Ya know, Mormons tout an awful LOT about havin' "livin' prophets" give "modern revelations" for the church...but tis "funny" that when we pull up the supposedly open-ended Chronological Order of Contents of Doctrine & Covenants we find the ONLY "modern" revelation was their 1978 reversal on its racism...
So...please explain...were the previous doctrinal revelations on "race" evidence of Mormon gods' inherent racism...
...or was your church simply led by a dozen consecutive false prophets?
Which of those two options is so?
Show me where modern "Christianity" has added one new piece of knowledge about God or His kingdom.
Where again is the "evidence" of all these "modern" Mormon revelations?
Oh, we "get it"...you MEAN all these back-tracking "reversal revelations"...not just racist practices...but...
...polygamy...
..."Adam is God"...
...blood atonement...
...and the like
ALL: Note that StormPrepper has adopted the "spirit of Joseph Smith" -- who had the audacity to "revise" the Bible minus knowing Greek or Hebrew. The operative key "Smithism" uttered by StormPrepper is "new"...
You see, Joseph Smith never could be "boxed in" by anything. He just innovatively revised and revised everywhere he went.
You see, the "old absolutes" -- like first monogamy, and then polygamy, need to drop by the Mormon wayside at the whim of the Mormon "prophet." Hence, Joseph Smith was an absolute relativist.
Don't believe me? Read Joseph Smith's words from April 1834:
"We are differently situated from any other people that ever existed upon this earth; consequently those former revelations cannot be suited to our conditions; they were given to other people, who were before us..." (History of the Church, 2:52)
Hmmm...no universal absolutes, eh, Joseph? Nothing applicable universally by a universal Lord?
Oh sure, by a decade later, Smith realized (too late) -- two months before his death -- that there was a need for lasting absolutes, after all: "I told him I obtained power on the principles of truth and virtue, which would last when I was dead and gone." (History of the Church 6:273)
But by then, he had made everything so "feelings-based" -- so subjective -- so sentimental -- that he had convinced his ensuing "prophets" and followers that ALL of God's written Word was simply passe':
"When he concluded, Brother Joseph turned to Brother Brigham Young and said, 'Brother Brigham, I want you to take the stand and tell us your views with regard to the oracles and the written word of God.' Brother Brigham took the stand, and he took the Bible, and laid it down; he took the Book of Mormon, and laid it down; and he took the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and laid it down before him, and he said: 'There is the written word of God to us, concerning the work of God from the beginning of the world, almost, to our day. And now, said he, 'when compared with the living oracles those books are NOTHING to me; those books do not convey the word of God direct to us now...I would rather have the living oracles than all the writing in the books,'...
Source: Lds "prophet" Wilford Woodruff, Conference Report, October 1897, pp. 22-25.
You see, to the Lds "prophets" God's Written Word is "dead" to them. Hence, they make a deadly false assumption about both the Written Word as well as the Living Word!
You see, to those of us in Christ, it -- along with the LivingWord, Jesus Himself -- is ALIVE!
12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)
Jesus is our ongoing Latter-day Prophet (Heb. 1:1-2);
Jesus promised He would never leave us (Matt. 28:20);
"but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood." (Hebrews 7:24)
Mormons reduce the author of Hebrews to a false prophet when they claim that the Lds priesthood needing to be "restored" -- falsely assuming it wasn't "permanent" -- as the author of Hebrews maintained in 7:24.
ALL, Bottom line here?
Yup, that pretty much sums it up. Just about everything Mormons supposedly "know" is built upon the corpse of Joseph Smith...not the Bible...not God, Himself...not the Holy Spirit...just Joe...and their general authorities even say so!!!!
Bears repeating.
Heck; by KEEPING him; they don't know much; either!!