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Date Posted: 00:29:34 03/11/12 Sun
Author: George
Subject: Re: Further evidence, c-not-of-c has no credibility
In reply to: Lois 's message, "Further evidence, c-not-of-c has no credibility" on 10:29:58 03/10/12 Sat

> >href="http://www.cofchrist.org/homepage/mar/presidencya
>ddress.asp">http://www.cofchrist.org/homepage/mar/presi
>dencyaddress.asp
>
>Stephen M. Veazey says,
>
>�After consulting with my counselors, we decided the
>president�s annual sharing should be on or near April
>6 each year to celebrate the anniversary of the
>church�s organization in 1830.
>
>The April date also is important in another way. On
>April 6, 1860, Joseph Smith III accepted the call to
>prophetic leadership of the �Reorganization� (RLDS
>Church), now commonly known as Community of Christ.�
>---------
>
>Notice that Steve Veazey does not include the fact
>that Joseph Smith Jr. accepted leadership of the
>restored church in 1830. Without the Restoration of
>1830, and Joseph Smith Jr. as its leader and father of
>Joseph Smith III, there would be no reorganization.
>
>Very much like in the novel, 1984, in which the
>history books were constantly revisioned.
>
>The present leadership of the Community of Christ is a
>collection of men and women who are absolutely no
>different than the people who persecuted Joseph Smith
>Jr. and the church in the 1800�s. Some of them just
>happen to have ancestors who believed in the
>Restoration and so they brag about how many
>generations their families have been in the church.
>With such a heritage they have no excuses for what
>they have done.
>
>Lois

Lois, I have to differ with you on this one.
The people who persecuted Joseph Smith, Jr. did so because they were offended by the fact that what Smith taught was completely against their upbringing in a Christian culture.

The Community of Christ would not persecute Joseph Smith, Jr. for disagreeing with Christian doctrines. The Community of Christ really has very little use for them, either, except as window dressing. What the CofC admires about Joseph Smith, Jr. is the fact that when things didn't suit him, he'd just get a revelation from God changing them --even if the previous revelation had claimed that the revelation was eternal and unchanging.

Joseph's cool factor is very high with the current leadership, which does not disavow his approach, it only disavows his results. Having gotten bored with doctrinal stabiity over the first one hundred years or so of the Reorganization, they expect to do the same thing all over again and get different results this time.

George

I'm gonna be like him, yeah,
I'm gonna be just like him.
Harry Chapin

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Re: Further evidence, c-not-of-c has no credibility -- Lois, 20:41:21 04/23/12 Mon

Re: Further evidence, c-not-of-c has no credibility -- George, 20:35:41 04/24/12 Tue

Re: Further evidence, c-not-of-c has no credibility -- Lois, 10:29:22 04/25/12 Wed
- Re: Further evidence, c-not-of-c has no credibility -- George, 21:28:25 04/26/12 Thu
  - Re: Further evidence, c-not-of-c has no credibility -- Lois, 01:50:22 04/27/12 Fri
    - Re: Further evidence, c-not-of-c has no credibility -- George, 19:06:02 04/27/12 Fri
- Re: Further evidence, c-not-of-c has no credibility -- john, 19:28:52 06/04/12 Mon