Entries by MormonBox

Restore the balance of power between stake and central church priesthood leadership

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D&C 107 explicitly dictates that the “stake high council” is to be entirely “equal in authority” to the traveling twelve (12 apostles), first presidency & central stake in Zion. The church needs to obey this scriptural mandate for essential autonomy or balanced power of the “Stake” structure.  The revelations given to Joseph Smith on the Church political structure far more resemble the Evangelical government structures than the current LDS or Catholic hierarchies with a perfect balance of power between the Stake government and the central church government.

Remove the doctrine of muted prophetic infallibility

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Reform Action #6 of 20   (see overview page) Remove the muted doctrine of prophetic infallibility from our scripture and teachings. (“Muted” meaning on the surface we say it’s not a doctrine we promote or believe, but we actually subtly promote it using muted language.) Church leaders and members often use the following excerpt from Wilford Woodruff’s Official declaration 1 […]

Book of Mormon Stories Unearthed – Bibliography

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  SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Following is a selection of books which have superb information on their selective topics and which should be available at a local library or bookstore (or the internet) for those wanting to learn more.  A complete bibliography of all referenced books, papers, and articles follows.  In both bibliographies I have first given […]

Economic Socialism in LDS Scripture

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The socialistic systems advocated in LDS scripture are not necessarily “socialism” per se, in the most accepted modern economic definitions. Production did not need to be controlled by the state by and large. BUT, a form of socialism was certainly advocated, were excess income (the share one earned which was “above” or more than the […]

Making Sense of the Numbers of Genesis

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Among the greatest stumbling blocks to faith in the Bible are the incredibly long ages of the patriarchs and the chronologies of Genesis 5 and 11 that seem to place the age of the Earth at about 6,000 years ago. The key to understanding the numbers in Genesis is that, in the Mesopotamian world view, […]

The Sin Next To Murder

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  The hallmark of religious fundamentalism is promoting a worldview that does not accord with reality. In fundamentalist religions, things that don’t matter much, get blown out of proportion and things that cause social collapse, war and anarchy are dismissed as inconsequential.  For Christians, the Jewish religion at the time of Christ is a classic example. Jewish […]

LDS Scripture Supporting Universalism

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LDS Scripture fully supports a version of Religious Universalism.  Despite many traditional exclusivist teachings from its leaders (going all the way back to Joseph Smith), its scriptures clearly teach a form of universalism. Teaching that Christ will eventually save all mankind (except for a select few who chose Satan’s plan of totalitarian manipulation and enslavement). And that sectarian religious […]

The Narrow Neck as Baja and the Sea of Cortez

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Book of Mormon accounts are always “BY” the narrow neck, never ON the narrow neck.“Where the sea divides the land”, NOT where the land divides the seaNarrow Passes are never said to be ON the narrow neck . . Overview I believe many of the best correlations between the Book of Mormon’s internal geography and […]

Redefining the LDS View of the “Great Apostasy”

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In this article I hope to unravel some of the contradiction found in many versions of the LDS “Great Apostasy” doctrine, adopted from the popular protestant views by early church leaders during Joseph Smith’s time. Instead of ‘great’ or universal apostasy, LDS scriptures actually teach a unique blend of dispensationalist/covenant theology which means that instead […]