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DUMMIES
Many are the men who turned-leaders remind me of the mannequins.
all resemble each other.
They look very neat and fashionable.
are recycled. Are always the same thing with a different appearance. They love
displayed in the windows (of the media or magazines caretaje.)
They are priceless. Some can even be bought with Banelco.
always show "enlightened."
The change of place, from right to left or left to right, but always remain in the same window.
not tend to face, because it usually has no face.
exceptions, are made of wood.
not ask them ideas and logic. They HAVE NO HEAD ... run our lives ... But 
Many are the men who turned-leaders remind me of the mannequins.
all resemble each other.
They look very neat and fashionable.
are recycled. Are always the same thing with a different appearance. They love
displayed in the windows (of the media or magazines caretaje.)
They are priceless. Some can even be bought with Banelco.
always show "enlightened."
The change of place, from right to left or left to right, but always remain in the same window.
not tend to face, because it usually has no face.
exceptions, are made of wood.
not ask them ideas and logic. They HAVE NO HEAD ... run our lives ... But
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Poptropica Problems On A Mac
The Lord made known to Moses and Abraham, and I express it in various revelations, that the man was with God in the beginning. Although the doctrine has prevailed that matter was created out of nothing, the Lord declared that the elements are eternal. The matter has always existed and will always be so, and the spirits of man, as well as their bodies were created matter. We learn from this revelation that intelligence man was not created but always existed . There have been some speculation and written several articles trying to explain what exactly are these "intelligences , or is this" intelligence "but it is useless to speculate on them because there are some truths that we must stop until the Lord sees fit to reveal it the fullness of truth. Some
People have difficulty understanding that we have forgotten our pre-earth existence. The fact that we remember the early years of our childhood, when we drink, does not mean that no longer exist then, that we ate, we played, we laughed and we joined a family and social life. The same applies to our pre-mortal life, even if we do not remember what we did for reasons which the Lord in His eternal wisdom, we have not fully disclosed, live and relate to each other, where we grew and learned.
As spirit children of God, we have had a pre-mortal existence and therefore God is the father of the spirits of all mankind. Our spiritual body is shape of the physical body of God
(D & C 77:2; Ether 3:6-16).
With this, our training and preparation for mortal life began in the spirit world and must add that God gave us free agency in the pre-mortal life.
"There is no way that life has meaning if there is no knowledge of the doctrine of pre-earth life.
"The idea that birth is the beginning is totally illogical. There is no way to explain the purpose of life to those who believe such a thing.
"To think that life ends with Physical death is totally absurd, and no way to cope with life di is believed so.
"When we come to understand and comprehend the doctrine of pre-earth life, then assembles the pieces of the puzzle and can see the purpose. Then we come to understand that children are not monkeys, nor are their parents, nor were the parents of this at the beginning of the generation.
"We are children of God, created in His image.
"Our relationship with God as his children, is clear.
"The purpose of creation of this land is clear,
"test that is life threatening is clear,
" the need for a redeemer is clear,
"when come to understand this principle of the gospel, so that we have a Heavenly Father and a Son, we see the reason of the atonement and redemption. " (Boyd K. Packer)
This truth applies both spiritual and corporal, which is simply the envelope of the spirit and together they constitute the soul. The spirit of man is that way, as well as is the spirit of all creatures are similarities in their bodies. Parley P. Pratt clearly taught this principle:
"The spirit of man consists of organizing element of spiritual matters in the likeness and the model of the tabernacle of the flesh. In fact, it has all party organs and corresponds exactly to the outer tabernacle "
During the centuries in which we dwell in the state premortal not only develop our different characteristics and show our dignity and ability, or lack thereof, if but also we were in a place where that progress could observed. It is logical to believe that there was no church organization. The celestial beings lived in a perfectly organized society, he knew not only what they could do each of us, but also what each of us do when we put to the test and give us responsibility. It was so when it came time to come to inhabit this earth, was all ready and the Lord's servants had already been elected and ordained to fulfill their respective missions.
Through this revelation (Abraham 3:23) we can deduce two things: first, that among these spirit (in life premortal) had different levels of intelligence, various states of progress, and different levels of spiritual advancement, and second, that there was no difference of nationality between them, such as American, European, Asian, Australian, etc. This "limits of room" to "prefijarían" when spirits from entering the second state or the earthly existence ...
"If any of these spirits had been allowed to enter mortality until everyone had been good and large come a leader, then the diversity of conditions that would prevail among the sons of men, as we see today certainly seem discrimination and unjustified ....
"... .. Our position in the world, therefore, be determined in accordance with our advancement in the state or condition premortal the same way that our position in the future there will determine what we do here in mortality.
"Therefore, when the Creator said to Abraham and others who had achieved a similar status, 'I will make my rulers', not that there was no room for any feeling of envy or jealousy among the millions of spirit, for which were "noble and great" are not getting more than its due reward "
Creation:
This earth was created first spiritually. It was a spiritual land, nothing lived on his face, and was designed to go well, then get the physical creation, the heavenly creation, creation of land on Eden, before the fall of man .- The
man and all life forms existed as spiritual beings before they lay the foundations of this earth. There were men, and spiritual beasts, birds and fish spiritual, plants and trees spiritual. All creeping things, all herbs and shrubs, all amoebae and dinosaurs-in other words, all things exist as spiritual before they are put in natural form on earth .-
" In the beginning, the chief of the Gods called a council of the Gods , and met and projected a plan to create and populate the world . " (Joseph Smith, the Prophet Joseph Smith, Pág.433)
So we can deduce that God had materials available to organize the world of all that chaos, that is, chaotic matter, which are elements, and which dwells all the glory. The elements have been around since we had there. The pure principles of the elements are principles that can never be destroyed, can be organized and reorganized, but not destroyed. They had principles, and can not end ".-
was our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, who, under the direction of his Father, and organized under the subject and made this planet ...
" .... It is true that Adam helped form this earth, because I work with our Savior Jesus Christ. Perhaps there were others who cooperated as Noah and Enoch and why not Joseph Smith? -
But what is a Day? is a specific period; is a time, a number of times, an eternity or a period of eternity, there is no statement revealed that specifies that each of the "six days" which is spoken in the building were of the same length. "
Abraham gives us a blueprint of creation when he talks about the plans of the saints who carried out the work created. After reciting the events of the "six days", adding: " and so were their decisions at the time they agreed among themselves to form the heavens and the earth ." (Abraham5: 3)
Friday, June 20, 2008
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What K-sion! THINGS LINING
Speech K patoteril of this government is in crescendo. It is increasingly obvious that the only thing this "people" is intended is a social confrontation.
When many years ago Patrick Kelly spoke about "Lebanonization" and an impending civil war in the Republic, it was clear among whom I would give this course stage. The thing is taking some body, in light of current events, but said that never I thought a knob to William Patrick Kelly.
something strange happens to me: never sympathized with the right and the readers of this blog well know crestfallen. I always change for social justice, although I was never a Peronist. I am strongly in favor of human rights and admire the struggle of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, but I abhor the last such Hebe Bonafini, who knows well that it is a political reference, but to paraphrase the president "did not vote no" for This should take good care of incendiary move your tongue. It sucks to be circumstantially
the same side of things I hate: Menem, Rodriguez Saa, the Pando.
But fuck me more than the government use a speech favoring the left to right. Sorry to use that slogan obsolete, but I do not get otherwise.
I am convinced that this is a move to achieve the concentration of land and thereby widen the gap. Who would be the only buyers of those fields that were no longer profitable for their current owners?
The real landowners, seed pools!
I dread the use of language of the host of presidents, kings and turned-owners of the truth. Let everyone draw their own conclusions:
-Chacarero is now synonymous with oligarch, gorilla or landowner.
-express publicly against a decision of the executive, now called "coup".
-To inform legislators the arguments of one of the sectors in conflict, using the phrase "We'll go talk to them house by house", now called "Using Nazi clear methodology."
-Press
people in street demonstrations by their armed shock troops, now called the "exercise of democracy."
-A shock such armed force, are called "people" as opposed to the great mass of workers that pans out to be the "antipueblo."
-Delia says ON or have no problem killing all the "whore oligarchy" those who "hate" because it works for hitman, but he does "love" the people.
-June 20, and not "honor" the flag on the monument. Now the flag is "retaliated."
"The protests from people with pots," are handled by the press stateless and Rural Society, "however the demonstrations of" real people "are" spontaneously "concerted love for a hot dog and a coke, such as mass by the "grace" the imposition of a general strike.
"Now, in Argentina there is no longer the" ABCs. " Now it's just the letter K. .. that ate the rest of the letters.
DO NOT CRY FOR "IT" ARGENTINA. Not Nor is he Evita Peron. Pena still living in the illusion and ourselves at all in a powder keg. 
Speech K patoteril of this government is in crescendo. It is increasingly obvious that the only thing this "people" is intended is a social confrontation.
When many years ago Patrick Kelly spoke about "Lebanonization" and an impending civil war in the Republic, it was clear among whom I would give this course stage. The thing is taking some body, in light of current events, but said that never I thought a knob to William Patrick Kelly.
something strange happens to me: never sympathized with the right and the readers of this blog well know crestfallen. I always change for social justice, although I was never a Peronist. I am strongly in favor of human rights and admire the struggle of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, but I abhor the last such Hebe Bonafini, who knows well that it is a political reference, but to paraphrase the president "did not vote no" for This should take good care of incendiary move your tongue. It sucks to be circumstantially
the same side of things I hate: Menem, Rodriguez Saa, the Pando.
But fuck me more than the government use a speech favoring the left to right. Sorry to use that slogan obsolete, but I do not get otherwise.
I am convinced that this is a move to achieve the concentration of land and thereby widen the gap. Who would be the only buyers of those fields that were no longer profitable for their current owners?
The real landowners, seed pools!
I dread the use of language of the host of presidents, kings and turned-owners of the truth. Let everyone draw their own conclusions:
-Chacarero is now synonymous with oligarch, gorilla or landowner.
-express publicly against a decision of the executive, now called "coup".
-To inform legislators the arguments of one of the sectors in conflict, using the phrase "We'll go talk to them house by house", now called "Using Nazi clear methodology."
-Press
people in street demonstrations by their armed shock troops, now called the "exercise of democracy."
-A shock such armed force, are called "people" as opposed to the great mass of workers that pans out to be the "antipueblo."
-Delia says ON or have no problem killing all the "whore oligarchy" those who "hate" because it works for hitman, but he does "love" the people.
-June 20, and not "honor" the flag on the monument. Now the flag is "retaliated."
"The protests from people with pots," are handled by the press stateless and Rural Society, "however the demonstrations of" real people "are" spontaneously "concerted love for a hot dog and a coke, such as mass by the "grace" the imposition of a general strike.
"Now, in Argentina there is no longer the" ABCs. " Now it's just the letter K. .. that ate the rest of the letters.
DO NOT CRY FOR "IT" ARGENTINA. Not Nor is he Evita Peron. Pena still living in the illusion and ourselves at all in a powder keg.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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pre-mortal life 'THE LONG NIGHT OF UNIVERSAL Apostasy "
by Rudver B. Hermosa Camacho, Popayan, Colombia
to venture into a topic rarely studied by organizations religious
clearly define what this word means. The dictionary defines it as: "the abandonment of a belief
(political or religious) or changes that disable." De
this definition is necessary to abandon or deviate from a belief, to
thus regarded as apostasy. It is curious that all parties have left
existing religious beliefs and basic determinants of the Gospel,
taught in the Bible and the Savior Himself in His earthly ministry
taught devotedly in the dusty roads of Palestine. This apostasy has been producing
gradually from long ago.
ISRAEL OLD APOSTASY
Since antiquity, the people of Israel whom the Lord had chosen to enter into agreements
exaltation and eternal life is increasingly moving away
banned in signal paths of a deep rebellion against Him In the early years of human existence
looms as going away from the commandments. The
clearest example is that of Cain, who with cunning and deceit took the life of his brother Abel
, thus opposing the Lord's purposes, and to say of his generation
which obviously would move away from their God (see Gen 4:23-24). In the same
Noah lived days the men were away from the Gospel that they had taught
, look what Genesis 6:5 says: "7 God saw that the wickedness of man was great
on Earth, and that every intent of the
heart thoughts of them was only evil continually. " And then the flood came and wiped out all
creature on the face of the earth, only eight people, that is, Noah's family saved
. But it was not long and the man again departs from the conventions
of the Gospel. In the Bible in Genesis 11:4 is mention
men built a tower, "... whose top may reach unto heaven ..." This apparently angered
God who said, "... and have started and nothing will be restrained in what they thought
do, now they go down and there confuse their language ... and so the Lord scattered them
... over all the earth .... "
Although we need a clear and detailed explanation of what really happened
we can see that the man was acting contrary to what the Lord commanded, turning away more and more
the teachings given by the ancient prophets. And how about the people of Israel
, having been in captivity in Egypt for over four years
finally reached the moment of liberation and the Lord had Moses
chosen for this mission, the Israelites were beginning to tighten
against Him heart murmur seems to have been a dominant feature of the Israelites
nature and root of many of the problems faced (
see Exodus 15:24).
