The Truth About Bruce R. McConkie's "Mormon Doctrine"
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 6:22 am
Bruce R. McConkie married the daughter of Joseph Fielding Smith (who...by the way...had three wives at the same time, but that's another post). JFS invited BRM to "home scripture studies" all the males had all the time. Basically, JFS convinced BRM that JFS interpretations were the correct ones, namely:
*The Roman Catholic Church is the GA church of the Devil.
*Negroes are truly inferior cursed children of Cain NOT to get the priesthood until after the Millennium
*Salvation by grace is a false doctrine
*There were no pre-Adamites, Adam and Eve first humans on Earth and, of course, white people because (of course) God and Jesus were white people.
*The flood of Noah was universal and covered the highest hill (there were no mountains then) by 30 feet.
*All races of man stem from the three sons of Noah.
*God the Father and Mary "begot" just like any couple, since God married his own spirit-daughter
*in the resurrection, all those not exalted will have to go through a operation to remove their reproductive organs, since they were not exalted.
*etc....more ignorant crap all along the line
JFS knew that many of the Apostles OPPOSED one of more of these interpretations, but JFS (he was not "Prophet" yet) wanted to get these doctrines popularized, so he worked with BRM to write a book "Sound Doctrine" later changed to "Mormon Doctrine". JFS knew that the Church would NOT allow it to be published! So, they "snuck" and had it published by Bookcraft an independent book publisher. This was done. President McKay heard of it, and formed a committee to review it. They did, and recommended that MD NOT see a second printing. They wanted to recall all editions and destroy them, but McKay said if they did that then Bruce R. McConkie would lose all respect, so they said "No more editions!" JFS agreed to that enthusiatically, and promised President McKay not more editions of the book would see the light of day.
President McKay dies, and JFS becomes "Prophet" and then authorizes further editions of "Mormon Doctrine". When I was an active Mormon, I saw the book on the shelf of every Member I knew, and it was also used in Sunday Schools, Elder Quorum, etc. Most missionaries on my mission had a copy (I did not). I basically "lost faith" on my mission after I told a group of missionaries that The Book of Mormon teaches that Mary was a literal virgin, then an Elder pulled out "Mormon Doctrine" and quoted me that Jesus was begotten just as a mortal man begets a mortal son. I was DEVASTATED!!!
I told the Mission President I wanted to go home, and he basically gave me a motivational lecture, and gave me an unpublished talk by President Packer (a friend of his) that had NOTHING to do with the subject of how Jesus was conceived. I suppose my mission president thought I would "feel so special" that he would share with me a copy of this talk that Packer was planning to publish as a small book, that I would think: "Wow! I've been blessed to be only the third fourth mortal to read this book!" The Mission Priesident thought he was doing me this great favor by letting me read this boring and dry and spirit-less talk Packer gave at some meeting he was now going to publish as a booklet.
I really felt like going home. I had only five months left, but my heart was not in it anymore. The Mormons in my mission (San Francisco/San Jose) were not spiritual at all, but very materialistic. All the Sacrament talks were about "being a success in life". Ntohing about Jesus. Nothing about repentence. Nothing about the Afterlife or treasures in heaven. All about the "Here and now" and "how to get stuff" from God to help you be more sucessful in life. This is called the "Health and Wealth Gospel". It was the only "gospel" taught in the Wards I attended. I could NOT believe that God the Father had sex with Mary his spirit-daughter to conceive Jesus. I aksed my Mission President at least three times, "Must I believe this doctrine in order to be a member and missionary?" and he just kept talking, avoiding the subject. Finally, I thought of my bishop back home, Bishop Dorman, a very good man, who sacrificed much of his own money to send me on this mission. I did not wish to disapoint him.So, I decided to stay in the mission, but my heart was not "into" it anymore. Before, I was quite a GUNG HO missionary, but after that myheart was broken and I was just the walking dead. I should have went home.
In recent years the Brethren have begun to realize that Mormon Doctrine has done far more harm than any good it might have done, and have ordered no more copies published. All this happened because Joseph Fielding Smith wanted to popularize his ideas, and to "indoctrinate" generations of young Mormons into his brand of Mormonism. He succeeded in creating a generation of ignoramuses. His insistence that one MUST believe in Creationism to be a good Mormon has undoubtedly created a DILEMA in the minds of many, and probably created more ex-Mormon atheists and agnostics than he created good Mormons. I've studied alot about Joseph Fielding Smith. On his mission he converted nobody. He could keep a job so his father, Joseph F. Smith, got him a job in the Church Historian's office, which he dept for 40 years. He became "Church Historian" yet was the most unprofessionl and "bad" historian the Church hever had. He lied all the time! Under David O. McKay he saw the Church getting too liberal, so that is why he decided this "Mormon Doctrine" caper with his son-in-law, as an "end run" about David O. McKay. HE promised David O. McKay that a second edition would never see the light of day, then when DOM was dead, he authorized further editions.
