bcspace wrote: I would so proclaim without hesitation and reverse it when the situation was over. I see no need to repent any more than that. Unless of course I thought there was a higher purpose in not proclaiming.....
In the XVI-XVIII century, christian captives of muslims had this type of alternative. Death - or accepting the Only True Faith. They didn't escape from slavery but saved their life.
bcspace wrote:I would so proclaim without hesitation and reverse it when the situation was over.
For them, the situation was never over.
Today, we call them renegades. Then, it was the only way to survive the situation.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
Say you and your family of seven (wife, six kids) were eating a nice meal together at The Viilage Inn and a psychotic Evangelical with a 38 in his hand grabbed you and put a gun to your head and said "proclaim now that Joseph Smith was a false prophet or die" -- what would you do? Proclaim or not proclaim?
(Assume for purposes of this hypothetical that you would indeed be shot and killed unless you proclaimed as much.)
I would so proclaim without hesitation and reverse it when the situation was over. I see no need to repent any more than that. Unless of course I thought there was a higher purpose in not proclaiming.....
And yet a so-called "Prophet of God" named Abinadi was burned to death with faggots while the King asked him repeatedly to deny his faith.
And you wouldn't feel the need to repent?
What, hard core BCspace doesn't want to die the ultimate Mormon death?
You're talking about a straight ticket to three wives and dozens of black servants in the Celestial Kingdom!
Doctor Steuss wrote:If I have to do crap, it won't be much of a heaven. I enjoy being lazy.
I'd pass on Exaltation then. It sounds like a lot of work.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
mms wrote:Say you and your family of seven (wife, six kids) were eating a nice meal together at The Viilage Inn and a psychotic Evangelical with a 38 in his hand grabbed you and put a gun to your head and said "proclaim now that Joseph Smith was a false prophet or die" -- what would you do? Proclaim or not proclaim?
(Assume for purposes of this hypothetical that you would indeed be shot and killed unless you proclaimed as much.)
I remember reading that after Parley Pratt escaped from prison, he was being hunted and had to get out of Missouri. On the way, he was confronted a number of times by people that asked him if he was the @#%#$%#@$ Mormon they were looking for. He denied it every time, denied he was a Mormon, and denied a lot of things that he believed. He justified it because it saved his life. He felt that he didn't do anything wrong.