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My advice now: Quote:Show forth an increase of love, lest he esteem thee to be an enemy.
That is great counsel for lots of situations, and I think this absolutely is one of them.
Also, Elder Holland answered your exact question about the Book of Mormon in the PBS documentary. He said:
Quote:If someone can find something in the Book of Mormon, anything that they love or respond to or find dear, I applaud that and say more power to you. That’s what I find, too. And that should not in any way discount somebody’s liking a passage here or a passage there or the whole idea of the book, but not agreeing to its origin, its divinity. …
I think you’d be as aware as I am that that we have many people who are members of the church who do not have some burning conviction as to its origins, who have some other feeling about it that is not as committed to foundational statements and the premises of Mormonism. But we’re not going to invite somebody out of the church over that any more than we would anything else about degrees of belief or steps of hope or steps of conviction. … We would say: “This is the way I see it, and this is the faith I have; this is the foundation on which I’m going forward. If I can help you work toward that I’d be glad to, but I don’t love you less; I don’t distance you more; I don’t say you’re unacceptable to me as a person or even as a Latter-day Saint if you can’t make that step or move to the beat of that drum.
Quote:Exactly! That feeling permeated throughout our meeting. Never before have I sat in a bishop’s office before in that kind of setting and felt like I was equal to the person sitting across from me.
This is the best place to be. I really enjoyed your recap of what happened. Great job!
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