I never did finish off what I wanted to talk about in the lesson this week.
So what I decided to do is raise a few questions and follow-ups here.
Some follow up on the succession to Joseph Smith:
http://en.fairmormon.org/Succession_in_the_Presidency_of_the_Church
http://www.fairlds.org/apol/ai031.html
The latter link has some treatment of the manifestations some claimed to have when BY spoke.
I also refer you to D&C 107 for some definition on levels of authority.
I also stated during the lesson that 9 of the 12 apostles when JS died went on to the west and followed BY. Here is a note on apostles and their state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Quorum_of_the_Twelve_Apostles_(LDS_Church)
I know that Lyman Johnson didn’t go…I can’t find anything right away about the other two…I’ll look into it more when I get a chance.
Also, the role that Hyrum had played. D&C 124 talks about Hyrum being the new patriarch of the church and also that he filled the role that Oliver Cowdery vacated…not sure what that meant.
The role of “sealing with their own blood”. The best I can reference on this is that you can’t show you believe something other than to die for it. Not sure how useful it is as many a Nazi died for their beliefs too. (Not to equate the two.) There might be some significance in that JS started once again the preaching to the dead and vicarious ordinances that Christ instituted and were lost. Not sure.
No comments:
Post a Comment