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Morgan Davis wrote a post at BCC today with that name, and I really like it. Here is the link, followed by a couple of my favorite quotes. I recommend everyone read the entire post; it isn’t that long: http://bycommonconsent.com/2013/04/03/revelation-and-surprise/ Quote:A mother gives birth to her child, a composer writes a new song, and a gardener’s planted seed sprouts, all to some degree of surprise. It’s not that these events were unexpected, but that the specific manner of their unfolding could not be entirely predicted. There was a moment of prestige—of revelation—natural to each. We live in an age of almost constant scientific, historical, and creative revelation, and therefore of surprise. How fitting, then, that this dispensation was inaugurated by a young man who turned out to be—and is still turning out to be—full of surprises as well.
Quote:As Mormons, we often take comfort, and perhaps some pride, in the fact that we have so many satisfying answers to questions of the soul. These have come to us through the revelations that Joseph and others in our prophetic tradition have received. But if we teach that ours is an age of on-going revelation, and if we claim, as Joseph did, to embrace all truth no matter is provenance, then we must be prepared for some surprise if and when what we learn doesn’t always neatly comport with what we thought we already knew. In other words, we might be more than pleasantly reassured and vindicated by new revelations. We might be shocked. We might be challenged. We might have to reconsider paradigms or long-cherished certainties.
Sorry, everyone, for the broken link. I fixed it. What I love about the second quote is that it flows so nicely with the idea of continuing revelation, our thoughts are not God’s thoughts, and that He wants to reveal more to us than we are presently willing to accept. :thumbup:
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