Once they were freed from Egyptian bondage continued from time to rebel against their
when director and leader. (See Exodus 16:2-3, from 17.3 to 4).
After Israel received the new covenant that would come through Moses, but, "... watching
the people that Moses delayed to come down the mountain (Sinai)
then approached Aaron and said: Come, make us gods who go before us ...
then made a molten calf and said Israel, these are your gods who brought you out of
the land of Egypt ... "(See Exodus 32:1-4).
In response to the despicable attitude of the people, the Lord said to Moses:" Go down,
because your people have corrupted. Are quickly turned aside from the way I sent them
... I have seen this people, which incidentally is stiff-necked people ... "(See Exodus 32:7-9
).
This demonstrates that the ancient people of Israel was in a state of apostasy
despite the miracles and wonders that the Lord had done in his behalf. In
final farewell speech Moses warns them when they deviate from
Lord your God: "... the LORD will scatter you among all peoples and
left few in number among the nations the Lord will take you ..." ( See Deuteronomy 4:27).
Moses had no illusions about the time that Israel would remain obedient. Here
prophetically before one of the most common themes of the Old Testament: Israel
dispersion because of their wickedness and the great congregation
happen in "the last days." At the time of the judges, the people picked the wrong
worshiping false gods and the Lord let fall into the hands of his enemies.
So in these circumstances the Lord raised up judges to lead them out of captivity.
But as soon as the first judge dies, Israel turns to other gods and the cycle begins again
. (See Judges 2:14-23). Even at the time of Joshua
his generation remained faithful to God (see Joshua 24:31), but the spiritual apostasy
occurred early in the next generation: "And there arose another generation after them
not know the Lord, or the work he had done for Israel. They left
LORD God of their fathers ... and they went after other gods ... to which they worshiped and
angered the Lord "(Judges 2:10,12).
then through the prophets, the Lord warned Israel for having left him
source of all righteousness. In Jeremiah 2:5 - 6, 8.13 says: "Thus saith the Lord, What wickedness
your fathers found in me that got away from me, and they followed vanity and became vain
... the priests did not say: Where is the Lord? And those who had the law
not know me, pastors after they rebelled because two wrongs not making
has made my people left me a source of living water and dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns
not hold water ...".
Many years later the prophet Amos also lets us see what was going to be universal
this deviation from the truth, so we can understand the various prophecies of
seers of antiquity, " Behold the days come, saith the Lord, which
send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord
. And they shall wander from sea to sea, from north to east
fro to seek the word of the Lord and not find it "(Amos 8:11-12).
The prophet Micah was the day that there would be" God's answer " described the condition
apostate Israel in these terms: "Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets
make my people err and cry, Peace, when they have something to eat and
to not feed them, proclaim war against him. For both the prophecy you will
dark night and guess, and the prophets shall the sun and the day
dark over them. And the prophets shall be ashamed and confounded the soothsayers
and they all cover their lips, because no answer of God ...
judge their leaders by right and its priests teach for hire and
prophets divine for money, and rely on the Lord saying: Is not the Lord among us?
evil will not come upon us ... "(Micah 3:5-7,11).
Isaiah had a similar vision of what would happen:" Behold, the Lord
empty and bare land, and turneth it upside down and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it
well as the people, also the priest as the servant and his master, as the maid to her mistress
, as the buying, which sells them as one who pays, so with the borrow
, as the giver achievement and to the recipient.
Earth will be entirely emptied and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has spoken this word.
is destroyed, the earth fell sick, fell the world ill high
peoples of the Earth. And the earth is defiled by its people because they have transgressed the laws,
distorted the law, broken the everlasting covenant ... "(Isaiah 24:1-5).
This seer realized that the Lord's displeasure fall upon the inhabitants of the
Earth in another of his powerful visions stated: "For behold, darkness shall cover the earth
and gross darkness the nations ... (Isaiah 60:2). "For the Lord poured out upon you the spirit
sleep, and closed his eyes and put your prophets
veil over the heads of your viewers ..." (Isaiah 29:10).
Thus we see that Ancient Israel at different times and seasons: "They
well ... evil in the eyes of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals
and groves ..." (Judges 3:7).
"... And they forsook the covenant of the LORD ... that he made with them when the bag
of the land of Egypt ..." (Deuteronomy 29:25).
changed the practices and beliefs that they were taught initially
away and farther and farther away from God they should have put their trust
. (See 1 Kings 12:25-33, 2 Chronicles 11:13-15).
could go with a huge list of Bible verses which can be seen
clear that the nation was once favored over the other peoples of the Earth and
could not remain faithful and obedient, had a hard time doing so. All this brought
enormous consequences that persist to this day. It is very evident the
apostasy from the earliest ages of the Earth has hung over humanity
by reason of having forgotten his God. Ancient writings say so, there, and somehow there
apostasy to our time. We can not close our eyes to these truths
and walk like blind guides trying to guide the blind. Apostasy
OF THE EARLY CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH ESTABLISHED TO EL SALVADOR
is a common belief of all the religious parties who profess Christianity
fact that Jesus Christ established His Church here on Earth God for his ministry among men
. He came at a time of relative peace.
The religious world was divided into two groups: the pagans of different sects and Jews
. These were the only ones who still had imperfectly
worship the great Lord, and even among them there was a division, being the leading Pharisees, Sadducees and
Essenes. Another group were the Samaritans, among whom was also
a mixture of Jewish and pagan philosophies.
El Salvador preached his gospel and indicated clearly that the Law of Moses in its entirety
was fulfilled in him resulted in a higher law, a law of love, peace
gospel and established His Church officially chosen to direct.
read about the apostles, seventies, the elders or elders, priests, teachers and
deacons or evangelists of the patriarchs, and a member of this group of leaders
later said those officers should remain in the Church
for the purpose of: "... equip the saints for the work of ministry, for the
building up the body of Christ, until we all reach unity in the faith ... "
(See Ephesians 4:12-13).
The Master chose His Twelve, appointed and sent with the message."
.. The Kingdom of Heaven is near. "They went to the lost sheep of the House of Israel, and later
through divine guidance also to the Gentiles. others were called, and
seventies after his first mission, they returned happy that in the name of Jesus Christ even
even the demons were subject to them.
There was a spirit of unity among members, a spirit of brotherhood and solidarity
, enjoyed great spiritual gifts.
ordinances were made simple by men who possessed the authority and had been commissioned
for it. All evidence indicated that those who participated in the apostolic ministry
possessed divine authority to publicize the message of the Gospel and to
manage the affairs of the kingdom. Peter the senior Apostle
directed the activities of the newly formed Church.
Analyzing a little divine organization of the Church that Jesus Christ established,
see that one of the features, among others, would be to have followed this
organization, which had no shadow of change. The first step the Lord gave his Church was instituted
call twelve apostles, to confer personally
Authority and power of the Priesthood: "Then he called his twelve disciples and gave them power and authority
... and sent them to preach .. . '"(Luke 9:1-2).
ordinances and gospel principles can neither teach nor be administered without this power and authority
ie the priesthood.
The apostle Paul taught that "... no one takes this honor to himself (ie the priest)
but he is called by God, Aaron was horn ... So also Christ glorified
likewise becoming a high priest but he that said, You You are my Son ... You are
priest (because he received the priesthood) for sows in the order of Melchizedek
... "(see Hebrews 5:4-6). The Father then gave this authority to the
Salvador, did not take himself very
or usurped power that did not belong, that's the correct order of things.
This same church was compared to a building that stated: "... on the basis
of the apostles and prophets being the chief corner stone Jesus Christ himself "
(see Ephesians 2:20). The apostle Peter was appointed as the chief apostle and was given the keys to seal
blessings in heaven and on earth:" And I will give you the
keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and
whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven ... "Jesus called
other priesthood leaders to assist the apostles in the work of the ministry
, shipping officials called seventies to go in pairs to proclaim the Gospel
: "... And the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them two by two ahead of the
all city \u200b\u200band place where he had to go ... "(Luke 10:1).
Other officers were:" ... evangelical ... some pastors and teachers ... for the work of ministry ...
"(See Ephesians 4:11-12).
The Bible does not tell us everything about the priesthood or the organization and governance of the Church
but has largely been preserved to show the beauty and perfection
the organization of the Church. Interesting to emphasize is that local leaders called
on which the apostles presided. These
visited and wrote letters to leaders of different "branches." Because of this the New Testament contains
letters (epistles) written by the apostles Paul, Peter, James, John and Jude
that gave advice and instructions to local priesthood leaders.
The apostles taught two basic principles of the Gospel: faith in Jesus Christ and repentance
. After the new converts had faith in the Savior as
the Son of God and his Redeemer and had truly repented of their sins
received two ordinances: baptism by immersion and the laying on of hands
the gift of the Holy Spirit , recalling the commandment given: "... that
not born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter the kingdom of God ..." (John 3:5).
With the above we can conclude that there was actually a
organization of the early Church of the Savior as He established it for us
realize that the vast majority of "churches Christian "today in spite of retaining the present
pastors or bishops, teachers and preachers promulgate
however ineffectiveness of apostles and prophets by excluding them from their respective organizations
church. All of these" churches "become deaf to the biblical passages that
clearly teach us a continuous succession of apostles (see Acts 1:23-26;
13:1-3) that was made to the extent that the former were dying.
THE BEGINNING OF THE Apostasy
Let's analyze why affirm that there was an apostasy after the death of Lord
and leaders that he had chosen.
In the year 44 AD is called a council of members of the Church in Jerusalem,
under the direction of Peter. According to records, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
some discrepancies were corrected during the conference. After the apostles were scattered
; prosecution of them is bitter and is known as
never met again at a general conference of the Church. Paul
activities focused on Antioch, but during the years 68 to 100 AD,
gives the impression that most of the original apostles had the authority to direct
the kingdom, or direct the affairs of the Church, and perhaps all had left this Earth
.
Following the death of the apostles began the rapid development of a universal
apostasy had been expected and predicted as discussed in the beginning.
apostasy
was a combination of external and internal causes which led to this great effect
apostasy. The most effective of these external forces was disintegrating
tenacious pursuit, dissension began to infiltrate and political influence became apparent
. According to the writers of the century, to whom the religious leaders of
time usually do not take into account lessons
were quite unorthodox in the first century to the mid second century after the advent of the Master.
One by one the apostles were murdered and those who were leaving because of the persecution they suffered
they could not meet to choose and ordain other
men to replace those who had died.
Judaism was the first oppressor of Christianity and became the instigator and abettor
of additional atrocities resulting pagan persecution. During the reign of Nero
(beginning as in the year 64 AD) was generated and invigorates
hostility of the Roman powers against the Christian Church,
assertion that, except for occasional truces that lasted months and even years,
continued until late in the reign of Diocletian (as in the year 305). The
inhuman cruelty and savage barbarism that is imposed on those who dared to profess the name of Christ
during these centuries of pagan are accepted facts of history.
The overall result of the external opposition, ie the external causes
decline of faith and works, taken together, appeared in the defection of members
thus led to a widespread apostasy from the Church .
