huckelberry wrote: I have read the law books a few times. I cannot remember any rule like this. what the heck is it?
See Deuteronomy 25:
[11] When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: [12] Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
The Nehor wrote:I think the whole point of scripture is to give us a bare starting point to contact God.
I can see the appeal of that approach, but I don't think it fits with the way scripture is treated in Mormonism. Most Christians believe that a certain idea about God is true because it's written in a book of scripture. Mormons generally go a step further and believe that a certain idea about God is true because it's written in a book of scripture that they prayed about and then had a spiritual experience that they interpret to be God's indication that the book's content is true. The church encourages members to keep seeking personal revelation, but it also teaches that any valid revelation will be in agreement with the authority of the scriptures. A Mormon who says that he received a personal revelation that homosexuality is not a sin, for example, will be corrected by his leaders, and their corrections will be based on what's in the canon, and what modern prophets have said on the subject. If he keeps talking about his revelation, he'll be disciplined. So the standard of truth in Mormonism is still "what certain men claim God told them to tell us".
The Nehor wrote:Also, God gave you archaeological evidence? Wow, he's never done that for me.
Check the settings on your seer stone. They have trouble detecting the weaker signals from pottery shards when they're tuned to the "Gold and Silver" or "Attractive Women" presets.
Yes, but suppose someone did get a revelation that homosexuality was not a sin. The course of action to take is to accept that and keep going sure in the assumption that God will have the leadership carry down the same instructions in his own due time. I think this approach is common in Mormonism. I use it. I'm Mormon. I know many others who do the same.
My seerstone is currently set to conservative talk radio. After an hour of that, I chucked it out a window.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
I took two seerstones and attached them together because I'm too cheap to buy a DS.
"Every post you can hitch your faith on is a pie in the sky, chock full of lies, a tool we devise to make sinking stones fly"
The Shins - A Comet Appears
Chap, Deuteronomy 25, well thanks for filling me in.
Having given it some consideration, I decided to propose nothing to validate that bit of ancient jurisprudence. Clearly sombody thought it was a good idea once. Why they did is now long lost. Likely best long lost.
I haven't heard even the most fanaticaly narrow, restore the biblical literal etc seek to restore that piece of dead legislation.