Kid: I'll answer that when you show me all of the following.
The Gold Plates The Urim and Thummim The Lost 116 Pages The Papyri for The Pearl of Great Price Any fulfilled prophecy from the current prophet Your degree in human psychology A consent form filled out by my parents for you to ask me that
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Interesting that their age of accountability falls before the average age of puberty.
It is like handing a gun loaded with blanks to an 8 year old and holding them accountable for shooting themselves in the foot when those blanks turn into bullets.
They would only ask if I was sexually pure. I asked what that meant as a teen and the Bishop was so uncomfortable just said being chaste. I would love to have seen his face if I had told him about masturbation.
LadyKorihor Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would > love to have seen his face if I had told him about > masturbation.
I never once was asked if I masturbate before I was twenty. I was asked "do I follow the law of chastity." Answer that how you want. Once they clarified "that means sex with a women, another man, or yourself." But they didn't push the issue. It wasn't until my Mission that it came up. And that really led to obsessive compulsive tendacies (which is another issues). Then after my mission I was never asked. I even once confessed that I masturbated and tried to turn in my temple recommend, and they refused to take it. They said you need this to help build your armor. They didn't seem to want to know, which I now admire.
It isn't universal. But depending on who is wearing their mantle, their curiosity can kill a BYU cougar and many a testimony of interviewees who don't understand why their discernment is NOT enough and they need to get sexually specific.
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During the interview with my stake president before going on a mission, there was a part of me that wanted to say: "You can take this mission and stuff it up your ass!" when he asked that question. In retrospect, I sure wish I had done exactly that.