by Witness 007 8 Replies latest watchtower bible
The Mormons are without a prophet today since Gordon Hinkley 97 who served for 13 years passed away due to old age complications.
His was a quiet term for a president since his predecessor had to deal with the 60's sexual and racial revolution. {In the late 1960's the Prophet told mormons that God NOW allowed blacks into the priesthood...after years of much contraversey.}
I am SOOO lost and confused without a "prophet" telling me what to do. How bout you?
Actually, the blacks/priesthood thing came in the late 70's and under a different "prophet" Spencer W Kimball.
I hope there is an afterlife. I have had experiences which give me a hope that direction. None of my spitirual experiences mentioned the LDS church. With that hope in mind, I believe Gordon B Hinkley is learning, as I write, what a farce Mormonism is. I suspect he knew it before his death too. He has mentioned that either the church and it's founding stories are true, or it is all false. With the tens of thousands of people BEGGING for answers to historical inconsistencies that are now being revealed on the web, the folks at the top HAVE to know of these serious questions/allegations. The "prophets" have chosen not to answer the big charges, rather they rewrite history and lie and publish the same. They then leave "apologists" who then lie "for the lord" and give the most ridiculous of explanations for LDS historical inconsistencies.
Now we'll probably just get the same crap, different prophet.
Hilarious...
I was just reading some posts by former lds members about his death last night. One poster said "He's either finishing up with the handshakes now or he's saying "Oh shit!!""
The Mormons are without a prophet today since Gordon Hinkley 97 who served for 13 years passed away due to old age complications.
They won't be for long plenty of power hungry men ready to step in and lead the CULT...
The passing of a great man should be honoured - there are few enough.
You may hate the LDS but respect and mourn with them a little - a death is not the time IMO to draw battle lines.
The Presidency passed in the instant of Pres. Hinkley's death to Pres. Monson. There was never any question, nor any vying for leadership. It's already all in place.
Thank you, Qcmbr, for reminding everyone how to act with simple common decency. It seems some have forgotten.
SusanHere
Since all the Mormons are here, I was wondering what you gusy thought of Martha Beck's book "Leaving the Saints"? I couldn't put it down and read it all in one day. But I am a fast reader and sometimes can be obsessive that way...
apols - I haven't read it.
I haven't read Becks book. I am currently reading Rough Stone Rolling with my "believing" wife. It is the only book at Deseret Book (LDS bookstore) that even broaches difficult LDS historical topics like JS marrying other men's wives, JS "translating" the BOM by peeping at a stone in a hat, JS treasure seeking with peep stones and a few other gems. The book is apologetic... it attempts to give answers to these vexing LDS problems, but fails (in my opinion). I am hoping that at least, it will show my wife, that problematic events occurred in LDS history and it's not all fabrications of anti-mormons. I am hoping it will give her a "WTF" moment and she'll realize LDS history has been HEAVILY sanitized and "managed" by evil men. Once we finish this book, I want to read other books by former church historians -turned "anti". Milk before the meat, eh, SusanHere?
Wish me luck...
