I heard Brigham Young gave a talk quoting Joseph Smith about this but I haven't been able to track it down. Is this just a lie to defame the church or is it true?
Sources, please. Thank you.
2007-05-01 04:33:59 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nope, whatever the source of this, it isn't part of the LDS church's doctrine and never has been.
2007-05-01 04:37:45 · answer #1 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The typical mormon response is "I never heard that - it must not be true", so getting factual info from a morgbot is next to impossible, as the above posts suggest.
However, Joseph Smith's secretary Oliver B. Huntington wrote Joseph Smith taught that "The inhabitants of the moon are more of a uniform size than the inhabitants of the earth, being about 6 feet in height...They dress very much like the Quaker style and are quite general in style, or fashion of dress...They live to be very old; coming generally, near a thousand years."
John Heinerman's classic science expose' "People in Space" expands on this theme, citing historical literature in the form of doctrinal writings and letters from dead prophets, that the church really, really wants to go away. But wait! there's more:
Chapter 2 tells about the life of people on Mercury, based on Lorenzo Snow's patriarchal blessing. (Lorenzo Snow was the fifth president and "prophet" of the LDS church.) And the proof of that is that Snow, after he died, visited his daughter and said he had been visiting other planets! Snow told her that the Mercurians were like the "pre-Adamite" inhabitants of the earth. So, you see, it all fits together. As Heinerman says, "Lorenzo Snow's unique travel experience to [Mercury] as a resurrected heavenly being stands as a lasting testament of what man can really achieve..." Isn't that marvelous?
This is why the emphasis is on the teachings of the current prohpet, not the dead ones. Their head was up their collcetive, uh, shoe, and the church cannot actually deny what they said lest it becomes apparent they are NOT the One True Church.
So, give us all a break, young Morgbots. If you haven't heard it, it's because you have't read anything deeper than your Sunday School lesson guide. It's not what 'you' personally believe, it's what your church taught and continues to teach that remains abhorrent.
2007-05-01 07:31:35 · answer #2 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hehe. Symbolically, particular. i develop into on the following for 7 years less than yet another call. someone were given my account suspended. So I stayed off for about 6 months, made a sparkling account, and the following i'm. :)
2016-12-05 04:14:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. This is another prime example of the ludicrous tales that are spread to defame the Church while people sit back and laugh over it.
2007-05-01 04:54:24 · answer #4 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually Brigham had them on the sun too
2007-05-01 04:37:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being a member of the Church I have never heard this given. So I do ot think that it is true.
2007-05-01 04:40:00 · answer #6 · answered by Hawaiiflower 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The amount of B.S. the Church has done over the years, and can still keep their current members in the dark about....staggering.
2007-05-01 04:39:02 · answer #7 · answered by vehement_chemical 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I've never heard anything like that before.
gw
2007-05-01 07:31:11 · answer #8 · answered by georgewallace78 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have read most anti-mormon things I could find, and I never read that.
2007-05-01 04:53:01 · answer #9 · answered by divinity2408 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