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Elder Dallin Oaks is on tour again. http://www.idahostatejournal.com/members/senior-lds-official-gives-talk-in-pocatello/article_e799b7ee-4afb-11e5-8b0e-f38fd850f331.html This time he stopped in Pocatello, Idaho. I was relieved to hear him out and about again. Early in the summer his quicky trip to Meridian, Idaho was billed as a regular deal, yet I hadn’t seen in one recently.
http://forum.staylds.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6693&hilit=meridian+idaho ” class=”bbcode_url”> http://forum.staylds.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6693&hilit=meridian+idaho Quote:But the church insists that’s not the case, and that Oaks simply saw the opportunity to visit Boise to teach important doctrines of the church.
The double relief comes in his message
Quote:said the church will continue to grow over the next 20 years, but it won’t compromise its values.
My first thought – polygamy. Whew, all is well.
When one of the church values is to follow the Will of God and continuous revelations, then it isn’t considered “compromising” when change comes from the top leadership. In order to help the church grow over the next 20 years, the church will change on a lot of things to help people come to Christ, and feel confident with their change because they are not compromising with worldly sources.
That’s a pretty good compromise so the members don’t feel alarmed, I think.
Quote:The double relief comes in his message said the church will continue to grow over the next 20 years, but it won’t compromise its values.
I interpret this to mean “The church will continue to grow over the next 20 years, but it won’t compromise its values AS IT CURRENTLY UNDERSTANDS THEM”. We have seen the church reverse its stance on the priesthood ban, and plural marriage. The pressures of feminism are very strong in society and appear to be growing in the church itself. And the church, to some extent is bending to those pressures without outright giving the priesthood to women.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m not as convinced as I once was about a second coming anymore. I’m not sure it will happen to the earth, although I believe each of us might have one when we die and see Christ greet us (as out-of-body experiencers have reported). I think the world, and society will be around for a very long time. And I think it will get harder and harder for the LDS leaders to hold their position on issues of women and same sex attraction over decades to come.
If the day comes that these issues start seriously damaging membership, the church’s financial status, etcetera, I think you will see change. Particularly if liberal values continue to exist in society and later generations of GA’s bring liberal sentiments to LDS leadership.
Now, I leave myself open to predict there COULD BE drastic world changes that prevent change. World wars that distract us from these kinds of issues, mass destruction that make survival more important than social engineering, etcetera, or a change in the balance of men and women in the world — but should the world progress as it has in previous generations, I see the church having more and more trouble sustaining commitment from members when it is stubborn about these issues, and become more and more different from society as a whole.
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