My son just got home from his first day of work at his first job.
He got to bring home a free meal, and was so excited to tell us about everything he learned.
I can't wait for the satisfaction he's going to feel when he gets his first paycheck.
The 1890 manifesto was issued by Church President Wilford Woodruff and was a major turning point for the Church. The manifesto advised that saints no longer enter into future plural marriages. This came about after immense legal pressure from the United States government, like seizure of land, farms and businesses from the church. The 1st amendment was only reserved for Christians, and polygamists arenโt Christians (despite many biblical prophets practicing polygamy) Wilford Woodruff hoped that the manifesto would bring peace to the saints in Deseret as he passed on to the other side. (Also ploid = polygamous foid)
"The spirits of the just... are not very far from us. They are in the spirit world, which is right here on the earth, and they are anxiously watching over us, and are deeply interested in our welfare, and in the progress of the work of God on the earth." -Brigham Young
(Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, p. 372)
Michael Knowles today on Mormon controversy:
"But I have to come out here in defense of the Mormons, because if trinitarian theology is the criterion [to be Christian], why are the Jehovah's Witnesses listed as Christian? Why are the Christian Scientists who deny the Trinity?
I'm not changing my views about the Trinity or the essential aspects of the Creed, but it does seem to me that the Mormons are being unfairly singled out here.
Everybody beats up on the Mormons all the time. Mormons are very reliable Republican voters. They live very, very good family lives. They're model citizens in many, many ways. And I do think this would be an example of them being unfairly singled out."
@michaeljknowles@BasedMikeLee
After the calls for murder of the saints from the Christian right, this is our call to action!! ๐ข๐ช๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฏ๐ป!
Our faith is not abstract, it demands action, and so we will actively champion the practical, inspired political and social solutions that have been delivered through revelation to our prophets through the centuries.
We are going to highlight our uniqueness in theology and culture and awaken a deeper, more urgent spirituality in our collective pursuit of the Divine, and we're going to achieve this through Aesthetics, art, media and calls to action.
We want latter-day saints to imbed gospel principles into the very fabric of their being, to be an unyielding shield against the corrosive influence of the worldly culture that is currently infecting us. We are not called to blend into Babylon but to stand apart.
The goal of the sermon was to forcibly consolidate religious and political unity within the ladder day saint community. Creating a zero tolerance stance against both internal and external persecution. So then what is our goal?
What do we mean by โSalt Sermonโ? In 1838 Sydney Rigdon gave his famous Salt Sermon. It was a fiery address aimed at internal church dissenters that salt that had lost its savor was fit only to be trodden under foot. He declared that internal apostasy would no longer be tolerated