bcspace wrote: No. The reality is that agency plays a huge role; the decision to use it, the worthiness to use it, God's willingness (God's own agency) to reveal it to you, etc.
All these and more are doctrinal factors in the exercise of any spiritual gifts/priesthood powers.
How did the little girl in her primary class have agency when her Priesthood holding, divinely appointed Primary Teacher molested her?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
sock puppet wrote:Moroni 10 just says study it out any matter in your own mind, come to a decision and spirit will give you a thumbs up (bosom warming) or not. Well, then the whole bureaucracy just went tits up dead, unnecessary, superfluous except as a mean to collect tithes and elevate men as thtey climb the LDS leadership ladder.
Did we just find common ground for Tobin and sock puppet?
Sounds like it.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom