Journal of Discourses

[_Polygamy-Porter]

Bump for [personal attack deleted].

Why do you have so much anger?

Joseph wanted to hear the opinions of the members of this board on the matter.

Others have participated but all you can do is spew vitriol.

[_Polygamy-Porter]

Joseph:

Have you ever heard of Google?

Hey Brother Belmont, have YOU ever heard of Jesus Christ?

He is sad with your behavior on the board towards his own brothers and sisters.

C'mon, you are the one full of the Spirit® and brimming with the blessed truth, so should you not be the better person here?

[_Polygamy-Porter]

Whether it was "official" or not, does anyone doubt the accuracy of the transcribed words? Since they were endorsed by the apostles at the time, can we assume the transcribed sermons actually occurred more or less as written? That's good enough for me.

Maybe. Or maybe like how the talks sometimes get changed between delivery over the GC pulpit and publishing in the Ensign.

Mormon history is full of changes, edits, and omissions of both their history and their doctrine.

The 1835 edition of the D&C is a fine example of this; specifically the then section 101 verse four which expressly forbade and denied the practice of polygamy within the LDS church.. With that, could it not be said that all of the polygamists then and all up to the removal of this verse in 1876 edition were not only breaking the laws of the land, but their own laws?

[_Simon Belmont]

Joseph wanted to hear the opinions of the members of this board on the matter.

Others have participated but all you can do is spew vitriol.

Oh, excuse me, I didn't realize that:

Who actually published the Journal of Discourses?

was a matter of OPINION.

Again, [personal attack deleted], have you ever heard of Google?

[_Polygamy-Porter]

Who actually published the Journal of Discourses?

was a matter of OPINION.

Again, [personal attack deleted], have you ever heard of Google?

Yet, how often do we hear quotes from the JoD in GC talks as well as church curriculum??

Mere opinions being quoted in talks that "should be considered scripture"?

Seems that Mormon doctrine are just leaves which move which ever way that the social wind is blowing...

[_Simon Belmont]

Yet, how often do we hear quotes from the JoD in GC talks as well as church curriculum??

Mere opinions being quoted in talks that "should be considered scripture"?

Seems that Mormon doctrine are just leaves which move which ever way that the social wind is blowing...

The question "who published the JoD"

is NOT a matter of opinion.

[_Polygamy-Porter]

Yet, how often do we hear quotes from the JoD in GC talks as well as church curriculum??

Mere opinions being quoted in talks that "should be considered scripture"?

Seems that Mormon doctrine are just leaves which move which ever way that the social wind is blowing...

The question "who published the JoD"

is NOT a matter of opinion.

OK.

[_Simon Belmont]

So, once again:

Joseph, have you ever heard of Google?

[_sock puppet]

So, once again:

Joseph, have you ever heard of Google?

Simon, there is no rule here that says one cannot start a thread or make another post if it includes a question that can be answered on Google. There are MDB rules, but that is not one. If you don't know the answer to Joseph's questions or don't want to answer them, you have the simple option to not do so. However, this Board is designed to discuss Mormon topics, so it is a fair-game question for Joseph to posit questions about any aspect of Mormonism. So I think your condescending repetition of the question to Joseph is misplaced.

[_Simon Belmont]

So I think your condescending repetition of the question to Joseph is misplaced.

I think the condescending nature of Joseph referring to Thomas S. Monson as "tubbytommy" and the Melchizedek Priesthood as the "moronicpriesthood" and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as "lds-inc" is extremely offensive, asinine, stupid, and only something a true ass would say.