bcspace wrote:Why? This verse is preChrist when to the Israelites Jehovah was the God they worshipped.
I know all the other quotes about the father (and even Jesus) forgiving sins. Regardless, McConkie was the good guy just like Spencer Kimball. He didn't need big forgiveness.
I still don't think he was much of an embarrassment. He didn't spend his life focussed on attempting to justify deplorable behavior (like the typical apologist).
Why? This verse is preChrist when to the Israelites Jehovah was the God they worshipped.
I know all the other quotes about the father (and even Jesus) forgiving sins. Regardless, McConkie was the good guy just like Spencer Kimball. He didn't need big forgiveness.
I still don't think he was much of an embarrassment. He didn't spend his life focussed on attempting to justify deplorable behavior (like the typical apologist).
The biggest embarrassment to Mormonism is Warren Jefffs and the FLDS, hands down. The most embarrassing part of Mormonism is its polygamous history, and the mainstream church has spent the past 100 years trying to put polygamy behind them. The FLDS refuse to let that part of Mormonism die. The FLDS are also keeping the Brighamite racism alive too.
Some of the weird opinions by guys like BRM and other apostles and prophets are embarrassing to modern day apologists and internet Mormons, but they aren't really an embarrassment to the church because nobody outside of the apologists and internet Mormons and some anti-mormons know about them.
"We of this Church do not rely on any man-made statement concerning the nature of Deity. Our knowledge comes directly from the personal experience of Joseph Smith." - Gordon B. Hinckley
"It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Mormon Church even if the criticism is true." - Dallin H. Oaks
There is no such thing as imbarrasment. Lol. I am not imbarrased by anything anyone in the church has done and why should they be? I bet they aren't imbarrased and the church literally is inanimate so it can't be imbarrased.
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