| Re: Receiving the Holy Ghost [message #59 is a reply to message #31] |
Sat, 26 June 2010 21:01   |
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Quote:McConkie also said,
"Here is a statement from Joseph Smith:
"Salvation cannot come without revelation [and I am not now speaking about the revelation that gave the dispensation in which we live--I am speaking of personal revelation to individuals]; it is vain for anyone to minister without it. No man is a minister of Jesus Christ without being a Prophet. No man can be a minister of Jesus Christ except he has a testimony of Jesus; and this is the spirit of prophecy. Whenever salvation has been administered, it has been by testimony. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this." (Teachings, p. 160.)
We are entitled to revelation. Personal revelation is essential to our salvation." - Doctrines of the Restoration, Chapter 8
I hope that it is ok to quote the book.... This is new stuff! We can't be saved without personal revelation? What is this talking about? I can go through every ordinance and follow the process of the church without personal revelation. Why won't this save me?
And what about the parts that say, That we we cannot be ministers of Jesus Christ without being prophets? I servers a mission and was a minister of Jesus Christ. But I didn't feel like a prophet? If the prophet of the Church, Monson, is a prophet like the missionaries, doesn't that degrade him and make like of his calling?
~ Seeker
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