Need Help with This Personal Weakness

[Anonymous]

SilentDawning wrote:

But I may still support them for a whole variety of other reasons. For example, because I have a good relationship with the local leader, and want to support him in something important to him. Or the thing they say just makes sense. Or perhaps I disagree, but would like the leader to learn that his idea was not a good one — if they see everyone does it and it STILL doesn’t work, then perhaps they won’t think to expect this of us in the future. There are a whole variety of reasons you might support a local leader even though you don’t necessarily agree with what they said.

Yes – that is true. But if it makes one miserable, why keep doing it?

SilentDawning wrote:

However, how do you reconcile this with the scripture “Whether by my own voice, or the voice of my servants, it is is the same?”. If you truly believe that scripture, then how can you view everything they say as opinion? This is not a challenge to your position, (which brings a certain amount of peace to the mind, by the way) but simply a question.

Fair question. I simply do not BELIEVE in the scripture as “truth.” I don’t believe it. It is that simple.

I don’t believe that the D&C is literal truth coming from god – including this passage. I believe it came from a decent, spiritual man trying his best to organize a group of people who had embarked on a spiritual journey of enlightenment. I think this single scripture is probably the most abused, misused and misunderstood concept in the entire history of the LDS church.

[Anonymous]

I am going to post another thread about that verse – since I agree that it is badly misunderstood and applied commonly in the LDS Church.

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