The topic is interesting to contemplate in regards to the Mormons.
Starting with Joe Smith, the legendary befuddlement regarding his take on the Holy Spirit begins. Joe keeps thrashing around, appending and revising his astonishingly flexible theology, and his incredibly changeable God issues revelations and repeated corrections and updates and revisions to those revelations at a blistering pace.
Church scribes endeavor to keep pace with the onslaught of confusion regarding Holy Spirit,
-and then-
the succession crisis and then Brigham Young jumps in and tries to fix things and makes it worse. Yes, not having a body is a punishment, especially if you're destined to become a negro, BUT, in the case of the Holy Spirit, not having a body is not a punishment.
And, oh, by the way, the Holy Spirit is NOT God's wife.
So when we enter Mormonland, instead of misleading you, the Mormons are misleading the Holy Spirit about just about everything they expect 'it' to be.
Starting with Joe Smith, the legendary befuddlement regarding his take on the Holy Spirit begins. Joe keeps thrashing around, appending and revising his astonishingly flexible theology, and his incredibly changeable God issues revelations and repeated corrections and updates and revisions to those revelations at a blistering pace.
Church scribes endeavor to keep pace with the onslaught of confusion regarding Holy Spirit,
-and then-
the succession crisis and then Brigham Young jumps in and tries to fix things and makes it worse. Yes, not having a body is a punishment, especially if you're destined to become a negro, BUT, in the case of the Holy Spirit, not having a body is not a punishment.
And, oh, by the way, the Holy Spirit is NOT God's wife.
So when we enter Mormonland, instead of misleading you, the Mormons are misleading the Holy Spirit about just about everything they expect 'it' to be.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
