Could it be possible that God did visit and found the Mormon religion, but is now displeased with their many compromises and changes? (serious answers please)
2006-09-29 21:18:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is not the 'church' that is true. It is the fulness of the gospel of Christ that is true. The church is God's organization to build His kingdom.
As far as the law of plural marriage, we have to look at what He was doing. God was restoring ALL things pertaining to His kingdom, including plural marriage. This was a complete restoration. However, the came a time when the purposes of the Lord concerning this law came to an end for our time.
"During [ the]administration [of President Wilford Woodruff], the political crusade against the Latter-day Saints intensified, but the Church moved forward. Temples were operating in three Utah towns—St. George, Logan, and Manti—and the Salt Lake Temple was nearing completion. These houses of the Lord enabled thousands of Saints to obtain their endowments and do ordinance work for their kindred dead. President Woodruff had a lifelong interest in temple and family history work. He admonished the Saints on many occasions to perform ordinances in the temple for their ancestors.
As the 1880s drew to a close, the United States government passed additional laws that deprived those who practiced plural marriage of the right to vote and serve on juries and severely restricted the amount of property the Church could own. Latter-day Saint families suffered as even more fathers went into hiding. President Woodruff pleaded with the Lord for guidance. On the evening of 23 September 1890, the prophet, acting under inspiration, wrote the Manifesto, a document that ended plural marriage for Church members. The Lord showed President Woodruff in vision that unless the practice of plural marriage was ended, the United States government would take over the temples, thus ending work for the living and the dead."
The gospel is true. At times the Lord will give or take away higher laws to serve His purposes. We see in the Bible when Moses came down from the mount w/ the '10 commandments' there were actually more than 10, but because of the wickedness and unbelief that he saw upon his return, he broke the tablets of stone (see Exodus 32). Why? Because the people were not at that time ready to live such a high law, and as their prophet and leader, he returned to talk to the Lord about it.
Even Christ, while on the earth, taught "a new commandment I give unto yoi, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." John 13:24-35
Before, the law was 'eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth' but Christ changed that. It was time for people to live a higher law.
God gives us commandments which are 'directions' to bring us back to Him. But He gives to each people what He knows we can live & use to build up His kingdom. He won't ask us to do the impossible. He gives and takes away according to our abilities and needs of individuals as well as the whole of His kingdom.
There have been no 'compromises' in the gospel of Christ. The fulness has been restored.
But, unless you pray to Him yourself to the the truthfulness of this, sincerely wanting to know, nothing anyone can tell you can convince. Only the Holy Spirit, which will testify of truth and bring peace.
2006-09-30 16:41:39 · answer #1 · answered by victorianspices 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What compromises and changes are you talking about? First many churches have changed certain through out history. Second, Plural marriage wasn't abandoned just so that Utah could become a state. other laws outlaw it were developed. And most of all, through Gods direction, it wasn't needed anymore. Plural marriage had a purpose and was no longer needed. granted this is what the church says, But it is the Truth, no compromise.
BTW, Personally I wouldn't want more then one wife. Besides, (not too justify it), plural marriage was OK if not expected in the Bible. Many notable prophets had more then one wife. but that too ended in time.
2006-09-29 21:22:55 · answer #2 · answered by Coool 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did visit Joseph Smith and through him restored his kingdom to the earth. He could be displeased with the the church but not due to compromises and changes. Plural marriage was a significant change, but God is in charge of the church, not man. In biblical times, Peter and Paul had sharp disagreements about circumcision. Peter was pro-circumcision and Paul was adamently against it. Cirucumcision was done away with, whether people like/understood it or not, and the change did not mean that the church was no longer true. The same is true with plural marriage.
As to other compromises and changes, you would have to be more specific.
2006-09-30 04:25:51 · answer #3 · answered by whapingmon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
convinced, I had heard about those. I picked up a card with them on on the Temple book shop. And sorry, you adult men, yet regrettably i don't think of they're that strong a witnessing device. many of the references are strong, yet a number of them are somewhat tenuous, some are open to interpretation, etc. i understand that's no exciting even as a member disagrees with you, and that i should be helping the domicile crew, yet I undergo in recommendations being all excited seeing this card, then getting domicile, looking up the verses and wondering that it wasn't that good a controversy. there's a concepts more beneficial positive scriptural data that it really is the authentic church, and data elsewhere too. i love "Are Mormons Christians" through Stephen Robinson - I favor each and every anti-Mormon on the following would examine it. I do imagine 1 million Corinthians 15:29 is data that the church is authentic, although. It demonstrates that baptism for the lifeless change into practiced in worry-free words 40 years after Christ's resurrection - yet there is in worry-free words one church on the earth today nonetheless operating in direction of it.
2016-10-16 02:56:05 · answer #4 · answered by doreen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LDS plural marriage was a scheme to let the old geezers monopolize all the teenage girls. It was finally abandoned not at God's command, but on orders from President Abraham Lincoln, who had the blessing of the U.S. Army.
2006-09-29 21:23:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Statehood had nothing do to with the end of plural marriage.
2006-09-30 04:27:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont believe that god has visited anyone since Jesus was on earth. How much do you know about mormans? Do they even use the bible.
2006-09-29 21:20:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