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This came to me while driving: Quote:
One person’s common sense is another person’s revelation….Does this ring true to you? Why or why not?
Yes. When we are told to study it out in our minds and ask for confirmation, I believe what someone sees as revelation can be classified as common sense by others – and vice-versa. Yes. Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2
Yup or as I would like to phrase it: One persons good business practice is another person’s revelation. SilentDawning wrote:This came to me while driving:
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One person’s common sense is another person’s revelation….Does this ring true to you? Why or why not?
Yes, I think that’s the way “revelation” if there is any should be, largely personal and open to different interpretations like one possible opinion to consider. I think the Church organization and individual members would generally be better off learning to trust their own judgment more and be willing to change their minds as soon as they see good reasons to do so. The problem is that in the Church the idea of revelation is currently not so much about seeking answers anymore as much as acting like we already have all the answers we need to know.
In the last conference it seems like there was a whole lot of the underlying attitude that this is the way it needs to be because God said so and there’s nothing we can do to change that. So it doesn’t need to make sense, it doesn’t need to be fair, we should supposedly just accept it and get used to it based on that mindset. Well, suppose God didn’t say so after all, what then? In that case the Church has really dug itself into a hole for no good reason with all the hard-line positions it has adopted at the same time and it will be difficult to transition to a more moderate position gracefully if some of these doctrines really start to lose support from an increasing number of active members.
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In the last conference it seems like there was a whole lot of the underlying attitude that this is the way it needs to be because God said so and there’s nothing we can do to change that. So it doesn’t need to make sense, it doesn’t need to be fair, we should supposedly just accept it and get used to it based on that mindset. Well, suppose God didn’t say so after all, what then? In that case the Church has really dug itself into a hole for no good reason with all the hard-line positions it has adopted at the same time and it will be difficult to transition to a more moderate position gracefully if some of these doctrines really start to lose support from an increasing number of active members.I agree with this. People throughout history have always attached their decisions and decrees (particularly Kings — remember the Divine Right of Kings??). This makes it very hard to back out of a decision after you have proclaimed God told you.
You might say, that One person’s opinion is another person’s revelation — for a totally new spin on what I meant.
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