Darth J wrote: Yeah, Why Me. Nobody has ever thought of this before. What a blessing that we have inspired prophets and apostles to come up with these original ideas that never occurred to the non-LDS world.
I said that it was a good talk and it was. Try to have the buddha in you and seek self-enlightenment.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
Darth J wrote: Yeah, Why Me. Nobody has ever thought of this before. What a blessing that we have inspired prophets and apostles to come up with these original ideas that never occurred to the non-LDS world.
I said that it was a good talk and it was. Try to have the buddha in you and seek self-enlightenment.
You said it was inspired. Here is a definition of "inspiration" in a theological sense:
"a divine influence directly and immediately exerted upon the mind or soul".
I don't classify his remarks as inspired. They are commonplace, nothing more.
Darth J wrote: Yeah, Why Me. Nobody has ever thought of this before. What a blessing that we have inspired prophets and apostles to come up with these original ideas that never occurred to the non-LDS world.
I said that it was a good talk and it was. Try to have the buddha in you and seek self-enlightenment.
If can seek self-enlightenment through the Buddha, and I can get sappy platitudes from Reader's Digest and Chicken Soup for the Soul, why do I need the LDS Church?
Yong Xi wrote: You said it was inspired. Here is a definition of "inspiration" in a theological sense:
"a divine influence directly and immediately exerted upon the mind or soul".
I don't classify his remarks as inspired. They are commonplace, nothing more.
I said it was inspirational.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
What from Uchtdorf's talk could be considered to have been Prophetic, Seeing or Revelatory content inspired by God?
“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
