bcspace wrote:The change is also reflected in the Church's online scriptures. I don't see this as a change at all in doctrine but a clarification to keep critics from misinterpreting among the possible meanings of 'principle' one of which is "most important".
Why would the Truth Keepers give a rat's if the critics, under the hold of Satan, misinterpret scriptures? After all, isn't that the Holy Ghost's sign of falseness, to leave the one asking with a stupor of thought?
Apologetics is the indulgence of intellectually vain "believers", a willingness to abandon faith in exchange for sought after accolades of learned men.
I mean, good grief, tons of doctrinal changes were made in the first couple decades.
Are you speaking of established LDS doctrine that was changed? If so, I don't think there was very much of that at all. If you're speaking of doctrines changed relative to traditional christianity, then yes, there was a lot of that.
Doctrines changed relative to the Book of Mormon, then yes, there was a lot of that with the on-the-fly 'revelations' now compiled as the D&C and the off-the-wall weird stuff in the PoGP.