FAIR: Philosophy of men mingled w/scripture?

[_3sheets2thewind]

" FAIR will use current scholarship, scripture, Church doctrine, historical literature and sound logic in constructing faithful, well-reasoned answers."

[_Drifting]

FAIR are now in outright apostasy....

{people teaching about the Gospel} must ensure that they keep the doctrine pure by teaching gospel truths as the Lord has revealed them. You can do this by teaching from the scriptures and the words of the latter-day prophets. President Ezra Taft Benson said, “Always remember, there is no satisfactory substitute for the scriptures and the words of the living prophets. These should be your original sources” (The Gospel Teacher and His Message [1976], 6).

Also make sure that you use Church-produced materials when you teach. This will help you keep the doctrine pure. Avoid speculation and private interpretations.

http://www.LDS.org/service/teaching-the ... e?lang=eng

[_DarkHelmet]

" FAIR will use current scholarship, scripture, Church doctrine, historical literature and sound logic in constructing faithful, well-reasoned answers."

I've been saying it for years. Philosophy of men mingled with scripture. They don't even see the irony.

[_Philo Sofee]

" FAIR will use current scholarship, scripture, Church doctrine, historical literature and sound logic in constructing faithful, well-reasoned answers."

No one in Mormonism uses "sound logic." The logic that one can only think within Mormonism is what is taught to them their entire lives within Mormonism. Once one begins studying real logic, things dramatically change. Logic is NOT Mormonism's friend. Logic in broader terms is not a friend of religion all together.

[_3sheets2thewind]

Logic in broader terms is not a friend of religion all together.

I have believed this for a long time. I am not sure that religion and the secular world have the same meaning in mind when "logic" is evoked.

[_cwald]

Yeah. The Irony. Reading FAIR and the MDDB makes my head ache. It just makes no sense...at all. And damnit...I want it to.

There were some comments over there recently about John Dehlin's followers just using "group think" and regurgitating the same stuff over and over again...and that if you "repeat something long enough eventually you will start to believe it."

WTF? Do those people ever attend Fast and Testimony meeting? I think I got thread banned for that comment.