Comments on: The New Gospel Principles

Comment by: anubys

2009-08-11T20:36:51Z

so where are your sources and references for the above (not doubting you, just curious). also, reading this post made me feel kind of proud of the distanced mormonism that i grew up in- one that will not be recognized by near-future generations. i feel like a pioneer, in a way! men on the moon? yeah-that-was-taught-in-my-day kind of thing.

Comment by: anubys

2009-08-11T20:41:48Z

oh, and i think that the “wiggle room” referred to on human evolution does not suffice. i don’t see any sign of an attempt at such, either (although i’d LOVE to see it one day).

Comment by: Jonathan

2009-08-11T21:37:14Z

Well, on top of the list of changes that’s linked to in the post, someone’s also listing the changes on Mormon Apologetics.

I hear what you’re saying about feeling like a pioneer. I feel like current Mormonism is somehow less authentic, though I suspect that every generation of Mormons has had reason to think that way.

Comment by: Andrew S

2009-08-12T09:18:05Z

I replied at MSP too, but I think this kind of distancing is only beginning to get to me.

I mean, when I was growing up…I used to not really care as much about non-authoritative manuals. It was just easier (for apologetic purposes) to say that the quad of scripture counted…that way, I just brushed aside — categorically — any mentions of Mormon Doctrine, the Journal of Discourses, Teachings of the Prophet (Insert name). Because those weren’t authoritative.

But I imagine that critics must say…”but your “authoritative” modern version of Mormonism isn’t what it was in the past…how can you just ignore that?”

So now that I’m looking at the possibility that the version of Mormonism I grew up in may not survive the next few decades, it’s interesting. And frightening. What will happen when the Mormon culture I know is unrecognizable to anyone else?

Comment by: Jonathan

2009-08-12T11:32:07Z

And they might tell you that your version of Mormonism never existed. That’s pretty freaky.

Comment by: Anonymous

2009-12-14T10:48:31Z

Joyce said,
Wow! So much for the one true church I grew up in! How can the “Truth” be so changeable? I only began to see the light four years ago as my intellectual RM children all “fell away”. Are TBM’s totally oblivious to the obvious lack of integrity behind the principles, doctrine, and history of the church? Do they really not even begin to perceive the church as the “great sham” Pres. Hinckley called it to be?

Comment by: Jonathan

2009-12-14T12:25:27Z

It is amazing what we human beings can manage to ignore in order to preserve our cherished beliefs. *le sigh*

Comment by: Anonymous

2011-01-02T15:41:48Z

I don’t get your point? Do you have any better to do with your time?