Does the Ensign report GC, or what GC should've been?

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Re: Does the Ensign report GC, or what GC should've been?

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Bob Loblaw wrote:
sock puppet wrote:McKay had his problems, but he was one of the last true Mormons.


If he could see what has happened to the church since correlation, I'm sure he would weep.



You mean he can't see what is going on? What are you trying to say?
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Re: Does the Ensign report GC, or what GC should've been?

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son of Ishmael wrote:You mean he can't see what is going on? What are you trying to say?


Who knows? Anything's possible.
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Re: Does the Ensign report GC, or what GC should've been?

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sock puppet wrote: McKay had his problems, but he was one of the last true Mormons.


Here stands another person who views President David O. McKay as one of the very few (and probably the last) worthwhile Prophets of the LDS Church.
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Re: Does the Ensign report GC, or what GC should've been?

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DrW wrote:
sock puppet wrote: McKay had his problems, but he was one of the last true Mormons.


Here stands another person who views President David O. McKay as one of the very few (and probably the last) worthwhile Prophets of the LDS Church.



David O. McKay
9th President
Served: 1951–1970

in 1972 the Correlation Department was established


I'm going with 'Not a coincidence'...
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Re: Does the Ensign report GC, or what GC should've been?

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Drifting wrote:
I'm going with 'Not a coincidence'...


Especially when you factor in the years of Harold B. Lee's presidency.
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Re: Does the Ensign report GC, or what GC should've been?

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Correlation may have started out as an attempt to clarify the doctrines of the church and present a unified message, but it was co-opted by Joseph Fielding Smith and his acolytes Harold B. Lee and Bruce McConkie (who was also JFS's son-in-law). Even though David O. McKay had repeatedly expressed his disapproval of Smith's and McConkie's dogmatic pronouncements in books like "Doctrines of Salvation" and "Mormon Doctrine," what ended up in correlated doctrine was driven mostly by Smith and McConkie, with Lee's support. For example, when the church published its edition of the King James Version of the Bible in 1979, it included a Bible Dictionary that was written by Bruce McConkie, with quite a bit of the text having been lifted verbatim from "Mormon Doctrine" and Smith's publications.

If correlation had been driven by a less-dogmatic group, who knows what the church would look like today?
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Does the Ensign report GC, or what GC should've been?


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