Major changes were revealed. Some argue that at that time
the Bishop of Rome had become the head of the Church. There were many bishops who presided
local congregations-churches as they were called, but none of them
3. Unauthorized changes in the organization of church government. The Roman pontiff assumed authority
secular and the spiritual and in the eleventh century
arrogated to itself the title of pope same meaning father, paternal ruler as in all things
. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the pope's temporal authority was superior to
of kings and emperors and the Roman church became the
despotic sovereign nations and further that all states autocrat secular. These "pastors" initial
supposed Christian church and could eventually provide
titles or positions of greater authority to appoint bishops, cardinals, patriarchs and popes
. We wonder: What authority was on them to promote them and raise them to
absolute leaders in their churches? As this last thing and the beginning of the apostasy
churches were then only human, without authority, where the bishop of Rome
excommunicated the patriarch of Constantinople, and this in turn
excommunicated the Bishop of Rome. HE PREDICTS
APOSTASY
is logical to say so after what has been discussed that the Church of Christ
fell into a state of apostasy, the succession in the priesthood and the Church stopped
as earthly organization operating under the divine guidance and
had the authority to officiate in spiritual ordinances, ceased to exist. This is shown by the
history. But all this had been prophesied and foretold by the prophets, apostles, and yet it
Salvador to exercise their ministry among men.
apostasy had begun in the days of the apostles and mentioned them frequently.
When Paul last met with the elders of Ephesus and said, "Because I
know that after my departure you come in among wolves
not sparing the flock "(Acts 20:29). And after his letter to the Thessalonians
said:" No one deceive you in any way because they come (the second coming of the Lord
) except there come a falling away (see 2Tesal. 2:3). So did know
Timothy: "The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but having itching ears
pile up teachers after their own lusts and away from the truth
hearing and shall be turned unto fables "(2 Timothy 4:3-4). At
Galatians, Paul spoke of the apostasy that was carried out and was amazed at how quickly
had removed from him that had called them to follow a different
gospel. Then rebuked them for it and let them know that there was only one Gospel
plan. (See Galatians 1:6-8).
is clear that Paul could prophesy the situation that would accompany those who were not truly converted to the Gospel
when he said: "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly
that in later times some will abandon the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines
of demons "(1 Timothy 4:1).
the apostle Peter also spoke of "... false prophets among the people, as there
false teachers among you who will secretly introduce destructive heresies ...
bring upon themselves swift destruction "(2Pedro2: 1).
We'll really interesting relationship of biblical quotations
have been found besides those already mentioned giving more evidence of the apostasy that
hovered in the Christian Church.
• 1 Corinthians 1:10 "Now I beseech you brothers ... that ye all speak the same thing ...
and no divisions among you ... because I've been told that there
among you ... ".
• 1 Corinthians 11:18:" ... when you come together as a church, I hear there are divisions among you
... ".
• 2 Corinthians 2:17:" For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of Christ ...".
• 1 Timothy 1:6. "... Diverted some aside to idle talk .. . ".
• 2 Timothy 1:15:" ... I left all those in Asia ... ".
• 2 Timothy 2:18:" ... that deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection and
took place, and overthrow the faith of some ... ".
• Titus 1:10,16:" For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers
, especially those of the circumcision ... profess to know God, but with
they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient reprobates
about every good work ".
• 2 Peter 3:17:" ... beware lest away with the error of the wicked, fall from your secure
...".
• Revelation 2:2 " ... and have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars
... ".
• John 16:2:" I kicked out of the synagogues ... more I have said these things,
that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you. "
• Mark 7:6:" ... well Isaiah prophesy of you: 'This people I
lips honor, but their heart is far from me. But in vain they worship me.
teaching for doctrines the commandments men '. "
already to end this review on apostasy, we say that not only through
of history, which is quite clear, but by the prophecy, as we have
check, it can be concluded that there was a total apostasy from the truth of the Gospel.
Many of the early reformers admitted that fact to
fight against false teachings and practices of the time. Men like Wesley, the founder of Methodism;
Roger Williams, the director of the Baptist congregation; Williams Smith, author of
"Smith's Dictionary of the bible" who in a sensible and compelling in its
time said: "We should not expect the Church of the Holy Scriptures there really
in His perfection on earth. This perfection can not be found in the
all these fragments of Christendom, and less on one or any such
fragments ... Any duly constituted church of Christ on Earth,
or any person authorized to administer any church ordinance, nor can he
be until new apostles are sent by the great Head of the Church
whose coming he was seeking .. . ".
hope has been awakened in the hearts of believers honest and truthful with them
himself a sincere desire earnestly seeking the true Church that once established the Lord
and as stated by the apostle: "reach unity of faith and knowledge
the Son of God ..." and share all "one Lord, one faith, one baptism
(Efesios4: 13,15).
This church exists today with the same organization as the Savior Himself
established with the same teachings and commandments that he gave. What a joy it
immense joy so sublime it is to belong to her! is filled with light and harmony the
road-building, goals to achieve eternal life and gives a strong sense of
existence. Its present name: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
If you are a member of it, we invite you to follow being faithful and obedient to his teachings.
If you're not, now is the time, without prejudice to the truth not be blinded to
diligently investigate and reach your own conclusion and "... by the power of
Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things. "
This article was finished writing the Guambia Ward, Municipality of Silvia, Colombia
being 21:00 hours on February 26, 2002. Author Rudver B. Hermosa
Camacho, President North Branch remember, Popayan, Colombia.
to venture into a topic rarely studied by organizations religious
clearly define what this word means. The dictionary defines it as: "the abandonment of a belief
(political or religious) or changes that disable." De
this definition is necessary to abandon or deviate from a belief, to
thus regarded as apostasy. It is curious that all parties have left
existing religious beliefs and basic determinants of the Gospel,
taught in the Bible and the Savior Himself in His earthly ministry
taught devotedly in the dusty roads of Palestine. This apostasy has been producing
gradually from long ago.
ISRAEL OLD APOSTASY
Since antiquity, the people of Israel whom the Lord had chosen to enter into agreements
exaltation and eternal life is increasingly moving away
banned in signal paths of a deep rebellion against Him In the early years of human existence
looms as going away from the commandments. The
clearest example is that of Cain, who with cunning and deceit took the life of his brother Abel
, thus opposing the Lord's purposes, and to say of his generation
which obviously would move away from their God (see Gen 4:23-24). In the same
Noah lived days the men were away from the Gospel that they had taught
, look what Genesis 6:5 says: "7 God saw that the wickedness of man was great
on Earth, and that every intent of the
heart thoughts of them was only evil continually. " And then the flood came and wiped out all
creature on the face of the earth, only eight people, that is, Noah's family saved
. But it was not long and the man again departs from the conventions
of the Gospel. In the Bible in Genesis 11:4 is mention
men built a tower, "... whose top may reach unto heaven ..." This apparently angered
God who said, "... and have started and nothing will be restrained in what they thought
do, now they go down and there confuse their language ... and so the Lord scattered them
... over all the earth .... "
Although we need a clear and detailed explanation of what really happened
we can see that the man was acting contrary to what the Lord commanded, turning away more and more
the teachings given by the ancient prophets. And how about the people of Israel
, having been in captivity in Egypt for over four years
finally reached the moment of liberation and the Lord had Moses
chosen for this mission, the Israelites were beginning to tighten
against Him heart murmur seems to have been a dominant feature of the Israelites
nature and root of many of the problems faced (
see Exodus 15:24).
Once they were freed from Egyptian bondage continued from time to rebel against their
when director and leader. (See Exodus 16:2-3, from 17.3 to 4).
After Israel received the new covenant that would come through Moses, but, "... watching
the people that Moses delayed to come down the mountain (Sinai)
then approached Aaron and said: Come, make us gods who go before us ...
then made a molten calf and said Israel, these are your gods who brought you out of
the land of Egypt ... "(See Exodus 32:1-4).
In response to the despicable attitude of the people, the Lord said to Moses:" Go down,
because your people have corrupted. Are quickly turned aside from the way I sent them
... I have seen this people, which incidentally is stiff-necked people ... "(See Exodus 32:7-9
).
This demonstrates that the ancient people of Israel was in a state of apostasy
despite the miracles and wonders that the Lord had done in his behalf. In
final farewell speech Moses warns them when they deviate from
Lord your God: "... the LORD will scatter you among all peoples and
left few in number among the nations the Lord will take you ..." ( See Deuteronomy 4:27).
Moses had no illusions about the time that Israel would remain obedient. Here
prophetically before one of the most common themes of the Old Testament: Israel
dispersion because of their wickedness and the great congregation
happen in "the last days." At the time of the judges, the people picked the wrong
worshiping false gods and the Lord let fall into the hands of his enemies.
So in these circumstances the Lord raised up judges to lead them out of captivity.
But as soon as the first judge dies, Israel turns to other gods and the cycle begins again
. (See Judges 2:14-23). Even at the time of Joshua
his generation remained faithful to God (see Joshua 24:31), but the spiritual apostasy
occurred early in the next generation: "And there arose another generation after them
not know the Lord, or the work he had done for Israel. They left
LORD God of their fathers ... and they went after other gods ... to which they worshiped and
angered the Lord "(Judges 2:10,12).
then through the prophets, the Lord warned Israel for having left him
source of all righteousness. In Jeremiah 2:5 - 6, 8.13 says: "Thus saith the Lord, What wickedness
your fathers found in me that got away from me, and they followed vanity and became vain
... the priests did not say: Where is the Lord? And those who had the law
not know me, pastors after they rebelled because two wrongs not making
has made my people left me a source of living water and dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns
not hold water ...".
Many years later the prophet Amos also lets us see what was going to be universal
this deviation from the truth, so we can understand the various prophecies of
seers of antiquity, " Behold the days come, saith the Lord, which
send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord
. And they shall wander from sea to sea, from north to east
fro to seek the word of the Lord and not find it "(Amos 8:11-12).
The prophet Micah was the day that there would be" God's answer " described the condition
apostate Israel in these terms: "Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets
make my people err and cry, Peace, when they have something to eat and
to not feed them, proclaim war against him. For both the prophecy you will
dark night and guess, and the prophets shall the sun and the day
dark over them. And the prophets shall be ashamed and confounded the soothsayers
and they all cover their lips, because no answer of God ...
judge their leaders by right and its priests teach for hire and
prophets divine for money, and rely on the Lord saying: Is not the Lord among us?
evil will not come upon us ... "(Micah 3:5-7,11).
Isaiah had a similar vision of what would happen:" Behold, the Lord
empty and bare land, and turneth it upside down and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it
well as the people, also the priest as the servant and his master, as the maid to her mistress
, as the buying, which sells them as one who pays, so with the borrow
, as the giver achievement and to the recipient.
Earth will be entirely emptied and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has spoken this word.
is destroyed, the earth fell sick, fell the world ill high
peoples of the Earth. And the earth is defiled by its people because they have transgressed the laws,
distorted the law, broken the everlasting covenant ... "(Isaiah 24:1-5).
This seer realized that the Lord's displeasure fall upon the inhabitants of the
Earth in another of his powerful visions stated: "For behold, darkness shall cover the earth
and gross darkness the nations ... (Isaiah 60:2). "For the Lord poured out upon you the spirit
sleep, and closed his eyes and put your prophets
veil over the heads of your viewers ..." (Isaiah 29:10).
Thus we see that Ancient Israel at different times and seasons: "They
well ... evil in the eyes of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals
and groves ..." (Judges 3:7).
"... And they forsook the covenant of the LORD ... that he made with them when the bag
of the land of Egypt ..." (Deuteronomy 29:25).
changed the practices and beliefs that they were taught initially
away and farther and farther away from God they should have put their trust
. (See 1 Kings 12:25-33, 2 Chronicles 11:13-15).
could go with a huge list of Bible verses which can be seen
clear that the nation was once favored over the other peoples of the Earth and
could not remain faithful and obedient, had a hard time doing so. All this brought
enormous consequences that persist to this day. It is very evident the
apostasy from the earliest ages of the Earth has hung over humanity
by reason of having forgotten his God. Ancient writings say so, there, and somehow there
apostasy to our time. We can not close our eyes to these truths
and walk like blind guides trying to guide the blind. Apostasy
OF THE EARLY CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH ESTABLISHED TO EL SALVADOR
is a common belief of all the religious parties who profess Christianity
fact that Jesus Christ established His Church here on Earth God for his ministry among men
. He came at a time of relative peace.
The religious world was divided into two groups: the pagans of different sects and Jews
. These were the only ones who still had imperfectly
worship the great Lord, and even among them there was a division, being the leading Pharisees, Sadducees and
Essenes. Another group were the Samaritans, among whom was also
a mixture of Jewish and pagan philosophies.
