The only true church?

[_Drifting]

Our first responsibility and purpose is to testify of Jesus Christ to a world that suffers to know of His divine mission. As my response to that great responsibility, I will speak about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the only true and living Church. In doing so I know I speak against the powerful tide of what is called “political correctness.” (Dallin H. Oaks June 2010, republished in THe New Era August 2011)

[_ludwigm]

So if the church had McConkie remove incorrect teachings from the 2nd edition of Mormon Doctrine, why can't we conclude that they agreed with the other parts of the book that they didn't ask him to remove?

Doesn't matter. It's not published by the Church which is the standard for doctrine. Back in the day, the Church wanted something to publish and they thought it might be BRM's Mormon Doctrine, but after making many many corrections they still thought it contained too much personal opinion and declined to give it their blessing.

Back in the day, the Church wanted the conference talks to publish in Ensign, in Liahona, printed and online. With some exceptions...

“Elder Boyd K. Packer Conference Address,” Ensign, Dec. 1976, 79
The recent October conference address of Elder Boyd K. Packer, given in the priesthood session of conference, has been published as a pamphlet to be distributed to bishops for further distribution to parents of young men. Elder Packer’s address was not included in the November Ensign’s conference report by determination of the First Presidency. The address was a sensitive treatment of the important subject of chastity.

[_mikuu]

I think I said none of the first presidency have said it since 2008. And really it has been longer since the president of the church has said it.

Why would it matter? They approve of everything published by the Church.

I think they are making a slow change away from saying publicly. If the church is changing something it would start with them and filter down.

From http://LDS.org/study/topics/prophets?lang=eng

Our greatest safety lies in strictly following the word of the Lord given through His prophets, particularly the current President of the Church.

Which is why everyone in the church pays particular attention to what he says, if he isn't testifying that it is the only true church then maybe there is a reason.

[_Buffalo]

"What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world"
- Prophet Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270

"...all the priests who adhere to the sectarian religions of the day with all their followers, without one exception, receive their portion with the devil and his angels."
- Prophet Joseph Smith , The Elders Journal, Joseph Smith Jr., editor, vol.1, no.4, p.60

"Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent"
- Apostle Orson Pratt proclaimed, The Seer, p. 255

"After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon"
- George Q. Cannon said, Gospel Truth, p.324

"When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness."
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 5:73

"The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God"
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 8:171

"Brother Taylor has just said that the religions of the day were hatched in hell. The eggs were laid in hell, hatched on its borders, and then kicked on to the earth."
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 6:176

"Christians—those poor, miserable priests brother Brigham was speaking about—some of them are the biggest whoremasters there are on the earth, and at the same time preaching righteousness to the children of men. The poor devils, they could not get up here and preach an oral discourse, to save themselves from hell; they are preaching their fathers' sermons —preaching sermons that were written a hundred years before they were born. ...You may get a Methodist priest to pour water on you, or sprinkle it on you, and baptize you face foremost, or lay you down the other way, and whatever mode you please, and you will be damned with your priest."
- Apostle Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, 5:89

"The Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called"
- Prophet Wilford Woodruff, Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p.196

"But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of Christian Churches ... But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance"
- Apostle Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, 18:172

"Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p.167);

"Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom."
- Prophet John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, 10:127

"What! Are Christians ignorant? Yes, as ignorant of the things of God as the brute beast."
- Prophet John Taylor, Journal of Discourses 13:225

"What does the Christian world know about God? Nothing... Why so far as the things of God are concerned, they are the veriest fools; they know neither God nor the things of God."
- John Taylor, Journal of Discourses 13:225

"Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness. For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men."
- Prophet Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282

"...the Book of Mormon remains secure, unchanged and unchangeable, ...But with the Bible it was not and is not so....it was once in the sole and exclusive care and custody of an abominable organization (Christianity), founded by the devil himself, likened prophetically unto a great whore, whose great aim and purpose was to destroy the souls of men in the name of religion. In these hands it ceased to be the book it once was."
- Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, The Joseph Smith Translation, pp. 12, 13

"Must we, under the broad folds of the American Constitution, be compelled to bow down to the narrow contracted notions of Apostate Christianity? Must we shut up our consciences in a nut shell, and be compelled to submit to the bigoted notions, and whims, and customs of the dark ages of popery, transferred to us through the superstitious of our fathers? Must we be slaves to custom and render homage to the soul-destroying, sickening influences of modern Christianity? No!"
- Official Church Publication "The Seer," Vol.1, No.7, p.111

[_krose]

I doubt the First Presidency took the time to read the entire book.

Yes, I'm sure they had much more important things to do with their time than read a book, written by one of their own quorum, that purported to represent the doctrine of the organization they were charged with running.

Right.

[_Drifting]

I doubt the First Presidency took the time to read the entire book.

Yes, I'm sure they had much more important things to do with their time than read a book, written by one of their own quorum, that purported to represent the doctrine of the organization they were charged with running.

Right.

Actually, I believe ldsfaqs got this right.
(if you fire enough bullets one might hit something)

As I understand it, the Prophet at the time delegated one of the Apostles to read it and report back. He did and his report resulted in a number of changes for the next production run.

[_zeezrom]

Hi mikuu,

Tough teaching = only true church

Dehlin follower = disciple of John Dehlin

[_ldsfaqs]

The Church has always been diplomatic when it concerned other religions.

Really?

Here are two quotes from the current LDS canon...

Brigham Young (Mormonism's Second President) said:

Spencer W. Kimball wrote:

Is this LDS diplomacy?

ldsfaqs, you are either ignorant or a liar - which one?

First some of those statements are statements of belief, having nothing to do with diplomacy or the lack thereof.

Second, you do as all anti-mormons do, as from the anti-mormon website you quoted from.
You cherry pick the most negative things ever said, and say "see, naa naa naa, you negative of others". You don't care of the ACTUAL TRUTH, that is that such negative statements equal .000001% of all statements ever said about other religions, that 99.999999% of all other statements ARE DIPLOMATIC toward other religions and people.

Thus, it is YOU who are the liar and ignorant.....

[_Buffalo]

First some of those statements are statements of belief, having nothing to do with diplomacy or the lack thereof.

Second, you do as all anti-mormons do, as from the anti-mormon website you quoted from.
You cherry pick the most negative things ever said, and say "see, naa naa naa, you negative of others". You don't care of the ACTUAL TRUTH, that is that such negative statements equal .000001% of all statements ever said about other religions, that 99.999999% of all other statements ARE DIPLOMATIC toward other religions and people.

Thus, it is YOU who are the liar and ignorant.....

[_Drifting]

First some of those statements are statements of belief, having nothing to do with diplomacy or the lack thereof.

Second, you do as all anti-mormons do, as from the anti-mormon website you quoted from.
You cherry pick the most negative things ever said, and say "see, naa naa naa, you negative of others". You don't care of the ACTUAL TRUTH, that is that such negative statements equal .000001% of all statements ever said about other religions, that 99.999999% of all other statements ARE DIPLOMATIC toward other religions and people.

Thus, it is YOU who are the liar and ignorant.....

But you said

The Church has always been diplomatic when it concerned other religions.

Were you lying?