harmony wrote:Coggins7 wrote:This is well understood in the Church to be customs and attitudes specific to Timothy's day and culture, and not relevant to the Restored Church. We also don't practice animal sacrifice, but that's a part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ too, in its manifestation as the Mosaic Law.
Oh, so we just pick and choose which parts of the gospel we're going to live? Uh huh. Sure.
More likely, it's a teaching of men, a cultural thing that no longer applies so we kicked it to the curb. Kinda like we should have done with polygamy, except that Joseph's libido got in the way of his phophetic mantle.
Well said. And, if we are to view prayer as a kind of "teaching" (as I believe we should, given the public nature of it) then the Church has only "understood" this for a very short amount of time, and clearly did not "understand" it very "well". When was it again that women were finally allowed to pray in Sacrament Meeting?