by Dan Wees | Sep 8, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Question: “And this belief in contemporary revelation and prophecy? As the prophet, tell us how that works. How do you receive divine revelation? What does it feel like?” Answer [LDS President, Gordon B. Hinckley]: “Let me say first that we have a...
by Dan Wees | Sep 8, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Continuous Revelation is a process the LDS church uses to communicate the most recent word of God to his children through the current president/prophet of the religion. The church strongly claims whatever revelation(s) the ‘current prophet’ receives not...
by Dan Wees | Sep 7, 2018 | Miscellaneous
S A I N T S: THE BACK COVER… “In 1820, a young farm boy in search of truth has a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ.” Saints: The Standard of Truth 1815-1846, Back Cover 1:0:1 This has been the narrative for many years, even though it has been well...
by Dan Wees | Sep 7, 2018 | Miscellaneous
S A I N T S: FIRST IMPRESSIONS… Saints: The Standard of Truth 1815-1846, 1:0:0 PROS: Economy. I am totally impressed with the fact that a quality paperback, 700 ‘warm white’ pages in length, was priced so reasonably. If you’re paying more than 10 bucks for it,...
by Dan Wees | Sep 5, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Trust in a system will help sustain a person through confusion until he reaches the point of no longer caring whether an answer is reasonable or not, or indeed, whether an answer even exists.” Charles M. Larson, By His Own Hands Upon Papyrus (Cedar Springs, MI:...
by Dan Wees | Sep 5, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Excommunications… “David P. Wright is the Hebrew scripture specialist who had been fired by BYU in 1988 for believing the Book of Mormon was a nineteenth-century writing of Joseph Smith… “Brent Metcalfe an independent researcher, was expelled for editing the New...
