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Date Posted: 22:22:55 03/31/11 Thu
Author: George
Subject: Acting on Wrong Beliefs caused chaos

I have been reading some of the Temple School materials supplied for minsterial training courses.

I found the following to be interesting:

"For this reason, the church's mission is tied very closely to its belief in Jesus Christ and in that which he taught. There is a particular kind of relationship between the church's belief and the church's mission. That is, the church's mission is not to propagate its belief. Rather, the church's belief propagates its mission."

This is from
PA 100 Introduction to Ministry
Student Resource
1981

I am sorry that the author's name is not put on this book, but it is a publication of the "Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints." There is a name written in pencil on the front cover: "Jo Breshears." (In fact this raises all kinds of questions about the good faith and credit of the leadership regarding Section 156, which certainly was not even on paper in 1981, if the hierarchy is to be believed.)

We have been lectured on this forum that any insistence that belief and doctrine have a guide and unchangability to direct the church. Matt pretty much said that we were doofuses for insisting that having a correct belief had anything to do with Christianity. His take was that Christianity was all about doing good -- there were to be no basic axioms to operate from.

The author of this course apparently disagrees. If the Church's beliefs about Jesus are what propagates its mission, what effect upon the church's mission does changing those beliefs have?

Jesus was called "The Great Physician." According to the Hippocratic Oath, the physician's first duty is to "do no harm." Is it better to have correct beliefs, but not act and accomplish nothing, or is it better to have a mish-mash of incorrect and heretical beliefs and act on them, producing chaos?

Most of the people left in the CofC who have something similar to the correct doctrinea and teaching of the RLDS church have been told that they can believe whatever they want, but their beliefs are not going to be allowed to interfere with the mission that is being propagated by the beliefs of Steve Veazey and those in charge.

George

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