The Nehor wrote:I don't know if it increases my faith in the Gospel but it increases faith in my ability to succeed in it. When in my late teens I stopped trying to divide the world into good and bad guys the scriptures started coming alive.
Nephi could be a bully, Captain Moroni had a temper, both Almas were naïve, Mormon was rash, Jacob favored one wife over the other, Moses could be impatient, Elijah liked to jeer, Jeremiah tried to quit, Hezekiah feared death too much, Joseph Smith was easily offended and overly confident in his plans, Brigham Young was overly authoritarian, and down the line till today.
Are you able to criticize current leaders in the same way, such as "Hinckley is overly concerned about PR in his media comments?" I'm not saying you must. It just appears to me that fallibility only seems to apply to previous prophets, not the current one.
I see several flaws in our current Prophet. I don't criticize him for it though. He has a hard job and the last thing he needs is for me to kick him around. I have my own beam to deal with.
Ah, Nehor, “your own beam” What ego!
And you talk to God and your God talks to you but only to you. Ah, what a special place!!
Oh, but we must not “criticize.”
Why not? Or maybe the “flaws” you perceive are as present in your own “beam.”
The Nehor wrote:I don't know if it increases my faith in the Gospel but it increases faith in my ability to succeed in it. When in my late teens I stopped trying to divide the world into good and bad guys the scriptures started coming alive.
Nephi could be a bully, Captain Moroni had a temper, both Almas were naïve, Mormon was rash, Jacob favored one wife over the other, Moses could be impatient, Elijah liked to jeer, Jeremiah tried to quit, Hezekiah feared death too much, Joseph Smith was easily offended and overly confident in his plans, Brigham Young was overly authoritarian, and down the line till today.
Are you able to criticize current leaders in the same way, such as "Hinckley is overly concerned about PR in his media comments?" I'm not saying you must. It just appears to me that fallibility only seems to apply to previous prophets, not the current one.
I see several flaws in our current Prophet. I don't criticize him for it though. He has a hard job and the last thing he needs is for me to kick him around. I have my own beam to deal with.
Since all the others you mentioned had at least as hard a job as GH, I'll take that to mean that you wouldn't criticize him out of respect for him as your current leader. I can appreciate that.