El Salvador preached his gospel and indicated clearly that the Law of Moses in its entirety
was fulfilled in him resulted in a higher law, a law of love, peace
gospel and established His Church officially chosen to direct.
read about the apostles, seventies, the elders or elders, priests, teachers and
deacons or evangelists of the patriarchs, and a member of this group of leaders
later said those officers should remain in the Church
for the purpose of: "... equip the saints for the work of ministry, for the
building up the body of Christ, until we all reach unity in the faith ... "
(See Ephesians 4:12-13).
The Master chose His Twelve, appointed and sent with the message."
.. The Kingdom of Heaven is near. "They went to the lost sheep of the House of Israel, and later
through divine guidance also to the Gentiles. others were called, and
seventies after his first mission, they returned happy that in the name of Jesus Christ even
even the demons were subject to them.
There was a spirit of unity among members, a spirit of brotherhood and solidarity
, enjoyed great spiritual gifts.
ordinances were made simple by men who possessed the authority and had been commissioned
for it. All evidence indicated that those who participated in the apostolic ministry
possessed divine authority to publicize the message of the Gospel and to
manage the affairs of the kingdom. Peter the senior Apostle
directed the activities of the newly formed Church.
Analyzing a little divine organization of the Church that Jesus Christ established,
see that one of the features, among others, would be to have followed this
organization, which had no shadow of change. The first step the Lord gave his Church was instituted
call twelve apostles, to confer personally
Authority and power of the Priesthood: "Then he called his twelve disciples and gave them power and authority
... and sent them to preach .. . '"(Luke 9:1-2).
ordinances and gospel principles can neither teach nor be administered without this power and authority
ie the priesthood.
The apostle Paul taught that "... no one takes this honor to himself (ie the priest)
but he is called by God, Aaron was horn ... So also Christ glorified
likewise becoming a high priest but he that said, You You are my Son ... You are
priest (because he received the priesthood) for sows in the order of Melchizedek
... "(see Hebrews 5:4-6). The Father then gave this authority to the
Salvador, did not take himself very
or usurped power that did not belong, that's the correct order of things.
This same church was compared to a building that stated: "... on the basis
of the apostles and prophets being the chief corner stone Jesus Christ himself "
(see Ephesians 2:20). The apostle Peter was appointed as the chief apostle and was given the keys to seal
blessings in heaven and on earth:" And I will give you the
keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and
whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven ... "Jesus called
other priesthood leaders to assist the apostles in the work of the ministry
, shipping officials called seventies to go in pairs to proclaim the Gospel
: "... And the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them two by two ahead of the
all city \u200b\u200band place where he had to go ... "(Luke 10:1).
Other officers were:" ... evangelical ... some pastors and teachers ... for the work of ministry ...
"(See Ephesians 4:11-12).
The Bible does not tell us everything about the priesthood or the organization and governance of the Church
but has largely been preserved to show the beauty and perfection
the organization of the Church. Interesting to emphasize is that local leaders called
on which the apostles presided. These
visited and wrote letters to leaders of different "branches." Because of this the New Testament contains
letters (epistles) written by the apostles Paul, Peter, James, John and Jude
that gave advice and instructions to local priesthood leaders.
The apostles taught two basic principles of the Gospel: faith in Jesus Christ and repentance
. After the new converts had faith in the Savior as
the Son of God and his Redeemer and had truly repented of their sins
received two ordinances: baptism by immersion and the laying on of hands
the gift of the Holy Spirit , recalling the commandment given: "... that
not born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter the kingdom of God ..." (John 3:5).
With the above we can conclude that there was actually a
organization of the early Church of the Savior as He established it for us
realize that the vast majority of "churches Christian "today in spite of retaining the present
pastors or bishops, teachers and preachers promulgate
however ineffectiveness of apostles and prophets by excluding them from their respective organizations
church. All of these" churches "become deaf to the biblical passages that
clearly teach us a continuous succession of apostles (see Acts 1:23-26;
13:1-3) that was made to the extent that the former were dying.
THE BEGINNING OF THE Apostasy
Let's analyze why affirm that there was an apostasy after the death of Lord
and leaders that he had chosen.
In the year 44 AD is called a council of members of the Church in Jerusalem,
under the direction of Peter. According to records, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
some discrepancies were corrected during the conference. After the apostles were scattered
; prosecution of them is bitter and is known as
never met again at a general conference of the Church. Paul
activities focused on Antioch, but during the years 68 to 100 AD,
gives the impression that most of the original apostles had the authority to direct
the kingdom, or direct the affairs of the Church, and perhaps all had left this Earth
.
Following the death of the apostles began the rapid development of a universal
apostasy had been expected and predicted as discussed in the beginning.
apostasy
was a combination of external and internal causes which led to this great effect
apostasy. The most effective of these external forces was disintegrating
tenacious pursuit, dissension began to infiltrate and political influence became apparent
. According to the writers of the century, to whom the religious leaders of
time usually do not take into account lessons
were quite unorthodox in the first century to the mid second century after the advent of the Master.
One by one the apostles were murdered and those who were leaving because of the persecution they suffered
they could not meet to choose and ordain other
men to replace those who had died.
Judaism was the first oppressor of Christianity and became the instigator and abettor
of additional atrocities resulting pagan persecution. During the reign of Nero
(beginning as in the year 64 AD) was generated and invigorates
hostility of the Roman powers against the Christian Church,
assertion that, except for occasional truces that lasted months and even years,
continued until late in the reign of Diocletian (as in the year 305). The
inhuman cruelty and savage barbarism that is imposed on those who dared to profess the name of Christ
during these centuries of pagan are accepted facts of history.
The overall result of the external opposition, ie the external causes
decline of faith and works, taken together, appeared in the defection of members
thus led to a widespread apostasy from the Church .
Major changes were revealed. Some argue that at that time
the Bishop of Rome had become the head of the Church. There were many bishops who presided
local congregations-churches as they were called, but none of them
3. Unauthorized changes in the organization of church government. The Roman pontiff assumed authority
secular and the spiritual and in the eleventh century
arrogated to itself the title of pope same meaning father, paternal ruler as in all things
. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the pope's temporal authority was superior to
of kings and emperors and the Roman church became the
despotic sovereign nations and further that all states autocrat secular. These "pastors" initial
supposed Christian church and could eventually provide
titles or positions of greater authority to appoint bishops, cardinals, patriarchs and popes
. We wonder: What authority was on them to promote them and raise them to
absolute leaders in their churches? As this last thing and the beginning of the apostasy
churches were then only human, without authority, where the bishop of Rome
excommunicated the patriarch of Constantinople, and this in turn
excommunicated the Bishop of Rome. HE PREDICTS
APOSTASY
is logical to say so after what has been discussed that the Church of Christ
fell into a state of apostasy, the succession in the priesthood and the Church stopped
as earthly organization operating under the divine guidance and
had the authority to officiate in spiritual ordinances, ceased to exist. This is shown by the
history. But all this had been prophesied and foretold by the prophets, apostles, and yet it
Salvador to exercise their ministry among men.
apostasy had begun in the days of the apostles and mentioned them frequently.
When Paul last met with the elders of Ephesus and said, "Because I
know that after my departure you come in among wolves
not sparing the flock "(Acts 20:29). And after his letter to the Thessalonians
said:" No one deceive you in any way because they come (the second coming of the Lord
) except there come a falling away (see 2Tesal. 2:3). So did know
Timothy: "The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but having itching ears
pile up teachers after their own lusts and away from the truth
hearing and shall be turned unto fables "(2 Timothy 4:3-4). At
Galatians, Paul spoke of the apostasy that was carried out and was amazed at how quickly
had removed from him that had called them to follow a different
gospel. Then rebuked them for it and let them know that there was only one Gospel
plan. (See Galatians 1:6-8).
is clear that Paul could prophesy the situation that would accompany those who were not truly converted to the Gospel
when he said: "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly
that in later times some will abandon the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines
of demons "(1 Timothy 4:1).
the apostle Peter also spoke of "... false prophets among the people, as there
false teachers among you who will secretly introduce destructive heresies ...
bring upon themselves swift destruction "(2Pedro2: 1).
We'll really interesting relationship of biblical quotations
have been found besides those already mentioned giving more evidence of the apostasy that
hovered in the Christian Church.
• 1 Corinthians 1:10 "Now I beseech you brothers ... that ye all speak the same thing ...
and no divisions among you ... because I've been told that there
among you ... ".
• 1 Corinthians 11:18:" ... when you come together as a church, I hear there are divisions among you
... ".
• 2 Corinthians 2:17:" For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of Christ ...".
• 1 Timothy 1:6. "... Diverted some aside to idle talk .. . ".
• 2 Timothy 1:15:" ... I left all those in Asia ... ".
• 2 Timothy 2:18:" ... that deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection and
took place, and overthrow the faith of some ... ".
• Titus 1:10,16:" For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers
, especially those of the circumcision ... profess to know God, but with
they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient reprobates
about every good work ".
• 2 Peter 3:17:" ... beware lest away with the error of the wicked, fall from your secure
...".
• Revelation 2:2 " ... and have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars
... ".
• John 16:2:" I kicked out of the synagogues ... more I have said these things,
that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you. "
• Mark 7:6:" ... well Isaiah prophesy of you: 'This people I
lips honor, but their heart is far from me. But in vain they worship me.
teaching for doctrines the commandments men '. "
already to end this review on apostasy, we say that not only through
of history, which is quite clear, but by the prophecy, as we have
check, it can be concluded that there was a total apostasy from the truth of the Gospel.
Many of the early reformers admitted that fact to
fight against false teachings and practices of the time. Men like Wesley, the founder of Methodism;
Roger Williams, the director of the Baptist congregation; Williams Smith, author of
"Smith's Dictionary of the bible" who in a sensible and compelling in its
time said: "We should not expect the Church of the Holy Scriptures there really
in His perfection on earth. This perfection can not be found in the
all these fragments of Christendom, and less on one or any such
fragments ... Any duly constituted church of Christ on Earth,
or any person authorized to administer any church ordinance, nor can he
be until new apostles are sent by the great Head of the Church
whose coming he was seeking .. . ".
hope has been awakened in the hearts of believers honest and truthful with them
himself a sincere desire earnestly seeking the true Church that once established the Lord
and as stated by the apostle: "reach unity of faith and knowledge
the Son of God ..." and share all "one Lord, one faith, one baptism
(Efesios4: 13,15).
This church exists today with the same organization as the Savior Himself
established with the same teachings and commandments that he gave. What a joy it
immense joy so sublime it is to belong to her! is filled with light and harmony the
road-building, goals to achieve eternal life and gives a strong sense of
existence. Its present name: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
If you are a member of it, we invite you to follow being faithful and obedient to his teachings.
If you're not, now is the time, without prejudice to the truth not be blinded to
diligently investigate and reach your own conclusion and "... by the power of
Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things. "
This article was finished writing the Guambia Ward, Municipality of Silvia, Colombia
being 21:00 hours on February 26, 2002. Author Rudver B. Hermosa
Camacho, President North Branch remember, Popayan, Colombia.
Monday, April 21, 2008
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Why These Temples
By President Gordon B. Hinckley
Has there perhaps any human being who, in moments of quiet introspection, has not reflected on the awesome mysteries of this existence?
there anyone that has not been asked: "Where I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? What ties bind me to my Maker? Do I rob the death of kinship, friendship, etc.., So precious that I have done in this life? What about the relationship I have with my family? Is there another life after this? And if so, do we recognize there? ".
The answer to these questions is not in the wisdom human response is found only in the word of God by the developer. The temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are sacred places where there are answers to these and other questions about eternity. Each building is dedicated to be a house of God, a place of holiness and peace from the world completely. They teach truths and ordinances are performed that give us, as participants, knowledge of the eternal and motivate us to live with an understanding of the divine heritage we have as children of God, and with the knowledge of our potential as eternal beings.
These buildings, unlike the thousands of regular worship centers has the Church throughout the world, are unique and different in purpose and function of any other religious building. What distinguishes them is their size and architectural beauty, but the work is carried out within them.
The designation of certain buildings for special ordinances, other than those made in places of worship regularly, there is a new custom, as practiced at the time of ancient Israel, when the people worshiped regularly in the synagogues. For Israel, the holiest place was, first, the tent they had in the desert, the Holy of Holies, which subsequently followed a series of temples where special ordinances were made where only those who met the requirements could participate.
The same is true today. Before dedicating a temple, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints invites the public to visit the building and take a tour inside. But once engaged, it becomes the house of God, invested with a character so sacred that only the worthy and faithful members of the Church are allowed to enter. This is not a secret, but sacred.
