Changing doctrine

They say

God doesn’t change. Your church does, so it isn’t His.

Acts 15: Gentiles and the law — a massive policy change under living apostles. ‘It seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us.’ That is Official Declaration grammar. Isaiah 28:10: line upon line. A frozen 1830 is not how Israel ever lived. They call their councils the Spirit. They call ours politics.

• Acts 15:28–29

  KJV · For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things.

  NRSVUE · For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials.

• Gospel Topics

  Revelation

• Gal1:8 library

  Changing doctrine

They say

You edited the Book of Mormon to hide racism.

Royal Skousen’s work: most changes are grammar and clarification. ‘White and delightsome’ → ‘pure’ was Joseph in 1840. That is a prophet telling you how to read, not a cover-up. D&C 1:24–28 already said the commandments came in weakness, after the manner of their language, and errors would be made known.

• 2 Nephi 30:6

  They shall be a pure and a delightsome people.

• Doctrine and Covenants 1:24–28

  These commandments… were given unto my servants in their weakness, after the manner of their language… And inasmuch as they erred it might be made known.

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  D&C changes

They say

Polygamy ended and the priesthood ban ended because of pressure.

Official Declarations 1 and 2 are canonized course-corrections. Temple presentation can be taught more clearly without changing the covenants. Word of Wisdom tightened over time — like kosher and the Sabbath. Policy is not the Messiah. The Atonement did not get rewritten.

• Official Declaration 1

  We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice.

• Gospel Topics Essays

  The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage

• Gospel Topics Essays

  Race and the Priesthood

  “None of the old explanations for the restriction is accepted as Church doctrine today.”

They say

Mormonr’s temple-change list proves it is man-made.

Mormonr is documents. We take the documents. We write the conclusion: living apostles can still say ‘it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us.’ Acts 15 already did. Use Gospel Topics on revelation, then the two Official Declarations.

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  Revelation