Official Declaration 1

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What follows are comments about the declaration by the prophet of the church of the latter day saints, which today is considered to be the authoritative statement banning polygamy. Also included are comments about the passages that were recently added to the doctrine and covenants to shore up the declaration's assertions.

>[You have] twisted passages of Official
>Declaration 1, and comments made by both
>President Wilford Woodruff and President
>Lorenzo Snow.

I simply take the current mormon folk belief about how God would deal with a wicked prophet, and ponder about what the consequences of such an idea are.

The commentary about the official declaration states only that a wicked president of the church would be removed from office. It does not state that Christ will assassinate him. The doctrine and covenants provides the method for removing a wicked prophet, by providing for a church court to be held to judge his worthiness to hold the post. The D&C also provides for the voice of the people to not sustain a president of the church. By these two methods, God provided a means to remove a straying prophet. If we as a people will not exercise our responsibilities in this matter, then we deserve to follow an out-of-the-way president wherever he leads. God will give us what we want.

>Tell us why you believe that the entire quorum
>of the twelve at this time (and the body
>of the church, since it was accepted as
>scripture) were apostate. They introduced
>apostate doctrine (according to your position,
>from what I gather), and made it church doctrine.

The church did not at any time vote to accept Wilford Woodruff's statement about the manifesto. It was slipped into the D&C, when a new edition of the scriptures was published (about 1981), to shore up the position of the brethren, that they are incapable of leading the church astray. This claim of doctrinal infallibility of the brethren has done more to bring the church into bondage than any other false and damnable idea.

The members have taken this statement that follows OD-1 and accepted it as scripture, and doctrinally binding, and assume that they can shirk their responsibility to receive personal revelation because God is somehow miraculously killing off wicked apostles and/or prophets, so that they never can lead the church astray.

Christ has provided the way to keep the church free of wicked leaders, it is called a sustaining vote. The leaders exercising unrighteous dominion, have turned the sustaining vote, into a test of the members obedience. This is the grossest wickedness, to take the tool that Christ has provided to keep the church pure, and use it against the saints to weed out those with a "weak testimony".

Do you think that you could vote against someone because you were moved by the spirit to do so, and that you would go unpunished by your leaders? I don't think so.

>How can you judge all officers of the church 
>when you have not met them?

Personal revelation is a marvelous thing ain't it. For that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider. I highly recommend personal revelation to all with the courage to act on the received truths.

By their fruits I know them. The fruits of the current LDS church are like the fruits of a nightshade, sweet at first taste, but damaging to the soul in the long run.

The aggregate of the corporate church is rotten through and through. However, I fully accept that there are individual members and leaders of the church who produce good fruit, (perhaps 5%). A remnant of a remnant as it were.