Which institute class would you take?

[Anonymous]

Is it an eternal truth or church administration/policy?

That’s like asking a moon farmer what temperature it gets down to on the dark side of the moon:

Moon Farmer: It drops down to minus 153.

Visitor: Celsius or Fahrenheit?

Moon Farmer: First one, then the other.

[Anonymous]

nibbler wrote:

Is it an eternal truth or church administration/policy?

That’s like asking a moon farmer what temperature it gets down to on the dark side of the moon:

Moon Farmer: It drops down to minus 153.

Visitor: Celsius or Fahrenheit?

Moon Farmer: First one, then the other.

Ha! that is so classic! 😆 😆 😆

[Anonymous]

Ann wrote:

unsure wrote:

Tuesday we talked briefly about the difference between “eternal truths” and “church administration or policy”, I forget the exact wordage for the latter. Anyways there was a list of things like doing xyz to get to celestial kingdom, blacks not having priesthood, etc. At the end a girl asked where polygamy fit into that and he initially said he felt comfortable calling it either A or B, A being eternal truth and B being the other. He did expound some more and pretty much came around to it being just a policy at the time. His answer wasn’t perfect in my opinion but I was satisfied with what it ended up being. He did say we’d cover it more later so we’ll see. Wish I would have posted earlier so what was said was still fresh in my mind.

Sorry to see that nothing much has changed in Institute class re. this subject. But if you have time later to share the lessons that focus on this, I’d be interested. (I assume -?- you meant to say that the teacher did not feel comfortable calling it either A or B.)

Ann,

I’ve never been involved with institute or seminary really so I don’t know much of how things work or what was taught in the past.

We only finished lesson 1, are skipping lesson 2 til GC and are starting on lesson 3.

https://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-and-doctrine-of-the-book-of-mormon-teacher-manual?lang=eng

Also, nope, initially he said he WAS comfortable calling it either A or B. I clearly don’t agree with that and I’m not sure how you can make that connection but like I said I like OK with his final answer even though I don’t remember the exact wording. Whether or not he really sees it as something in the B category or was just saying that based on the vibe of the room, I’m not entirely sure. Like I said I’ll try and post sooner after class so I’m not muddying what is said with my own spin.

The topic was at the very beginning of the lesson and in my opinion doesn’t really fit with the lesson (BOM is another testament of JC) but it was more for setting the stage as an out for things people might disagree with? It was short, maybe 5 minutes and it hasn’t been talked about since then.

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