The work takes place within the temples present the eternal purposes of God to man, which is his progeny and creation. For the most part, the temple work concerned with the family, each of us as members of God's eternal family and as members of an earthly family. In addition, concerns the holy and eternal nature of the covenant of marriage and family relations.
This book testifies that every human being born into this world is a child of God and is partly invested with the divine nature of the Father. The repetition of these basic and fundamental teachings takes a beneficial effect on those who receive them, because, the doctrine enunciated in a beautiful and solemn speech, the participant comes to understand that, since all Heavenly Father's children, other people are Family members also divine and therefore, all are his brothers.
When the scribe asked Jesus: "What is the first commandment of all?", the Savior said, "... Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength . This is the first commandment.
"And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself" (Mark 12:28 , 30 to 31 ).
In the courses taught in the temples of today emphasizes the fundamental concept of the duty we owe to our Creator and to our neighbor. Sacred ordinances deepen ennobling concept of the family of God and teach that the spirit within each of us is eternal, compared with the body, which is deadly. These ordinances are not only better understand these great truths, but also motivate the participant to love God and show greater kindness to other children of our Father.
Accepting the notion that man is the son of God makes us see that there is a divine purpose in this mortal life, this revealed truth is also taught in the Lord's house. Earthly life is part of an eternal journey, we live as spirit children before coming to earth, and the Scriptures give testimony. The word of the Lord to Jeremiah testifies: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you before you were born I ordained you a prophet to the nations "(Jeremiah 1:5 ).
We come into this life as children of fatal and family members. Parents are partners with God in the work of carrying out His eternal purposes concerning His children. Consequently, the family is a divine institution, the most important in both mortality and eternity.
Much of the work being done in the temples concerned with the family. To understand its meaning, it is essential to recognize the fact that we exist as children of God before birth in this world and also continue to live after of death, that kinship, friendship, etc.., so precious and happy in this land, of which the most beautiful and meaningful are in the family, continue in the next world.
Couples who attend the House of the Lord and partake of the blessings that are there are held together not only for the duration of his earthly life, but also for all eternity. Are linked not only by the authority of the law of the land that binds to death, but also for the eternal priesthood of God, which binds in heaven what is bound on earth. The spouses who have married in this way have the assurance of divine revelation that the bond between each other and their children will not be dissolved by death, but will continue for eternity always live worthy of the blessing.
Is there a man who truly loves a woman or a woman who truly loves a man who does not wish with all their hearts that their relationship will continue beyond the grave? Have there been parents to bury a child does not have longed for some assurance that it would again belong to them in the afterlife? Can anyone who believes in eternal life, doubt that God would not give his children the most precious attribute of this life, which is the love that finds its most vivid expression in family relationships? No. The reason requires that such family relationships continue after death. The human heart longs for and the God of heaven has revealed the way to go. Sacred ordinances of the Lord's House provide that environment.
However, all this seems very unfair if the blessings of those ordinances were only available to those who are now members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The truth is that the opportunity to attend the temple and partake of its blessings is available to all who accept the gospel and be baptized in the Church. For this reason, the Church carries out a vast missionary program in much of the world and will continue expanding as much as possible, because it has responsibility, delegated by divine revelation, to teach the Gospel to every nation, tribe, language and people. "
But there are countless millions of people who have lived on this earth without having had the opportunity to hear the Gospel. Have they perhaps would deny the blessings offered in the temples of the Lord?
These same ordinances are available for those who have departed this life, through living representatives who receive on behalf of the dead. In the world of spirits, those people who have died are free to accept or reject the ordinances that have been made by them on earth, including which include baptism, marriage and the sealing of the family relationships. In the Lord's work there is no compulsion, but the opportunity. Vicarious
This work is a labor of love record by living for the benefit of those who died. To carry out the work of this vicarious work is needed extensive family history research, to find the name and address of those who lived before us. To assist in this investigation, the Church is coordinating a program of family history and deals with the upkeep of family history research that are unparalleled in the world. Their genealogical records are open the public, and many people who are not members of the Church have used to find data on their ancestors. This program has been praised by genealogists from all over the world and many nations have used it to safeguard their own records. But its main purpose is to provide members of the Church of reference sources necessary to find the name and details of their ancestors and to bring them the blessings they themselves enjoy. In fact, many think, "If I want both my spouse and my children I want them with me forever, maybe my grandparents, great grandparents and other ancestors have the same desire. So why not take them the opportunity receive the same eternal blessings? ".
And so these holy buildings are the scene of tremendous activity that is done quietly and reverently. They remind us of the vision of John the Revelator that is registered in a particular question and answer: "¿... these which are arrayed in white robes, who are they and where did they come? . . .
"... These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
"Therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple ..." (Revelation 7:13 - 15 ).
Those who attend these holy houses in white dress to participate in the ordinances. Van only with the advice of his local church authorities who certify their dignity. Is expected to enter the Temple of God, go with pure thoughts, pure in body and in clean clothes. As we crossed the threshold, it is necessary to leave the world behind and focus on things divine.
Doing so carries its own reward, because in these times of many tensions, who would receive them with open arms the opportunity to get away from the world and enter the house of God, to meditate there calmly on eternal things God? These enclosures sacred offer the opportunity not found anywhere else, to learn about the really important concepts of life and meditating on them, our relationship with Deity and our eternal journey from a state premortal to this life and then to a future state in which we recognize each other and be together, even with our loved ones and our ancestors who have preceded us and those we have inherited all things pertaining to body, mind and spirit.
Certainly, these temples stand out as unique among all the buildings. These houses of instruction. They are houses of education, more agreements and promises. In their altars we kneel before God, our Creator, and received the promise of His everlasting blessings. In the sanctity of the halls we communicate with Him and reflect on His Son, our Savior and Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, who served as a representative of each of us in the vicarious sacrifice conducted on our behalf. There, we put aside selfishness and serve those who can not participate themselves. In those precincts, the real power of the priesthood of God, bind us in the most sacred of all human relationships: husband and wife, as parents and children, like family, with a sealing that time can not destroy and death can not be truncated.
These sacred buildings have been built even in times difficult when the Saints suffered a relentless pursuit. Have been built and maintained both in times of poverty and in prosperity. Have emerged from the vital faith of a large number of people who are continually increasing and witness the living God, the risen Lord, the prophets and divine revelation, as well as peace and security of the eternal blessings that only are in the house of the Lord.
Has there perhaps any human being who, in moments of quiet introspection, has not reflected on the awesome mysteries of this existence?
there anyone that has not been asked: "Where I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? What ties bind me to my Maker? Do I rob the death of kinship, friendship, etc.., So precious that I have done in this life? What about the relationship I have with my family? Is there another life after this? And if so, do we recognize there? ".
The answer to these questions is not in the wisdom human response is found only in the word of God by the developer. The temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are sacred places where there are answers to these and other questions about eternity. Each building is dedicated to be a house of God, a place of holiness and peace from the world completely. They teach truths and ordinances are performed that give us, as participants, knowledge of the eternal and motivate us to live with an understanding of the divine heritage we have as children of God, and with the knowledge of our potential as eternal beings.
These buildings, unlike the thousands of regular worship centers has the Church throughout the world, are unique and different in purpose and function of any other religious building. What distinguishes them is their size and architectural beauty, but the work is carried out within them.
The designation of certain buildings for special ordinances, other than those made in places of worship regularly, there is a new custom, as practiced at the time of ancient Israel, when the people worshiped regularly in the synagogues. For Israel, the holiest place was, first, the tent they had in the desert, the Holy of Holies, which subsequently followed a series of temples where special ordinances were made where only those who met the requirements could participate.
The same is true today. Before dedicating a temple, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints invites the public to visit the building and take a tour inside. But once engaged, it becomes the house of God, invested with a character so sacred that only the worthy and faithful members of the Church are allowed to enter. This is not a secret, but sacred.
The work takes place within the temples present the eternal purposes of God to man, which is his progeny and creation. For the most part, the temple work concerned with the family, each of us as members of God's eternal family and as members of an earthly family. In addition, concerns the holy and eternal nature of the covenant of marriage and family relations.
This book testifies that every human being born into this world is a child of God and is partly invested with the divine nature of the Father. The repetition of these basic and fundamental teachings takes a beneficial effect on those who receive them, because, the doctrine enunciated in a beautiful and solemn speech, the participant comes to understand that, since all Heavenly Father's children, other people are Family members also divine and therefore, all are his brothers.
When the scribe asked Jesus: "What is the first commandment of all?", the Savior said, "... Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength . This is the first commandment.
"And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself" (Mark 12:28 , 30 to 31 ).
In the courses taught in the temples of today emphasizes the fundamental concept of the duty we owe to our Creator and to our neighbor. Sacred ordinances deepen ennobling concept of the family of God and teach that the spirit within each of us is eternal, compared with the body, which is deadly. These ordinances are not only better understand these great truths, but also motivate the participant to love God and show greater kindness to other children of our Father.
Accepting the notion that man is the son of God makes us see that there is a divine purpose in this mortal life, this revealed truth is also taught in the Lord's house. Earthly life is part of an eternal journey, we live as spirit children before coming to earth, and the Scriptures give testimony. The word of the Lord to Jeremiah testifies: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you before you were born I ordained you a prophet to the nations "(Jeremiah 1:5 ).
We come into this life as children of fatal and family members. Parents are partners with God in the work of carrying out His eternal purposes concerning His children. Consequently, the family is a divine institution, the most important in both mortality and eternity.
Much of the work being done in the temples concerned with the family. To understand its meaning, it is essential to recognize the fact that we exist as children of God before birth in this world and also continue to live after of death, that kinship, friendship, etc.., so precious and happy in this land, of which the most beautiful and meaningful are in the family, continue in the next world.
Couples who attend the House of the Lord and partake of the blessings that are there are held together not only for the duration of his earthly life, but also for all eternity. Are linked not only by the authority of the law of the land that binds to death, but also for the eternal priesthood of God, which binds in heaven what is bound on earth. The spouses who have married in this way have the assurance of divine revelation that the bond between each other and their children will not be dissolved by death, but will continue for eternity always live worthy of the blessing.
Is there a man who truly loves a woman or a woman who truly loves a man who does not wish with all their hearts that their relationship will continue beyond the grave? Have there been parents to bury a child does not have longed for some assurance that it would again belong to them in the afterlife? Can anyone who believes in eternal life, doubt that God would not give his children the most precious attribute of this life, which is the love that finds its most vivid expression in family relationships? No. The reason requires that such family relationships continue after death. The human heart longs for and the God of heaven has revealed the way to go. Sacred ordinances of the Lord's House provide that environment.
However, all this seems very unfair if the blessings of those ordinances were only available to those who are now members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The truth is that the opportunity to attend the temple and partake of its blessings is available to all who accept the gospel and be baptized in the Church. For this reason, the Church carries out a vast missionary program in much of the world and will continue expanding as much as possible, because it has responsibility, delegated by divine revelation, to teach the Gospel to every nation, tribe, language and people. "
But there are countless millions of people who have lived on this earth without having had the opportunity to hear the Gospel. Have they perhaps would deny the blessings offered in the temples of the Lord?
These same ordinances are available for those who have departed this life, through living representatives who receive on behalf of the dead. In the world of spirits, those people who have died are free to accept or reject the ordinances that have been made by them on earth, including which include baptism, marriage and the sealing of the family relationships. In the Lord's work there is no compulsion, but the opportunity. Vicarious
This work is a labor of love record by living for the benefit of those who died. To carry out the work of this vicarious work is needed extensive family history research, to find the name and address of those who lived before us. To assist in this investigation, the Church is coordinating a program of family history and deals with the upkeep of family history research that are unparalleled in the world. Their genealogical records are open the public, and many people who are not members of the Church have used to find data on their ancestors. This program has been praised by genealogists from all over the world and many nations have used it to safeguard their own records. But its main purpose is to provide members of the Church of reference sources necessary to find the name and details of their ancestors and to bring them the blessings they themselves enjoy. In fact, many think, "If I want both my spouse and my children I want them with me forever, maybe my grandparents, great grandparents and other ancestors have the same desire. So why not take them the opportunity receive the same eternal blessings? ".
And so these holy buildings are the scene of tremendous activity that is done quietly and reverently. They remind us of the vision of John the Revelator that is registered in a particular question and answer: "¿... these which are arrayed in white robes, who are they and where did they come? . . .
