No, not really. Pay Lay Ale has not been spoken in the Temple for an age. There was a flat footed lie stated to the effect that B&L had gone through the Temple in, I believe, 1987, and "Chanted" (the words were spoken in unison, not "chanted") . Well, I went through in 1980, and no such words were present, nor were they when my parents went through in the forties. I have here, either on disk or in book form, an ancient text, either, I believe, Christian Gnostic or early Christian apocrypha, in which the words spoken in the Endowment are mentioned quite clearly in virtually identical form. When I find them, I will post them. This is another little parallel, another "bullseye" that Joseph could not possible have known, that was part of Christina ritual life in the first centuries after Christ (if its actually Pseudopigrapha, that makes it even more interesting). The words are spoken in English, and there is nothing odd or weird about them.
You are wrong. The change was not made until 1990. I have no idea why your memory is so poor, or perhaps
you are the liar. In addition, your semantics game is silly.
But this is typical of your behavior. You are often wrong, and cannot see you are wrong, and act obnoxiously towards those who are actually correct.
Sin affects the the relative strength of one's testimony in relative ways, depending upon one's spiritual maturity, experience, and the depth of the testimony one already has. Denying one's testimony and leaving the Church, however, is a sin, in and of itself, and a most consequential one.
What a self-serving rationalization.
And I've never, ever, understood people like you (I feel like Arnold Schwarzenegger talking to the Predator).
I am quite sure you do not understand people who actually live according to their professed principles.
I live by a great many of them. Lower the intellectual bar for your own self justification a little further Beastie.
You can't obtain a temple recommend. Apparently the ones you live by aren't sufficient in the eyes of the church.
I am an alcohol addict, not a social drinker or someone who drinks to be part of the crowd. I also have suffered from some OCD-like problems, and Tourette's Syndrome. I do not break the WoW in other aspects.
What you would do, or not do, in my life circumstances, is about as relevant to me as how cold it is on Pluto.
This is unfortunate. You've had a rough time. I am sympathetic to that. I've learned enough about you in this thread that I think I understand your behavior more. I won't excuse it or coddle you, but I think I do have more understanding of why you post in the way you do.