Regarding the Church and its Decisions
The
relationship between the Church and the gospel is an interesting one. It is hard for individuals to discern light and darkness when we are too close to the issues at hand. The Church wants to keep the
body of Christ pure, and not do the following, “and yet they did deny the more parts of his gospel,
insomuch that they did receive all manner of wickedness, and did administer
that which was sacred unto him to whom it had been forbidden because of unworthiness.” (4 N.
1:27) Ultimately, I believe this to be one of the reasons why the Church made
its decision. It is a good reason. Protecting the children from
conflict is good. People in open rebellion or apostasy not being able to
bless and baptize their children into the Church of their fathers, now that
upsets everyone that is fence sitting or has fallen (succumbed?) to the manipulations by the powers controlling what America is supposed to
think. Golly, we should very disturbed that vote by the people against
same sex marriage in several States has been trampled upon. We should be
very disturbed that Congress wasn’t deferred to by the Supreme Court to start
new amendment proceedings to enact legislation to create a new protected class.
Alma 46:7 “And there were
many in the church who believed in the flattering words of Amalickiah, therefore they
dissented even from the church;
and thus were the affairs of the people of Nephi exceedingly precarious and
dangerous,…“ Members of the church have
never been immune to following after the Amalickiah’s of the world.
It always boils down to
testimony. A strong testimony requires that the Spirit is with us, that
we are connected to God, that spiritual experiences are happening in our lives,
that we have pondered and prayed about “the matter” (whatever the issue is) and have received our own
witness from God regarding “the matter”. One who doesn’t do these things
is ripe for darkened mind syndrome. I just coined that!