The saga of "Mormon Doctrine" is coming to an end, with no more editions to be published. Again, it takes the Church about 30 years to "learn" a lesson.
*The Roman Catholic Church is the GA church of the Devil.
*Negroes are truly inferior cursed children of Cain NOT to get the priesthood until after the Millennium
*Salvation by grace is a false doctrine
*There were no pre-Adamites, Adam and Eve first humans on Earth and, of course, white people because (of course) God and Jesus were white people.
*The flood of Noah was universal and covered the highest hill (there were no mountains then) by 30 feet.
*All races of man stem from the three sons of Noah.
*God the Father and Mary "begot" just like any couple, since God married his own spirit-daughter
*in the resurrection, all those not exalted will have to go through a operation to remove their reproductive organs, since they were not exalted.
*etc....more ignorant crap all along the line
JFS knew that many of the Apostles OPPOSED one of more of these interpretations, but JFS (he was not "Prophet" yet) wanted to get these doctrines popularized, so he worked with BRM to write a book "Sound Doctrine" later changed to "Mormon Doctrine". JFS knew that the Church would NOT allow it to be published! So, they "snuck" and had it published by Bookcraft an independent book publisher. This was done. President McKay heard of it, and formed a committee to review it. They did, and recommended that MD NOT see a second printing. They wanted to recall all editions and destroy them, but McKay said if they did that then Bruce R. McConkie would lose all respect, so they said "No more editions!" JFS agreed to that enthusiatically, and promised President McKay not more editions of the book would see the light of day.
President McKay dies, and JFS becomes "Prophet" and then authorizes further editions of "Mormon Doctrine". When I was an active Mormon, I saw the book on the shelf of every Member I knew, and it was also used in Sunday Schools, Elder Quorum, etc. Most missionaries on my mission had a copy (I did not). I basically "lost faith" on my mission after I told a group of missionaries that The Book of Mormon teaches that Mary was a literal virgin, then an Elder pulled out "Mormon Doctrine" and quoted me that Jesus was begotten just as a mortal man begets a mortal son. I was DEVASTATED!!!
I told the Mission President I wanted to go home, and he basically gave me a motivational lecture, and gave me an unpublished talk by President Packer (a friend of his) that had NOTHING to do with the subject of how Jesus was conceived. I suppose my mission president thought I would "feel so special" that he would share with me a copy of this talk that Packer was planning to publish as a small book, that I would think: "Wow! I've been blessed to be only the third fourth mortal to read this book!" The Mission Priesident thought he was doing me this great favor by letting me read this boring and dry and spirit-less talk Packer gave at some meeting he was now going to publish as a booklet.
I really felt like going home. I had only five months left, but my heart was not in it anymore. The Mormons in my mission (San Francisco/San Jose) were not spiritual at all, but very materialistic. All the Sacrament talks were about "being a success in life". Ntohing about Jesus. Nothing about repentence. Nothing about the Afterlife or treasures in heaven. All about the "Here and now" and "how to get stuff" from God to help you be more sucessful in life. This is called the "Health and Wealth Gospel". It was the only "gospel" taught in the Wards I attended. I could NOT believe that God the Father had sex with Mary his spirit-daughter to conceive Jesus. I aksed my Mission President at least three times, "Must I believe this doctrine in order to be a member and missionary?" and he just kept talking, avoiding the subject. Finally, I thought of my bishop back home, Bishop Dorman, a very good man, who sacrificed much of his own money to send me on this mission. I did not wish to disapoint him.So, I decided to stay in the mission, but my heart was not "into" it anymore. Before, I was quite a GUNG HO missionary, but after that myheart was broken and I was just the walking dead. I should have went home.
In recent years the Brethren have begun to realize that Mormon Doctrine has done far more harm than any good it might have done, and have ordered no more copies published. All this happened because Joseph Fielding Smith wanted to popularize his ideas, and to "indoctrinate" generations of young Mormons into his brand of Mormonism. He succeeded in creating a generation of ignoramuses. His insistence that one MUST believe in Creationism to be a good Mormon has undoubtedly created a DILEMA in the minds of many, and probably created more ex-Mormon atheists and agnostics than he created good Mormons. I've studied alot about Joseph Fielding Smith. On his mission he converted nobody. He could keep a job so his father, Joseph F. Smith, got him a job in the Church Historian's office, which he dept for 40 years. He became "Church Historian" yet was the most unprofessionl and "bad" historian the Church hever had. He lied all the time! Under David O. McKay he saw the Church getting too liberal, so that is why he decided this "Mormon Doctrine" caper with his son-in-law, as an "end run" about David O. McKay. HE promised David O. McKay that a second edition would never see the light of day, then when DOM was dead, he authorized further editions.
The saga of "Mormon Doctrine" is coming to an end, with no more editions to be published. Again, it takes the Church about 30 years to "learn" a lesson.