Posted by:
baura
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Date: August 16, 2012 11:48PM
jpt Wrote:
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> The Ensign link (Oaks):
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http://www.lds.org/ensign/1987/10/recent-events-in> volving-church-history-and-forged-documents?lang=e
> ng
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> On point quote: "In order to perform their
> personal ministries, Church leaders cannot be
> suspicious and questioning of each of the hundreds
> of people they meet each year. Ministers of the
> gospel function best in an atmosphere of trust and
> love. In that kind of atmosphere, they fail to
> detect a few deceivers, but that is the price they
> pay to increase their effectiveness in counseling,
> comforting, and blessing the hundreds of honest
> and sincere people they see. It is better for a
> Church leader to be occasionally disappointed than
> to be constantly suspicious."
Oaks is arguing AGAINST the Church's own scripture:
"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
This was EXACTLY what was happening with Mark Hofmann. He was
a disbeliever who was "professing" belief but was, in fact, an
atheist. Not only that, he was involving the Church and its
leaders in a crime spree. Not only that, but he was
falsifying Church history in the process. If there was any
time that the Lord's servants should have been given the
"inspiration" referred to in D&C 46:27 it was with the Mark
Hofmann episode.
Oaks explanation might work for someone working completely
WITHOUT "inspiration." But for someone who claims to have
such inspiration--and to be endowed with it by the Lord
specifically as mentioned in the scripture above--Oaks's
explanation misses the mark by a parsec or two. And, Hofmann
wasn't coming to the leaders to be counseled. There was no
need for an "atmosphere of trust and love." He was coming to
them with BUSINESS DEALS. THAT is where hard-headed
skepticism is normal operating procedure.
Oh, and Question for those of you who underwent interviews by
bishops: have any of you ever had the Bishop appear
"suspicious" of you or what you say? Has there ever been any
"distrust" of you shown by the Bishop in any interview? Has
the atmosphere been something OTHER than "trust and love"?
Oaks' statement is about 9.8 on the Richter Scale for "blowing
it out your @$$"
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/16/2012 11:56PM by baura.