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Date Posted: 08:27:02 09/21/11 Wed
Author: George
Subject: Re: Part Two--The church is based on scripture?
In reply to: George 's message, "Re: Part Two--The church is based on scripture?" on 23:14:47 09/18/11 Sun

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>>RICHARD That I was called a Judas, uh, in regard to
>>"Decision Time." And the only thing in that paper that
>>they said that I did wrong was that I said that the
>>church was based upon the scriptures. And they
>>proceeded to say that it was based upon the writings
>>or the, uh, workings of the First Presidency. This is
>>exactly the same doctrine that Brigham Young put out.
>>The living oracles, said Brigham Young, is the word of
>>the First Presidency and that supercedes the
>>scriptures. And that's exactly what they put in that
>>letter, and I've got a copy of it at home; I'd be glad
>>to send you one. In fact, I've mailed it out to a good
>>many people, because it said the only thing (they
>>didn't�they didn't say "the only thing,") but the only
>>thing that they said that I said was wrong was that
>>the church is based on the scriptures; and I still say
>>it is based on the scriptures. And you know it is.
>>
>>O.C> The church is based on scripture?
>>--------
>>
>>Hmmm. I wonder if that was genuine surprise at such a
>>notion or if O.C. Hinson was just repeating a phrase
>>while trying to get his brain to work.
>>
>>Lois

Lois, since John posted the little scripture passage from the NRSV about Cornelius, it occurs to me that this may be why CofC functionaries quote scripture. If the church is not based upon scripture, quoting scripture is an excellent way to appear pious while directing discussion away from what the church is all about. After all, if the church is not based on scripture, there is no way that much of anything about the church will come up during the discussion of scripture.

The quote you offered about Acts 4:12 pretty much illustrates this. The CofC priesthood always wants to discuss the scriptures with opponents of the church, while in other venues teaching that the scriptures are bogus, and should be mostly ignored in the making of any decisions about doctrine or church practice. It is only after these extra scriptural plans are outlined and adopted that the scriptures are studied to find some excuse in the scriptures to justify the decision to believers.

If the believers would leave the church, they'd be doing the First Presidency a favor, because it would relieve the latter of the need to read the scriptures at all. That would also relieve Stake Presidents from having to spend their days threatening priests with silencing and members with excommunication. With all these folks gone, the leadership could get down to the real business of how to find enough money to run the church now that all the people whose beliefs they despise are no longer around to get in the way.

At every turn, its like our political leaders, who by their actions and rhetoric constantly proclaim that they hate everything that is most dear to the American people, but that they love our tax money.

George

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