't prove otherwise to the above, no matter how much one studies the Bible and the BofM, because these volumes do not contain any writings ('scriptures') that prove otherwise than my points listed, above.
Happy New Year,
Polly