Aaron32
Well-known member
The Church is a Living Church. As understanding evolves, former teachings of past leaders go by the wayside.Then why even have them, if the teachings in them do not accurately reflect what your church teaches?
Ok. That's fair. I apologize.I misrepresented nothing. I mentioned the YWM, vol. 2, lesson 29, that Janice put down on here.
Right. So if something contradicts - if it doesn't make sense in our mind or heart, and not in line with the scriptures, and it presents no fruit of the Spirit then we can't claim that we've received revelation on it - and it's likely whatever that uncertain topic is, probably isn't pertinent to our salvation.Except these often contradict...even in your church's Scriptures, as has been shown on here many times.
If it's being taught in church (presently) you'll find it quite easily.I don't know if your church removed that manual or not, from its website, or just buried it in it, making it very difficult to find.
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Sorry, I didn't see your other posts. My bad.I thought I made that clear in my other post.
Granted, there are principles that are milk before meat. However, given that the Church is focused on conversion, it really doesn't make much sense to swindle people into membership. Having said that, there are things I think that are important to understand, such as reading the Book of Mormon (aka. "hearing the message"), before applying our own logic and reasoning.The only purpose I can think of is because either your church is ashamed of the men-becoming-gods-and-creating-worlds doctrine, or it isn't something it wants investigators to find, when perusing your church's website, to see what it is all about, and to see if some of the doctrines they have heard about are really taught in your church--maybe for fear that they will reject your church and not want to join.
All our teachings are quite open, you just need to know where to look:
Just fyi:
Most everything is under Gospel topics: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics?lang=eng
Including our belief of becoming like God: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/becoming-like-god?lang=eng
If you can't find it on the website, chances are it's not a big part of our beliefs.