"... These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
"Therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple ..." (Revelation 7:13 - 15 ).
Those who attend these holy houses in white dress to participate in the ordinances. Van only with the advice of his local church authorities who certify their dignity. Is expected to enter the Temple of God, go with pure thoughts, pure in body and in clean clothes. As we crossed the threshold, it is necessary to leave the world behind and focus on things divine.
Doing so carries its own reward, because in these times of many tensions, who would receive them with open arms the opportunity to get away from the world and enter the house of God, to meditate there calmly on eternal things God? These enclosures sacred offer the opportunity not found anywhere else, to learn about the really important concepts of life and meditating on them, our relationship with Deity and our eternal journey from a state premortal to this life and then to a future state in which we recognize each other and be together, even with our loved ones and our ancestors who have preceded us and those we have inherited all things pertaining to body, mind and spirit.
Certainly, these temples stand out as unique among all the buildings. These houses of instruction. They are houses of education, more agreements and promises. In their altars we kneel before God, our Creator, and received the promise of His everlasting blessings. In the sanctity of the halls we communicate with Him and reflect on His Son, our Savior and Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, who served as a representative of each of us in the vicarious sacrifice conducted on our behalf. There, we put aside selfishness and serve those who can not participate themselves. In those precincts, the real power of the priesthood of God, bind us in the most sacred of all human relationships: husband and wife, as parents and children, like family, with a sealing that time can not destroy and death can not be truncated.
These sacred buildings have been built even in times difficult when the Saints suffered a relentless pursuit. Have been built and maintained both in times of poverty and in prosperity. Have emerged from the vital faith of a large number of people who are continually increasing and witness the living God, the risen Lord, the prophets and divine revelation, as well as peace and security of the eternal blessings that only are in the house of the Lord.
Monday, April 7, 2008
What Does The D Mean On Receipts
Where is the Spirit World?
Where is the Spirit World? --- Is he here? It is not beyond the sun, but is in this world that was organized for people who have lived and live and still live. No other person can have, and we can not have another realm until we are ready to inhabit forever. 3:372.
When you leave this tent, where does it go? The World of Spirits. Will the bosom of Abraham? No, not at a place like that but the world of spirits. Where is the spirit world? It's here. Are spirits good and bad together? Yes, they are. Do you live them in the same realm? Yes, they do. Do they go to sun? No. Are they going beyond the border of the land? No, do not. They are brought on this earth, for the express purpose to inhabit for all eternity. Where else are we going? A nowhere else, only if it is allowed. 3:369 ...
But where is the spirit world? System is built into heaven. Can you see with your natural eyes? No. Can see spirits in this room? No. Suppose the Lord to touch the eye can possibly see, could see the spirits? Yes, as clearly as now seen the bodies, as did the servant of Elijah. If the Lord willing, and outside their own that was made, you could see the spirits that have departed this world as clearly as you see now bodies with their natural eyes. 3:3638.
The Prophet has left his body, has left his life, his spirit is the spirit world, the persecutor of the Prophet dies, and goes to Hades, the two go to a place, and are not separated yet. Now understand that this is part of the great sermon that the Lord is preaching in his providence, just as the wicked go together to Hades.
If we were to our mother country, the States, we find there the righteous and the wicked, if we went to California, we would find there the righteous and the wicked, all dwell together, and when we go beyond the veil, and leave our bodies were taken from the mother land, and must return, our spirits pass beyond the veil, we'll go where saints and sinners go, they all go to one place. 3:94.
(Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, selected and arranged by John A. Widtsoe [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1954], 376-377.) 
Where is the Spirit World? --- Is he here? It is not beyond the sun, but is in this world that was organized for people who have lived and live and still live. No other person can have, and we can not have another realm until we are ready to inhabit forever. 3:372.
When you leave this tent, where does it go? The World of Spirits. Will the bosom of Abraham? No, not at a place like that but the world of spirits. Where is the spirit world? It's here. Are spirits good and bad together? Yes, they are. Do you live them in the same realm? Yes, they do. Do they go to sun? No. Are they going beyond the border of the land? No, do not. They are brought on this earth, for the express purpose to inhabit for all eternity. Where else are we going? A nowhere else, only if it is allowed. 3:369 ...
But where is the spirit world? System is built into heaven. Can you see with your natural eyes? No. Can see spirits in this room? No. Suppose the Lord to touch the eye can possibly see, could see the spirits? Yes, as clearly as now seen the bodies, as did the servant of Elijah. If the Lord willing, and outside their own that was made, you could see the spirits that have departed this world as clearly as you see now bodies with their natural eyes. 3:3638.
The Prophet has left his body, has left his life, his spirit is the spirit world, the persecutor of the Prophet dies, and goes to Hades, the two go to a place, and are not separated yet. Now understand that this is part of the great sermon that the Lord is preaching in his providence, just as the wicked go together to Hades.
If we were to our mother country, the States, we find there the righteous and the wicked, if we went to California, we would find there the righteous and the wicked, all dwell together, and when we go beyond the veil, and leave our bodies were taken from the mother land, and must return, our spirits pass beyond the veil, we'll go where saints and sinners go, they all go to one place. 3:94.
(Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, selected and arranged by John A. Widtsoe [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1954], 376-377.)
Monday, March 24, 2008
How To Drain Fingertip
Animals in the Book of Mormon
L I critics claim that the Book of Mormon mentions animals outside the environment of a pre-Columbian New World. Cite this as evidence of the errors introduced by Joseph Smith and reveal their fraud. The examples most often targeted include:
The ass (donkey)
bees
Cow
Elephant Horse
Silkworms Swine (pigs)
Some fun is also produced at the expense of two unknown animals, whose names have no translation:
cureloms
cumones 
L I critics claim that the Book of Mormon mentions animals outside the environment of a pre-Columbian New World. Cite this as evidence of the errors introduced by Joseph Smith and reveal their fraud. The examples most often targeted include: The ass (donkey)
bees
Cow
Elephant Horse
Silkworms Swine (pigs)
Some fun is also produced at the expense of two unknown animals, whose names have no translation:
cureloms
cumones
IN FIRST PLACE we should not reject the possibility of a "replacement loan", in which the name for a species known is applied to new species. This phenomenon is well established - for example, the Amerindians called 'deer' to the European horses in their first encounter with them. The classic example, of course, is the hippopotamus, the Greek name given to an animal they characterized as "horse (hippo) river (potamus). Those critics who deride should ask how anyone could mistake a hippopotamus with a horse - the answer, of course, is that the Greeks knew perfectly well that the hippo was not a real horse, but the name was imposed.
addition to these considerations, some of the species 'ridiculous' may not be as strange as critics claim
Asses (Donkey)
The only clue to the role of "ass" in Nephite society comes of Mosiah 12:5 and Mosiah 21:3, in which captives are those charges as "dumb ass." Other references are given in 1 Nephi 18:19 and Mosiah 5:14, while Mosiah 13:24 is a quote from the Ten Commandments. "Donkey" has been suggested as a semantic loan tapir, which many have described in terms resolutely equine. [1] [2] may be added that some modern enthusiasts say tapir tapirs inability to grow up in flocks (by not being herd animals, they tend to fight), but "people of the territories maintains tapir native to fatten individual specimens and use them as food, though ... some are quite wild, and others can be extremely dangerous ... They are big, heavy and strong, with powerful jaws and teeth can move very quickly " [3] A recent government report indicates:
The tapir is docile compared with men and therefore their management is relatively easy. An Indian described the tapir as follows: "It's a very social animal. Taken from small one can easily tame it, he knows how to behave around the house will eat up the mountain and then back to sleep close to home. " [4] seems that at least a limited role for the tapir should not excluded from the discussion, either as a food source (The tapir is between 7 and 10% of the diet in rural Amazonia [5] or beast of burden as a potential small-scale (given its strength .) Charles Darwin have noted that tapirs were domesticated in the Americas, but did not tend to breed in captivity [6] This fact could explain the relatively low frequency of their mention in the Book of Mormon.
Bees
Among the alleged anachronisms in the Book of Mormon is the word for "bee" (Ether 2:3 ) ... It should be noted first that the use of "Bees" in the Book of Mormon was produced in the environment of the Old World (Jaredite), and never use it in connection with the New World, so that the dispute could simply end here. "Jaredites bees brought to the New World? We may never know. However, some studies suggest that the bees were known in the archaic New World. Bruce Warren, for example, notes that "there are many references in the Maya region to the existence of bees in ancient times and these references occur in ritual contexts, ie, native or pre-Hispanic." Other scholars of the New World have observed that "there were only honeybees in America but also the old gods of bees and beekeepers ... Honey was considered a real treat for the Indians. Of equal importance was the wax taken from the hives which was often exchanged for other goods " [7]
More information on New World bees in a domestic context can be found in F. Padilla, F. Puerta, JM Flores and M. Bustos, "Bees, Apiculture and the New World," in Archives of zootechnical, 41/154 (1992-extra): 563-567. PDF link
Cows
The term "cattle" is used three times in the Book of Mormon (Ether 9:17-19 ; Enos 1:21 ; 3 Nephi 3:22 ), while the term "cow" is used in two ( Ether 9:18; 1 Nephi 18:25 ). Jaredite Registration is not clear whether "cattle" and "cows" are the same, or "cow" is a subcategory of "cattle" ...
As with many animals in the Book of Mormon, it is likely that these words of the Book of Mormon family names come from reallocating unknown elements .... Miami Indians, for example, were unaware of the buffalo and simply named "wild cow" Similarly, the "explorer DeSoto called the buffalo cow." The Delaware Indians named the cow as the name for deer, and the Miami tribe named the sheep for the first time seeing her as "the-who-is-seems-to-the-cow '" [8] [ 9]
Elephant
The only place where elephants are mentioned in the Book of Mormon in Ether 9:19 approximately 2500 BC Thus any elephants that existed on Americas must necessarily have survived after 2400 BC ... In addition to the traditional, five elephants sphinxes have been found in ancient Mexico. The Dr.Verrill, a well-known archaeologist (non-Mormon) describe one such figures as "surprising and obviously elephantine that can not be explained by any of the ordinary theories that may be an exaggerated tapir, ant-eater or macaw. The figure not only has a trunk but additionally has large leaf-shaped ears and knees that bend forward as peculiar to the elephants. Moreover, it shows a weight or load on his back. It is inconceivable that anyone would have imagined a creature with wings and the peculiar ears knees of an elephant, or that any human being has streamlined a tapir to that end "...
oral traditions, written records and works art showing elephants form a strong basis for the position that elephants existed in ancient America. An even more substantial support - actual remains - has also been discovered. Today, all scholars agree that mastodons and mammoths (elephants unquestionably to zoologists) once lived in the Americas. The existing dispute is how long they lived. According to the Book of Mormon does not necessarily had to live with after 2400 BC. Archaeological evidence of recent years has shown that elephants may have survived until as late as that. Hunted mastodon bones recently discovered in an archaeological site dating from the immediate time after Christ. Another site, dated approximately 100 BC, brought to light the remains of a mammoth, a mastodon and a horse. [10]
Some scholars have suggested that the elephant (mammoth or mastodon) lived much later than previously believed. Ludwell Johnson, in an article entitled "Men and Elephants in Ameera" published in Scientific Monthly, wrote that "the discoveries of human remains with association and proboscis are not at all unusual. For 1950, Mac Cowan listed no less than twenty-seven "including as Hugo Gross said" a mastodon skeleton partly burned and numerous pottery shards in Alangasi, Ecuador ... There can be no doubt that the man and the elephant coexisted in America ... Probably safe to state that the American Proboscidos have been extinct for at least 3000 years. "If the elephants disappeared for at least 3000 years, yet be located within the age range Jaredite. And, as noted above, some evidence indicates that, in limited numbers, the elephant may have survived for several centuries. [11]
To summarize, the elephant is not a problem for the Book of Mormon Horse
As already mentioned, we should not reject the possibility of a "replacement loan" - under this interpretation the candidate species for "horse" would include the tapir, deer. [12]
Anyway, the case against pre-Columbian horses may not be so "ironclad" as critics assume:
Excavations at the site of Mayapan, dating back several centuries before the English arrival, has shown horse bones in four places (two of the lots were shallow so that horses could represent English) De Elsewhere, the cenote (well) Ch'en Mul, came more evidence, this time a firm archaeological context. In the lowest stratum of a sequence of levels of unconsolidated earth almost two meters thick, were found two teeth of a horse. Were partially mineralized, indicating that they were definitely old and could not have come from a English animal. Interestingly, Mayan pottery was also found in the stratified sample where the teeth were. [13]
Some have argued that the remains of a horse should be better established if they played a role in Nephite society. However, it must be remembered horses do not play an important role in the Book of Mormon. They are mentioned in the following contexts: Dating
scriptures of the Old World
2 Nephi 12:7 - Isaiah quote
2 Nephi 15:28 - quote from Isaiah
apocalyptic teachings of the Old World style.
