While the book Mormon Doctrine is not Canonical, it was written by an Apostle, and edited by a few others, particularly Spencer W. Kimball.
I stand by McConkie and treat his teachings and words as the equivelent of Scripture. I knew his son personally and served under him as a missionary for nearly 2 years (he left shortly before I did). His son was every bit the man he was.
Bruce R. McConkie and Spencer W. Kimball exchange coats
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
Gazelam wrote:While the book Mormon Doctrine is not Canonical, it was written by an Apostle, and edited by a few others, particularly Spencer W. Kimball.
I stand by McConkie and treat his teachings and words as the equivelent of Scripture. I knew his son personally and served under him as a missionary for nearly 2 years (he left shortly before I did). His son was every bit the man he was.
Bruce R. McConkie and Spencer W. Kimball exchange coats
So was JoD and -- WOW! -- has the Church ever repudiated all THAT great doctrine!
But the picture is nice and proof that Kimball liked Mormon Coat Exchanges he and McConkie had, for sure!
"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder" --Homer Simpson's version of Pascal's Wager
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
Religion is ignorance reduced to a system.
They had been at a break from a meeting sitting on the lawn, and when they got up to go back in Kimball grabbed the wrong coat, so for fun McConkie went ahead and put on Kimballs.
I read the biography on McConkie by his son, and got lots of behind the scenes stories that went on at the time. Its more faith promoteing than discourageing. The main problems were with the tone, not the substance.
Gaz
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
Gazelam wrote:They had been at a break from a meeting sitting on th elawn, and when they go tup to go back in Kimball grabbed the wrong coat, so for fun McConkie went ahead and put on Kimballs.
I read the biography on McConkie by his son, and got lots of behind the scenes stories that went on at the time. Its more faith promoteing than discourageing. The main problems were with the tone, not the substance.
Gaz
You might also check out nonMormon sources. Sometimes it gives you a whole new perspective about "faith promoting".
Just a thought.
"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder" --Homer Simpson's version of Pascal's Wager
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
Religion is ignorance reduced to a system.
In my mission, Mormon Doctrine was referred to as "Bruce's Believe It or Not." Our mission president told us that we were not to study that book on our mission, and if he found out we were using it, he'd send us home.
Gazelam wrote:He must have repented. Good for him.
Gaz
It is fascinating to see that even after 35 years of intensive correlation efforts, otherwise faithful members are using uncorrelated sources as doctrinal sources. Harold B. Lee must be spinning in his grave.
