moksha wrote:If equal, do they also get to call themselves "Prophets, Seers, and Revelators"?
They aren't entitled to be called such as of today. Tomorrow is another day, however.
If the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve is wiped out and the Seventy steps into power it won't make any difference at all. It would simply be more men assuming titles and pretending to supernatural gifts they don't possess or manifest.
What pisses me off is the hundreds of times on my mission where I explained the "Great Apostasy" as a simple consequence of the 12 apostles being killed off before they could ordain others.
It just doesn't sit well with me how the church does such a poor job educating the missionaries so they end up teaching these half-baked ideas to everyone and wondering why everyone is too stupid to join their "obviously true" church.
It is just a crappy thing they do, sending kids out with no information to answer all of the questions that they are afraid of. The kids are left to make crap up because they just don't know church doctrine and history. 18-year-old kids are the ones in charge of answering the questions that the leaders wouldn't dare answer. It just pisses me off what cowards the leaders are!