3 Nephi 21:14 - Jesus speaks of "horses and chariots" in a symbolic and apocalyptic.
Horses in the New World
1 Nephi 18:25: found in the land of promise, as we journeyed through the desert ... the horse .. ...
Ether 9:19 - Jaredites had "horses." Used in conjunction with car
Alma 18:9 - feeding the horses Ammon Lamanite king associated with their "cars."
Alma 20:6 - The Lamanite king horse and cart used to visit a neighboring kingdom
3 Nephi 3:22 - The Nephites kept their horses and carts to a central fortified area as protection against thieves
(Note that we are not say whether these cars were used for fitting, or if they were to transport goods, or serving a ceremonial function. One assumes some sort of practicality and the cars are taken to a siege in 3 Nephi)
role in raising
animals Enos 1:21 - the people of Nephi ... raised herds of cattle and flocks of all kinds of cattle and goats and wild goats, and also many horses.
3 Nephi 4:4 - During the siege of the thieves, the Nephites "had been provided with food and horses, and cattle, and flocks of all kinds, to survive for a period of seven years."
3 Nephi 6:1 - After the siege, the Nephites they returned to their lands each carrying their possessions, including "horses and cattle."
is interesting that horses are often grouped with livestock, so it appears to have played a role in the diet (although this might be under the exigencies of the siege of 3 Nephi)
Conspicuously absent is the role of horses in many Travel in the Book of Mormon. Horses and cars do not seem to play a role Nephites in war, that in contrast to the biblical accounts, in which the chariots of Egypt, Babylon and the Philistines are super-feared weapons on the plains of Israel.
not see a role for the gallant horse cavalry charges that were the ideal romantic warrior in the days of Joseph Smith. Nor is there any sign of rapid maneuver warfare and cavalry skirmishes promoted by Western nations. These are the horses of the practical realities of the nineteenth century or its wildest dreams.
There have been societies in which the horse was vital, as the warriors Huns of Asia and Eastern Europe, for whom horses were a sign of wealth and status, and essential for food, clothing and war. However, there are currently no horse bones from that period in the archaeological record. [14]
If the hundreds of thousands of horses owned by the Huns left little or no trace, might not be so surprising that little has been found in America, since the role for the horses in the Book of Mormon is minimal. Ironically, there is more evidence of horses in Mesoamerica between the Huns!
Moreover, "everyone knows" that there were no horses in America before Columbus. Joseph Smith would have understood this common belief. If it was trying to perpetrate a fraud, why include an item that everyone had heard, especially when it plays such a small role in the book?
Pigs
The "pigs" are mentioned twice in the Book of Mormon, one in 3 Nephi 14:6, where the Lord uses the term figuratively, and another in Ether 9:18 where are described as useful for food animals. Some critics have ridiculed the suggestion of the Book of Mormon that pigs were used as food (due to dietary restrictions of the Law of Moses), but it should be noted that the story contained in Ether develops before the Mosaic Law. Other critics have pointed out that the pigs were unknown in the ancient New World ... However, early Americans did have an indigenous pig. The Aztecs called coati, "which basically means glutton" name often applied to the peccary or wild pig. "With regard to the peccary" Sorenson notes, "two words in Nahuatl quahpizotl quauhcoyamet and developed after the conquest to distinguish native pig ..."[ Castilla Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, 290.] [15]
cureloms and cumoms
Jaredites These names are terms without translation. Have suggested a potential variety of animals such as llamas, alpacas, mastodons, and other mammals of the Pleistocene. [16]
No further information available, one can not consider it a coup against the Book of Mormon. Interestingly, if Joseph Smith was inventing the Book of Mormon, this was a chance to let your imagination run wild, yet no description of the strange beast is given to us (although for the fraudulent production model, it was taken work of naming)
The conclusion
We outline the following tentative conclusions:
Ass - the horse-looking tapir is a possibility. A
Beja - not necessarily in America according to the text, but equally there are examples of pre-Columbian
Vaca - bovine animals (eg buffalo) were present in American Elephant
- was necessary only in the Jaredite, There are both traditional evidence, inscriptions and biological remains that support the Book of Mormon
Horse - there is some evidence, not yet considered final, which suggests it was known least in some parts of Mesoamerica in pre-Columbian times before Christ. There is also ample precedent for naming different animals with common names, and there are other candidates of the New World as deer and tapir .. Silkworms
- present in the New World with other options available for silk clothing. silk
Pigs - there were native species although only registered for use by the Jaredites (which is not surprising, as the Nephites were under the Law of Moses).
addition to these considerations, some of the species 'ridiculous' may not be as strange as critics claim
Asses (Donkey)
The only clue to the role of "ass" in Nephite society comes of Mosiah 12:5 and Mosiah 21:3, in which captives are those charges as "dumb ass." Other references are given in 1 Nephi 18:19 and Mosiah 5:14, while Mosiah 13:24 is a quote from the Ten Commandments. "Donkey" has been suggested as a semantic loan tapir, which many have described in terms resolutely equine. [1] [2] may be added that some modern enthusiasts say tapir tapirs inability to grow up in flocks (by not being herd animals, they tend to fight), but "people of the territories maintains tapir native to fatten individual specimens and use them as food, though ... some are quite wild, and others can be extremely dangerous ... They are big, heavy and strong, with powerful jaws and teeth can move very quickly " [3] A recent government report indicates:
The tapir is docile compared with men and therefore their management is relatively easy. An Indian described the tapir as follows: "It's a very social animal. Taken from small one can easily tame it, he knows how to behave around the house will eat up the mountain and then back to sleep close to home. " [4] seems that at least a limited role for the tapir should not excluded from the discussion, either as a food source (The tapir is between 7 and 10% of the diet in rural Amazonia [5] or beast of burden as a potential small-scale (given its strength .) Charles Darwin have noted that tapirs were domesticated in the Americas, but did not tend to breed in captivity [6] This fact could explain the relatively low frequency of their mention in the Book of Mormon.
Bees
Among the alleged anachronisms in the Book of Mormon is the word for "bee" (Ether 2:3 ) ... It should be noted first that the use of "Bees" in the Book of Mormon was produced in the environment of the Old World (Jaredite), and never use it in connection with the New World, so that the dispute could simply end here. "Jaredites bees brought to the New World? We may never know. However, some studies suggest that the bees were known in the archaic New World. Bruce Warren, for example, notes that "there are many references in the Maya region to the existence of bees in ancient times and these references occur in ritual contexts, ie, native or pre-Hispanic." Other scholars of the New World have observed that "there were only honeybees in America but also the old gods of bees and beekeepers ... Honey was considered a real treat for the Indians. Of equal importance was the wax taken from the hives which was often exchanged for other goods " [7]
More information on New World bees in a domestic context can be found in F. Padilla, F. Puerta, JM Flores and M. Bustos, "Bees, Apiculture and the New World," in Archives of zootechnical, 41/154 (1992-extra): 563-567. PDF link
Cows
The term "cattle" is used three times in the Book of Mormon (Ether 9:17-19 ; Enos 1:21 ; 3 Nephi 3:22 ), while the term "cow" is used in two ( Ether 9:18; 1 Nephi 18:25 ). Jaredite Registration is not clear whether "cattle" and "cows" are the same, or "cow" is a subcategory of "cattle" ...
As with many animals in the Book of Mormon, it is likely that these words of the Book of Mormon family names come from reallocating unknown elements .... Miami Indians, for example, were unaware of the buffalo and simply named "wild cow" Similarly, the "explorer DeSoto called the buffalo cow." The Delaware Indians named the cow as the name for deer, and the Miami tribe named the sheep for the first time seeing her as "the-who-is-seems-to-the-cow '" [8] [ 9]
Elephant
The only place where elephants are mentioned in the Book of Mormon in Ether 9:19 approximately 2500 BC Thus any elephants that existed on Americas must necessarily have survived after 2400 BC ... In addition to the traditional, five elephants sphinxes have been found in ancient Mexico. The Dr.Verrill, a well-known archaeologist (non-Mormon) describe one such figures as "surprising and obviously elephantine that can not be explained by any of the ordinary theories that may be an exaggerated tapir, ant-eater or macaw. The figure not only has a trunk but additionally has large leaf-shaped ears and knees that bend forward as peculiar to the elephants. Moreover, it shows a weight or load on his back. It is inconceivable that anyone would have imagined a creature with wings and the peculiar ears knees of an elephant, or that any human being has streamlined a tapir to that end "...
oral traditions, written records and works art showing elephants form a strong basis for the position that elephants existed in ancient America. An even more substantial support - actual remains - has also been discovered. Today, all scholars agree that mastodons and mammoths (elephants unquestionably to zoologists) once lived in the Americas. The existing dispute is how long they lived. According to the Book of Mormon does not necessarily had to live with after 2400 BC. Archaeological evidence of recent years has shown that elephants may have survived until as late as that. Hunted mastodon bones recently discovered in an archaeological site dating from the immediate time after Christ. Another site, dated approximately 100 BC, brought to light the remains of a mammoth, a mastodon and a horse. [10]
Some scholars have suggested that the elephant (mammoth or mastodon) lived much later than previously believed. Ludwell Johnson, in an article entitled "Men and Elephants in Ameera" published in Scientific Monthly, wrote that "the discoveries of human remains with association and proboscis are not at all unusual. For 1950, Mac Cowan listed no less than twenty-seven "including as Hugo Gross said" a mastodon skeleton partly burned and numerous pottery shards in Alangasi, Ecuador ... There can be no doubt that the man and the elephant coexisted in America ... Probably safe to state that the American Proboscidos have been extinct for at least 3000 years. "If the elephants disappeared for at least 3000 years, yet be located within the age range Jaredite. And, as noted above, some evidence indicates that, in limited numbers, the elephant may have survived for several centuries. [11]
To summarize, the elephant is not a problem for the Book of Mormon Horse
As already mentioned, we should not reject the possibility of a "replacement loan" - under this interpretation the candidate species for "horse" would include the tapir, deer. [12]
Anyway, the case against pre-Columbian horses may not be so "ironclad" as critics assume:
Excavations at the site of Mayapan, dating back several centuries before the English arrival, has shown horse bones in four places (two of the lots were shallow so that horses could represent English) De Elsewhere, the cenote (well) Ch'en Mul, came more evidence, this time a firm archaeological context. In the lowest stratum of a sequence of levels of unconsolidated earth almost two meters thick, were found two teeth of a horse. Were partially mineralized, indicating that they were definitely old and could not have come from a English animal. Interestingly, Mayan pottery was also found in the stratified sample where the teeth were. [13]
Some have argued that the remains of a horse should be better established if they played a role in Nephite society. However, it must be remembered horses do not play an important role in the Book of Mormon. They are mentioned in the following contexts: Dating
scriptures of the Old World
2 Nephi 12:7 - Isaiah quote
2 Nephi 15:28 - quote from Isaiah
apocalyptic teachings of the Old World style.
3 Nephi 21:14 - Jesus speaks of "horses and chariots" in a symbolic and apocalyptic.
Horses in the New World
1 Nephi 18:25: found in the land of promise, as we journeyed through the desert ... the horse .. ...
Ether 9:19 - Jaredites had "horses." Used in conjunction with car
Alma 18:9 - feeding the horses Ammon Lamanite king associated with their "cars."
Alma 20:6 - The Lamanite king horse and cart used to visit a neighboring kingdom
3 Nephi 3:22 - The Nephites kept their horses and carts to a central fortified area as protection against thieves
(Note that we are not say whether these cars were used for fitting, or if they were to transport goods, or serving a ceremonial function. One assumes some sort of practicality and the cars are taken to a siege in 3 Nephi)
role in raising
animals Enos 1:21 - the people of Nephi ... raised herds of cattle and flocks of all kinds of cattle and goats and wild goats, and also many horses.
