[tantiboh]

~”In my years as a mormon, I never really heard the reason for the day-old bread and water...”~

That sort of lack of knowledge about your former faith explains a lot about why you left. The question you ask is common knowledge, right there in the D&C.

~”I did wonder at times if the servers who tore the bread into little bitsy pieces washed their hands before doing it, though.”~

We’re instructed to. Usually, we do.

[greyfoxx39]

That sort of lack of knowledge about your former faith explains a lot about why you left. The question you ask is common knowledge, right there in the D&C. He says, snidely.

Why, yes, when I was mormon, I was one of the "Molly mormon" sheeple that knew nothing about the history of the mormon church...I was a good little unquestioning sheep, obeying my leaders and husband.

BUT, even back then there were libraries and books that led me to become interested in the larger issues, of which curiosity regarding the use of bread and water were certainly not what I consider to this day, a larger issue.

[Elsie]

 

That sort of lack of knowledge about your former faith explains a lot about why you left.

The question you ask is common knowledge, right there in the D&C.                                    (somewhere!)

 

 

Some things are quite plain in the BoM; too!

 

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THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI

CHAPTER 2

 

  24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
  25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
  26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
  27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
  28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
  29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
  30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
  31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
  32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.