Comments on: Are we doomed to the dark side of some issues? http://mormonopenforum.blogsome.com/2006/09/13/are-we-doomed-to-the-dark-side-of-some-issues/ Discuss Anything to do with Mormonism, Coarse Langauge OK Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:26:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: David J http://mormonopenforum.blogsome.com/2006/09/13/are-we-doomed-to-the-dark-side-of-some-issues/#comment-1609 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:52:05 +0100 http://mormonopenforum.blogsome.com/2006/09/13/are-we-doomed-to-the-dark-side-of-some-issues/#comment-1609 Steve, It's all part of the assimilation process, ala Armand Mauss' description in <i>The Angel and the Beehive</i>, if you ask me. Accepting the KFD means challenging God's "universal fatherhood" because JS explicitly states, several times, that "God does not have the power to create the spirit of man at all." Them's fightin' words to a correlated Mormon. Frankly, I have my own theory about why the KFD didn't officially take, but it depends upon some rather sketchy inferences which, sadly, lead to casting certain past members of the First Presidency in less-than-savory light, which is a no-no for a card-carrying member like myself. Steve,

It’s all part of the assimilation process, ala Armand Mauss’ description in The Angel and the Beehive, if you ask me. Accepting the KFD means challenging God’s “universal fatherhood” because JS explicitly states, several times, that “God does not have the power to create the spirit of man at all.” Them’s fightin’ words to a correlated Mormon.

Frankly, I have my own theory about why the KFD didn’t officially take, but it depends upon some rather sketchy inferences which, sadly, lead to casting certain past members of the First Presidency in less-than-savory light, which is a no-no for a card-carrying member like myself.

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