3 Nephi 4:4 - During the siege of the thieves, the Nephites "had been provided with food and horses, and cattle, and flocks of all kinds, to survive for a period of seven years."
3 Nephi 6:1 - After the siege, the Nephites they returned to their lands each carrying their possessions, including "horses and cattle."
is interesting that horses are often grouped with livestock, so it appears to have played a role in the diet (although this might be under the exigencies of the siege of 3 Nephi)
Conspicuously absent is the role of horses in many Travel in the Book of Mormon. Horses and cars do not seem to play a role Nephites in war, that in contrast to the biblical accounts, in which the chariots of Egypt, Babylon and the Philistines are super-feared weapons on the plains of Israel.
not see a role for the gallant horse cavalry charges that were the ideal romantic warrior in the days of Joseph Smith. Nor is there any sign of rapid maneuver warfare and cavalry skirmishes promoted by Western nations. These are the horses of the practical realities of the nineteenth century or its wildest dreams.
There have been societies in which the horse was vital, as the warriors Huns of Asia and Eastern Europe, for whom horses were a sign of wealth and status, and essential for food, clothing and war. However, there are currently no horse bones from that period in the archaeological record. [14]
If the hundreds of thousands of horses owned by the Huns left little or no trace, might not be so surprising that little has been found in America, since the role for the horses in the Book of Mormon is minimal. Ironically, there is more evidence of horses in Mesoamerica between the Huns!
Moreover, "everyone knows" that there were no horses in America before Columbus. Joseph Smith would have understood this common belief. If it was trying to perpetrate a fraud, why include an item that everyone had heard, especially when it plays such a small role in the book?
Pigs
The "pigs" are mentioned twice in the Book of Mormon, one in 3 Nephi 14:6, where the Lord uses the term figuratively, and another in Ether 9:18 where are described as useful for food animals. Some critics have ridiculed the suggestion of the Book of Mormon that pigs were used as food (due to dietary restrictions of the Law of Moses), but it should be noted that the story contained in Ether develops before the Mosaic Law. Other critics have pointed out that the pigs were unknown in the ancient New World ... However, early Americans did have an indigenous pig. The Aztecs called coati, "which basically means glutton" name often applied to the peccary or wild pig. "With regard to the peccary" Sorenson notes, "two words in Nahuatl quahpizotl quauhcoyamet and developed after the conquest to distinguish native pig ..."[ Castilla Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting, 290.] [15]
cureloms and cumoms
Jaredites These names are terms without translation. Have suggested a potential variety of animals such as llamas, alpacas, mastodons, and other mammals of the Pleistocene. [16]
No further information available, one can not consider it a coup against the Book of Mormon. Interestingly, if Joseph Smith was inventing the Book of Mormon, this was a chance to let your imagination run wild, yet no description of the strange beast is given to us (although for the fraudulent production model, it was taken work of naming)
The conclusion
We outline the following tentative conclusions:
Ass - the horse-looking tapir is a possibility. A
Beja - not necessarily in America according to the text, but equally there are examples of pre-Columbian
Vaca - bovine animals (eg buffalo) were present in American Elephant
- was necessary only in the Jaredite, There are both traditional evidence, inscriptions and biological remains that support the Book of Mormon
Horse - there is some evidence, not yet considered final, which suggests it was known least in some parts of Mesoamerica in pre-Columbian times before Christ. There is also ample precedent for naming different animals with common names, and there are other candidates of the New World as deer and tapir .. Silkworms
- present in the New World with other options available for silk clothing. silk
Pigs - there were native species although only registered for use by the Jaredites (which is not surprising, as the Nephites were under the Law of Moses).
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THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM by Elder Bruce R. McConkie
Today I will discuss how they are used
keys of the kingdom, and where they came from,
who currently owns them and what their future.
The sacred story begins in the spring of 1829, and
memorable place in the middle of May. The prophet
the Lord is in the twenty-fourth year of his
mortal existence, and dictated to his scribe scripture. The
mentioned the sacred word baptism, without which no man
can see the kingdom of heaven does not even enter it.
The Spirit of the Lord rests upon the seer and his scribe.
Want baptism with the same anxiety that the hungry
forages. Divine Providence guides them to a place
held on the banks of the Susquehanna River near Harmony,
Pennsylvania. They pour their soul to God, the same who had
sent his Son, without blemish, to be baptized to serve
example to all men.
Then the miracle takes place. The heavens open, and a
angel descends from the celestial heights to communicate with their
fellow servants on earth. This is John the Baptist, a
risen, to which Herod had beheaded in 1800
years ago in the fetid precincts of the prison.
This is the same John who, being the only child of a priest
Zechariah and Elizabeth, had been ordered by an angel to
early age of eight days to overthrow the kingdom of the Jews.
John himself who turned Jews in Bethabara
seeking the cleansing power of baptism. It was then that the
beloved Baptist to fulfill all righteousness, plunged the
the Son of God in the murky waters of a river of Palestine.
The same John who saw the heavens opened and the Holy Spirit
down with the serenity of a dove and rest on the
characters about which the divine voice said below
"This is my beloved Son in whom I have pleasure." (Matthew
3:17).
With the glory of a resurrected, and in the name of the Messiah
for which he had experienced the death of a martyr gives his
mortal friends Aaronic Priesthood and the keys to the
ministering of angels and of baptism by immersion for the
referral sins. (D & C 13).
For the first time in nearly 1,700 years, mortals, acting
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ can minister for
men for their salvation. The time is approaching when the
dismal and gloomy darkness to give way to rip the light
heavenly light will come to our planet immersed in
ignorance.
But this is just the beginning of the grand design. Other
messengers descend from the realms of light and glory. Peter
James and John, who at the time held the priesthood and
keys to chairing the earthly kingdom,
visit to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery.
These apostles of old, when mortals were
friends and confidants of the Lord Jesus Christ, these spirits
chosen who ate and drank with him after he rose
from the dead, the real witnesses who died that
all may live, are doing something wonderful.
gives the new prophet and accompanying the
priesthood after the Order of the Son of God, who remains
as a priest forever. The Melchizedek Priesthood
is the highest order and most sacred that can be granted to
fatal now or in the future. Includes, and always included,
power and authority of the sacred ministry.
Along with him, the brave death, very soon,
divine command, reorganized the church and kingdom of God in
land, certain keys are of paramount importance. Are
keys of the kingdom through which they obtain the power of
organize, chair, governing and regulating land, which is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
also receive the keys of the dispensation of
fullness of time, the glorious era of restoration and
renewal, which means to bring God
in Christ, the age of revelation, and gifts, and miracles,
in which he carried out the restoration of all things,
which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been
since ancient times. (D & C 27:12-13, 81:2).
Having been commissioned in this way, and being
holders gospel of salvation, can establish
again the kingdom of God on earth and preach again
gospel around the world and all peoples. The kingdom
set on April 6, 1830, and from that moment all
faithful members of the Church have dedicated their time, talents and
means for the truth to the other children of our Father
Heaven.
But even that's not all. Other keys were delivered. In
a wonderful day in April 1836, came Moses, Elijah and
Elijah, each bringing their respective
dispensing keys and the power they had exercised when
fatal. On a day similar to those of a thousand other wonderful
eight years earlier at the Mount of Transfiguration.
(Matthew 17:1-13).
then, in the snowy peaks of a mountain, after
that the Father had spoken from the cloud to pass that Moses and
Elijah, both taken to heaven without tasting death, returned in
their physical bodies, a temple not made hands, and
awarded to Peter, James and John the keys and powers
had at that time.
And in the same way, those illustrious characters return to
land these days. This time, built a temple
tithes and sacrifices of the saints, these same prophets of
old minister and now as resurrected beings
glorified, restore the keys and powers they possessed.
Moses, who invested in the majesty of the priesthood of
Melchizedek captive out of Egypt to Israel to take him
promised Palestine, brings back those same keys. These keys allow mortals to collect the lost sheep of
found in Egypt in the world and put them into
promised Zion, where the scales of darkness slave
fall from his eyes. These keys are commissioned to those who possess
to pick up throughout Israel, including the ten tribes,
all nations of the earth, and, as I said the word
prophetic, take them one by one and two at the mountains
's house Lord, to be endowed with power from
high.
Elijah again brought the gospel of Abraham, the great convention
Abrahamic by which the faithful receive promises of
posterity eternal promises that through marriage
his posterity eternal heaven will be as numerous as the sands
the beach and the stars of heaven. Elijah gives the promise, the
in ancient times by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
that modern man and his descendants all
generations are blessed.
And now we offer the blessings of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob to all who wish to receive them.
Elijah brought back the keys of power
sealing, the authority that allows men to live
now, like Peter in the old , seal on earth
and their deeds are sealed forever in heaven. (D &
C 110:11-16).
With the coming of Elijah the Prophet baptisms
performed on earth are valid for eternity.
literally allow us to be members of the earthly kingdom, the
which is the Church, and also belong to the celestial kingdom is the
divine glory where God and Christ dwell .
And then, over time, there will be "a union
eternal complete and perfect, and a chain of
dispensations, keys, powers and glories ... since the days of
Adam to the present time. "(D & C 128:18).
In the meridian of time, Jesus Christ commanded the Twelve
on the shores of Capernaum and gave them the keys to the kingdom to Peter,
James and John on the holy mountain, and later gave these
same keys to all the apostles. (Matthew 18:18). In our dispensation, the Melchizedek Priesthood
restored in 1829, was ordered some men to the Holy
Apostolate in February 1835, several keys were in
moments, notably the April 3, 1836, and this
continued until all the rivers of the past led to the
ocean the present and the mortal man possessed all the keys and
powers that were granted to men in the past,
from Adam to the present.
As a highlight, all the keys of the kingdom will give
the Twelve in the winter of 1844. Then they get what
revelations called the fullness of the priesthood, along with
the full power to confer eternal men.
they are properly invested and allowed, the
Prophet tells Twelve
"I have sealed upon your heads all the keys of the kingdom.
I seal upon you every key, power and principle that
I have found heaven. Now, no matter where I go or what
I can do, the kingdom rests on you. But
Apostles of the Lamb of God, my brothers, on your
shoulders the kingdom rests, and now you have to join your
shoulders and give momentum. If you do not be condemned. "
(Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, sel. By G. Homer Durham,
Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1946, pág.72).
And so was fulfilled the word of God in which the
Lord had earlier told the Twelve
"For you, the Twelve, and those of First
Presidency, who are appointed with you to be
your directors and officers have been given the power of this
priesthood, for the last days and the last time in
which holds the dispensation of the fullness of
times.
"power you have, together with all those who have
received a dispensation at any time, from the
beginning of creation;
For, verily, I say, the keys of the dispensation,
which you received, have fallen from their parents, and
finally have been sent from heaven to you. "(D & C 112:30-32). And so, also established the system of the Lord
for succession to the presidency. The Keys of the Kingdom of God,
the rights and powers of the presidency through
which governs the earthly kingdom, which first revealed
from heaven given by the spirit of revelation to each
man who is ordained Apostle while section to be
member of the Twelve.
But since the keys they give you the right to
chair can only be exercised in its fullness a man at a time.
This person is always the senior Apostle,
Apostle president, the presiding high priest, Elder
president. Only he has the authority to direct
other guide, all are committed to follow.
Therefore, although each of the Twelve has the
keys, the exercise only to a certain limit, until one reaches
be to seniority, making it the Lord's Anointed
on Earth.
In conclusion, then, when Joseph Smith, in the hands of
evil men and murderers, exhale the last breath, Brigham
Young, being the most senior Apostle the kingdom
land automatically goes to preside.
The next breath of Brigham Young is the fan of
to the lungs of the pre-anointed servant
Lord. Do not spend more time than the blink of an eye in
that the Church is no presiding officer.
When President Kimball is called to inform their
work as large and successful ministry, the keys will
other Apostle instantly that the Lord has chosen. And
so divine succession system will continue to
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the clouds of glory to reign
personally upon the earth.
We need not fear the future. This is the work of God;
is his kingdom, and government affairs at will.
Keys, having been given to man on earth,
are now in the hands of those He has chosen.
As I know that God lives and that Jesus Christ is true, and
the truth will prevail, I testify that this work will roll fill hastaque the whole earth, and until the knowledge of God
cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
I give this testimony in my behalf and on behalf of all
the faithful elders of the kingdom, and on behalf of all holy
sisters who remain at his side so bravely, and
everything I do in the sacred name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.
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