[Grig]

Point was, if God can change a practice in the past, who is man to say He can't do the same today? You admit it was done after all.

As for Galatians 1:8, that goes with what I said about principles being eternal. For the record, it is the LDS position that our teachings are the gospel as Christ taught it, and that orthodox chrisitanity has lost and altered those teachings over the ages. If your intent is to use those verses to show that LDS doctrine is 'another gospel' you have a lot more work to do than to just quote those verses. There is much in the writings of first century christians that indicates their teachings were the same as our teachings. The current orthodoxy did not really emerge untill centuries later.

This is one reason why we feel prophets are important in every age, so that the principles are still adhered to and so that the practice of them can continue in according to how God's wisdom wishes it.

[drstevej]

***Point was, if God can change a practice in the past, who is man to say He can't do the same today?***

Looks like Joseph & Brigham made some sweeping changes...

1- Joseph Smith holds the keys of this last dispensation, and is now engaged behind the vail in the great work of the last days. I can tell our beloved brother Christians who have slain the Prophets and butchered and otherwise caused the death of thousands of Latter-day Saints, the priests who have thanked God in their prayers and thanksgiving from the pulpit that we have been plundered, driven, and slain, and the deacons under the pulpit, and their brethren and sisters in their closets, who have thanked God, thinking that the Latter-day Saints were wasted away, something that no doubt will mortify them --- something that, to say the least, is a matter of deep regret to them --- namely, that From the day that the Priesthood was taken from the earth to the winding-up scene of all things... "...no man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith....

2- Every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance... into the mansion where God and Christ are --- I with you and you with me.

3- I cannot go there without his consent. He holds the keys of that kingdom for the last dispensation --- the keys to rule in the spirit-world; and he rules there triumphantly, for he gained full power and a glorious victory over the power of Satan while he was yet in the flesh, and was a martyr to his religion and to the name of Christ, which gives him a most perfect victory in the spirit-world. He reigns there as supreme a being in his sphere, capacity, and calling, as God does in heaven."

(Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p. 289).

[Quester]

Point was, if God can change a practice in the past, who is man to say He can't do the same today? You admit it was done after all.

God can change a practice ... it is the gospel which is unchanging ... per Paul in Galatians 1:8.

As for Galatians 1:8, that goes with what I said about principles being eternal. For the record, it is the LDS position that our teachings are the gospel as Christ taught it, and that orthodox chrisitanity has lost and altered those teachings over the ages.

You are correct ... it is the LDS position that orthodox christianity has lost and/or altered JESUS'/Paul's/Peter's/etc.'s recorded teachings over the ages. Thus, ... I think that it is YOU who have the task of demonstrating that this assertion is true in regard to orthodox christian belief.